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  • 01 Oct 1999
  • News

Eight Among Many: Peter G. Harf

divisions - Coty and Lancaster - and its seven thousand employees worldwide. The Coty Division manufactures mass-market fragrances, cosmetics, and skin-care products that are available in drug and grocery stores, while the Lancaster Group... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
  • 10 Nov 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Globalization: The Strategy of Differences

acquisitions to build up scale because, for the leading global competitors, an R&D-to-sales ratio of at least 8 percent represented a significant source of scale economies. But he also implemented a production strategy that was intended to arbitrage cost... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
  • December 2023
  • Article

Advances in Power-to-Gas Technologies: Cost and Conversion Efficiency

By: Gunther Glenk, Philip Holler and Stefan Reichelstein
Widespread adoption of hydrogen as an energy carrier is widely believed to require continued advances in Power-to-Gas (PtG) technologies. Here we provide a comprehensive assessment of the dynamics of system prices and conversion efficiency for three currently prevalent... View Details
Keywords: Clean Technology; Green Hydrogen; Carbon Emissions; Decarbonization; Learning By Doing; Environment; Energy; Environmental Accounting; Environmental Management; Sustainable Cities; Cost Accounting; Innovation and Management; Technology Adoption; Energy Policy; Engineering; Green Technology; Manufacturing Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Manufacturing Industry; North America; South America; Africa; Europe; Asia
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    Angela Q. Crispi

    Angela is the Executive Dean for Administration at Harvard Business School, leading an organization of nearly 2,000 staff with an operating budget of $1 billion. She oversees the execution of the School’s strategy ranging from academic programs to research, and the... View Details

    • June 2021 (Revised October 2021)
    • Case

    Nissan's Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic

    By: Ananth Raman, William Schmidt and Ann Winslow
    In January 2020, Ashwani Gupta took over as COO at Nissan Motor Corporation, and several weeks later, the COVID-19 pandemic began. Nissan’s Business Continuity Plan (BCP) had been key to the resilience of Nissan’s supply chain. It had enabled Nissan to recover from... View Details
    Keywords: Operations; Supply Chain Management; Health Pandemics; Manufacturing Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Japan; India
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    • Web

    National Markets - The Art of American Advertising

    small shop, or through itinerant peddlers. Retailers distributed basic goods, for example textiles and grains, to general merchants, while regional enterprises manufactured products such as tractors and looms. Given the steady demand for... View Details
    • 01 Oct 1997
    • News

    L.E. Simmons

    Simmons & Company, an investment banking firm specializing in the oil field service industry. "It's a fascinating industry that encompasses all the businesses that manufacture a product or provide a service that is used by oil companies... View Details
    Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
    • December 2012
    • Case

    Chobani: Growing a Live and Active Culture

    By: Joshua D. Margolis and Matthew Preble
    Hamdi Ulukaya, CEO of the Greek yogurt company Chobani, Inc., was reflecting on what explained his young company's meteoric rise. The company held over half of the U.S. Greek yogurt market, and nearly 20% of the total yogurt market. The company's innovative approach to... View Details
    Keywords: Innovation; Growth Strategy; Growth Management; Yogurt; Innovation Strategy; Leadership; Culture; Entrepreneurship; Marketing; Agribusiness; Manufacturing Industry; Manufacturing Industry; United States; Canada; Australia
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    • 08 Oct 2008
    • Research & Ideas

    Book Excerpt: A Sense of Urgency

    demands, the head of the largest division of a Midwestern manufacturing company reluctantly drew the conclusion that his only alternative was to engineer a crisis. [ ] But energy within his organization did not emerge as a strong sense of... View Details
    Keywords: by John P. Kotter
    • 23 Mar 2023
    • News

    Winners Crowned in 2023 Alumni New Venture Competition

    have their own age-specific needs and preference. Tingting Zhong, MBA 2006, Cofounder & Co-CEO Region: Asia/Pacific Deeper Pulse Deeper Pulse runs platform that generates innovative designs for electric motors. Its software provides motor View Details
    • Web

    Selected Digital Historical Resources – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

    The Interview Process Spreading the Word The "Hawthorne Effect" Research Links Guides to Archival Collections Next Selected Digital Historical Resources Selected Digital Historical Resources Hawthorne works for the manufacture of power... View Details
    • June 2013 (Revised March 2015)
    • Case

    Open Innovation at Siemens

    By: Karim R. Lakhani, Katja Hutter, Stephanie Healy Pokrywa and Johann Fuller
    The case describes Siemens, a worldwide innovator in the Energy, Healthcare, Industry, and Infrastructure & Cities sectors, and its efforts to develop and commercialize new R&D through open innovation, including internal and external crowdsourcing contests. Emphasis is... View Details
    Keywords: Innovation; Innovation Management; Crowdsourcing; Innovation Strategy; Innovation and Management; Knowledge Management; Knowledge Sharing; Research and Development; Information Technology; Manufacturing Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Manufacturing Industry
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    • 18 May 2012
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Organization Design for Distributed Innovation

    Keywords: by Carliss Y. Baldwin
    • December 2017
    • Case

    International Institute of Tropical Agriculture

    By: Jose B. Alvarez and Sarah Mehta
    It is July 2017, and Dr. Nteranya Sanginga, the director general of the Nigeria-based International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), is making progress toward two of his primary strategic objectives for the nonprofit research Institute: 1) to scale the impact... View Details
    Keywords: Scaling Technologies; Youth Unemployment; Innovation In Nonprofits; Agribusiness; Plant-Based Agribusiness; Cash Flow; Labor; Employment; Commercialization; Problems and Challenges; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Africa; Nigeria
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    • 22 Feb 2022
    • News

    New Urban Order

    manufacturers ready to build the electric trucks to incorporate that tech, as well as a scalable market strategy. That strategy depends on TuSimple’s Autonomous Freight Network, the world’s first, which Lu likens to a railroad network of... View Details
    Keywords: Kathleen Fu, Deborah Blagg, Julia Hanna, and Maureen Harmon; illustrations by; energy; environment; sustainability; entrepreneurship; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services
    • March 2010 (Revised June 2010)
    • Case

    Malden Mills (A) (Abridged)

    By: Nitin Nohria and Thomas R. Piper
    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: Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Financing and Loans; Employees; Leadership; Crisis Management; Social Issues; Manufacturing Industry; Massachusetts
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    • 06 Jan 2014
    • Research & Ideas

    Technology Re-Emergence: Creating New Value for Old Innovations

    introduced low cost production methods to manufacture highly accurate quartz watches. Swiss business historians refer to this as the "Quartz Crisis." Companies like Seiko and Casio seized the quartz market. By 1983, two-thirds... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Apparel & Accessories; Technology; Consumer Products
    • 21 Nov 2022
    • Blog Post

    HBS Student Club Spotlight: Sustainability Club

    sustainability, create forums for discussions on sustainability-related cases outside of the classroom, and help curate professional opportunities for students to pursue long-term careers in climate. Erin O’Malley: I’ve spent my career chasing impact, starting with... View Details
    • Web

    Charts & Statistics - Leadership

    Influence: Medium-Low 80 1980 s 19 Software industry booms PC use expands in scale and scope CAD/CAM revolutionizes manufacturing Space shuttle Influence: Medium-High 90 1990 s Boom in connectivity Cloning, stem cell research DVDs... View Details
    • Web

    General Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

    : Winner of the 1996 Shingo Prize for Excellence in Manufacturing Research for "Maintaining Leadership across Product Generations: The Case of Canon in Photolighographic Alignment Equipment" ( Managing Product Development , 1996). William... View Details