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- 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
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Donna L. Dubinsky, MBA 1981
operating system from 3Com. Within a year they shipped the Visor, a lower-cost PDA that quickly took 30 percent of the handheld market. At the same time, they started developing handheld products with... View Details
- 03 Apr 2019
- Book
Fintech's Game-Changing Opportunities for Small Business
that draws on sales systems, supply chain systems, and manufacturing and product data. A similar system for small businesses would combine at least four key activities: banking and payments, loans and... View Details
- 19 Jan 2022
- In Practice
7 Trends to Watch in 2022
collection of patient physiological measurements such as blood pressure, weight, or blood glucose levels—and both commercial health insurers as well as the Medicare system have seen dramatic increases in the use of these services in... View Details
Keywords: by HBS News
- 28 Oct 2009
- Lessons from the Classroom
HBS Begins Teaching Consumer Finance
And consumer finance businesses are the touch points between the financial system and millions of consumers. Despite its size and importance, we had ignored this sector almost entirely in our curriculum. Q: Was HBS alone in not offering a... View Details
- 08 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Clayton Christensen on Disrupting Health Care
describe it—in a way that applies to health care or any industry—is innovation that transforms a product or service that historically has been very complicated and expensive into something that is affordable and simple to use. Q: In your... 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
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Community Investment
inspired to address inconsistencies in society by working from within the system rather than pursuing more radical approaches. Joseph Schell: As we turn fifty, many of us finally have time to reflect on our life's ambitions. It's a great... View Details
- 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 Jun 2008
- News
Alumni Books
management in colleges and universities. What the Customer Wants You to Know: How Everybody Needs to Think Differently about Sales by Ram Charan (MBA ’65, DBA ’67) (Penguin Group) To upgrade the productivity of a company’s sales force,... View Details
Keywords: Management
- 03 Aug 2022
- News
Hungry for Change
damaged the health of the planet, with single-use plastic from food packaging clogging landfills. Flynn had never imagined herself as an entrepreneur, but she quickly recognized that the food system was not one she could change from... View Details
Keywords: April White
- May 16, 2016
- Article
Food Safety Economics: The Cost of a Sick Customer
By: Dina Gerdeman and John A. Quelch
Chipotle Mexican Grill’s ongoing struggle to win customers back months after a contaminated food crisis highlights the challenges companies face with keeping food safe.
Chipotle has seen its shares tumble and recently reported its first-ever quarterly loss... View Details
Chipotle has seen its shares tumble and recently reported its first-ever quarterly loss... View Details
Keywords: Food Safety; Organic Food; Supply Chain Management; Globalization Of Food Business; Mérieux NutriSciences: Marketing Food Safety Testing; Food Safety Modernization Act 2011; Plant-Based Agribusiness; Transition; Economic Systems; Food; Health; Supply and Industry; Logistics; Practice; Problems and Challenges; Quality; Safety; Business Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Customization and Personalization; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Insurance Industry; Public Administration Industry; Public Relations Industry; Retail Industry; Service Industry; Mexico; North America; United States; Canada
Gerdeman, Dina, and John A. Quelch. "Food Safety Economics: The Cost of a Sick Customer." Harvard Business School Working Knowledge (May 16, 2016).
- 03 Dec 2001
- What Do You Think?
What Happens When the Sumo Master Learns Judo?
developing products created by hard-to-find customer-centered software engineers. But now Microsoft's proposed settlement of its dispute with an even bigger sumo—government—would involve giving computers equipped with its operating View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Culture Clash: Exploring Cross Cultural Conflicts in Business
has begun searching for answers in a broader, overseas setting. With a research agenda organized around eight major world cultures and belief systems - African, Confucian, Hindu/Buddhist, Islamic, Japanese, Latin American,... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Professors Fox, Mace Remembered
Production Board. From 1958 to 1962, Fox was director of research for the U.S. Commission on Money and Credit, which conducted a major study of the nation's monetary system. He was also a cofounder of the Cambridge Research Institute.... View Details
- 13 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 13, 2016
fundamental firm value, which is gradually revealed into prices. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51971 December 2016 Harvard Business Review Health Care Needs Real Competition By: Dafny, Leemore S., and Thomas H. Lee Abstract—The U.S.... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
Jim Langford waits for no squirrel. On a clear January morning in Atlanta, driving with considerable speed and purpose, he barrels up the hill of the Carter Center campus in a 2012 Toyota Camry. He’s talking about poetry, which he writes... View Details
- 03 Mar 2014
- HBS Case
Decommoditizing the Canned Tomato
that "knowing exactly what you have to produce and sell provides a strong incentive" for the production and sales teams. And, he adds, "if you reduce the possibility of change, there will be less change the View Details