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11 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

The Paradoxical Quest to Make Food Look 'Natural' With Artificial Dyes

idea of naturalness even as manufacturers imposed a ‘natural’ color through artificial dyes,” Hisano writes. Take butter, for example. “The color of butter fluctuates, depending on the season,” Hisano explains during a recent interview in... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

21 Nov 2019
Blog Post

Finding My North Star at the Crossroads of Profit and Purpose

factory in the middle of the city, and it is probably the only city in India where you can drink clean water straight out of the tap. Both my grandfather and father worked at Tata Steel, the iconic steel manufacturing factory. I grew up... View Details

29 Aug 2017
Blog Post

3 Insights from My First Year at HBS

business leaders and former heads of state I successfully completed one consulting engagement with an egg manufacturer in Tanzania during my FIELD Global Immersion As I look back, some of the most meaningful lessons this year came from... View Details

Portrait Project

Terrance Rogers

No one ever told my mother to dream. She grew up in 1950s Georgia, where nothing of importance was expected of little black girls. Yet without a high school degree, she scraped her way up from rural poverty to build a wonderful life for me and my siblings. Often having... View Details

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James Sharpe | Baker Library

had always wanted to own his own business, however, and by 1987 he was ready. He spent months looking for an opportunity and finally found it in Extrusion Technology, Inc., a small manufacturing company in Massachusetts that provides... View Details

24 Apr 2014
News

Driving the family business onto a global stage

Anand Mahindra (AB 1977, MBA 1981), as chairman and managing director of Mahindra & Mahindra (M&M), has grown the family business into a thriving Indian multinational automotive manufacturing corporation, creating jobs for thousands. Not... View Details

01 Jan 2008
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Anand G. Mahindra, MBA 1981

Mahindra in 1991. Anand Mahindra has been leading M&M’s charge into the ranks of the world’s global corporations ever since. Established in 1945, Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (M&M), named after one of India’s best-known business families, got its start selling Jeeps before... View Details

06 Sep 2022
Research & Ideas

Curbing an Unlikely Culprit of Rising Drug Prices: Pharmaceutical Donations

of Health and Human Services, manufacturers may donate to charitable organizations that cover these costs, and can earmark their donations for specific disease categories. The amount contributed to these organizations skyrocketed after... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand; Insurance; Health; Pharmaceutical

01 Jun 2017
News

Supercharged

And government officials are furiously promoting what they call new energy vehicles (NEVs)—a catchall term that includes electrics, hybrids, and fuel-cell vehicles—through a variety of means. As a result, local EV manufacturers have... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; illustrations by Tavis Coburn

01 Jun 2022
News

Turning Point: Sparking Change

made manufacturing a fascinating, exciting topic in a way I’d never expected. Years later, as an entrepreneur, whenever I had to bring on a new manufacturing plant for ComfortCake, I wasn’t intimidated by... View Details

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American Business History Records | Baker Library

with global reach. Strengths include the papers of colonial and early republican-era farmers, craftsmen, and merchants; the records of major manufacturing firms, especially textile companies that developed the factory system from the... View Details

02 Mar 2017
What Do You Think?

Is China About to Overtake the US for World Trade Leadership?

trade relations between the two expanded. China, for a time, became a primary manufacturer of goods for US markets--economists estimate that up to 2 million manufacturing jobs shifted from America to China.... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

27 Mar 2025
Blog Post

IFC India 2025: Driving India's EV Future: Insights from Ather Scooter and Exponent Energy

reducing emissions. Our research focused on understanding the opportunities and hurdles faced by emerging 2-wheeler EV manufacturers and advancements in EV battery and charging technologies and infrastructure. As part of this research, we... View Details

21 Mar 2024
Blog Post

IFC India: Renewable Energy - CleanMax

in Achievement in the “Transformational Infrastructure” category. They are committed to being the sustainability partner of choice for private users by helping customers meet 100% of their energy needs through renewable energy. Solar panels on the rooftop of CleanMax’s... View Details

25 Jun 2020
News

Covering All Corners

is coordinating with Gilead Sciences, maker of Remdesivir, to distribute and manufacture the antiviral drug treatment for use in 127 countries, including Egypt. It was recently approved for emergency use by the United States, India,... View Details

02 Sep 2016
News

Building a Legacy

me is to build new things. I get very bored. And I would say, while I didn’t well in college I did well in learning the import policy of India, which were three fat books, and I knew them backwards. “Slowly, I moved away from my View Details

12 PM – 1 PM EDT, 16 Oct 2014
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Can China Lead?

Can China sustain its remarkable emergence of the past 35 years? Surely No, for multiple reasons. China will be a leader, but not the leader. Professor McFarlan will talk about both the challenges and opportunities for those seeking to do business with and within China... View Details

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The new industrial state? | Institute for Business in Global Society

these policies seek to address. Together, they explored strategies for reshoring supply chains, revitalizing critical infrastructure, bolstering manufacturing capabilities, creating jobs, and advancing the clean energy transition. For... View Details

Fair Competition

unions, and specialty producers. Retail pharmacists extended these occupational exemptions and pressured drug manufacturers to maintain minimum prices throughout the Depression. The article fits into a larger book-length project on... View Details

24 Apr 2014
News

For African farmers looking to escape poverty, honey brings sweet success

Yusuf Keshavjee (OPM 17, 1991) helps African farmers and their families escape poverty through beekeeping. He cofounded Honey Care Africa (HCA), a private-sector enterprise in Kenya that partners with local NGOs and international development and financial institutions... View Details

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