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  • 01 Sep 2009
  • News

E Ink’s Wild Ride

technology’s primary customers are the manufacturers of e-readers like Amazon’s Kindle (the market leader, at least for the moment), Sony’s Reader, and the others sure to follow. (Hearst, Plastic Logic, and new companies in China and... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; e-books; e-reading; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing
  • 18 Feb 2014
  • News

Stick with Plan A

markets, mobile money is designed to leapfrog plastic by going from cash directly to digital. Because the global economy is increasingly digital, billions of cash-based buyers and sellers are currently excluded from global commerce. These... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; Waleed Iskandar (MBA 1993); Telecommunications
  • 25 Feb 2022
  • Blog Post

Climate Stories Episode #1: Kameale C. Terry

innovation. As an example, she cited California’s 2014 legislation banning single-use plastic bags. “Growing up, we never used a plastic bag once! We used them as trash bags and even shower caps. Our... View Details
  • 04 Apr 2024
  • Blog Post

Climate Stories: Water Series - Episode #16: Tim Murdoch, HBS MBA 1990 – Learning about Climate Change and Water

about plans by Industrial Plastics Canada to open a new plant in nearby North Bay, Ontario. Yes, the new plant would generate 35 jobs, but the CBC report said “the company will transform a polymer called polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE),... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2025
  • News

For the Records

Kelleher in Gold Rush Vinyl’s listening room In the first days of 2025, when Caren Kelleher (MBA 2010) went from owning one small business to two, she entered an alternating reality. Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, she’s still the founder and CEO of Gold Rush Vinyl;... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photos by Jeff Wilson; Arts, Entertainment
  • 01 Mar 2003
  • News

Inside the Revolution

the disk’s metal clip and yanked open the tough plastic outer casing, Enriquez now removes from its inner sanctum a flimsy black vinyl circle. “This is the part that matters,” he declares, waving it triumphantly before the youngsters, who... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Eileen McCluskey; Jonathan West; Life Sciences Project; LSP; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 05 Mar 2020
  • News

Green Light

made to contain the risk that such outside organic matter could introduce. Visitors are asked to dip the soles of their shoes into a shallow plastic water bath, so as to limit contamination by pathogens and insects. Entry into one of the... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Scott Nobles
  • 22 Feb 2000
  • Research & Ideas

The Mind of the Market: Extending the Frontiers of Marketing Thought

smile. ZMET, which is patented, grew out of his interests in anthropology, photography and cognitive neuroscience. It was sparked, in part, by a trip to Nepal and India ten years ago. On his travels, he presented villagers with plastic... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 01 Jan 2007
  • News

Sir Martin S. Sorrell, MBA 1968

into a major multinational marketing services organization. The firm Sorrell bought a stake in was Wire and Plastics Products plc (soon to be renamed WPP Group), a maker of wire shopping baskets. In 1986 he became chief executive of WPP,... View Details
  • 26 Jan 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 26

706-714 Abstract Background: The increased focus on quality and efficiency improvement within academic surgery has met with variable success among plastic surgeons. Traditional surgical performance metrics, such as morbidity and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Mar 2018
  • News

Case Study: On the Record

pay for that speed, Kelleher says. The Question: Gold Rush Vinyl could reduce that time even further—to two weeks—if it solves supply chain bottlenecks in sourcing the record jackets and the plastic resin used in production. As a new... View Details
Keywords: April White
  • 18 Jul 2018
  • Research & Ideas

No More General Tso's? A Threat to 'Knowledge Recombination'

Turmeric is prepared into medicine. Doucefleur In the early 1990s, an Indian plastic surgeon at the University of Mississippi, S. K. Das, was about to amputate the leg of a patient because of a wound that wouldn’t heal. Colleague Hari P.... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health; Food & Beverage; Accounting
  • 28 Mar 2023
  • Blog Post

Novo Nordisk

consider that a realistic solution. Instead, they are currently focusing on a project replacing the current plastic materials used in the injection devices (e.g., the injection pen casing) with bioplastic to allow the injection devices to... View Details
  • 26 Aug 2020
  • News

What the Climate Change Movement Can Learn from the Pandemic

is extremely impractical, especially when everything comes in plastic and sometimes that's really useful for hygiene. But there are certain ways that are new and different that we can think about reducing our waste, given the fact that... View Details
  • 26 Feb 2014
  • Research & Ideas

How Grocery Bags Manipulate Your Mind

did something good for the environment, so you can have a cookie.” New experimental research shows that shoppers are more likely to buy virtuous organic items when they bring their own reusable bags to the store than when they opt for paper or View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail
  • 22 Nov 2011
  • First Look

First Look: November 22

Later known as K-Dow Petrochemicals, it would be one of the largest manufacturers of chemicals and plastics in the world. Analysts widely hailed the planned joint venture as a game-changing deal for both companies. Shortly after the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Educating Leaders - Georges F. Doriot:Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

20 years out. Doriot envisioned these reports as significant "contribution[s] to the future of American business." 21 Covering an extraordinary range of topics over the years, from plastics to fiber optics, the reports forecasted the... View Details
  • 07 May 2013
  • First Look

First Look: May 7

join Julia's family plastics business. After the business was sold, they struck out on their own to search for a similar business. They purchased Elasto Therm, with $8 million in revenue from manufactured rubber and urethane components,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 08 Jun 2023
  • Blog Post

Koppert Cress: Macro Greenhouses, Microgreens

contained in plastic trays, but the company is searching for alternative carriers to reduce their reliance on single-use plastics. Given the high energy intensity to light and heat greenhouses, the most significant determinant of their... View Details
  • 01 Feb 2000
  • News

Jerry Shafir: A Simmering Success Story

Boston's Legal Sea Foods restaurant chain, where he met his future partner, Christopher Nessen. A production chef at the company, Nessen provided the culinary and technical expertise for Kettle Cuisine. He was well acquainted with the process of preparing foods,... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
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