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James L. Kraft
large part to Kraft’s efforts. In 1928, his company employed 10,000 people and sold a million pounds of cheese a day. Today, the firm ranks first in the United States in cheese and dairy products and second in salad dressings. View Details
Keywords: Food & Tobacco
Amory Houghton, Jr.
Though he is now known for his post-business career as a New York Congressman, Houghton began his career at the family firm as an accountant in 1951. In his many years as CEO of Corning, Houghton focused on expanding profitable new... View Details
Keywords: Fabricated Goods
- 07 Sep 2016
- News
Four Alumni on '40 Under 40' List
wealth-management firm Nicole Marie Ledoux (MBA 2008), cofounder and CEO of 88 Acres, maker of healthy, non-GMO snacks Matt Segneri (MBA 2010), director of the Social Enterprise Initiative at Harvard Business School Femi Allen Wasserman... View Details
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Tina Gao
Tina can provide insight into how private equity firms and investment banks recruit, day-to-day work life, and career progression. Tina can also assist with resume reviews and conducting both behavioral and technical mock interviews. Work... View Details
Arjun Chopra
Arjun joined CTE when they acquired Vox Holdings, the open source startup he founded. Arjun holds multiple technology patents that have been cited as prior art by firms like Apple, AT&T and iRobot. He has also held several technology... View Details
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GlobalData Disruptor | Baker Library
services, and healthcare sectors. Areas of focus include: artificial intelligence, blockchain, connected devices and IoT, digital business, robotics and drones, security tech, and more. Disruptor offers: Coverage of 40,000 startup companies and 14,000 venture capital... View Details
- 26 Feb 2020
- News
Alumni-Led Biotech Developing Vaccine to Combat Coronavirus
As reported in the Boston Globe, Stéphane Bancel (MBA 2000, AMP 170) and his firm Moderna Therapeutics are working with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop a vaccine for coronavirus. Vials of its vaccine, the company told... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Supporting the Troops
(MBA 11/’47), cofounder of the Wall Street firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, served in the Navy in World War II and says the GI Bill helped him earn degrees from Swarthmore College, HBS, and Columbia Law School. “I benefited tremendously,”... View Details
- 19 Apr 2016
- News
LuminOva Makes Great Strides Tackling Infertility
towards commercialization. While many businesses enter the Challenge each year and benefit from the mentoring, workshops, and judging process, the winner of the Bertarelli Foundation Grand Prize receives a $40,000 award that moves the View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Sounds Like a Plan
BRENNEMAN: A fast way to make money. Rigorous, thorough analysis is the precursor of an effective business plan, right? Maybe not. In an interview about leadership in the New York Times (March 15, 2009), Greg Brenneman (MBA ’88), chairman of private-equity View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Upstart Startup
rainmaking in New York. The company is a committed meritocracy, which can be distinctive in the Indian setting. “We have the best people, be they from the Brahmin caste or the lowest ‘untouchable’ caste,” Sigelman noted. He added that, looking beyond its own humble... View Details
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HBS Online Disruptive Strategy
Make innovation a reality with strategies from two-time World's Most Innovative Business Thinker, Clayton Christensen. June 12, 2019 - July 10, 2019 View Details
- 9 AM – 10 AM EDT, 03 Apr 2019
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HBS Online Disruptive Strategy
Make innovation a reality with strategies from two-time World's Most Innovative Business Thinker, Clayton Christensen. Program Dates: April 3, 2019 - May 15, 2019 View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
firm credited with creating the first mutual fund in 1924. (In 1959, Robinson was featured on the cover of Time, with the magazine proclaiming, perhaps somewhat prematurely, that the mutual fund was "a household word.")... View Details
- 25 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 25
Fund Relationships Bias Analyst Recommendations? Authors: Michael Firth, Chen Lin, Ping Liu, and Yuhai Xuan Publication: Journal of Accounting Research (forthcoming) Abstract This article investigates whether the business relations between mutual funds and brokerage... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- November 1991 (Revised June 1997)
- Case
Micom Caribe (A)
By: David M. Upton and Joshua D. Margolis
Describes the Puerto Rican manufacturing plant of a transnational company. The award-winning plant has dramatically improved the quality of flexibility of its operations, by taking a radical approach to manufacturing. The methods center on the use of specific... View Details
Keywords: Business Plan; Multinational Firms and Management; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Product Launch; Production; Performance Improvement; Quality; Strategy; Manufacturing Industry
Upton, David M., and Joshua D. Margolis. "Micom Caribe (A)." Harvard Business School Case 692-002, November 1991. (Revised June 1997.)
- October 1987
- Case
Philips Group--1987, The
By: Francis Aguilar and Michael Y. Yoshino
Discusses how Philips, a major Dutch-based multinational company, attempts to bring about a fundamental change in its strategy, organization, and culture in response to a rapidly changing market and competitive environment. View Details
Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Organizational Structure; Corporate Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Markets; Change Management; Netherlands
Aguilar, Francis, and Michael Y. Yoshino. "Philips Group--1987, The." Harvard Business School Case 388-050, October 1987.
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Overview
Professor Toffel teaches the required first-year MBA course Technology and Operations Management (TOM).
He also coordinates and teaches the Doctoral Seminar in Technology and Operations Management to help... View Details
- August 2012
- Article
Surviving the Global Financial Crisis: Foreign Ownership and Establishment Performance
By: Laura Alfaro and Maggie Chen
We examine the differential response of establishments to the recent global financial crisis with particular emphasis on the role of foreign ownership. Using a worldwide establishment panel dataset, we investigate how multinational subsidiaries around the world... View Details
Keywords: Globalization; Financial Crisis; Multinational Firms and Management; Analytics and Data Science; Business Subsidiaries; Production; Finance; Performance; Ownership
Alfaro, Laura, and Maggie Chen. "Surviving the Global Financial Crisis: Foreign Ownership and Establishment Performance." American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 4, no. 3 (August 2012): 30–55. (Also NBER Working Paper No. 17141.)
- March 2007 (Revised April 2007)
- Case
McDonald's Corporation: Managing a Sustainable Supply Chain
By: Ray A. Goldberg and Jessica Droste Yagan
McDonald's seeks to learn from a successful response to Greenpeace's Amazon deforestation campaign in order to make its supply chain more socially and environmentally responsible. View Details
Keywords: Food; Supply Chain Management; Multinational Firms and Management; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability; Management Systems; Food and Beverage Industry
Goldberg, Ray A., and Jessica Droste Yagan. "McDonald's Corporation: Managing a Sustainable Supply Chain." Harvard Business School Case 907-414, March 2007. (Revised April 2007.)