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  • 02 Mar 2017
  • What Do You Think?

Is China About to Overtake the US for World Trade Leadership?

trade relations between the two expanded. China, for a time, became a primary manufacturer of goods for US markets--economists estimate that up to 2 million manufacturing jobs... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • April 2008 (Revised May 2012)
  • Case

Ti-Tech (A)

By: Benson P. Shapiro, John T. Gourville and Craig E. Cline
This case concerns the selection and scheduling of orders by a small industrial titanium fabricator that recently has been plagued by poor deliveries and a lack of capacity. At the time of the case, Ti-Tech must decide which of four orders to accept, with capacity... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Metals and Minerals; Order Taking and Fulfillment; Supply Chain Management; Performance Capacity; Manufacturing Industry; Manufacturing Industry
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  • 28 Aug 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Should Industry Competitors Cooperate More to Solve World Problems?

Source: Cecilie_Arcurs George Serafeim has a startling suggestion to fix the world’s biggest environmental, social, and governance (ESG) problems such as water pollution, deforestation, and wealth inequality: encourage companies within industries to do less competing... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services; Manufacturing; Agriculture & Agribusiness; Mining
  • 29 Oct 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Building a Powerful Prestige Brand

Lauder, founded Estée Lauder Cosmetics. By the time she retired from public life in the mid-1990s, this company had become one of the largest cosmetics manufacturers in the world and was recognized as one of the leading players in the... View Details
Keywords: by Nancy F. Koehn; Beauty & Cosmetics; Consumer Products; Retail
  • 06 Oct 2020
  • Blog Post

2+2 Where Are They Now Spotlight: Curtis Wu (MBA 2018)

generating drug substance to confirm the candidate’s efficacy through clinical trials, and submitting data to the FDA for regulatory approvals. My team’s primary responsibility is to generate data and View Details
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About | Harvard Business School

About C. Ludens Ringnes Sculpture Collection The C. Ludens Ringnes Sculpture Collection was established in 2018 through the generosity of Christian Ringnes during the Harvard Business School Campaign. This gift supports two primary... View Details
  • 14 Jan 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Mapping Polluters, Encouraging Protectors

States on view, where are the most flagrant polluters? Well, the United States has a lot of red dots. Toffel mentions that power plants and metal mines are the 2 industries with the greatest amount of toxic pollution, and that counties... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Manufacturing; Manufacturing
  • 07 Mar 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Electronic Health Records Were Supposed to Cut Medical Costs. They Haven't.

annoyed, and it distracts them from dealing with the patient.” The study, published in the February 20 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, looked at five types of visits: primary care visits, ER visits resulting in a... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Health
  • 18 Feb 2009
  • First Look

First Look: February 18, 2009

efficiency benefits of market transactions Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-091.pdf Leveraging Waste: Implications for Competition and Welfare (revised) Author:Deishin Lee Abstract We study the competitive and welfare implications when a View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Jun 2014
  • First Look

First Look: June 10

firms in primary markets. We characterize two effects on primary market firms caused by intermediaries entering secondary markets: the "cannibalization" and "option value" effects.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Sep 2014
  • First Look

First Look: September 9

Next, it describes the primary stages or steps in the advising process; each stage is examined from the perspective of both advice seekers and advice givers. The note concludes with recommendations for practice, listing a number of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Mar 2008
  • First Look

First Look: March 26, 2008

levels of related expertise; (ii) subsidiaries exhibit significant heterogeneity in this expertise; and (iii) the subsidiaries are more diversified and less concentrated. We examine the efforts to diffuse pollution prevent practices exhibited by View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 04 Apr 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Attention Medical Shoppers: What Health Care Can Learn from Walmart and Amazon

average wait for a primary care visit in Massachusetts, world renowned for its medical facilities, is a whopping 50 days. Only 3 percent of American physicians regularly e-mail their patients, less, he said, than the percentage of priests... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health
  • 04 Mar 2014
  • First Look

First Look: March 4

market for psychologists, in which stable matchings exist for all years of the data, despite the presence of couples. August 2013 Harvard Business Review Choosing the Right Customer By: Simons, Robert Abstract—Companies that win in competitive markets identify a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Mar 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, March 7

metrics. Unfortunately, the effects of different types of coupling are somewhat hard to distinguish. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52349 Bureaucratic Norms and State Capacity in India: Implementing View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Aug 2011
  • First Look

First Look: August 2

manufacturer to a world leader in R&D, marketing, and design, with a brand more valuable than Pepsi, Nike, or American Express. Fewer still would have predicted the success of the path it has taken. For two decades now, Samsung has... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Oct 2002
  • News

Andrew H. Tisch

brother and cousin, that forms the Office of the President at Loews' Manhattan headquarters. Among his primary responsibilities are watching over several major real estate investments and working closely with the CEOs of several... View Details
  • 19 Nov 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Alfred Chandler on the Electronic Century

Laboratories had been dismantled, and only remnants of Philips's once great electronics laboratories at Eindhoven remained. Of the three primary builders of the technological foundations of the consumer electronics industry, only Sony... View Details
Keywords: by Alfred D. Chandler, Takashi Hikino & Andrew Von Nordenflycht; Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Manufacturing
  • 05 Jun 2013
  • Op-Ed

Corporate Leaders Need to Step Up on Climate Change

energy use and waste, and many have integrated sustainability into strategic planning. What's not to like? Well, for starters, these actions don't meaningfully address the primary barrier to sustainability, climate change. According to... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Toffel & Auden Schendler
  • 01 Jun 2009
  • News

Cynthia Carroll

petroleum geologist at Amoco. Later, she joined the Canadian company Alcan, rising through the ranks and eventually becoming CEO of its Primary Metal Group, a position she held until taking over at Anglo.... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Management; Mining