Animal - Publications - Faculty & Research

03 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

Transforming Manufacturing Waste into Profit

It's been said that "one man's trash is another man's treasure." HBS Assistant Professor Deishin Lee, however, has taken that old adage a step further in her recent working paper Turning Waste into By-Product by showing how it's possible for companies to turn... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Manufacturing

12 Dec 2011
HBS Case

HBS Cases: Clocky, the Runaway Alarm Clock

designing, positioning, marketing, and selling the animated snooze-button thwarter, as well as the challenge of expanding the company's product line. The cases deal with universal entrepreneurial consumer product questions: Should the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Consumer Products

Web

Power and Influence for Positive Impact | HBS Online

relationships, organizations, and society at large. Stay active by engaging in a new activity every three to five minutes, including assessing your own professional network and the influence styles and behaviors you use most frequently in various contexts. Description... View Details

01 Dec 2022
News

Singing to the Corn

become a seed bank, and consider a revenue model. Then the students read Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer, a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. In it, she writes of the inherent wisdom of the plant and animal nations, and... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Vance Jacobs; Agriculture

23 May 2018
News

Claudio L. Haddad, OPM 12, 1987

Walking the halls of Insper, which now enrolls 10,000 students, one sees that Haddad has harnessed the vitality and creativity that is so prevalent in São Paulo: There are vibrant photos in the hallways and modern, modular classrooms where students are engaged in View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

10 Aug 2015
Research & Ideas

New Medical Devices Get To Patients Too Slowly

devices—first on animals and then on humans in clinical trials. "For new chemical drugs, it's typically relatively straightforward to know how to move toward approval," says Stern. "Clinical trials take time and lots of money, but... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health; Technology

12 Nov 2021
News

Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

technologies enable remote work environments, our use of large buildings powered by fossil energy is also facing change, with worker preferences for cleaner and more flexible “digital”-enabled work environments. Traditional approaches to farming, ranching, View Details

06 Aug 2019
Cold Call Podcast

Super Bowl Ads Sell Products, but Do They Sell Brands?

the brand was trying to tell? When you look at the ads across the entire programming, and there's 85 to 90 ads that are aired during the Super Bowl, which people actually watch, you begin to see the themes coalesce around a few different ideas. Those ideas tend to... View Details

Keywords: Advertising; Sports; Entertainment & Recreation; Media & Broadcasting

22 Feb 2022
News

New Urban Order

the table,” she says. “Renewable natural gas from sources such as landfills and animal manure, and green hydrogen produced with renewable energy, are alternatives worth pursuing.” Judson says “access for all” is the most important feature... View Details

Keywords: Kathleen Fu, Deborah Blagg, Julia Hanna, and Maureen Harmon; illustrations by; energy; environment; sustainability; entrepreneurship; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services

01 Jun 2025
News

Forward Thinking

The tallest animal to roam the land, giraffes cast long shadows on the dry savannas and woodlands of sub-Saharan Africa where they live. But their lands are vanishing, with estimates suggesting that 90 percent of their habitat has already... View Details

Keywords: Jen Mcfarland Flint; Illustrations by Maria Jesus Contreras; Animal Production and Aquaculture; Animal Production and Aquaculture

01 May 2019
What Do You Think?

What Should the Leadership of YouTube Do?

Box” referring to 9/11 with no explanation, suggesting a sinister relationship of some kind. Other snafus, such as recommendations on the children’s YouTube service that directed children watching cute pet tricks to a site featuring View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Entertainment & Recreation; Media & Broadcasting

01 Mar 2014
News

Generation Next

family-run Indian conglomerate. Kahn, who worked for agrichemical giant Syngenta AG and knew the industry well, agreed to have a look. The subsidiary, Godrej Agrovet, had expanded beyond its core business of animal feed in recent years,... View Details

Keywords: Mark Bergen; Godrej Group; Management

20 Jan 2023
News

Free Spirits

concept over Summer Rock Fellowships, so by their second year, Royle and Wood were stealing every spare moment to focus on go-to-market strategy, raising almost $600,000 in seed funding and finalizing product development. Wood and Royle get View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality

February 2012
Teaching Note

Walt Disney and the 1941 Animators' Strike (TN)

By: Anthony J. Mayo and Johnathan Cromwell

Keywords: Animation Entertainment

Citation

Purchase

Disney was a pioneer in the family entertainment business. From his ground-breaking introduction of the animated cartoon Steamboat Willie starring Mickey Mouse in 1928 to the launch of the first full-length View Details

Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media

15 Dec 2024
News

Back at the Ranch

The summer training program at Bear Hug Cattle Company starts truly at square one. “The first day is about teaching the guys how to just be out here and not die,” says lead instructor Zach Aguilar, gazing out from under his broad-brimmed hat to the grassy rangelands of... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photos by Adler and Vance Jacobs; Animal Production and Aquaculture; Animal Production and Aquaculture

01 Dec 2010
News

You Are What You Eat

Writing in the magazine Pig Progress (September 23, 2010), Austria-based John Hodges (AMP 52, 1967),an expert on genetics and ethics in agriculture, food, and the environment, warned that the current system of agribusiness is untenable. “Driven by competition alone,... View Details

Keywords: agricultural intensification; Animal Production and Aquaculture; Animal Production and Aquaculture

February 2004 (Revised September 2006)
Case

Finding a Response: Pixar and a Coy Story

Pixar, Inc. is the subject of an article that suggests its share price is currently overvalued. The article is picked up in summary by several wire services. Pixar's management must determine the appropriate public response. Its choices range from ignoring the article,... View Details

Keywords: Media; Animation Entertainment; Decision Making; Film Entertainment; Communication Strategy; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry