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- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Short Takes
the 'best game in town' for using information resources to realize strategic advantage in serving customers." The Spotlight and the Bottom Line Do multinational corporations concern themselves with improving human rights in the countries... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
The Drive for Excellence: An Interview with Jim Henderson
that requires sizable investments in projects that take several years to pay off, I believe the ideal is some combination of both. We could cut back on investment in future products or international joint ventures, but those efforts are... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Students Start-Ups Tap New HBS Fund
Nine HBS student-led teams received grants in March averaging $5,000 to $7,000 to launch and test their start-up business ideas. A total of $50,000 was made available through the pilot Minimum Viable Product Fund program run by HBS’s... View Details
Keywords: awards
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Competitiveness at Risk
innovative energy conservation program, they are improving American competitiveness. One of our major messages in this project is that business should not wait for government, but start taking action today that will directly contribute to... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Mario A. Corti: Global Reconnaissance
improvement in the areas of communication with consumers, operational efficiency, and product availability, as well as renovation and innovation throughout the company. In addition to his financial duties,... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Hansjörg Wyss, MBA 1965
responds in the negative. "I knew I would be with Synthes for a certain amount of time, because I had some equity in the company and saw there was huge potential for our products in the United States—if we could survive the first five... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Case Study: Moment in the Sun
stimulates the body’s circadian rhythms, cuing the production of cortisol during the day to keep you alert and melatonin at night to ready your body for rest. “It’s based on about 15 years of scientific research from NASA, the NIH, and... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
system of multinational megafarms won't be enough—the hope for the future lies not in mass production, but in production by the masses. And that's where Nigeria comes in. With only 40 percent of its arable land currently used by farmers,... View Details
- 13 Jul 2020
- News
The First Five Years: Meaghan Fitzgerald (MBA 2016)
what it would mean to feel physically present with anyone from anywhere. It unlocks economic opportunities for people who can’t move to major industry hubs; has the potential to dramatically improve our environmental impact of commuting... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Seven Honored with Alumni Achievement Award
Americanas, with some 500 stores. In 1993, with Lemann and Telles, Sicupira founded GP Investimentos, a private equity firm that he led for eight years. Sicupira is the founder and also a director of Endeavor Brasil, a nonprofit that helps entrepreneurs, and the Brava... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young; awards; fishing; Beverage and Tobacco Product Manufacturing; Beverage and Tobacco Product Manufacturing; Beverage and Tobacco Product Manufacturing; Beverage and Tobacco Product Manufacturing; Beverage and Tobacco Product Manufacturing; Beverage and Tobacco Product Manufacturing
- 13 Jun 2017
- News
Finding Common Ground
departments—with the goal of improving the health of honey bees in general and especially in production agriculture. Building trust is crucial to the relationships CollaborateUp fosters. Activists fear... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 13 Mar 2019
- News
The First Five Years: Sierra Smith and Taylor Wiegele (both MBA 2017)
background in air and water filtration at SpaceX and Brita, so we knew we could come up with something better.” What are your short- and long-term goals for the company? Taylor Wiegele: “Long term, we want to dominate the odor category––with multiple View Details
- 15 Nov 2016
- News
Enabling the Dream of Building A Healthy Future for India
locations in India, as one solution. She also explored ways that health care products can be produced at lower costs, making them accessible to larger populations, while working for a Boston-based medical technology company during the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Magician Turns HBS Upside Down
insights to execute a more compelling product or service is a best practice we’ve studied in cases about certain companies, and it is definitely one of Randal’s strengths,” Martin said. Thomke described what he calls Randal’s “3Ms of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Faculty Q&A: The Working World
make the product a reality. That made an impression—that an immigrant living in the United States was turning back to his home country to help realize the products of his invention. So my first work in this... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Where Are They Now?
devotes himself to several principal pursuits. In addition to the BSG/Concours Executive Forum, an invitation-only program for chief information officers (CIOs) of leading companies worldwide, he runs a six-month leadership development program for future CIOs, using... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?
base. As a result, they get cost savings, and we get sales.” Welcome to the new reality in U.S. manufacturing, where, more than ever, intense foreign competition is driving product and strategy innovations. Even those firms without direct... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Ideas: Books
innovations in management practices and production technology in the Thyssen firms. Restoring Trust in American Business edited by Jay W. Lorsch, Leslie Berlowitz, and Andy Zelleke (MIT Press) HBS professor Lorsch, Zelleke (PHDOB ’03),... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Way You See It
respondents indicated their class or year or answered all questions. The survey concluded July 15, 1999. Most influential business leader Most significant consumer product Most significant innovation for business Most influential... View Details
- 11 Mar 2020
- News
Making It Rain
customer request, instead of what the rest of the industry is doing, which is just looking at the outputs of the governmental models,” says Elkabetz. For airlines, access to more accurate weather forecasts—both short and long term—enables decisions that View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov