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Harry F. Sinclair
After ill-fated attempts to make money by buying and selling oil leases, Sinclair entered the refining business in 1906, acquiring several companies that were eventually consolidated into Sinclair Oil. Once the larger venture was created,... View Details
Keywords: Utilities & Energy
Donald H. Rumsfeld
After Daniel Searle had all but run his family’s company into the ground, Rumsfeld took over and began cutting costs across the board. After selling off the majority of Searle’s non-pharmaceutical business with the exception of the Pearle... View Details
Keywords: Healthcare
- 01 Sep 2003
- What Do You Think?
To Whom Should Boards be Accountable?
those of employees, customers, or the public, as opposed to a substantially lower bid from a company whose interests are more closely aligned with the seller's and its various constituencies? Some of you opted to sell to the high bidder;... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
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Blog | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Strategic Leadership in ... How Americans from All Walks of Life Can Thrive in an Era of Political Polarization Sol Erdman 11 May 2017 Politicians are experts at selling emotionally-charged slogans as solutions for our country’s tro...... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
The End of Cows?
replace it? Alvarez floats one possibility: Every supermarket could make meat on premise and then package and sell it. (The meat is simply muscle and fat cells, which are replicated to build the tissue we eat.) A supply like that would... View Details
- 19 Oct 2011
- News
A Good Look
appearance of healthy-looking skin.” Rosemary is the source of a natural antirancidity agent. “In a synthetic form, the chemical compound butylated hydroxytoluene (BHT) would perform the same function,” Levy notes, “but many consumers don’t want that in their... View Details
- 15 Nov 2016
- News
Field Course Helps Nascent Entrepreneurs Connect with Customers
Frank Cespedes (photo by Neal Hamburg) Frank Cespedes (photo by Neal Hamburg) “Every entrepreneur is selling all the time—to customers, investors, employees, and strategic partners,” observes Thomas Eisenmann, the Howard H. Stevenson... View Details
- 23 Apr 2008
- Op-Ed
The Gap in the U.S. Treasury Recommendations
not disappear. With tightened credit standards and higher capital requirements on loans, it became more profitable for banks to package loans as securities and sell the credit risk to the buyers of securities in the domestic and... View Details
- 29 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Whence IT Value?
question around which many IT vendors design and sell their products. Instead, functionality continues to be king. New releases of everything from ERP to office automation software tout the new functionality they provide — in other words,... View Details
Keywords: by Andrew McAfee
- 05 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
District Heating in Denmark: How Fjernvarme Fyn fuels an integrated and sustainable future
In January 2024, Professors Willy Shih and Mike Toffel led 45 HBS MBA students on site visits to witness the energy transition and innovative sustainable production activities throughout Denmark and the Netherlands, in the second year of their Immersive Field Course... View Details
- 22 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist
prices. These stores kept their costs down partly by moving into low-rent commercial spaces and hiring unskilled, low-wage workers, rather than trained pharmacists. Against predatory pricing Although these competitors didn’t sell... View Details
- 04 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 4
and Why? Authors:Stephen Leider and Alvin E. Roth Publication:Journal of Transplantation 10 (May 2010): 1221-1227 Abstract The shortage of transplant kidneys has spurred debate about legalizing monetary payments to donors to increase the number of available kidneys.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Developing-World Companies Teach Us About Innovation
giant; Natura, a leader in Brazil's cosmetics arena; and China's Haier, which sells appliances in one of the world's most demanding markets. What these companies and others like them share is a distinct approach to innovation: they... View Details
- 12 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Broadband Explosion: Thinking About a Truly Interactive World
it's easy to start up a session, people will start to figure out many new ways to create value. This will change a lot about how businesses operate and also about what they can sell and how they sell it. A... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
at Fidelity Investments to launch a venture aimed at providing analytical information to bond traders. He showed Sahlman his business plan for a company that he was calling Technical Data Corporation. Basically, Parker had figured out a way to View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
step by step, before you sign your first member, all the way through to selling your profitable business or winding it down. If you’re someone who doesn’t want to reinvent the wheel, this book is for you. The Blessed Generation: Fifty... View Details
- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
New Paths to Success in Asia
selling advertising space on the back of the envelopes. It's one example of how Chinese companies are looking at their own environment and finding interesting opportunities that someone in the United States wouldn't even consider."... View Details
Keywords: by Alejandro Reyes & Deborah Blagg
- 16 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Weighing Digital Tradeoffs in Private Equity
added Suraj Srinivasan, the Philip J. Stomberg Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. “Pursuing a digital strategy is an especially valuable source of differentiated value creation by PE funds.” Yet digital investments can be costly, which can... View Details
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Post-war PR Campaigns Reaching Wide Audiences | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Elizabeth A. Fones-Wolf writes in Selling Free Enterprise , “was inculcating teachers and students in the values of business.” 41 "Steel at War" photographic exhibit. U.S. Steel Annual Report, 1944. Corporate Reports Collection, Baker... View Details
- 13 May 2013
- Blog Post
The Summer is Finally Over
launch several new cable networks, sell and acquire companies and set the stage for continued growth and success in an uncertain business environment. Though I was new to the company and only there temporarily, I tried my best to tangibly... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment / Media / Sports