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- 17 Sep 2020
- News
HBS Goes Back To School
procedures, introducing everything from directional and spacing decals on the floors to food delivery. “It’s an important service for the school, and our hope is that community... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Leading in the face of complex challenges
founded in the 1930s as Hess Oil and Chemical Company. A longtime advocate for and supporter of HBS, Hess is at the helm of an effort that also seeks to actively engage the... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Tapping into a sustainable enterprise that provides income for indigenous Mexican families
that allows indigenous Mexican populations to earn vital income by planting seedlings and developing pine-tree forests on their degraded lands. Arias-King, president of T&R Chemicals in Texas, uses natural... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Finding a Balance
comply with international patent law by 2005, precluding production of some of Cipla’s biggest moneymakers. With time running out, what should Hamied do? Lobbying the Indian government to exclude food and... View Details
Glen W. Bell
Bell foresaw the possibilities for fast food restaurants in the early 60’s, and in so doing, built an 800+ chain business. He is principally responsible for making Mexican fast View Details
Keywords: Restaurants & Lodging
- 18 Aug 2015
- News
New HBS Fund Chairs
worked at Chemical Bank and MasterCard after receiving her MBA. Raised as a Quaker with a life-long interest in service, in 1994 she began working at the All Souls Soup Kitchen View Details
- 10 Sep 2024
- Research & Ideas
What Happens When Business Owners Turn to ChatBots for Advice
AI can help you become a better writer, coder, and researcher. But can the powerful technology boost business acumen and economic performance? Sort of, says a recent study. An experimental artificial... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand
Edgar S. Woolard, Jr.
Upon becoming CEO of duPont, Woolard oversaw a massive downsizing and focused the company on its core products. In addition to drastically cutting costs, Woolard restructured duPont into twenty semi-autonomous units View Details
Keywords: Chemicals & Industrial
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Reinventing the Wheel
extracting carbon black from discarded models to create new ones. Cardozo first heard about the idea in 2013 while serving as an entrepreneur-in-residence at the Dutch incubator YES!Delft. The idea of chipping away at the mountains of old tires without emitting loads... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 17 Nov 2015
- News
How to Prepare for Shark Tank
What’s it like to appear on ABC-TV’s popular start-up series Shark Tank? In a word, nerve-wracking. Just ask Desiree Stolar and Nate Barbera (both MBA 2015), cofounders of Unshrinkit, a Harvard-born startup that has developed a formula... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
HBX: Reimagining HBS for the Digital Age
Terceros, HBX Live participant, chemical engineering administrator “HBX Live felt like a real classroom, or even like an enhanced classroom. The experience is so well designed and supported that I felt like... View Details
- February 2008
- Teaching Note
Kerr-McGee (TN)
By: Robin Greenwood
Teaching Note for [207020]. View Details
- 20 Nov 2017
- News
Finding Common Ground
only thing missing was ominous John Williams theme music playing in the background. CollaborateUp specializes in bringing corporations, government agencies, nonprofits, and other organizations together, to take on big, complex issues,... View Details
- 02 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
Ray A. Goldberg
At the beginning of January, over two hundred senior executives and government officials from around the globe met at Harvard Business School for the fortieth annual Agribusiness Seminar. They represented every facet of the "global... View Details
Lammot du Pont
Under duPont’s leadership, researchers at duPont invented nylon, which revolutionized the textile industry. Researchers also discovered neoprene (the first general purpose synthetic rubber), Orlon and Dacron under duPont’s direction.... View Details
Keywords: Chemicals & Industrial
- 24 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 24
terms shape the impact of economic shocks on trade. Analysis of transaction-level data from a U.S.-based exporter of frozen and refrigerated food products, primarily poultry, reveals broad patterns about the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
How Deep Brain Stimulation Could Change Medicine
tremors in his bow whenever he practiced, he immediately knew that something in his body was out of sync. He was diagnosed with essential tremor, a neurological disorder that causes involuntary and rhythmic shaking of the arms or hands.... View Details
Keywords: Janelle Nanos
- 07 Aug 2009
- What Do You Think?
Why Can’t Americans Get Health Care Right?
above are numerous in a channel that includes, in your comments, food and tobacco producers of unhealthy products (Christy Hitchens, Tom Dolembo); lifestyle equipment and... View Details
- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
Alantec. The case presents actual excerpts from the trial briefs of both the founders and the venture capitalists as well as competing views on how and why the dilution occurred. Purchase this... View Details