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- 25 Jul 2018
- News
HBS Alumni Leader, Benefactor Dies at 86
Gypsum, founded in Buffalo in 1925 and now one of the largest gypsum board producers in the world. With a lifelong interest in education, Spangler also oversaw the schooling of more than a million students as head of North Carolina’s... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Flight Path
remote-controlled quadcopter,” hitting 163.5 mph. September 2017 DRL High Voltage, a drone pilot simulator, graduates from beta testing. The video game hones skills in preparation for flying an actual drone. DRL drones cost between $500 and $1,000; Nikko Air, a model... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 23 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
COVID-19 Shines New Light on Working Conditions in Supply Chains
brands to the working conditions of the suppliers who produce their branded products. This has resulted in brands creating supplier codes of conduct, which is the first piece. Then those brands need to actually hold suppliers accountable... View Details
- 02 Mar 2017
- What Do You Think?
Is China About to Overtake the US for World Trade Leadership?
currency, triggering a chain reaction that some believe contributed to the Great Recession of 2008. Here’s their thinking: Although the depressed value of the yuan increased the cost of raw materials imported by China, it produced a huge... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 13 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 13
Internet channel to a retail store channel should produce different effects than adding a retail store to the Internet channel. To test our theory, we analyze a unique data set from a high-end retailer using matching methods. Unlike... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
DEC - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
Transistors had begun to replace vacuum tubes and represented what was known as the "second generation" of computers able to hold thousands of binary logic circuits within a compact design. Olsen and Anderson joined forces to create a company that would View Details
- 08 Mar 2018
- News
HBSAAA Leads the Way in Celebrating African American Alumni Impact
Americans have had on the School, the business world, and society at large. The HBS African-American Alumni Association (HBSAAA) has partnered with the AASU and the HBS Leadership Initiative to produce five core initiatives for AASU50: a... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 18 May 2017
- News
Pioneer Spirit
out on his own, and he and Fern bought ZAX, Inc., a struggling company that produced custom-designed wood and laminate office fixtures, because, well, he thought he’d give that a shot. “We basically had to mortgage everything, including... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 10 May 2019
- News
Bringing Art to the People It Depicts
“Instead of overthinking it, I thought I could be a part of the change to start supporting our own,” the rapper and record producer told the Harvard Gazette. “We have a hard time supporting our own sometimes because it’s so close to us.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Feedback
“the sound of dog food glopping out of a can.” (Buy a of copy of his book, MouthSounds, if you want to know more.) I’ve long enjoyed Fred’s creative ability to make me smile. I put him in a special category of entertaining HBSers, including the late Jay Ward (MBA... View Details
- 27 Aug 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Learning From Japan’s Remarkable Disaster Recovery
chrysanthemum producer to a provider of closures for families who have lost their loved ones. It was memorable to hear him talk about how his mission in life was developed and how he had redefined his business." “Post-disaster... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Case Study: Something New
launching Anomalie in 2016, she was a supply-chain manager for Apple Watch—and a bride-to-be in search of a wedding gown. In the process, the self-described TOM nerd discovered that one city in China produces 75 percent of the world’s... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 08 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 8
Working Papers Modeling a Paradigm Shift: From Producer Innovation to User and Open Collaborative Innovation Authors: Carliss Y. Baldwin and Eric von Hippel Abstract In this paper we assess the economic viability of innovation by View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: December 21
received theory; and/or (3) reinforce the findings of more systematic investigations, giving greater confidence in their validity. Learning from such accounts calls for a "Bayesian" mindset, in which a given case study, of the kind View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
The End of Cows?
example, there are roughly 1 million jobs connected to the beef industry—from companies that grow crops for animal feed to slaughterhouses. And the USDA reports that meat producers created more than $66 billion in added value to the US... View Details
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Scrapbooks & Collectibles- The Art of American Advertising
subject theme. Advertisers encouraged repeated purchases by capitalizing on the desire of customers to collect a complete series. Coffee, tea, and tobacco companies, for example, produced groups of trade cards with specific themes such as... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Savings and Loam
distributes grass-fed beef and other sustainably produced meats to customers across New York and New England. “And by that, I mean companies that have anything interesting to say about social and environmental impacts.” Cummings has a few... View Details
- 14 Oct 2020
- News
Sewn with Love
treat patients first in Europe and then in New York. It started with Hanazawa, who began to research the breakdown in the medical-gown supply chain. The gowns were produced by a tight circle of manufacturers that had begun to shut down... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
James D. Wolfensohn, MBA 1959
sense of being “an outsider in the world of privilege.” He chose banking “because it’s a profession where you are judged by what you produce rather than where you come from.” Born in Australia to middle-class Jewish parents, Wolfensohn, a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Turning Point: On the Line
Leonard Dick (MBA 1990) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Leonard Dick (MBA 1990) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Day 116 was bizarrely poetic. Or poetically bizarre. And not just because I was an HBS grad participating in his second strike. To that point in last year’s... View Details