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- 01 Oct 1996
- News
New Releases
HBS faculty and research assistants. Each year, more than 40 percent of the faculty's time and 30 percent of the School's total budget are devoted to faculty research and course development. A typical year at HBS will produce hundreds of... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Rewriting the Script: Social Enterprise Start-ups Expand Business Plan Contest's Parameters
founder of Avid Technologies. He’s still on our advisory board, and he has also put us in touch with a contact at Lifetime Television. Since then we’ve produced two films for them.” Montage, with offices in New York and Los Angeles,... View Details
- 22 Jul 2014
- News
Hungry for Change
200 food banks, the organization has access to surplus food donations from manufacturers and producers throughout the country. "The nature of our work means that we have been tightly coupled with the food industry," he notes. "But we are... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
T.J. Dermot Dunphy (MBA '56)
who began using that dictum thirty years ago as one of his fundamental principles at Sealed Air Corporation. Dunphy turned the fledgling New Jersey-based company that initially made Bubble Wrap into the world's largest producer of... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
John Batcha: Sowing the Seeds to Fight Hunger
needy families, children, and community groups in Latin America and the Caribbean. Eight years later, Batcha established the nonprofit Seed Programs, Inc. (SPI), to continue this vital work after foundation funding had lapsed. “The seed industry has dramatically... View Details
Leo H. Baekeland
In 1907, Baekeland invented a high-quality synthetic substance that would change the lives of individuals and businesses forever – plastic (called Bakelite). Products produced with Bakelite were considered to be synonymous with high... View Details
Keywords: Chemicals & Industrial
Arthur J. Decio
Decio transformed his family’s company from a small coach firm in a garage in Indiana into one of the three largest builders of manufactured homes in the United States. Under his leadership, Skyline grew to 25 companies with 3,500 employees in 12 states. In the... View Details
Keywords: Construction & Real Estate
Fred M. Nelson
Nelson presided over Texas Gulf Sulphur’s most dramatic period of expansion and profitability. He initiated international expansion and began to diversify the company’s operations. Under his leadership, Texas Gulf became the largest View Details
Keywords: Agriculture & Mining
Jean Paul Getty
billion in 1967. In 1949, the daring Getty paid $9.5 million for a sixty-year concession in Saudi Arabia’s half of the neutral barren tract lying between Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. After an initial investment of $30 million, Getty’s speculation paid off. He found... View Details
Keywords: Utilities & Energy
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Tipping Point
Kenyan coffee farm. The price of coffee beans on the global market is under $1 a pound, while the actual cost to produce that pound is between $1.62 and $2. The coffee farms are profitable only when they rely on free labor, typically from... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Two Kinds of Green
Art by Jude Maceren/Corbis Related Links "Burt's Bee's Social and Environmental Report Fiscal Year 2010" - Yola Carlough, Director of Sustainability at Burt's Bees, describes how participating in the HBS multimedia case influenced the company's decision to go paperless... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Consumption Is America’s Competitive Advantage
States. What’s that? Yes, R&D investment produces benefits and prosperity, but not the wide array of pluses and spill-overs offered by “venturesome consumption” of new products and services, the author contends. Citing his own research... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Home from the Sea
the news with a record-setting trimaran voyage from San Francisco to Boston. Before long, I was on the phone with him, arranging an interview that produced a lengthy feature article in the December 1993 Bulletin. Last spring, Wilson made... View Details
John T. Underwood
Purchasing the rights to the only “visible” typewriter available at the time, Underwood led his company to extreme success. By 1915, he had created the “largest and most complete typewriter factory in the world,” and his company was View Details
Keywords: Fabricated Goods
Joseph Boyer
Boyer helped William S. Burroughs develop the adding machine and was the inventor of the first successful pneumatic hammer. In 1900, Boyer moved the Burroughs Adding Machine Company to Detroit. By 1930, at the time of Boyer's death, Burroughs Adding Machine Company was... View Details
Keywords: Computers & Electronics
Jon M. Huntsman
Beginning with a packaging company, which designed the pioneering clamshell container for McDonald’s Big Mac, Huntsman grew his business into the largest privately held diversified chemical company in North America. In addition to View Details
Keywords: Fabricated Goods
Arde Bulova
Profoundly influencing the art of watch making, Bulova is credited with establishing numerous manufacturing processes that permitted the standardization of parts and movements. Bulova also designed a considerable number of special tools, gauges, and complicated... View Details
Keywords: Fabricated Goods
- 11 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Four Ways to Create Lasting Change
number of metrics suggest that the CSE initiative produced substantial improvements in customer service. For instance, customer service scores from the firm's "Mystery Shopper" program have risen significantly since the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 23 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
2024 Summer Internships in Business & Environment
joining HBS. Brett Atkinson (MBA 2025, Section H), Summer Internship: Business Development Intern, Lithios, Inc Lithios is a venture-backed start-up commercializing a new electrochemical platform for producing sustainable, low-cost... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
One-on-One with Robert McNamara
produce cheaper and better-quality cars than Detroit, and insisted that American consumers would buy small cars. Implementing that heretical idea, McNamara successfully introduced the compact Ford Falcon and even planned to View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons