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21st Century Energy — Dr Crawford teaches this EC course, which exposes students to business models and management diilemmas, all along the energy value chain — from oil sands and pipelines, to coal and natural gas, hydro and nuclear, wind and solar, to biofuels. The... View Details
  • Summer 2018
  • Article

Why High-Tech Commoditization Is Accelerating

By: Willy C. Shih
Knowledge embedded within state-of-the-art production and design tools is a powerful force that is leveling the global technology playing field. It democratizes innovation and makes future competition more challenging. This paper describes the knowledge flows through... View Details
Keywords: Product Design; Product Commercialization; Product Development; Product Development Strategy; Production; Manufacturing Tools; Manufacturing; Manufacturing Industry; Engineering; Globalization; Goods and Commodities; Knowledge; Commercialization; Business Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Information Infrastructure; Technology Adoption; Consumer Products Industry; Auto Industry; Semiconductor Industry; Electronics Industry; Industrial Products Industry; Information Technology Industry; North America; Asia
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    Stefan H. Thomke

    Stefan Thomke (sthomke@hbs.edu), an authority on the management of innovation, is the William Barclay Harding Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He has worked with firms on product, process, and... View Details

    Keywords: aerospace; automobiles; automotive; banking; biotechnology; chemical; computer; defense; electronics; health care; high technology; home video games; information technology industry; manufacturing; marketing industry; pharmaceuticals; plastics; semiconductor; service industry; telecommunications; video games
    • 25 Jan 2012
    • News

    Amid Attacks on Private Equity, Efforts to Study Its Value

    • 08 Mar 2021
    • In Practice

    COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace. What Should Companies Do Now?

    A year ago, COVID-19 forced many companies to send employees home—often with a laptop and a prayer. Now, with COVID cases subsiding and vaccinations rising, the prospect of returning to old office routines appears more possible. But will employees want to flock back to... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
    • October 1992 (Revised December 1992)
    • Case

    American Connector Company (A)

    By: Gary P. Pisano
    American Connector Co. is forced to reexamine operations at its Sunnyvale plant when a Japanese competitor announces plans to build an "ultimate" plant in the United States. Case examines issues related to benchmarking a competitor's manufacturing capabilities and... View Details
    Keywords: Production; Infrastructure; Competitive Strategy; Global Strategy; Policy; Strategic Planning; Performance Productivity; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Performance Effectiveness; Sunnyvale; Japan
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    • November 2005 (Revised July 2006)
    • Case

    Two Tough Calls (A)

    By: Joseph L. Badaracco Jr.
    A young female manager must decide whether to terminate two poorly performing managers who work for her. Shows the practical and ethical issues involved in firing decisions. View Details
    Keywords: Ethics; Resignation and Termination; Management; Performance
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      Magie Cheng

      Mengjie (Magie) Cheng is a Ph.D. student in Marketing at Harvard Business School. She received her B.S. in Finance from Chu Kochen Honors College at Zhejiang University and M.S. in Management Science and... View Details
      • November 1987 (Revised June 1988)
      • Case

      ServiceMaster Industries, Inc.

      By: James L. Heskett
      The CEO of ServiceMaster Industries has convened an internal task force to come up with ideas for reorganizing the company to accommodate unusually fast growth. In developing both alternatives and criteria for appraising them, the task force has to keep in mind the... View Details
      Keywords: Restructuring; Leading Change; Growth and Development Strategy; Organizational Culture
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      • 27 Feb 2013
      • Research & Ideas

      Sidetracked: Why Can’t We Stick to the Plan?

      plans to improve their relationships but fail to follow them due to their inability to put themselves in their partners' shoes. I have watched thoughtful managers planning new incentive schemes to motivate their employees, only to find... View Details
      Keywords: Re: Francesca Gino

        Martin A. Sinozich

        Martin Sinozich is a Senior Lecturer in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at Harvard Business School, where he teaches in both MBA and Executive Education programs.  For first-year MBAs, Martin teaches in Field Global Immersion, a required course that... View Details

          Natalie Epstein

          Natalie Epstein is a PhD Candidate in Technology and Operations Management at Harvard Business School. Her research focuses on service design strategies for on-demand operations. As the service industry accelerates, she is particularly... View Details

            Haiyang Zhang

            Haiyang Zhang is a doctoral student in the Strategy unit at Harvard Business School. He conducts research on corporate and entrepreneurial strategy.

            Prior to pursuing his PhD, Haiyang was an engagement manager at McKinsey & Company, where he served... View Details

            • February 2004 (Revised August 2004)
            • Case

            National Semiconductor's India Design Center

            By: Jeffrey T. Polzer and Elizabeth Kind
            The senior managers of the India Design Center used 360-degree feedback to develop their team competencies. Now, three new managers are about to join their management team, and Ashok Kumar, director of the center, must decide how to integrate the new managers in a way... View Details
            Keywords: Groups and Teams; Information Technology Industry; India
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              Dennis Campbell

              Dennis W. Campbell is currently the Dwight P. Robinson Jr. Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. His research and teaching activities focus broadly on how management control systems can be designed to balance short-term strategy execution... View Details

              Keywords: financial services; service industry; hotels ＆ motels; consumer products; restaurant; manufacturing; professional services

                Rajiv Lal

                Rajiv Lal, is the Stanley Roth, Sr. Professor of Retailing at Harvard Business School. He is currently teaching an elective MBA course on the Business of Smart Connected Products/IOT. He has been responsible for the retailing curriculum and has served as the course... View Details

                  Edward McFowland III

                  Edward McFowland III is an Assistant Professor in the Technology and Operations Management Unit at Harvard Business School. He teaches the first-year TOM course in the required curriculum.

                  Professor McFowland’s research interests – which lie at the... View Details

                    Peter Tufano

                    Peter Tufano is a Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School and Senior Advisor to the Harvard Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability. From 2011 to 2021, he served as the Peter Moores Dean at View Details

                    Keywords: asset management; asset management; asset management; asset management; asset management; asset management; asset management; asset management; asset management; asset management; asset management; asset management; asset management; asset management; asset management; asset management; asset management; asset management; asset management; asset management
                    • 17 Nov 2009
                    • First Look

                    First Look: Nov. 17

                    working capital and investment needs. In evaluating by which means Elman should raise capital, students must consider issues relating to the payment terms and financing arrangements used in world trade, as well as the risk View Details
                    Keywords: Martha Lagace
                    • 17 Dec 2012
                    • Research & Ideas

                    Teaming in the Twenty-First Century

                    challenge is to set a climate where psychological safety, accountability, and pressure to do the best possible work exist together. "We're in a new world, and our old management models don't fit as well as... View Details
                    Keywords: by Maggie Starvish