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Investing in Emerging Industries | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
activities. It issued the initial public offering of Allan B. DuMont Laboratories, a leading television equipment manufacturer of RCA (Radio Corporation of America). Other clients included Campbell Soup Company, B. F. Goodrich Company,... View Details
- March 2024
- Case
From “BIG” Ideas to Sustainable Impact at ICL Group (A)
By: Linda A. Hill and Lydia Begag
In the summer of 2023, Eduard (“Eddie”) Croitoru, Vice President (VP) of ICL Group (“ICL”) Corporate Initiatives, was reflecting on ICL’s internal ideation program, the Business Innovation for Growth (BIG) Accelerator. When Raviv Zoller became the CEO of ICL in 2018,... View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Agribusiness; Accounting; Communication; Renewable Energy; Chemicals; Machinery and Machining; Metals and Minerals; Mining; Social Entrepreneurship; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Values and Beliefs; Environmental Sustainability; Natural Resources; Globalization; Information Technology; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Leadership; Organizational Culture; Personal Development and Career; Talent and Talent Management; Manufacturing Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Chemical Industry; Israel; China; United States
Hill, Linda A., and Lydia Begag. "From 'BIG' Ideas to Sustainable Impact at ICL Group (A)." Harvard Business School Case 424-042, March 2024.
- 15 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019
December 19, 2018 NEJM Catalyst It's Time to Reform the Orphan Drug Act By: Bagley, Nicholas, Amitabh Chandra, Craig Garthwaite, and Ariel Dora Stern Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55448 January 2019... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
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Buy Now, Pay Later: Cars on Time
outstanding in the United States—about $850 billion—is about equal to the nation’s credit card debt. 23 In the 1920s, auto financing took a giant leap forward when the car manufacturers entered the game. In 1924, GM launched the General... View Details
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Technology & Operations Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Manufacturing & Service Operations Management Meritorious Service Award. Christian Kaps : Awarded Runner-up in the 2023 POMS CSOM Student Paper Competition from the College of Service Operations Management at the Production and Operations... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Keeping Hourly Workers Focused on the Stock, Not the Clock
Investment Bank, which had been a long-term investor in KKR, “This could be transformative for a wide swath of companies, in a broad range of industries.” “That’s the dream,” notes Stavros, who is currently working within KKR to expand the model to companies outside... View Details
- 09 Aug 2011
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First Look: August 9
PublicationsWhat to Ask the Person in the Mirror: Critical Questions for Becoming a More Effective Leader and Reaching Your Potential Author:Robert Steven Kaplan Publication:Harvard Business Publishing, 2011 Abstract Successful leaders know that leadership is less... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 2012
- Teaching Note
ChemChina (TN)
By: F. Warren McFarlan, Donghong Li, Lei Li and Hong Zhang
ChemChina is China's largest basic chemical manufacturing firm. It was included in Fortune Global 500 in 2011 and 2012, ranked No. 475 and 402. Its sales revenue in 2011 was 179 billion yuan, and profit was 600 million yuan. The year-end total assets were 254.2 billion... View Details
McFarlan, F. Warren, Donghong Li, Lei Li, and Hong Zhang. "ChemChina (TN)." Tsinghua University Teaching Note, 2012.
- 04 May 2017
- HBS Seminar
Nicholas G. Hall, The Ohio State University
- 29 Aug 2018
- What Do You Think?
What Should Harley-Davidson’s Management Do?
European market overseas, and (3) concentrate on designing and producing new products for new and existing markets. There were several minority opinions, however. ASGMark commented, “The very idea of moving manufacturing of an American... View Details
- 04 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
How a Juicy Brand Came Back to Life
by asserting that a brand might fit better in one company's portfolio than in another's. But a marketing professional would probably explain the improved fit in terms of distribution economies or manufacturing synergies. I would explain... View Details
- October 2005 (Revised August 2006)
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Haier: Taking a Chinese Company Global
By: Krishna G. Palepu, Tarun Khanna and Ingrid Vargas
In 2005, Haier, China's leading appliance manufacturer, had over $12 billion in worldwide sales and was the third-ranked global appliance brand behind Whirlpool and GE. Describes Haier's rise from a defunct refrigerator factory in China's Qingdao province to an... View Details
Keywords: Global Strategy; Brands and Branding; Manufacturing Industry; Manufacturing Industry; China
Palepu, Krishna G., Tarun Khanna, and Ingrid Vargas. "Haier: Taking a Chinese Company Global." Harvard Business School Case 706-401, October 2005. (Revised August 2006.)
- 11 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
Fix This! Why is it so Painful to Buy a New Car?
room for improvement” in the process, Buell says. “I’m happy with the car, but it was a roller coaster of emotions going through the experience.” What’s the problem here? The professors agree that the industry has a structural problem: the deep divide between car View Details
- 28 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 28
Publications Individuals' Decision to Co-Donate or Donate Alone: An Archival Study of Married Whole Body Donors in Hawaii Authors: Michel Anteby, Filiz Garip, Paul V. Martorana, and Scott Lozanoff Publication: PLoS ONE 7, no. 8: e42673 (2012) Abstract An abstract is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Projects - Business History
activities of seven generations of one branch of the Medici family engaged in the manufacture and export of wool, and they remain unique in the annals of business history. Renaissance Medici wool firms present an important early case of... View Details
- 15 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
GM: What Went Wrong and What’s Next
and revolutionized millions of Americans' lives. Riding the wave of the Model T's success, Ford Motor Company became the undisputed leader of this young market and by the early 1920s, it was producing 60 percent of all the motor vehicles View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
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Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
design and manufacture physical products, that type of fluid, data-rich information used to be a pipe dream. Now, with the rise of cheap and powerful sensors, supercomputing, and artificial intelligence, things are changing fast. In... View Details
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Invention of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
several years Land and Wheelwright set up operations at various locations in the Boston area where they continued to expand their laboratory and manufacturing facilities to design and build specialized equipment and machines that would... View Details
- December 2003 (Revised August 2006)
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Malden Mills (A)
By: Nitin Nohria, Thomas R. Piper and Bridget Gurtler
CEO Aaron Feuerstein of Malden Mills decided to pay idled workers after a massive fire at his mill in 1995. Focuses on the decisions made post-fire and the rebuilding process and eventual bankruptcy of the company. Also outlines creditors' struggle to decide whether to... View Details
Keywords: Wages; Situation or Environment; Ethics; Financing and Loans; Resignation and Termination; Employees; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Manufacturing Industry; Massachusetts
Nohria, Nitin, Thomas R. Piper, and Bridget Gurtler. "Malden Mills (A)." Harvard Business School Case 404-072, December 2003. (Revised August 2006.)
- 31 Oct 2023
- News
Securing a Resilient Future for Senegal
salaries and other fixed costs. Diagne’s work now focuses on crafting economic-recovery and emergency youth-jobs plans; working with the Health Ministry to set up a local vaccine manufacturing plant and securing vaccines for the country;... View Details