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  • July 2024
  • Case

ZEISS: Commercializing Science

By: Maria P. Roche, Carlota Moniz and Daniela Beyersdorfer
Karl Lamprecht, President and CEO of the ZEISS AG Group, mused on how far ZEISS had come in 175 years of being a pioneer in optics, and how the course he had charted since taking the helm of the company could keep it on track. In his role, he oversaw the four core... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Business Organization; Decisions; Business Strategy; Competition; Business History; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Independent Innovation and Invention; Disruptive Innovation; Innovation and Management; Innovation Strategy; Technological Innovation; Growth and Development Strategy; Knowledge Sharing; Industry Growth; Monopoly; Organizational Culture; Supply Chain Management; Partners and Partnerships; Risk and Uncertainty; Adaptation; Commercialization; Resource Allocation; Corporate Strategy; Semiconductor Industry; Technology Industry; Germany; Europe
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  • 14 Oct 2014
  • First Look

First Look: October 14

behave like money. We first present a simple model where households demand money services, which are supplied by three types of claims: deposits, Treasury bills, and asset-backed commercial paper (ABCP). The model provides predictions for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 May 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Can LEGO Snap Together a Future in Asia?

Both the managers and the students had to consider areas of potential risk for LEGO in Asia, including: Uncertainty of market growth forecasts. LEGO senior director John Kelley argues in the case that to supply the most optimistic sales... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 21 Feb 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: February 21

and Robert S. Kaplan Abstract—Previous studies have documented wide variation in health-care spending and prices; however, the causes for the variation in supply purchase prices across providers are not well understood. The purpose of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 06 Mar 2007
  • First Look

First Look: March 6, 2007

centered on proving masculinity—in which such displays and interactions were absent. We use this case to develop theory about how organizational features, such as work practices and norms, can disrupt conventional masculine... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Dec 2013
  • First Look

First Look: December 24

accounts for more than a quarter of the overall increase in labor supply to the private sector during 1986-2005. Using the reform to instrument for private-sector labor supply, we find that private-sector labor demand is very elastic. We... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 27 Apr 2010
  • First Look

First Look: April 27

growth track but remains chiefly concerned about its vulnerability to supply disruptions and to increases in merchandise costs from higher input prices. The firm appears quite overvalued based on a multiples... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 May 2009
  • First Look

First Look: May 12, 2009

Or should Grace respond to buy-out offers? Purchase this case: http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=309075 Backchannelmedia: Making Television 'Clickable' Harvard Business School Case 509-026 Backchannelmedia (BCM), a three-year-old start-up,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 2009
  • Working Paper

Breakthrough Inventions and Migrating Clusters of Innovation

By: William R. Kerr
We investigate the speed at which clusters of invention for a technology migrate spatially following breakthrough inventions. We identify breakthrough inventions as the top one percent of US inventions for a technology during 1975-1984 in terms of subsequent citations.... View Details
Keywords: Geographic Location; Immigration; Disruptive Innovation; Technological Innovation; Patents; Industry Clusters; United States
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  • 10 Apr 2018
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First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018

theoretical illustrations and Monte Carlo simulations to validate our claims. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52743 Executive Education in the Digital Vortex: The Disruption of the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 11

meals and lodging planned, and their daily productivity measured and monitored. These findings disrupt prevailing narratives in business history, challenging the primacy that Alfred Chandler awarded the railroad as the testing ground for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 18

the supply of capital create the need for increased upfront financing, but this protection lowers the real option value of the new venture. In equilibrium, financing risk disproportionately impacts innovative ventures with the greatest... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Nov 2009
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First Look: Nov. 17

Johnson, and Linnea MeyerHarvard Business School Case 210-021 What role does trade finance play in facilitating global supply chain management? Richard S. Elman, founder and CEO of Noble Group Ltd., a global commodities trading company... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • June 2005 (Revised July 2006)
  • Background Note

Note on the Convergence Between Genomics & Information Technology

By: David B. Yoffie, Dharmesh M Mehta and Rachel Sha
Focuses on the convergence between the genomics and semiconductor industries, in particular organ printing, DNA computing, biomolecular sensory networks, and DNA microarrays. Explains what this newly converged world looks like based on current research and findings in... View Details
Keywords: Genetics; Information Technology; Business Model; Disruptive Innovation; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
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  • 16 Oct 2013
  • Op-Ed

Response to Readers: Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking

With more than 7,500 views and 180-plus tweets, I want to thank everyone for taking the time to read the original HBS Working Knowledge piece, The Case for Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking, and, in particular, for sharing your thoughts with one... View Details
Keywords: by Joe Lassiter; Energy; Utilities
  • 22 Jul 2002
  • Research & Ideas

How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”

forced to consider global competition as a factor in planning. In addition, the wartime disruption of foreign multinationals enabled U.S. companies to profit from the postwar boom without effective competitors in many industries. A more... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
  • 14 May 2020
  • Research & Ideas

What Leaders Can Do to Fight the COVID Fog

decisions, remember information, and control mood are all affected by diet. What you need: Nearly all research on nutrition converges on one point: Eat as many vegetables and fruits as you can. Beyond that, avoid processed food (to whatever extent possible, given View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
  • 14 Sep 2010
  • First Look

First Look: September 14, 2010

that the missing link is perturbation: novel stimuli that disrupt the execution of specialized routines. Perturbation creates opportunities for organizations to invoke exploratory, general-purpose problem-solving routines. In mature... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Apr 2017
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First Look at New Research, April 4

platform systems, showing that, in contrast to step processes, this technology rewards the multiplication of options, increasing risk, and modularity. Moreover, given a modular architecture, a platform system can be open, with different components View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 17

and the Automotive Microcontroller Supply Chain (A) Willy Shih and Margaret PiersonHarvard Business School Case 612-071 The magnitude 9.0 earthquake that struck Japan in March 2011 caused extensive damage to Renesas Electronics wafer... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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