industrial goods - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jan 2008
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Meg Whitman, MBA 1979

growth rate. Clearly eBay was doing something right.” At the time, Whitman was a general manager of the Preschool Division of the Rhode Island–based toy company Hasbro, overseeing brands like Mr. Potato Head and Teletubbies. eBay’s ability to link consumers with the... View Details

01 Sep 2014
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HBS Faculty Explore Ideas Around the World

website is a public good provided by HBS,” says Jones, “and its success will be measured by the extent to which diverse researchers make use of it.” He credits the project with showing how successful businesses emerged from volatile... View Details

Keywords: faculty research

01 Dec 2016
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Alumni Leading Change

balance are our priorities,” says Yang. Pro-worker and pro-environment policies aren’t just a social good at Esquel. “They save money and strengthen our competitive advantage,” notes Yang. For example, polluted water impedes the... View Details

20 Jan 2015
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Patient Medical Records, Pocket-sized

they took. “Nobody had anything more sophisticated, and it seemed so primitive,” Bushkin says. “It’s the biggest opportunity I’ve ever seen to do enormous good and simultaneously create enormous shareholder value. There are damn few... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

25 Aug 2022
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Case Study: Sound Check

provide good information. Sites have to provide robust online experiences if they want to create strong bonds and real relationships with their customers, he adds. The Question: So far LS has signed on mid-size businesses that generate... View Details

Keywords: Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Jun 2015
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The Military and the MBA: Lance Batchelor (MBA 1993)

more self-belief and confidence as you go in the door. But if you come out of a submarine, the way I did, it takes a good few months before you start to believe that you deserve your place in the classroom. Then came the case “Gunfire at... View Details

Keywords: National Security and International Affairs; Government

28 May 2019
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Ask the Expert: In Security

served on the President’s National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee, which provides industry expertise on national security preparedness. Over that time, cybersecurity has snowballed from a back-office IT function to one... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; cybersecurity

25 Mar 2008
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Whistling Past the Graveyard

with, and research inside the corporate and financial sectors, know firms’ operations and industry practices well. They have a pretty good hunch where the corporate O-Rings are located — those potential... View Details

Keywords: Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

01 Jun 2004
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Books

dominance of corporate icons such as Heinz, Coca-Cola, General Motors, NCR, and Procter & Gamble. Chapters on the 20th century consider how mass production, mass media, and technology have influenced the way goods are marketed and sold.... View Details

Keywords: book review; faculty books; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Publishing Industries (except Internet)

01 Jun 2000
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Networked Computers behind IT Payoff

initially islands, and we started to get good at interconnecting them (outside universities and research labs) only about ten to twelve years ago," writes McAfee. "We've become a lot better at it over the past five years, with the... View Details

01 Dec 2016
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Dear Future Author…

typewriter).” —Ralph Hancox (PMD 26, 1973), who spent six decades in the publishing industry before “retiring” to publish a memoir and novels, including The Ape & the Peacock “Only write when you feel the urge to do so. (I know that this... View Details

01 Mar 2018
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Democratizing Data to Favor Farmers

struggled to determine if they were getting good deals,” Baron says. “They had to take their dealer’s word for it.” Years later, after spells at Google and HBS, Baron is now using modern tools—from cloud computing to machine-learning—to... View Details

Keywords: Sasha Issenberg

24 Mar 2017
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Alumni New Venture Competition Finalists Named

Four alumni ventures from distinctly different industries and geographies have been chosen to pitch at the 2017 alumni New Venture Competition on April 25 on the HBS campus. This year's finalists were selected from among 17 high-caliber... View Details

01 Dec 1999
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New Releases

Apparel and Textile Industries is based on eight years of study. The keys to success in an age of product proliferation, the authors found, are no longer economies of scale and cheap labor but an up-to-the-minute knowledge of what is... View Details

01 Jun 2009
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Cynthia Carroll

but this is a time when focusing on the short term is necessary. As a woman in a male-dominated industry, you stand out. Indeed, women have long been considered bad luck in mines! How do you make change happen? I like to believe that women actually bring very View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Management; Mining

01 Jun 2000
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The Business of Biotech

is not a postdoc lab, this is a business. It's not enough just to do the experiment; somebody's got to take the ball and run with it." Lately, competition in the biotech industry has become more heated than ever, as a steadily increasing... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

10 Mar 2021
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Chasing the Silver Tsunami

Thriving Online After three decades in service of people who are over the age of 50, Meredith Oppenheim is working to nudge the industry in a new direction—broadening the scope of its offerings to include meaningful online engagement. Her... View Details

Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov; illustration by Dan Page; Nursing and Residential Care Facilities; Health, Social Assistance

02 Mar 2016
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On Credit

organizations. “It’s in that world that you get a glimpse of what is happening in the overall economy,” she says. “The Dun collection is remarkable in that sense because it references all of American society in the industrial age.” “The... View Details