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- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Farming for Fuel
with senior researchers James Weber and Mary Louise Shelman, examines the complex political and economic underpinnings of the ethanol industry and the dilemma facing the farmers of Mid-Missouri Energy (MME). The farmers must make major decisions about View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
What's Cookin'
5.3 percent, totaling $2.6 million in 2001. Community Bakery's Joe Fox, enjoying a brief break: "This is a labor-intensive business in which the quality of the product is determined by the individual effort... View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Books
post–Civil War era to commission-based canvassers hired and trained by manufacturers to sell agricultural products and books by Mark Twain and Ulysses S. Grant, for instance. “Drummers,” who acted as the middlemen between manufacturers... View Details
- 21 Nov 2024
- News
Mother Nurture
will expand to another 5 to 10 in the next year. We have really big plans ahead of us.” The company’s expansion plans got a huge boost in July when its oversubscribed Series-A investment round raised $10.9 million, bringing the startup’s View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 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
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
Chappell Russ Wilcox (MBA ’95) was two years out of HBS, married to classmate Gina Wilcox and working as a strategy consultant following a stint as a product manager at a Boston-area technology firm. But he had always wanted to launch and... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Andresen Becomes First European and First Exec. Ed. Graduate to Endow HBS Professorship
program at the Nestlé Group in Germany, where he showed a particular talent for marketing and product management. His skills attracted the attention of the management at Pfizer-Germany, who hired him in 1966 as senior brand manager. A... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Michael Depatie
differentiated product in a commoditized business, even if it’s becoming less so through competition. Some of the stuff we do is fun, and whimsical, so it makes good copy. The media reports on our tall beds for tall people, our “Guppy... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
United States and five other countries. "We definitely think of ourselves as an entrepreneurial company, even though we've been around for a while," says Thompson. "It's been a productive and exciting time." Many observers believe that... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Two Truths and a Lie About 5G
video, and it completely democratized mobile data,” Menard observes. The jury is still out on 5G. Experts agree that it will bring massive improvements: speeds 100 times faster than 4G, and latency—or time needed for information to travel between the device and... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
heat-trapping gases such as carbon dioxide that are released into the atmosphere when coal and petroleum products are burned. That same day, the Wall Street Journal reported that in California and Arizona, General Motors would this year... View Details
- 20 Nov 2019
- News
From the Ground Up
schools. We started talking about the kids that actually weren't coming to school. It was something I was totally unaware of. “We started investigating and talking about why that was. Everyone was required to have a school uniform, and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Reimagining the MBA
specific new product- or service-development project that would be their focus for the next 12 weeks. As these students are experiencing firsthand, it’s one thing to hypothesize about product development in an emerging market. It’s quite... View Details
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
Ann S. Moore, MBA 1978
Illustrated to break even. The leading magazine publisher in the world, Time Inc. accounts for nearly a quarter of the total advertising revenues of U.S. consumer magazines. Two out of three adults in this country read one of its... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Books
Technologies for Innovation, Thomke argues that many companies are not yet making the best use of breakthrough technologies for experimentation — including simulation and computer modeling — to generate and test new product possibilities.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
The Right Connections
backgrounds or experience levels of the top management team -- the CEO, CFO, and chief scientific officer, in particular -- aren't really the deciding factors for investment bankers," explains HBS associate professor Monica C. Higgins,... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 11 May 2017
- News
Going with the Flow
come to fruition and become real, productive companies. “I remember my dad visiting ViaCord in the early days, when I had only 10 employees. He came in and said, ‘Where’s your cash register? I don’t hear the cash register ringing.’ That... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Class Acts
success in managing new product launches. A particular highlight was overseeing the rollout of Colgate Total toothpaste, whose launch was the biggest for the company in thirty years. After graduation, Minto... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
On a Sound Track
Skullcandy products are currently distributed in over 70 countries, a number that expands every month. So a major challenge for us is how to establish our brand in each local market. Good brands are globally consistent, but they’re... View Details
- 26 Jun 2025
- News
The Vinyl Revival
interesting challenge and also an opportunity. Myself, I was getting burned out on working on digital products and keeping people glued to their phones, and so to have the chance to pivot into something where I could demonstrate I could... View Details