Produce - Publications - Faculty & Research

25 Aug 2014
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Ashraf M. Dahod, MBA 1981

value of education, changing the world through entrepreneurship, and finding meaning by helping others. Dahod’s first taste of entrepreneurship came as a teenager, when he helped his physician father produce and distribute medication that... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Mar 2004
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Derek Ferguson

million. As Bad Boy’s CFO, Ferguson oversees a multifaceted hip-hop empire founded in 1993 by chairman and CEO Sean “P. Diddy” Combs, a Grammy Award–winning producer and recording artist in his own right. Sometimes criticized for its... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

12 Nov 2021
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Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

being disrupted as we retool and refuel machinery, as the dietary preferences of younger generations become more vegetable-based and as we learn to produce our needs with less labor, less equipment, and fewer emissions. Within sectors... View Details

11 Mar 2021
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Leading with Heart

of the people that I work with? And also the communities that I serve. And I constantly challenge myself. How can I be a force multiplier for good? Skydeck is produced by the External Relations department at Harvard Business School and... View Details

14 Jun 2023
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Dean Datar Meets with Alumni in East Asia

those is the accelerated pace at which technology is moving– from data and quantum computing to the metaverse and blockchain. How do we, as a school and as business leaders, lean into these trends? What are the opportunities?" The desire to View Details

12 Jan 2023
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‘Debiasing’ Debt with Data

records on borrowers, and put the data through a random forest regression, a type of analysis known for producing good predictions that can be readily understood. When they tested the resulting model, the results were astounding. They... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli

01 Dec 2009
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One Man Crime Wave

percent of his work was crime and suspense; the rest was about manners and mores. And so it was with these relatively peaceful 1950s books about the professional classes, even as he was also producing plenty of murder and mayhem in... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; fiction writing; Arts, Entertainment; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Oct 1998
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Dinh Thi Hoa: Up from the Ashes of War

Korea's. They started with garments and shoes, went on to seats and tires for cars, and now they produce microchips and televisions." Hoa and Hoai caution that foreign investors in Vietnam must, above all, do their homework. "One of the... View Details

Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr. (MBA 1992)

22 Feb 2024
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GCC Crossroads Aims for a Bright Future; Seattle Alumni Talk Leadership in Tech; Italy Preps for European Alumni Summit

partner with the HBSAAA to produce the event and provide much of the logistical support—including securing the venue, food, and wine. “Part of our mission is to help the alumni affinity groups have events here in Seattle,” says Ayengar.... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Jun 2023
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In My Humble Opinion: Very Continental

vegetables. It’s absolutely gorgeous, best to be eaten by the Congo River.” Silver screen: “For me, movies are everything. A movie is a time machine that allows you to be in the past, present, and future. I hope at some point in my life, I’ll have the opportunity to... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; investment; exports; infrastructure; life experience; finance; Finance

01 Jun 2022
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A Sustainable Solution for Fashion

emissions are produced by the industry, and the amount of textile waste generated each year could fill 20,000 football stadiums, Theuerkauf explains, adding that, “even in 2022, excess inventory is still put in landfills and burned.” To... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Aug 1998
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High Honors

quarterly profit increases for the past three years. In addition to traveling the globe looking for ways to produce and market an array of Tropicana juices, as well as expand Seagram's nonalcoholic and low-alcohol beverage business, she... View Details

20 Jan 2023
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Free Spirits

currant and lime. It leaves behind a feisty little bite of a finish, produced by a touch of capsaicin. Like all of Tilden’s cocktails, Eden is non-alcoholic. The founders’ goal for Tilden is to solve for a very sugary pain point: the... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality

12 Feb 2021
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How Dunkin’ Donuts Took Over the World

entrepreneurs, successful CEOs of other food service companies. If you look around the restaurant industry, you will find it populated with Dunkin’ executives who left us better than they found us, and went on to bigger and better careers elsewhere, all of which is... View Details

Keywords: brands; leadership; management; strategy; operations; career; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade

01 Feb 2002
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It's academic. (Not!)

Groysberg. "HBS is a school full of Michael Jordans. It makes you want to produce because you have been given resources, time, and more than enough attention." He found that, like Bigfoot, this person probably does not exist. In fact, the... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Oct 1997
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High Fives

father-in-law said it would be in the new CEO's interest to make sure that my career was successful also. I took the job.” Investment outlook over the next five years: “I'm bullish. We're in a world of low inflation. Market economies and fairly open political and... View Details

01 Mar 2014
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Generation Next

Like many industrial giants, the Umesh Modi Group reaches far, producing pharmaceuticals, selling cosmetics, and building steel. Modi added liquor and now runs Modi Illva, the company's four-year-old joint venture with Italian spirits... View Details

Keywords: Mark Bergen; Godrej Group; Management

01 Mar 2018
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Every Trick in the Book

stores doesn’t worry Grantham, who sees ways in which Amazon’s dynamic pricing model could come to benefit the entire bookselling sector—one of the few retail sectors where the producers recommended price is stamped right on the product.... View Details