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- 31 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
You’re Wasting Your Employees! What You Can Do About It
today's managers are trying to implement third-generation strategies through second-generation organizations with first-generation management. In an earlier study we analyzed the evolution of CEO Jack Welch's thinking at General Electric... View Details
- 15 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Lessons of New-Market Disruption
CMOS (complementary metal-oxide semiconductor), was aimed at simplifying multicomponent test systems. Typically, silicon wafers moving through production are fed into the test system, which sends electrical impulses into each wafer and... View Details
- 09 Mar 2016
- Lessons from the Classroom
In This Classroom, Beer Can Improve Your Grade
outside vendor for the Strategy course, but Casadesus-Masanell said that there were several shortcomings in that arrangement. It was hard to alter the model to align closely with the objectives of Strategy course, and the vendor’s product—capacitors used by View Details
- 16 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Resolving Patent Disputes that Impede Innovation
for demanding "excessive" licensing royalties for SEPs related to Wi-Fi and video compression. Samsung, Apple, Nokia, and Ericsson also have been involved in major SEP-related litigation. "A lot of the litigation has had to... View Details
- 01 Aug 2008
- What Do You Think?
Has the Time Come for “Stretch” in Management?
dreams and ideas," stretch is even necessary? As she put it, "Stretch goals seem like a crutch to me." What do you think? Original Article The leadership of General Electric introduced the management concept of... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 27 Feb 2025
- Blog Post
IFC India 2025: HBS Visits Jindal Steel Works (JSW) Steel Dolvi Plant
plan, the company is taking on green initiatives only if they are financially viable. Examples include recovery and reuse of waste heat to power different plant operations, use of byproducts such as slag at JSW cement, and electric... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Q&A: Andrew Kendall
Growing up in Sharon, Massachusetts, Andrew W. Kendall (MBA 1988) developed a natural affinity for the outdoors from family trips to the beach and from hiking, snowshoeing, and camping in New England's mountains and forests. It wasn't until the Amherst graduate went to... View Details
- 30 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 30, 2008
economies. Purchase this case: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=708486 Power Across Latin America: Endesa de Chile Harvard Business School Case 799-015 Endesa, a privatized Chilean View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Feb 2023
- Blog Post
Accelerating Climate Solutions - Short Intensive Program 2023
This is a repost from HBS Newsroom, see the original post here. New Short Intensive Course at Harvard Business School Meets Growing Student Demand for Climate in the MBA Classroom One might not immediately see the Gospel of Mark, which... View Details
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Trade Catalogs - The Art of American Advertising
distinct means of communication and distribution to a mass audience. Trade catalogs, for example, became an integral way of merchandising new industrial products created from the enormous factory output and market demands of the... View Details
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS
among historians and scholars from other disciplines who are taking a historical approach to their work has demanded intellectual leadership. Al Chandler has provided that leadership for more than forty years. Early in his career, he... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 14 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Big Money for Big Projects
cannot be deferred for very many years; they need the infrastructure today. Moreover, it doesn't make sense to defer a project with a thirty- to fifty-year lifespan just because we are in a temporary economic downturn. The long-term View Details
- 17 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
America Needs a Manufacturing Renaissance
products to Asia, who would have guessed that this decision would influence where the most important component for tomorrow's electric vehicles—the batteries—would be produced? But that is what happened. The offshoring of consumer... View Details
- 09 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Moving From Bean Counter to Game Changer
and consumer lending. The researchers chose to study risk-management experts because their role has risen in importance with demands for improved corporate governance and the need for better forecasting and modeling. After the financial... View Details
- 07 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 7, 2009
additional demand for its products and services. How, then, should The Home Depot organize itself in advance of disaster events? Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=309055 Neck & Neck:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
WATER Ltd.
inefficiently — amounts that far exceed residential and personal use. And with the global population skyrocketing, the demand for water to sustain, feed, and employ the world’s people is projected to double by 2025. By that date, nearly... View Details
- 30 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Computer Security is For Managers, Too
operations tell their materials suppliers exactly what specifications to meet. Similarly, companies should demand reasonable levels of security from software vendors. Look at the wording of this contract between General View Details
- 17 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 17, 2007
system with periodic review, constant leadtimes, infinite supply, full backlogging, linear holding and penalty costs and no ordering costs. Forecasting ARIMA time series requires tracking forecast errors (interpolations) and using these forecast errors and past View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
pension and life insurance arrangements) to GDP, suggesting that preferred-habitat demand by the P&I sector for long-dated assets drives the long end of the yield curve. We draw on changes in regulations in several European countries... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Making Their Way
end of the market. But Brownell is looking to jump into the global arena by expanding into overseas markets. “We’re finding demand overseas for our expertise and ingenuity,” she notes. “A weaker dollar is also making our products more... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing