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06 Sep 2022
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To Go-Go: A Foodtech Startup Serves Up Scale in Latin America

and people need to trust those brands without knowing them,” Azuero says. “Getting that first client, that first user, is harder.” Still, he and Izquierdo are bullish on their prospects, as are investors: Last summer, the company raised... View Details

01 Aug 1998
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High Honors

Business Administration, Emeritus Alumni Achievement Awards Ralph M. Barford (MBA '52) President, Valleydene Corporation Limited Chairman, GSW Inc. Despite occupying diverse industry sectors, several of Canada's best-known blue-chip View Details

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Research & Development, Project Code SX-70 - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

Clubs Faculty & Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership View Details

31 May 2017
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Can Amazon Do What Walmart Couldn’t, Stop the 'Wheel of Retailing'?

In 1997, a young entrepreneur visited a class at Harvard Business School taught by my colleague, Len Schlesinger. The class discussed a case based on the visitor’s fledgling online retailing company that had rapidly expanded sales to $100... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail

February 2016 (Revised May 2016)
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Blue Origin, NASA, and New Space (A)

By: Matthew Weinzierl and Angela Acocella

Jeff Bezos, six years after starting a revolution in retailing with Amazon.com, turned his life-long passion for space into a start-up, Blue Origin. Blue (as it was called) was a part of the New Space industry, a collection of startup aerospace engineering companies... View Details

Keywords: Cost vs Benefits; Partners and Partnerships; Transportation; Business Startups; Government and Politics; Business and Government Relations; Aerospace Industry

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01 Dec 2022
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Singing to the Corn

his work. A paper he’d written, using game theory to explore the liberalization of telecoms, was the ticket to his first job at Metropolitan Fiber Systems; an early project involved analyzing the best stock exchange for the company to go... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Vance Jacobs; Agriculture

30 Jun 2023
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Finding Pride

club that dared not speak its name and that constituted the center of my world.” It wasn’t easy to be gay in the 1970s—not that it ever was. Anita Bryant was spewing vitriol, Harvey Milk was murdered in November 1978, and six months later I was ostracized and driven... View Details

06 May 2021
HBS Case

How Four Women Made Miami More Equitable for Startups

Noting that many urban youth lacked tech skills, she and her husband Derek Pearson launched Code Fever, a company offering training camps and hackathons for young people, and transformed a vacant building in a historically Black... View Details

Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo

26 Jan 2024
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Career Advice from the Guests of the HBS Climate Rising Podcast

job description. There can't be sustainability teams that are physically big enough. They have to include everybody on this planet working together to address the issues that we're facing.” Continually build your network. Many guests stressed the need to build a View Details

19 Apr 2024
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Alumni Host Energy CEO Summit in Houston; Austin Club Co-Hosts SXSW Reception

convergence of tech, film, music, education, and culture, and attracts an international audience of professionals, entrepreneurs, and artists. HBS and Harvard alumni mingled at a networking party, Harvard @ SXSW in Austin, cosponsored by... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

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Sustainable Investing Course | HBS Online

networking opportunities. Description of silent animated video above: Learner types an answer in the discussion board in response to a peer's question Immerse yourself in real-world , case-based examples brought to life by... View Details

13 May 2019
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The Many Facets of Becoming a Mother at HBS

on some weekend trips or crazy startups, I had an incredibly rich experience at HBS. Remember that everyone is making tradeoffs (the folks who are busy trying to get a job in PE aren’t having much fun or starting companies either!) and... View Details

20 May 2022
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Nucleate Eco: Connecting Aspiring MBA Entrepreneurs with Cutting Edge Climate Research

plant kingdom. What is Nucleate Eco? What are the requirements to apply? Sutton: Nucleate Eco is a student-lead, no equity, accelerator for student companies focused on applying life sciences principles to sustainability challenges.... View Details

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Porter Prize India - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Healthcare Prize What Others Are Saying Porter Prize India Porter Prize India The Porter Prize India was established to recognize Indian companies competing on the basis of value creation, innovation, and strategy. History of the Prize in... View Details

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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information

which increased 6 percent and accounted for 43 percent of the group’s total annual sales in fiscal 2023. Revenue from Corporate Learning products and services increased 7 percent from fiscal 2022. Corporate Learning partners with View Details

20 Oct 2003
Research & Ideas

Gaps in the Historical Record: Development of the Electronics Industry

the late 1970s, taking with it a number of smaller U.S. enterprises. The latter were acquired by Japanese companies and Europe's Philips. In the same brief historical period, from the late 1960s to the late 1970s, the Japanese industry... View Details

Keywords: by Alfred D. Chandler Jr.; Consumer Products

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Commercialization of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

Clubs Faculty & Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership View Details

01 Nov 2010
Research & Ideas

How IT Shapes Top-Down and Bottom-Up Decision Making

What determines whether decisions happen on the bottom, middle, or top rung of the corporate ladder? New research offers a surprising conclusion: The answer often lies in the technology that a company uses. Information-based systems, such... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

18 Apr 2016
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Meet the HBS Family Business Club

to network and connect with people of similar backgrounds, and have the opportunity to learn from distinguished professors and guests at our action oriented workshops and speaker series. Students also get to interact with classmates who... View Details

07 Nov 2017
First Look

New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017

America. What actions should Audubon take to get to that goal? Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/518025-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 717-480 VMware and the Public Cloud In 2015, VMware, a pioneer in server and View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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