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- 15 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 15, 2016
describes her personal journey from art student and college dropout to financier and campaigner for corporate sustainability. Trillium grew out of Bavaria's initial work in Boston-based Franklin Research and Development Corporation and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Aug 2018
- Research & Ideas
Supersmart Manufacturing Tools are Lowering Prices on TVs, Bulbs, and Solar Panels
factory anywhere in the world is built today without billions of dollars in subsidies. The groundbreaking in Wisconsin that President Trump just attended is receiving around $3 billion from the state. So that industry goes through...
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- 22 Jul 2019
- Book
How to Be a Digital Platform Leader
create even within a very traditional, industrial business. We think the basic design of Predix was heading in the right direction, but the challenges in execution have been severe. Lagace: A central concern of The Business of Platforms...
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by Martha Lagace
- 10 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
How Numbers Talk to People
The problem with big data is that there is, well, so much of it. Analyzing it is like trying to sip from a firehose. Just in time, a new book on the art and science of quantitative analysis arrives this week. In Keeping Up with the...
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- 15 Sep 2003
- Lessons from the Classroom
HBS Cases: Developing the Courage to Act
perspectives, or points of view. "There's got to be a plausible tension in the case," says W. Carl Kester, chair of the M.B.A. program and Industrial Bank of Japan professor of finance. "It's what allows me to build a...
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by David A. Garvin
- 26 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 26, 2016
should allocate its resources over the next year in order to become profitable and ensure future growth. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/816006-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 815-022 The Ullens Center for Contemporary View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- June 2008 (Revised July 2008)
- Case
Kit Hinrichs at Pentagram (A)
By: Linda A. Hill and Emily Stecker
This case focuses on Kit Hinrichs, a 65-year-old partner at Pentagram, a privately owned multidisciplinary design firm. One of the world's most prestigious design firms, Pentagram was founded by five designers from different disciplines in London in the 1970s. By 2008,...
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Arts;
Business Offices;
Customer Relationship Management;
Design;
Leadership;
Personal Development and Career;
Groups and Teams;
Creativity;
Service Industry;
San Francisco
Hill, Linda A., and Emily Stecker. "Kit Hinrichs at Pentagram (A)." Harvard Business School Case 408-127, June 2008. (Revised July 2008.)
- 31 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 31, 2009
Reserve Bank of Minneapolis (Minneapolis Fed), Art Rolnick and his colleague, Rob Grunewald, had written "Early Childhood Development: Economic Development with a High Public Return." The thesis was fairly straightforward: early...
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Martha Lagace
- 03 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 3
enhance earnings/share through share repurchase in an environment of low interest rates. Purchase this note:http://hbr.org/search/212101-PDF-ENG Cahiers du Cinéma and The French Film Industry Mukti Khaire, Elena Corsi, and Emilie...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 23
Todd Rogers and Michael I. Norton Publication: Harvard Business Review 88, no. 11 (November 2010) Abstract This article presents a dual interview based on a research study we conducted. Our study found that an artful dodger of questions...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 26, 2008
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=808088 Henry J. Kaiser and the Art of the Possible Harvard Business School Case 408-072 From his humble beginnings as a local salesman in New York, Henry J. Kaiser rose to...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
venture-funded startups in the networking/data communications industry sectors reveals that those startups that participate in an open standards community, such as the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), have a greater likelihood of...
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- 18 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Want to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part I]
two-year orgy of enthusiasm for Internet enterprises. "At some boards of directors," he said, driving the point home, "they institute a $50 fine for every new application you think of." That challenge faced E Ink...
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by John S. Rosenberg
- 13 Feb 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 13, 2018
and industrial designs used by firms to protect their IP globally. We then show that IP protection remains fragmented, the quality of IP applications might be questionable, and the development of a comprehensive IP footprint worldwide is...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 23, 2016
2016 New York: Palgrave Macmillan Experiences in Liberal Arts and Science Education from America, Europe, and Asia: A Dialogue Across Continents By: Kirby, William C., and Marijk C. van der Wende, eds. Abstract—This book highlights the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 29
such a way that talent is developed along with the business. Publisher's link: http://www.palgraveconnect.com/esm/doifinder/10.1057/9781137294678.0085 August 2013 International Journal of Industrial Organization Information and Two-Sided...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ‘Talk, Inc.’
spatial—that would normally separate them from their employees. They do so by cultivating the art of listening to people at all levels of their organization, and by learning to talk with those people in ways that are personal, honest, and...
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Re: Boris Groysberg
- 13 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 13, 2016
rather than burying them in fine print, makes them less likely to be broken; 4) Should we make our algorithms discrimination aware? To ensure fairness, designers need to track how race or gender affects the user experience and set...
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Carmen Nobel
- 21 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 21
Art Museum By: Lund, Ragnar, and Stephen A. Greyser Abstract—This paper examines cultural sponsorship from a partnership perspective. It studies the collaboration between two international institutions, a bank and a museum, and their...
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Carmen Nobel
- 14 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Blockbuster! Why Star Power Works
publishers, and producers in other sectors of the entertainment industry live by this approach. You might think that spreading resources evenly across product lines is the safest approach, especially because no one seems to know for sure...
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