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- 13 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 13, 2010
succeed in building high quality client relationships, delivering appropriately innovative thinking, and helping their firms grow and improve performance—all within China's unique political and cultural context. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 20
operations? Purchase this case:https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/517108-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 905-409 The Electronic Product Code: Future Impact on the Global Food System The Electronic View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 6
examine how the quantity of information generated about firm prospects can be improved by splitting a firm's cash flow into a "safe" claim (debt) and a "risky" claim (equity). The former, being relatively insensitive... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Strategies for Cross-National Regions - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
the pressure of a global economic slowdown, it is critical for nations to work together to develop regional strategies that improve competitiveness across borders. Strategies that coordinate economic policy among neighboring countries... View Details
- 04 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 4, 2008
Inc.—Engineered Products Division Harvard Business School Case 709-434 Curled Metal Incorporated has declining sales but has developed a new product (curled metal pile driver pads) that, in field tests,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 12, 2016
3. Drive rapid conversion to the platform. Existing customers are likely to flock to a platform if it provides enough new value, if the additional products and services offered are consistent with your brand, and if users have... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
The Exchange: Micro Management
convincing story about the sector’s success, but to what extent have the loans meaningfully improved livelihoods? That question has been more difficult to track, say Natalia Rigol and Ben Roth. Both development economists and assistant... View Details
- 29 Feb 2016
- HBS Case
Bigbelly's Big Bet on the Digital Trash Can
(SaaS) opportunities is one that many companies are exploring as they follow the friendly economics that can come from moving away from selling one-off products toward licensing products or services on a... View Details
- 13 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Making Biotech Work as a Business
No matter how you slice the numbers, all arrows in biotechnology's financial performance after twenty years are still pointing downward, said HBS professor Gary P. Pisano recently. Despite the great promise of the sector—to improve the... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Short Takes
the 'best game in town' for using information resources to realize strategic advantage in serving customers." The Spotlight and the Bottom Line Do multinational corporations concern themselves with improving human rights in the countries... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 10 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 10
selling valuable and scarce products are more likely to have separate primary and secondary markets and will therefore appropriate more value when secondary markets thicken. Firms selling products that are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 9, 2008
division's operations. The division was struggling in 2004 when newly-appointed CEO Philippe Guillemot and his team improved performance substantially by focusing on four levers- industrial footprint realignment, competitive sourcing,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
Jeffrey R. Immelt, MBA 1982
before moving to GE Medical Systems, where he was named CEO in 1997. Reflecting on his years at GE, Immelt recalls many moments of intense, even painful, learning. “In 1989, I was running the appliance service business in the midst of a big View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
The Drive for Excellence: An Interview with Jim Henderson
that requires sizable investments in projects that take several years to pay off, I believe the ideal is some combination of both. We could cut back on investment in future products or international joint ventures, but those efforts are... View Details
- 21 Nov 2016
- Research & Ideas
It Matters That Your CEO Doesn't Know Much About Sales
and gotten more efficient in manufacturing, operations, supply chains, and shared service initiatives. But the focus of productivity improvements is shifting, because the biggest opportunity for View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 28 Nov 2016
- Research & Ideas
Challenging the Belief that Liability Laws Kill Medical Device Innovation
incentivized to produce safer products to help them manage risk” “When physicians are under pressure from high liability, innovators are incentivized to produce safer products to help them manage risk,” says... View Details
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Terrance McGuire
and entrepreneur, during which time they have collaborated on a long list of successful biotechnology startups. “Bob Langer is passionate about improving peoples' lives,” McGuire said. “He was one of the early... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Competitiveness at Risk
innovative energy conservation program, they are improving American competitiveness. One of our major messages in this project is that business should not wait for government, but start taking action today that will directly contribute to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Where Are the Innovators in Health Care?
drove productivity in the IT sector. These entrepreneurs, and so many others, have fundamentally improved our economy by making goods and services better, cheaper, and more accessible. But can you name any... View Details
- 08 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 8, 2015
complementors so as to appropriate value from their innovations, or they may target poor performing complementors to improve the platforms' overall quality. Using data from Amazon.com, we analyze the patterns of Amazon's entry into its... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel