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- April 2020 (Revised May 2020)
- Case
NTT DOCOMO's Race to 5G
By: Juan Alcácer, Horst Melcher and Akiko Kanno
The case, based on extensive interviews with NTT DOCOMO’s technology leaders, focuses on the opportunities and challenges that NTT DOCOMO faces with the launch of infrastructure and services for 5G wireless telecommunication technology. With higher data rates and...
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Keywords:
5G;
Mobile and Wireless Technology;
Product Launch;
Strategic Planning;
Decision Making;
Strategy;
Technology Industry;
Technology Industry
Alcácer, Juan, Horst Melcher, and Akiko Kanno. "NTT DOCOMO's Race to 5G." Harvard Business School Case 720-413, April 2020. (Revised May 2020.)
- June 1998 (Revised April 2000)
- Case
GM Powertrain
By: Amy C. Edmondson and Mikelle Eastley
Discusses a young MBA plant manager who is improving the operations of a small General Motors components plant in Fredericksburg, Virginia. At 29 years old, Joe Hinrichs is the youngest plant manager at GM, and in his new assignment, he is faced with the daunting...
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Keywords:
Service Operations;
Labor Unions;
Problems and Challenges;
Technological Innovation;
Change Management;
Machinery and Machining;
Manufacturing Industry;
Auto Industry;
United States
Edmondson, Amy C., and Mikelle Eastley. "GM Powertrain." Harvard Business School Case 698-008, June 1998. (Revised April 2000.)
- April 1999 (Revised September 2000)
- Case
Interep National Radio Sales, Inc.
By: Benson P. Shapiro, Stephen X. Doyle and Wade Myers
Interep must mobilize sales information technology, organizational structures, and sales management processes to protect and enhance its strong position as a radio advertising sales firm. Opportunities and risks are high in this complex, rapidly changing sales agency...
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Keywords:
Management Practices and Processes;
Sales;
Strategy;
Information Technology;
Advertising;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Opportunities;
Fluctuation;
Media and Broadcasting Industry;
Advertising Industry;
New York (state, US)
Shapiro, Benson P., Stephen X. Doyle, and Wade Myers. "Interep National Radio Sales, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 999-011, April 1999. (Revised September 2000.)
- Research Summary
Current Research
Professor Chung models the effect of incentive compensation to study its impact on the sales force. Using data from a Fortune 500 company, he has developed a dynamic structural model of sales force response to a bonus-based compensation plan and examined how various... View Details
- April 2020
- Teaching Note
Oaktree: Pierre Foods Investment
By: Victoria Ivashina, Michael Harmon and Terrence Shu
Teaching Note for HBS No. 219-018. This case is a setting to discuss “loan to own” investment strategy that is often pursued by distressed investors. The aftermath of the 2007 financial crisis left many companies with poor liquidity and limited ability to obtain...
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- 2015
- Working Paper
Can Marshall's Clusters Survive Globalization?
By: Giulio Buciuni and Gary P. Pisano
It is widely presumed that in today's globalized economy, the value of geographic clustering of manufacturing industries is no longer valuable. Manufacturing is represented as a highly mobile "commodity" that can be sourced from anywhere in the world where factor costs...
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Keywords:
Manufacturing;
Globalization;
Marshall Industrial Clusters;
Global Supply Chains;
Manufacturing Industry
Buciuni, Giulio, and Gary P. Pisano. "Can Marshall's Clusters Survive Globalization?" Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 15-088, May 2015.
- 11 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 11
http://hbr.org/2014/11/how-not-to-cut-health-care-costs/ar/1 November 2014 Harvard Business Review How Smart, Connected Products Are Transforming Competition By: Porter, Michael E., and James E. Heppelmann Abstract—Information View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- January 1995 (Revised April 1996)
- Case
Wildfire
The company Wildfire offers a product that is a virtual secretary--embedded in the phone system. Students can call 1-800-WILDFIRE and hear a product demonstration. All the commands, from calling, to setting up meetings, to providing reminders, are verbal--told to the...
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Keywords:
Communication Technology;
Market Entry and Exit;
Product Marketing;
Communications Industry;
Service Industry
Sviokla, John J., and Steven M. Salzinger. "Wildfire." Harvard Business School Case 195-193, January 1995. (Revised April 1996.)
- August 1997 (Revised June 2023)
- Case
Fabritek, 1992
Describes a large-volume automotive parts contract in a high-quality machine work company. Quality and delivery problems arise when one of the four men on the job is replaced with a high producer who cannot earn a substantial bonus because of machine interference.
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Keywords:
Machinery and Machining;
Compensation and Benefits;
Selection and Staffing;
Production;
Quality;
Manufacturing Industry
Hammond, Janice H. "Fabritek, 1992." Harvard Business School Case 698-014, August 1997. (Revised June 2023.)
- January 2008
- Case
Lenovo: Building A Global Brand (Multimedia case)
By: John A. Quelch and Carin-Isabel Knoop
Announced in December 2004, the $1.75 billion acquisition of IBM's PC division by Lenovo, China's largest PC maker, made headlines around the world. A relative upstart in the business, Lenovo acquired the division of IBM that invented the PC in 1981. While Lenovo was...
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Keywords:
Marketing Strategy;
Multinational Firms and Management;
Information Infrastructure;
Global Strategy;
Acquisition;
Brands and Branding;
Manufacturing Industry;
Computer Industry;
China
Quelch, John A., and Carin-Isabel Knoop. "Lenovo: Building A Global Brand (Multimedia case)." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Case 508-703, January 2008.
- April 2016 (Revised November 2017)
- Case
InMobi: Reimagining Mobile Advertising
By: Sunil Gupta and Saloni Chaturvedi
InMobi, a mobile advertising company, considered one of India's first unicorns, has launched a new product called Miip. InMobi hopes that the product will grow its revenue eight times by 2018. Visually identified by a mascot, Miip seeks to reimagine adverting by...
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Keywords:
Mobile App;
Advertising;
India;
Applications and Software;
Globalization;
Digital Marketing;
Mobile and Wireless Technology;
Advertising Industry;
China;
India
Gupta, Sunil, and Saloni Chaturvedi. "InMobi: Reimagining Mobile Advertising." Harvard Business School Case 516-030, April 2016. (Revised November 2017.)
- 2013
- Working Paper
Inequality and Decision Making: Imagining a New Line of Inquiry
By: David Moss, Anant Thaker and Howard Rudnick
The substantial increase in inequality in the United States over the past three decades has provoked considerable debate, with some analysts characterizing rising inequality as among the greatest threats facing the nation and others dismissing it as little more than a...
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Keywords:
Equality and Inequality;
Income;
Decision Making;
Government and Politics;
Economics;
United States
Moss, David, Anant Thaker, and Howard Rudnick. "Inequality and Decision Making: Imagining a New Line of Inquiry." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 13-099, June 2013.
- Web
Class Profile - MBA
Industry Consulting Consumer Products / Retail / E-Commerce Financial Services Health Care / Biotech Manufacturing / Industrial / Energy Media / Entertainment / Travel Military Nonprofit / Government / Education Services View Details
- September 1999 (Revised April 2000)
- Case
drugstore.com
By: Richard L. Nolan
On a clear day in August 1999 in the new headquarters of drugstore.com, against a backdrop of the Blue Angels flying in formation over Lake Washington practicing for their hydroplane Seafare Cup performance, Peter Neupert was pleased with his company's IPO performance....
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Keywords:
Business Growth and Maturation;
Internet and the Web;
Problems and Challenges;
Business Startups;
Retail Industry
Nolan, Richard L. "drugstore.com." Harvard Business School Case 300-036, September 1999. (Revised April 2000.)
- July 2011 (Revised September 2012)
- Case
Intraoperative Radiotherapy for Breast Cancer (A)
By: Willy Shih
"This trial is going to take longer." Those were words that Michael Kaschke, CEO of Carl Zeiss AG, was not surprised to hear as he nurtured the intraoperative radiotherapy business inside his company's microsurgery unit. But he also didn't expect it to take 13 years to...
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Keywords:
Finance;
Business History;
Disruptive Innovation;
Emerging Markets;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Research and Development;
Safety
Shih, Willy. "Intraoperative Radiotherapy for Breast Cancer (A)." Harvard Business School Case 612-003, July 2011. (Revised September 2012.)
- September 2023 (Revised December 2023)
- Case
TetraScience: Noise and Signal
By: Thomas R. Eisenmann and Tom Quinn
In 2019, TetraScience CEO “Spin” Wang needed advice. Five years earlier, he had cofounded a startup that saw early success with a hardware product designed to help laboratory scientists in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical spaces more easily collect data from...
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Keywords:
Entrepreneurship;
Business Growth and Maturation;
Business Organization;
Restructuring;
Forecasting and Prediction;
Digital Platforms;
Analytics and Data Science;
AI and Machine Learning;
Organizational Structure;
Network Effects;
Competitive Strategy;
Biotechnology Industry;
Pharmaceutical Industry;
United States;
Boston
Eisenmann, Thomas R., and Tom Quinn. "TetraScience: Noise and Signal." Harvard Business School Case 824-024, September 2023. (Revised December 2023.)
- 02 May 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
Profits and Economic Development
Keywords:
by Dan Schwab & Eric Werker
- August 2001 (Revised March 2008)
- Case
Helios Health (A)
By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Alfred Martin
Helios PC system provides personalized drug information to the patients in the doctor's waiting room. It has met with considerable consumer acceptance and a very high return for the drug companies that sponsor it. What price should it charge them for the service?
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Keywords:
Entrepreneurship;
Price;
Health Care and Treatment;
Information Publishing;
Innovation and Invention;
Product Marketing;
Demand and Consumers;
Health Industry;
Pharmaceutical Industry
Herzlinger, Regina E., and Alfred Martin. "Helios Health (A)." Harvard Business School Case 302-022, August 2001. (Revised March 2008.)
- Research Summary
Wage Policies and Incentives to Invest in Firm-Specific Human Capital (joint with George Baker and Nancy Dean Beaulieu)
The accumulation of firm-specific knowledge improves firm productivity and employee reten-tion, by creating a wedge between what the employee is worth inside and outside the firm. How does the firm create incentives for investment in firm-specific human capital when...
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- Mar 2012
- Article
Fixing What's Wrong with U.S. Politics
history shows it's not new. Moreover, sharp ideological battles have often proved highly productive in policy terms, delivering the best ideas from both sides. In the 1840s, for instance, state politicians who were deeply skeptical of...
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