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  • 05 Dec 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017

management in the construction industry by the premium power tools manufacturer Hilti in 2000. Following its customers’ needs, Hilti moved from selling power tools to leasing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 8, 2008

effectively, fulfilling those responsibilities, in a complex situation. Decisions facing the company include how to sustain credible research on the drug's efficacy and safety, how to increase manufacturing capacity to meet expected... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 31 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 31, 2009

it faced huge capital expenditures associated with constructing its manufacturing facilities. The company was at a crossroads: it had to decide whether to partner with IBM or align with other firms as it tried to keep up with Intel.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 Nov 2017
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New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017

ZIP codes. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53271 Harvard Business School Case 718-419 Hilti (A): Fleet Management? This case explores the strategic decision-making process of premium power tools... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 17 Nov 2020
  • In Practice

How Retailers Can Thrive in a Shopping Season Like No Other

stronger demand for home goods and furnishings. Many retailers may be wary about excess inventory and will pare back their ordering. The COVID-19 pandemic is also adversely affecting the supply chains of manufacturers who provide goods to... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Retail
  • 16 Dec 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History

Their theories provide a more powerful set of tools for examining the history of entrepreneurship than any that were available to the pioneering business historians in the 1940s and 1950s. Historians are now seizing the opportunity to... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman
  • 28 Oct 2014
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First Look: October 28

boundaries and property rights in a technical system. Bottlenecks are points of value creation and capture in any complex man-made system. The tools a firm can use to manage bottlenecks are first, an understanding of the modular structure... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 12 Oct 2011
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First Look: October 12

strength in high precision coordinate measuring machines, a universal measuring tool that had been widely used since its introduction in the mid-1970s. The market faced a complex diversification of competition as metrology View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Dec 2017
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New Research and Ideas, December 19, 2017

10% more agree to peace when it is proposed by a civilian community member rather than the enemy or an armed actor. Beyond the theoretical value of this result for understanding reactions to violence among communities and individuals, it suggests useful policy View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 09 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019

Case 419-035 P-Will at DISCO From the outside, DISCO—a Japan-based manufacturer of precision tools for semiconductor production devices—appeared to be a rather ordinary company that had achieved rather... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 23 Aug 2016
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August 23, 2016

affects interventional cardiologists deciding between two types of cardiac stents. Analyzing 147,000 choices over six years, we find that individuals do respond to negative news by using the focal production tool less often. However, we... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Jan 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance

be achieved if the Argentine society underwent a cultural transformation, setting solidarity as a core shared value. Its association with the prestigious newspaper La Nación served as a valuable tool in attaining such an objective; it was... View Details
Keywords: by James Austin, Ezequiel Reficco & SEKN research team
  • 27 Jan 2009
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First Look: January 27, 2009

firmsare more likely to adopt processinnovations and why. The empirical context is the adoption of e-business practices among U.S. manufacturing plants in early 2000. Based on detailed data from the U.S. Census of Manufactures, the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Jul 2007
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First Look: July 24, 2007

Working Papers Using By-Product Synergy for Competitive Advantage Author: Deishin Lee Abstract We study how a manufacturer can leverage by-product synergy for competitive advantage. By focusing on the economic impact to the firm and the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 20

relationship between preparatory nonverbal behavior and subsequent performance, and highlighting preparatory power posing as a simple performance-boosting tool with the potential to benefit almost anyone. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Apr 2017
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First Look at New Research, April 11

mid-2000s. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/717436-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 417-010 Faber-Castell By 2016, Count Anton-Wolfgang von Faber-Castell had led the 255-year-old pencil manufacturer... View Details
  • 25 Apr 2017
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First Look at New Research, April 25

four factors allows special committees and their advisors to assess the degree to which the playing field is level in an MBO, and (by extension) the extent to which a market canvass can provide a meaningful check on the buyout price. This article then identifies more... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 17, 2009

Microfinance in particular has often been argued, but not without controversy, to be a tool for empowering women. Here, using a randomized controlled trial, we examine whether access to, and marketing of, an individually held commitment... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 May 2007
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First Look: May 22, 2007

and Failures of a Global Entrepreneur Harvard Business School Case 807-045 Bert Twaalfhoven (70; HBS '54) is faced with two offers to acquire the manufacturing holding company he had built up over 40 years. Despite the attractive price... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 30 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 30

programs requires more than providing accessible, affordable care; it requires understanding what makes both end users and providers tick. By understanding the cognitive processes underlying our choices and applying the tools of... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino

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