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- 03 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 3, 2006
the world's most populous country has turned old convictions on their heads, emerging from decades of isolation to become a hive of high-tech manufacturing, a major diplomatic and military power, and one of the world's largest holders of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Look at Globalization Now
emerged. Some (relatively rich) emerging countries now exploit the economic advantage of relatively low labor costs to move quickly into the manufacture of high-tech products, such as wireless phones, microprocessors, personal computers,...
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by Martha Lagace
- 17 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Can China Maintain Its Economic Power?
farmers in the country’s poorer provinces can achieve a standard of living equal to a high-tech worker in Hangzhou—is a daunting task. This increasing unease about economic inequality and instability is causing the wealthiest Chinese to...
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by Deborah Blagg
- 21 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 21
strategies and their importance for globalization have been scarce. In The Language of Global Success, Tsedal Neeley provides an in-depth look at a single organization—the high-tech giant Rakuten—in the five years following its English...
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Carmen Nobel
- 18 Aug 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs
business plan vision of Finale hasn't happened yet, which doesn't mean it never will," Conforti adds. "The journey itself has been very rewarding. I've had the opportunity to stretch myself and the organization in ways I didn't expect." The ability to pivot is...
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- 18 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 18, 2009
of gaming console industry leadership, how should Sony respond to the overwhelming success of competitor Nintendo's user-friendly Wii over Sony's high-tech PlayStation 3? It was August 2008 and Kazuo Hirai, chief executive of Sony...
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Martha Lagace
- 22 Mar 2010
- Research & Ideas
One Strategy: Aligning Planning and Execution
to develop strategies that are aligned with execution in a rapidly changing competitive environment. Q: Who will benefit from reading it? A: Our audience is senior managers in any industry. Specialists in the high-tech sector will find it...
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- 05 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 5, 2007
Indian scientists to U.S. technology formation increased dramatically in the 1990s, before noticeably leveling off after 2000 and declining in the case of India. Growth in ethnic innovation is concentrated in high-tech sectors; the...
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Martha Lagace
- 02 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2011
product should have been, says HBS entrepreneurial management professor Thomas R. Eisenmann. In his new MBA course, Launching Technology Ventures, Eisenmann introduces students to the idea of the lean startup—a methodology that has proven successful for many young...
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- 24 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 24, 2017
technologies to help companies increase employee happiness. Hitachi had begun manufacturing high-tech badges that quantify a wearer’s activity patterns. Data from these devices revealed an unusually high correlation between certain...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 May 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 9
among elementary school students in math and science, painted a grim picture. Furthermore, in spite of the wealth created by many high-tech Israeli firms, socioeconomic gaps in the country had widened. A two-tier economy had formed. The...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Aug 2002
- Op-Ed
Using Big Business to Fight Poverty
manufacturing facilities in the country increase their local content. To address both problems at once, Joachim Zahn, the head of DaimlerBenz in Brazil, arranged with POEMA, a local antipoverty program in Belem, to construct a modern, View Details
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by George C. Lodge
- 27 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 27
the high-tech group, and spend time with family. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/913420-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 913-406 Nestlé: Agricultural Material Sourcing Within the Concept of Creating Shared Value Corporate...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
How Small Wins Unleash Creativity
may not be going forward, due to a shift in the client's agenda. Therefore, there is a strong possibility that all the time and effort put into the project was a waste of our time. [Software engineer at a high-tech company] Ensuring clear...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 29 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 29, 2008
of these two factors helps stop and reverse long-term declines in overall inventor agglomeration evident in the 1970s and 1980s. The heightened ethnic agglomeration is particularly evident in industry patents for high-tech sectors, and...
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Martha Lagace
- 11 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 11
design business models to generate winner-take-all effects similar to the network externalities that high-tech companies such as Microsoft, eBay, and Facebook often create. A good business model creates virtuous cycles that, over time,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
equally worthy way of doing things, but it's not realistic to expect this course of action to coalesce on its own. Many of my colleagues in finance and engineering want to follow a third path—the pursuit of high-tech ways to increase...
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- 01 Mar 2004
- Lessons from the Classroom
Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science
of development process for a project. But my past work (studying projects in high-tech industries) had convinced me that we were missing an important level of analysis. It seemed that decisions made in a project sometimes worked against...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 7
case:https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/817019-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 815-082 Silicon Fen The region around Cambridge, England (known colloquially as Silicon Fen), is home to a cluster of high-tech startups and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 28
high-tech entrepreneurship from three path-breaking entrepreneurs who emerged as CEOs of huge global companies. Their approaches to formulating strategy and building organizations offer unique insights for start-up executives as well as...
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Sean Silverthorne