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- 21 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 21, 2007
Purchase this supplement: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=507036 Earthbound Farm Harvard Business School Case 807-061 Describes a set of decisions confronting the senior management of Earthbound Farm, the largest organic View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Guitar Hero
Instrument Company (GMI), which produces banjos, mandolins, drums, and keyboards, as well as guitars. With quality firmly reestablished as Gibson's core competency, Juszkiewicz hopes one day to be the world's largest maker of quality... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Off Script
public health” mandate; and extending patent life proactively in areas such as Alzheimer’s to help open up the supply of new drugs. Is there a framework in another country—could be a hybrid model of multiple developed or developing nations—where public and private... View Details
- 25 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories
Climate Stories is a series researched and written by Jacqueline Adams (MBA 1978) and Produced by Lynn Schenk, Director, Business and Environment Initiative The HBS Business and Environment Initiative is excited to launch Climate Stories,... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Research Brief: May I Ask Your Advice?
online lab studies and a field experiment, all of which confirmed that asking for feedback produces more vague and limited responses, while asking for advice results in forward-thinking and actionable input. The difference boils down to... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Clusters and Competition
Michael E. Porter: learning more about the processes that produce competitive success. Michael E. Porter, acclaimed expert on competitive strategy and leader of the HBS-based Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness, began his luncheon... View Details
- 14 Oct 2008
- Research & Ideas
Should You Bring Advertising Expertise In-House?
services to "make" internally as opposed to what it buys in the marketplace. A firm may integrate "forward" into the channels used to distribute its output to customers, or "backward" into the supply chain that provides inputs the firm... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015
of Total Motivation by Neel Doshi and Lindsay McGregor (MBA 2013) (HarperBusiness) The authors show how to use cutting-edge psychology to unlock people’s innate desire to innovate, experiment, and adapt so as to produce higher sales, more... View Details
- 20 Feb 2019
- News
Building an Ecosystem for African Entrepreneurs
which he started in 2010, is now the largest energy investor in Nigeria, producing more than 18 percent of the country’s power through Transcorp Power, its investee company. “It is helping hospitals; it’s helping homes; it’s helping... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 12 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Untold Story of ‘Green’ Entrepreneurs
In the 1920s, on pitch black nights in rural eastern Montana, the farmhouse owned by the parents of brothers Marcellus and Joe Jacobs stood out for one reason: it had light, although located far from power lines and gasoline supplies. It was a beacon in the dark that... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Harvard MBAs Rule?
GE among them. As if that weren’t enough, it noted that even the newest occupant of the Oval Office, George W. Bush (MBA 1975), “spent some time hanging at Harvard.” With HBS producing so many entrepreneurs in recent years, Fortune... View Details
- Mar 2012
- Article
The Looming Challenge to U.S. Competitiveness
such as lower wages or a cheaper dollar, do not boost U.S. competitiveness by our definition. Whether a nation is competitive hinges on its long-run productivity—that is, the value of goods and services produced per unit of human,... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
HBS Research Available on World Wide Web
will produce hundreds of new cases and dozens of books, as well as numerous articles and working papers. This activity covers an enormous variety of business and organizational issues; taken as a whole, it constitutes an unmatched... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
The power of storytelling can be a catalyst in advocating for the rights of women
prosperous, and more stable world, which is in everyone’s best interest.” A former ABC News producer who has also written for the New York Times and Financial Times, Lemmon is the author of the Newsweek March 2011 cover story “The Hillary... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Consultant on the Go
produces no marketing materials, and finds his clients the old-fashioned way: through word of mouth. Charan can rarely be found in his office in Dallas, where his two assistants organize his hectic schedule and FedEx him fresh changes of... View Details
- 12 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 12
two-week online contest broadcast to participants outside academia and biomedical disciplines. Participants in our contest produced over 600 submissions containing 89 novel computational approaches to the problem. Thirty submissions... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Teams | New Venture Competition
with producers affordably and flexibly. Accio Alex Zannos (MBA 2025) Sara Ballantyne (MS/MBA 2025) Business Track Crowd Favorite Streamline and automates the hardware manufacturing process. Finalists, 2025 Accio Alex Zannos (MBA 2025)... View Details
- 22 Jul 2024
- News
Viral Marketing’s Early Muse
Illustration by John Weber In 2008, Canadian musician Dave Carroll saw United Airlines employees manhandling his $3,500 Taylor guitar on the tarmac in Chicago. When he arrived at his destination, the guitar was in pieces. Carroll contacted United customer service... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Orientation Teamwork
specific tasks, ranging from building a catapult to safely launch an uncooked egg to filming a music video, in just over two hours. After each task, the teams huddled to discuss what they had learned. The facilitator awarded points for “productive debriefs” that View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Be Our Guest: HBS Show 2002 Goes Off without a Hitch
Aragon worked alongside Executive Producer Ruby Kam (HBS '03) and Production Manager Jonathan Mendelson (MBA '02). “The talent here is amazing,” said Kam. “People come to HBS to get a business degree, but many have talents far beyond the... View Details