Daniel C. Snow
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Daniel Snow is an assistant professor in the Technology and Operations Management unit at Harvard Business School.
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GM: What Went Wrong and What's Next
| Published: | June 15, 2009 |
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| Feature: | Op-Ed |
For decades, General Motors reigned as the king of automakers. What went wrong? We asked HBS faculty to reflect on the wrong turns and missed opportunities of the former industry leader, and to suggest ideas for recovery.
Published in 2006
Capturing Benefits from Tomorrow's Technology in Today's Products: The Effect of Absorptive Capacity
| Author: | Daniel Snow |
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| Published: | August 23, 2006 |
| Paper Release Date: | July 2006 |
| Feature: | Working Papers |
It seems clear that firms with an existing R&D function are better able to use related outside research than firms without an R&D function. But can specific products also "absorb" a firm's knowledge of related technologies? Using patent data and the example of automobile carburetors, Daniel Snow studied how companies may adapt a component of a "radical innovation" technology for their own current-technology products. He also poses a far-reaching question for companies: Can they capture the returns of these inventive activities?
American Auto's Troubled Road
| Published: | April 10, 2006 |
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| Feature: | Views on News |
Harvard Business School faculty dissect where U.S. auto makers went wrong, and how they might again get on the road to growth. From HBS Alumni Bulletin.
