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- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Case Study: The Credit Bureau
same house for a long time, and in that world it made sense to own the same sofa for 10 years. The new generation has been forced to buy fixed assets even though they know they’re going to be moving before long. For them, the furniture View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Green Day
Unlike the industry-standard AC power grid — the “local” — Clean Line’s system uses direct-current technology, which transports energy long distances with less energy loss. Wind power is cheap to produce — as low as 5 cents per... View Details
- 19 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Why Innovations Sit on the Shelf
Why are so many businesses—though seemingly intent on fostering innovation—unable to get new products through their organizations and into the marketplace? Ed Ludwig faced such circumstances as the new president of New Jersey-based Becton... View Details
- 14 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2006
Business School Case 707-012 Clearwater was trying to market value-added products in a traditionally commodities based industry while facing supply uncertainties and regulatory, environmental, and foreign exchange challenges. Clearwater... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
An Economy Undermined
our HBS professors had always warned that if we spent $5,000 today, we would be giving up a fortune ten or twenty years down the road, given the stock market’s rate of return. A famous futurist of the day was predicting that U.S. View Details
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Digital Archival Resources - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
manufacturing operations, new product development, advertising and marketing strategies, and year-end financial statements. The Dewey Library, MIT Libraries and the Thomas J. Watson Library of Business Economics, Columbia University... View Details
- Portrait Project
Lauren Park
learn Algebra in this room today. Without chairs. We already operate with too few textbooks and a consistently-jammed copier. I take a deep breath. ... The day was a resounding success. We were productive despite our missing resources.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Fixing What Ails the Drug Industry
echoed Hamburg’s call for improvements in regulation, but he also emphasized the innovation side of the balancing act between safety and product development. “Reinvent invention,” he told the audience. The industry must get smarter about... View Details
- 05 Dec 2023
- Blog Post
Taking Learning Beyond the Classroom
accountability in encouraging companies to develop products with a lower carbon impact. There was debate around the feasibility and accuracy of measuring these emissions but an overall agreement that tracking, reporting, and measurement... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Flight Path
engineers devoted a good chunk of 2015 and most of 2016 to developing a drone that could be piloted in real time through a complex, three-dimensional course of gates and obstacles. That meant creating a lightning-fast radio system and... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Philip L. Yeo: The Next Big Thing
output has resulted in commercial products manufactured in a number of domestic and overseas industrial parks, also championed by Yeo. He, as much as anyone, has fostered the country's knowledge-based economy and set its future course.... View Details
Keywords: Government
- 06 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success
Coast operations and its West Coast computer people would severely affect the company. The focus for much of this division was PARC. In the 1970s, PARC was remarkably successful in developing ingenious products that would fundamentally... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner
- 01 Jan 2020
- What Do You Think?
Why Not Open America's Doors to All the World’s Talent?
system (largely intended to identify the attractiveness or special needs of a potential immigrant) used in Canada and some other countries.” Do you agree with David Wittenberg regarding the adoption of a Canadian-style View Details
- 28 Nov 2012
- What Do You Think?
Should Pay-for-Performance Compensation be Replaced?
went even further, commenting that "When you try to institutionalize pay-for-performance you actually ruin the concept." (In fact, there is some evidence that performance pay that is not institutionalized may often be more effective than award View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 11 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 11, 2016
This strategic response is more pronounced for vendors whose stocks of patents are small and whose home markets have weak IP systems. Our study is the first to examine the relationship between heterogeneity in national patent systems and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?
of the NAM. More and more, businesses are providing completely assembled systems to their customers rather than individual parts, a trend confirmed by Timken. “We’ll continue to move our business out of some of the more commodity-oriented... View Details
- 20 Aug 2001
- Research & Ideas
Making an Ally of Uncle Sam
two. Though a step in the right direction, this approach suffers because the boundary between "market" and "nonmarket" is artificial and far from clear-cut. We find it more productive to focus on the key types of games... View Details
- 18 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
explicitly a function of current product offerings. The setting illustrates firms' dual incentives at work: A firm better differentiates products under a looser standard but may want to induce a tighter... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Nov 2023
- Blog Post
Zone Defense: These self-driving, AI-powered drones do recon so soldiers don’t have to
idea,’” Tseng recalls his older brother, Ryan, telling him. Ryan Tseng had already started two successful companies, and where Brandon saw a business opportunity in building AI software to operate unmanned systems for the military, Ryan... View Details
- 08 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
Koppert Cress: Macro Greenhouses, Microgreens
In January 2023, Professors Willy Shih and Mike Toffel led more than 40 HBS MBA students on site visits to witness the energy transition and innovative sustainable production activities throughout Denmark and the Netherlands, in their new... View Details