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- 01 Jun 1997
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Carla Small
corporate clients wishing to develop such programs. After various positions in the firm's sales and strategic planning areas, she eventually became director of new product development. "I loved creating new... View Details
Keywords: Linda Goodspeed
- 01 Mar 2012
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Robots to the Rescue
shipped cost-effectively,” he explains. Mountz moved on to another job, but found himself still pondering the challenge almost two years later in an brainstorming session with some former MIT classmates. “We decided products that could... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
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Case Study: Farming It Out
I’ve been in the venture world for 20 years or so on the entrepreneurial side, and I’ve seen the second, third, or even fourth to market wind up in a much better position to take a leadership role, because the market is more proven by... View Details
- 01 Jan 2008
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Jeffrey R. Immelt, MBA 1982
to locomotives. “No matter what the product, for over 130 years GE has been about imagination at work,” says Immelt. “It’s always been a combination of the dreaming and the doing.” Immelt came to GE straight out of HBS, holding various View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
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In My Humble Opinion: Mr. Coffee
Courtesy Peet’s Courtesy Peet’s Ketchup. Potato chips. Chewing gum. Coffee. “These are products that everyone can relate to, that people understand,” says Casey Keller (MBA 1989), a longtime executive in consumer-packaged goods with... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jan 2007
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Hansjörg Wyss, MBA 1965
understanding a company's product from the inside out—a lesson that proved particularly valuable in his post-HBS positions at various textile companies, including Monsanto Europe. The initial connection to... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
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Q&A: Orin Smith
in 2000, when Schultz positioned himself as the company's chief global strategist. Revenues for 2000 reached $2.2 billion, while quarterly reports for fiscal 2001 are already exceeding last year's record performance. Smith spoke to the... View Details
- 27 Nov 2012
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The Beauty of the Network
have come from HBS.” Those friends have also been essential in the funding of Restorsea (www.restorsea.com), a line of luxury skincare products with an initial launch of day and eye creams. (Additional products, with expanded... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
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Magician Turns HBS Upside Down
thereby mitigates his chances of failure, makes the trick more impressive, and develops new techniques that can be applied to new tricks. This focus on simplification to offer a better product reminded me of Apple’s innovative process.”... View Details
- 28 Feb 2025
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Alumni Startup Enters the Shark Tank
weekly spoken responses to prompts about their past into a beautiful hardcover book, printed with QR codes that play the recording used to write each chapter. Since September, we’ve focused on making the product more accessible and... View Details
- 21 Oct 2013
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Moving the Needle
mutual impact objectives," she observes. Seegull brought her knowledge of how to amplify the power of impact investing to her current position as chief investment officer at ImpactAssets, a $100 million donor-advised fund that invests... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Taking Time to Make Time
eyeshades) to dealing with employees' mistakes ("No matter how spectacularly the project flopped, don't attack the person"). Classic productivity books often focus on time management, but Extreme View Details
Keywords: Time management
- 01 Jun 2014
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Case Study: A Souped-Up Strategy
The question for us is about next steps: Do we go deep in small and medium-sized markets where we know our product works well? Or go wide and try to cover more territory quickly, including the biggest major cities?" The Answers: Stay... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
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Riding It Out
of hundreds and perhaps thousands of dogs and cats (the numbers remain unclear, as there is no centralized database of such information). While the situation was uncertain, there was some concern that a production run of SmartPak’s... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
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Innovation, Inc.
performance.” Previous laboratory studies have demonstrated the causal relationship between emotion and creativity. Amabile’s research in a real-world setting bears this out, with positive emotion tied to higher creativity and negative... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
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Consumption Is America’s Competitive Advantage
In the saber-rattling and highly influential 2007 report Rising Above the Gathering Storm, the National Academies warned that America’s technology and scientific leadership was being surpassed by a number of Asian countries, threatening both our dominant View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
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Coming Full Circle
productive and positive way. There’s no better lever for making a difference in society than business.” “As an academic, you can have a big impact,” agrees Francisco Queiró (MBA 2007), a PhD student in... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
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A CEO Goes Undercover
employees. But I was also reminded that the enthusiasm our guests feel about our parks won’t rise any higher than the enthusiasm of our employees. And it is my job as their leader to be our employees’ champion — to ensure their well-being and remove obstacles so they... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
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2006 MBAs Go to Work
that 98 percent of the Class of 2006 had offers within three months of graduation. That’s the highest figure I’ve seen since arriving at HBS seven years ago,” Kierstead notes. Ninety-five percent had accepted a position three months after... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
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Nimble, Quick, and Adaptable
Entrepreneurs-in-Residence; fellowship programs; and a need-based loan reduction program for graduating students pursuing an entrepreneurial venture. The Harvard i-lab likewise offers skill-building workshops on everything from legal issues to View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna