Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2013

Then we got talking about the odometer on my Nissan Pathfinder: Is a car that can go 300,000 miles a case of over-engineering or TQM excellence? If you listen to 50 consecutive business podcasts, as we did, everything starts to look like a business case study. It was a debate worth at least 40 miles.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

In fact, her love of the city’s mingled cultures and vibrant local businesses was one of the things that had inspired her to cofound Unamano, now a world-renowned nonprofit that supported entrepreneurship in emerging markets. Unamano’s mission was to help entrepreneurs in emerging markets—not in the United States.

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Case Study Incubator Marketing Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Given that those companies were all venture-financed and emerged from Silicon Valley, you might assume that the key ingredients that have ensured their success were cutting-edge technologies, digital platforms, and customer bases that were chiefly made up of digital natives. You would be wrong.

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Business Model Technology Advertising Cost 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

Editor’s Note: This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. And he’d seen and heard about similar cases of misuse elsewhere. But not here , he thought. “Higher! .” “Good idea.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Editor’s Note: This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. He renamed his company and put a team of engineers to work solving the product’s mechanical, food safety, cost, and design flaws. Terranola’s market cap skyrocketed to $8.1

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Case Study CFO Hedge PR 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

It looked like a stuffed animal — a cartoonish plush bird with a beetling brow and goofy eyes — but it contained a microphone, tiny speaker, headphone jack, computer chip, and enough speech-recognition and voice-generation technology to engage in sassy banter in Mandarin. She was an engineer and programmer.

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Case Study Retail Learning-by-Doing Education 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2012

In our last blog post , we showed how Carlos Ghosn, CEO of Renault-Nissan and inventor of the concept of "frugal engineering", is reinventing his entire company so it can innovate faster, better, and cheaper in a complex and resource-scarce global environment. Carlos Ghosn isn't the only CEO spearheading the frugal innovation revolution.

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CEO Innovation Restructuring Incentives 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Case Study #1: Stay current and build relationships with your colleagues so that you understand what motivates them. The new Work Market website will go live this spring. ” Case Study #2: Create a message that resonates, and forge a path for others to become proponents. . Her efforts paid off.

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Influence How To Case Study Learning-by-Doing 20

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2016

Virtually every 21 st century business scandal is reducible to a morality tale of a technology that allows us to do things we couldn’t before, coupled with major institutional failures that were enabled by failures of omission and commission of corporate leaders. Consider the Columbia and Challenger space shuttle disasters.

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Ethics CFO Technology Learning-by-Doing 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2013

As the internet continues to make it easier to connect with potential customers, some entrepreneurs have decided that Instagram isn''t just for "selfies," but for marketing. Instagram should not be underrated as an engine of marketing, considering the engagement beautiful images can generate.

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Company Merchandising Entrepreneur Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2012

In our last blog post , we showed how Carlos Ghosn, CEO of Renault-Nissan and inventor of the concept of "frugal engineering", is reinventing his entire company so it can innovate faster, better, and cheaper in a complex and resource-scarce global environment. Carlos Ghosn isn't the only CEO spearheading the frugal innovation revolution.

CEO 8

CEO Innovation Restructuring Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

I wrote a case study about this for my book and it ended up on the cutting room floor, but it's still a fascinating story and one that has valuable lessons for today. In the 1950's, the American market was quite small and dominated by entrenched players such as Harley Davidson, Indian, and imports like Triumph and Moto Guzzi.

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Strategy Automotive Short-term Marketing 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

For decades, the utility-metering industry was dominated by a handful of middle-market companies, many of which still run successful and profitable businesses. But technology innovation is a powerful draw and, in business, when an opportunity arises, there is no shortage of players getting into the game. Audit the organization.

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CEO Chief Executive Officer Venture Funding Taylorism 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

Case Study #1: Seek advice from others and uncover the root of your boss’s indecisiveness. The team had created a new product, but “we were limited by technology at the time — the cloud infrastructure wasn’t very developed — and our solution wasn’t elegant.”

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How To Reputation Case Study Advice 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2018

Healthcare data is also highly prized on the black market because there are so many lucrative ways to use it fraudulently, so it’s often a more attractive target than financial or other personal data. How technology is changing the design and delivery of care. Insight Center. Health Care’s New Frontier. Sponsored by Optum.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2012

One innovative portfolio-management technique the mission employed was a novel free-market resource-allocation concept drawn from the field of economics. An HBR Mini Case Study. NASA is one organization that has in fact put a lot of effort into predicting which individuals would succeed as project leaders. Get Ready to Fail.

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Project Survey Budgeting Conflict of Interest 16

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2012

One innovative portfolio-management technique the mission employed was a novel free-market resource-allocation concept drawn from the field of economics. An HBR Mini Case Study. NASA is one organization that has in fact put a lot of effort into predicting which individuals would succeed as project leaders. Get Ready to Fail.

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Project Survey Budgeting Conflict of Interest 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2016

In the meantime, retail and wholesale markets have stalled around the country. Indeed, since the chaos erupted, the prime minister has tweeted : “Time has come for everyone, particularly my young friends, to embrace e-banking, mobile banking & more such technology.” India uses a lot of cash by any measure.

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Banking Cost Policies Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

As Wasserman wrote for HBR: A technology-oriented founder-CEO, for instance, may be the best person to lead a start-up during its early days, but as the company grows, it will need someone with different skills. As Wasserman summarizes: When [founders] celebrate the shipping of the first products, they’re marking the end of an era.

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Succession Leadership CEO COO 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2015

Mistake constant fatigue and apathy for a temporary case of burnout; if you feel ineffective on a daily basis, it might be time to look for a new job. Case study #1: Reflect on why your work matters. Case study #2: Be prepared to change careers if your burnout symptoms linger.

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Motivation How To Long-term Stress 8

N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

Validating proof of concept around social media ROI is a discussion that may have had a bit of relevance 24 months ago, but unless you’ve been stranded on a desert island for the last couple of years you know that numerous case studies abound which validate social media beyond any reasonable doubt.

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Media Influence Blog Real Estate 357

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2014

“The phenomenal number of interacting parts, interacting people and continuing changes in technology mean that we will always have failures, full stop.” In a recent New York Times video on both disasters , one former engineer, Rodney Rocha, recalls asking why his request was rejected.

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Root Cause Analysis Edmondson Industry CEO 8

Strategy Driven

JULY 5, 2013

Technology is but one tool of the trade. The Old Became the New Again… The original speed for phonograph records, as invented in 1888, was 78-RPM, which engineers determined to be the most ideal for sound quality. Review case studies and their patterns for repeating themselves. Ideas make the future happen.

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Planning Learning Curve Budgeting Learning-by-Doing 61

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

Technology is but one tool of the trade. The Old Became the New Again… The original speed for phonograph records, as invented in 1888, was 78-RPM, which engineers determined to be the most ideal for sound quality. Review case studies and their patterns for repeating themselves. Ideas make the future happen.

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Planning Learning Curve Learning-by-Doing Budgeting 60

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

Alice, an outstanding 24-year-old engineer working for a top technology company, wants to launch her own startup within the next five years, but she doesn’t yet have a venture concept. What knowledge and skills does Alice need to lead a technology venture? Juan Díaz-faes for HBR. Cofounders are crucial.

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Engineering Finance Survey Technology 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

It will change the category you compete in, the products and services you sell, and how you market them, and even the talent you acquire. These three mini case studies will show you just how profound those shifts will be. Longer-term, Lowe’s needs to reinvent the way it markets and sells to consumers.

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Industry Retail Software Marketing 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

It will change the category you compete in, the products and services you sell, and how you market them, and even the talent you acquire. These three mini case studies will show you just how profound those shifts will be. Longer-term, Lowe’s needs to reinvent the way it markets and sells to consumers.

Industry 8

Industry Retail Software Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2016

However, looking at the surveys and consulting reports, it is unclear what the precise use cases are that will drive this positive ROI from big data. Our goal in this article is to offer specific, real-world case studies to show how big data has provided value for companies that have worked with Microsoft’s analytics teams.

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Supply Chain Price Airlines Advertising 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

To help bring cool new technology to the world? “You might move from product to engineering to ops.” “You might move from product to engineering to ops.” Case Study #1: Get to know the founder and spend quality time with the team. Why do you want to join a startup in the first place?

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Due Diligence How To Learning-by-Doing Case Study 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

3M and Google, among others, have given "innovation time off" to their scientists and engineers. Some pharmaceutical scientists will spend an entire career working on drug development without a single one of their products reaching the market. It's a well-established principle that people need slack time to work through their ideas.

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Company Stage-Gate Innovation Bureaucracy 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

This is frequently the case in industrial production. Because of the way industrial products are designed and engineered, you know that when your production line is spitting out Model T cars, you can be reasonably certain they will work as designed. Case Study: Putting This into Practice. They want a quarter-inch hole.

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Project Management Uncertainty Software 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2014

Editor’s Note: This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. But its business was manufacturing lightweight small arms technologies, so-called LSATs, for the U.S. Now it seemed like a hornet’s nest. Twin Debates. government. “A

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Case Study Banking Ethics Guidelines 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2012

Paul Kennedy's seminal Rise and Fall of the Great Powers captures the way technological and economic advances have converted into strategic advantage, and how failure to "lock in" that edge accelerates imperial decline. Technik , then, is the technological quotient of civilization. It pledges $1.5 The contrast between the U.N.'s

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First-mover Advantage GDP Technology Biotechnology 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Expertise can be noticed more easily," says Soumitra Dutta, a professor in business and technology at INSEAD, author of "What's Your Personal Social Media Strategy?" For example, if you're in sales, you are likely to have a depth of knowledge in that area, but you can also show that you know something about marketing or finance.

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Media Career Tips Content 17

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2013

Porter is a member in good standing of the business-community Kagame fan club, and has just finished a new version of his case study (an earlier one is available here ) on Rwanda''s economic transformation. The case study doesn''t hide the fact that Kagame has many critics, but it doesn''t dwell on political issues.

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