Power Tools Industry - Publications - Faculty & Research

08 Jul 2014
First Look

First Look: July 8

goal. When you consider that your job-perhaps even your industry-may disappear, you have no choice but to take control. Filled with stories of professionals of all kinds who have profited from this proactive approach, Own Your Future gives you the View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

28 Aug 2008
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: History Matters

industrial districts, business groups, business culture, business education, skills training, accounting and information systems, design, and engineering. Historical knowledge helps us to truly understand business, but the growing... View Details

Keywords: Re: Geoffrey G. Jones & Anthony Mayo

11 Feb 2019
Research & Ideas

The Business of Saving the Planet

"The fact that the benefits of addressing the problem of climate change almost certainly outweigh the costs ... does not make concerted global action to address the problem easy." —Climate Change in 2018: Implications for Business If there is one positive... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Energy; Green Technology

04 Dec 2000
What Do You Think?

Have We Overdone Deregulation and Privatization?

industry, and then into areas such as brokerage fees and other professional services. In recent years, the deregulation movement has spread to industries with which consumers interact daily, such as electric View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

27 Jan 2003
Research & Ideas

New Cluster Mapping Project Helps Companies Locate Facilities

gaining or losing national share, and whether it is getting broader or narrower in depth. The data covers not only the overall cluster but also segments or "subclusters." These further reveal the cluster's strengths and weaknesses. The data is a View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

November 1993 (Revised June 2007)
Case

Jack Thomas

By: John P. Kotter and Andrew P. Burtis

This redisguised version of an earlier case, Tom Levick, provides an updated setting but does not change the teaching objectives. Chronicles the first six weeks of experience on the job for a recent business school graduate. Emphasis is on managing... View Details

Keywords: Power and Influence; Behavior; Leadership Style; Strategy; Rank and Position; Publishing Industry

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23 May 2017
First Look

First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017

synchronicity with market and industry returns. We find that firms voluntarily disclosing more sustainability information, identified as material by the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB), have lower stock price... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

21 Aug 2007
First Look

First Look: August 21, 2007

forward-looking perspectives of agency leaders and industry representatives within FDA's regulatory history, this volume presents readers with new tools for evaluating policy recommendations and will better... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

05 Jun 2019
Research & Ideas

If Your Customers Don't Care What You Charge, What Should You Charge?

effects of competition have an advantage within their markets, says Alexander J. MacKay, assistant professor of business administration at Harvard Business School, who coauthored the study Consumer Inertia and Market Power with Marc... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Energy

19 Dec 2014
Research & Ideas

China’s Complicated Relationship With Mother Nature

Despite its name, the Great Wall of China began as a series of smaller, isolated defensive fortifications. Those structures grew and were later unified into the imposing structure that exists today. The Great Wall is a great metaphor for the Chinese economy. By... View Details

Keywords: Re: William C. Kirby; Manufacturing

25 Oct 2017
Research & Ideas

Will Machine Learning Make You a Better Manager?

increasingly using ML to manage many aspects of their business operations. “There’s been an explosion,” Teodorescu says. “It’s becoming less of a field in itself and more and more of a tool for people in other fields to use.” In a new... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Information Technology

25 Sep 2000
Research & Ideas

Cyber-Marketing: Scouting the Digital Communications Frontier

millions of customers. The third distinctive quality of the Web is something of a handicap. To be frank, the authors say, it is a boring medium when compared with television, lacking TV's power to engage fantasy and arouse emotions.... View Details

Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs

20 Mar 2007
First Look

First Look: March 20, 2007

firm-size distribution and de jure and de facto measures of international capital integration. We then explore causal channels through which foreign capital may encourage entrepreneurship. We find evidence that entrepreneurial activity in View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

21 Jul 2010
Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty Debate Financial Reform Legislation

reducing counter-party risk between financial institutions; and the strengthening of regulators' abilities to require more capital (and less overall leverage) at our financial institutions. They clearly will have this explicit power... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

15 Nov 2004
Research & Ideas

Solving the Health Care Conundrum

Olmsted Teisberg. Key Learnings 1. The U.S. health care system is a paradox in that it has competition yet fails to deliver improving value. Competition has been shown to be an incredibly powerful force in driving increased quality and... View Details

Keywords: by Michael E. Porter; Health

08 Apr 2002
Research & Ideas

How to Negotiate “Yes” Across Cultural Boundaries

finalize a deal, but that's often not enough. Many countries have webs of influence that are more powerful than the actual parties making the deal, even though those webs don't have the formal standing of, say, government agencies. In... View Details

Keywords: by James K. Sebenius

19 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

Funding Innovation: Is Your Firm Doing it Wrong?

traditional phones, so they focused on that, and the opportunity came and went," Lerner says. Meanwhile, the venture capital industry remains all about funding innovation with the understanding of risk. The book notes the historical... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

26 Jun 2012
First Look

First Look: June 26

facilitating social comparison among agents. Overall, the findings demonstrate the power of non-financial rewards to motivate agents in settings where there are limits to the use of financial incentives. Download the paper:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

May 2018
Teaching Note

Maggie Wilderotter: Evolution of an Executive

By: Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams

Teaching Note for HBS No. 417-091. View Details

Keywords: Personal Development and Career; Personal Characteristics; Leadership Style; Networks; Gender; Power and Influence; Telecommunications Industry; United States