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- 26 Mar 2020
- News
'Bloomberg Surveillance' Full Show
- October 2006
- Case
Lean at Wipro Technologies
Wipro Technologies, a rapidly growing software services firm based in India, decided to use principles from the Toyota Production System (also known as lean) to fundamentally change their operating model. Looks at why Wipro chose to use lean and how they went about...
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Keywords:
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Competitive Advantage;
Applications and Software;
Operations;
Information Technology Industry;
India
Upton, David M., and Bradley R. Staats. "Lean at Wipro Technologies." Harvard Business School Case 607-032, October 2006.
- 2007
- Working Paper
Digital Interactivity: Unanticipated Consequences for Markets, Marketing, and Consumers
By: John A. Deighton and Leora Kornfeld
The digital interactive transformation in marketing is not unfolding, as many thought it would, on the model of direct marketing. That model anticipated that digital media using rich profiling data would intrude marketing messaging more deeply and more precisely into...
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Keywords:
Communication Intention and Meaning;
Interactive Communication;
Marketing Communications;
Consumer Behavior;
Social and Collaborative Networks;
Internet and the Web
Deighton, John A., and Leora Kornfeld. "Digital Interactivity: Unanticipated Consequences for Markets, Marketing, and Consumers." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 08-017, September 2007.
- Summer, 2018
- Article
Innovation, Reallocation and Growth
By: Daron Acemoglu, Ufuk Akcigit, Harun Alp, Nicholas Bloom and William R. Kerr
We build a model of firm-level innovation, productivity growth, and reallocation featuring endogenous entry and exit. A new and central economic force is the selection between high- and low-type firms, which differ in terms of their innovative capacity. We estimate the...
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Keywords:
Entry;
Growth;
Industrial Policy;
Innovation;
R&D;
Reallocation;
Selection;
Market Entry and Exit;
Growth and Development;
Innovation and Invention;
Research and Development;
Performance Productivity
Acemoglu, Daron, Ufuk Akcigit, Harun Alp, Nicholas Bloom, and William R. Kerr. "Innovation, Reallocation and Growth." American Economic Review 108, no. 11 (November 2018): 3450–3491.
- February 2008
- Article
Where Do Transactions Come From? Modularity, Transactions, and the Boundaries of Firms
This article constructs a theory of the location of transactions and the boundaries of firms in a productive system. It proposes that systems of production can be viewed as networks, in which tasks-cum-agents are the nodes and transfers—of material, energy and...
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Keywords:
Boundaries;
Production;
Market Transactions;
Supply Chain;
Management;
Cost;
Theory;
Performance Productivity;
Information Management;
Complexity
Baldwin, Carliss Y. "Where Do Transactions Come From? Modularity, Transactions, and the Boundaries of Firms." Industrial and Corporate Change 17, no. 1 (February 2008): 155–195. (Selected as one of the top twenty articles in the first twenty years of publication, 1992-2011.)
- December 1999
- Case
Agrochemicals at Ciba-Geigy AG (A)
By: Michael L. Tushman, Wendy Smith and Daniel Radov
After spending five years to develop a revolutionary product, the director of Ciba-Geigy's fungicide research department is handed an unfavorable market study. The case details the R&D process for the new product, including information on corporate partnerships,...
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Keywords:
Agribusiness;
Plant-Based Agribusiness;
Research and Development;
Innovation and Invention;
Innovation Strategy;
Product Launch;
Marketing Channels;
Change Management;
Product Development;
Business Processes;
Organizational Structure;
Corporate Accountability;
Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry;
Pharmaceutical Industry
Tushman, Michael L., Wendy Smith, and Daniel Radov. "Agrochemicals at Ciba-Geigy AG (A)." Harvard Business School Case 400-022, December 1999.
- Teaching Interest
Real Estate Management Program: Finance, Design, and Leadership
By: Andy Wu
How do you achieve short-term stability and long-term growth in the unpredictable real estate marketplace? This program explores how forward-thinking real estate leaders are positioning their firms to seize growth opportunities and maximize asset value. Equipped...
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Jillian J. Jordan
Jillian Jordan is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration in the Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Unit at Harvard Business School. She teaches Negotiations in the MBA elective curriculum.
Professor Jordan’s research investigates moral...
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- Career Coach
Nicole Ledoux
Nicole (HBS '08) is Co-founder/CEO of 88 Acres, a Consumer Products company in the Natural Food space. She has experience in brand building, business development, new product...
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- 2010
- Working Paper
Venture Capital Investment in the Clean Energy Sector
By: Shikhar Ghosh and Ramana Nanda
We examine the extent to which venture capital is adequately positioned for the rapid commercialization of clean energy technologies in the United States. While there are several startups in clean energy that are well-suited to the traditional venture capital...
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Keywords:
Business Startups;
Energy Generation;
Venture Capital;
Investment;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Technological Innovation;
Competition;
Energy Industry;
Green Technology Industry;
United States
Ghosh, Shikhar, and Ramana Nanda. "Venture Capital Investment in the Clean Energy Sector." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-020, August 2010.
- February 1996
- Case
Chadwick, Inc.: The Balanced Scorecard (Abridged)
By: Robert S. Kaplan
The pharmaceutical division of a diversified company has been asked to develop a Balanced Scorecard. Research and development projects take about ten years to bring a new product to the marketplace and the division depends on good relations and active feedback from its...
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Keywords:
Balanced Scorecard;
Research and Development;
Product Launch;
Commercialization;
Consumer Behavior;
Customer Focus and Relationships;
Performance Evaluation;
Pharmaceutical Industry
Kaplan, Robert S. "Chadwick, Inc.: The Balanced Scorecard (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 196-124, February 1996.
- February 2005 (Revised August 2008)
- Case
Arcelik Home Appliances: International Expansion Strategy
The Turkish home appliances firm Arcelik is revisiting its growth strategy. Options for growth include continuing to promote currently owned brands in international markets, acquiring new brands, expanding OEM or private-label contracts, and/or diversifying into other...
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Keywords:
Global Strategy;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Diversification;
Expansion;
Consumer Products Industry;
Turkey
Ghemawat, Pankaj, and Catherine Thomas. "Arcelik Home Appliances: International Expansion Strategy." Harvard Business School Case 705-477, February 2005. (Revised August 2008.)
Ananth Raman
Ananth Raman is a professor in the Technology and Operations Management area where he has taught courses on various aspects of Operational Excellence -- supply chain management, technology and operations management, and service operations -- to MBA... View Details
- September 1989
- Background Note
Performance Curves: Costs, Prices, and Value
By: Robert J. Dolan and Benson P. Shapiro
Explains the concept of a family of performance curves. The most well known is the price/performance curve relating the prices of items in a product line to their performance. Also discusses the cost/performance curve and its impact on product positioning, product line...
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Dolan, Robert J., and Benson P. Shapiro. "Performance Curves: Costs, Prices, and Value." Harvard Business School Background Note 590-010, September 1989.
- 21 Dec 2019
- News
Three Myths About Creativity That Are Probably Holding You Back
- Research Summary
The Global Agglomeration of Multinational Firms
By: Laura Alfaro
The explosion of multinational activities in recent decades is rapidly transforming the global landscape of industrial production. But are the emerging clusters of multinational production the rule or the exception? What drives the offshore agglomeration of...
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- 24 Apr 2019
- HBS Seminar
Dimitris Papanikolaou, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
- May 2003 (Revised November 2005)
- Case
Marks & Spencer: The Phoenix Rises
By: Joseph L. Bower
The great U.K. retailer fell on hard times in 1998. In 2001, a new CEO was recruited who appears to have succeeded in turning around this world-renown company. This case examines the steps he took (strategic, structural, and recruiting key people) and highlights a...
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Keywords:
Global Strategy;
Recruitment;
Leadership Development;
Crisis Management;
Supply and Industry;
Business Strategy;
Competitive Strategy;
Segmentation;
Retail Industry
Bower, Joseph L. "Marks & Spencer: The Phoenix Rises." Harvard Business School Case 303-096, May 2003. (Revised November 2005.)
- 03 Feb 2022
- Video
Professor Debora Spar: Symphonic
- November 2020
- Case
The Rise and Fall of Nokia (Abridged)
By: Juan Alcácer and Tarun Khanna
In 2013, Nokia sold its Device and Services business to Microsoft for €5.4 billion. For decades Nokia had led the telecommunications (telecom) industry in handsets and networking. By the late 2000s, however, Nokia's position as market leader in mobile devices was...
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Keywords:
Mobile Phones;
Smartphones;
Mobile and Wireless Technology;
Emerging Markets;
Technological Innovation;
Competitive Strategy;
Telecommunications Industry
Alcácer, Juan, and Tarun Khanna. "The Rise and Fall of Nokia (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 721-414, November 2020.