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- 01 Feb 2002
- News
New Porter Prize Awarded in Japan
won for specializing in small direct-current motors, a strategy that has garnered it 50 percent or higher world market share for several decades. Canon’s Lens Product Group was recognized for continuous technological innovation. Hoya Corporation’s Eye Care... View Details
Keywords: awards
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
streamline production processes, lower costs, produce better quality products, gain a first-mover advantage, and enhance their global competitiveness. Properly designed government regulation, Porter believes, can provide incentives for... View Details
Herman G. Fisher
In 1938, Fisher introduced a new toy named “Snoopy Sniffer,” which was an instant hit with the public. By the end of the 1930s, Fisher-Price, the first toy company licensed to make Disney toys, was producing over 2 million action toys a... View Details
Keywords: Fabricated Goods
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
2017 in Energy: A Future of Lower Energy Prices
system responded immediately. The United States has become the swing supply in the global system, a role that used to belong to Saudi Arabia, and technological advances mean that producers can respond more quickly than ever before. That... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Faculty Books
economy to foreign trade and investment not result in sustained economic growth? Why has electoral democracy not produced the rule of law? The answers to these questions lie in the ways in which Mexico’s long history with authoritarian... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Research Brief: Capitol Gains
oil-rich state, for example, the financial impact (positive or negative) of a bill affecting the state's petroleum producers and related companies could be inferred by following the votes of the state's lawmakers. The politicians, after... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
As the Future Catches You
genetics revolution is occurring 50 percent faster than the computer revolution; private companies, from IBM to DuPont to L'Oreal, will have the ability to rewrite the source code of life; and nanotechnology will soon produce "biorobots"... View Details
- 28 Jun 2011
- News
Beyond Case Writing
Sometimes big ideas start with small experiments. That’s been the experience of HBS associate professor Nava Ashraf, whose experimental approach to research in developing countries has produced insights that have influenced government... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Research With Impact: Changing Global Health Practices
case studies, for example, are five times more costly to produce than domestic ones. Conducting the intensive, field-based experiments that Ashraf’s research requires depends on even greater resources than those needed to write a case.... View Details
- 18 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Unspoken Cues: Encouraging Morals Without Mandates
The belief that business life entails personal choices is a "vocal" element in the School's context. Q: Can morals be manufactured, as the title of the book suggests? A: The term "manufacturing" evokes the notion of View Details
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Industrial Film Collection | Baker Library
manufacturing shop processes. In addition, the collection includes films produced by HBS for teaching topics like labor relations, the human aspect of administration, business policy, and management. Use the Collection Industrial Film... View Details
- 23 Mar 2016
- News
Curing Parkinson’s Disease
properties of a virus known as M13—properties first recognized by Solomon’s mother, a leading Alzheimer’s researcher—and produce a medication to treat diseases like Parkinson’s and Alzheimers’s. As Solomon tells Palreman: “A single... View Details
Otto D. Donnell
assets, which then stood at $203 million. Under Donnell, Ohio Oil produced 39 million barrels of gross oil, boasting a profit of $68 million, a near tenfold increase from when he began his presidency. View Details
Keywords: Utilities & Energy
- 04 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
STUDENT SPOTLIGHT: JESSE LOU (MBA 2022) – WORKING TO CHANGE THE FOOD SYSTEM
co-founded this summer. PicoGreens is engineering single-celled algae (microalgae) to use as “crop plants” that sustainably produce foods and food ingredients. Instead of growing entire sugarcane stalks just to harvest their sugar, we can... View Details
- 04 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
STUDENT SPOTLIGHT: JESSE LOU (MBA 2022) – WORKING TO CHANGE THE FOOD SYSTEM
co-founded this summer. PicoGreens is engineering single-celled algae (microalgae) to use as “crop plants” that sustainably produce foods and food ingredients. Instead of growing entire sugarcane stalks just to harvest their sugar, we can... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
An American Odyssey
investment of the right kind, in the right way, it would produce outstanding results, favorable publicity, and competitive advantage.” America is involved in several projects, including studying the progress of African-American managers... View Details
- 24 Sep 2020
- News
The Race for a Vaccine
a computer model of a potential mRNA-based vaccine. Twenty-five days after that, it produced the first dose of a treatment it hoped would protect against a disease that did not yet have a name. On February 24, after 17 days of analysis... View Details
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IDEO: Human-Centered Service Design | Information Technology
the classroom. And it's really exciting to get to see them on the ground, experiencing the process as it was rolling out before our eyes when we were producing it. Ryan W. Buell ; C. D. Spangler Professor of Business Administration... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
The Power of Philanthropy
announced its approval of Kalydeco, a drug produced by Vertex that will immediately help some 1,200 cystic fibrosis patients and is viewed as a breakthrough precursor drug to forthcoming products that will help all other CF sufferers.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Research Brief: The Benefits of Bias
NIH grant applications from 1992 to 2005. She plotted links between applicants and evaluators—via professional publication citations—to determine potential bias. Then, to establish the quality of the funded projects, she tracked the number of publications and citations... View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson