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- 11 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 11, 2007
Limited was facing significant pricing pressure in their cash cow business, that primarily consisted of manufacturing Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs). To combat this commoditization, Biocon's leadership had chosen an... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
A Former Buyer Turns Designer
Yaqub: Inspired by HBS field study. Photo courtesy Ammara Yaqub Other Newsmakers Bob Gannon (OPM 16, 1990) Diana ("Dido") Harding (MBA ’92) David Miller (MBA ’03) Allison O’Kelly (MBA ’99) Amos Schocken (MBA ’70) Mike Stone (MBA ’88) Tom Tiller (MBA ’91) Bill Wyman... View Details
- 27 Sep 2021
- News
Sewn with Love
supply chain. The gowns were produced by a tight circle of manufacturers that had begun to shut down as a result of COVID-19. “The system works very well when the demand is stable,” notes Hanazawa. It was clear, however, that the supply... View Details
John H. McConnell
Borrowing $600 by using his car as collateral, McConnell founded Worthington Industries in 1955 and guiding it into a premier manufacturer of steel and other metal-based products. From its inauspicious beginnings, Worthington has grown... View Details
Keywords: Metals
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Muhammad Yunus Visits HBS
where diseases gain entry to the body through bare feet. To combat malnutrition, Yunus worked with Groupe Danone to manufacture a low-cost, fortified yogurt that is sold door-to-door. Ventures such as these, whose only goal is to solve... View Details
- 04 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 4
Cotton Manufacturing At the time of the American War of Independence (1776-1783) and for several decades after it, Great Britain dominated the global production of cotton textiles. In fact, Britain became so dominant in textile View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Innovation, Inc.
in Massachusetts that manufactures high-quality folding bicycles. The case illustrates the difficulties faced by a new company introducing innovation within an established industry. “Montague’s creative insight was to develop a folding... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Toy Story
one was surprised. On the retail side, the large discount chains — WalMart and Target in particular — had steadily taken market share from specialty toy stores, in some cases using toys as a loss leader to pull in traffic. The ripple effect could be seen on the View Details
- 02 Dec 2019
- What Do You Think?
How Does a Company like Boeing Respond to Intense Competitive Pressure?
inevitable; it will never be eliminated. This is an oversimplication of a complex phenomenon, with nuances in every large organization that has grown beyond the “one for all and all for one” startup spirit. But when it rises to a level that affects marketing plans,... View Details
- 14 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
How to Profit from Scarcity
of scarcity can be a smart marketing strategy. And even if you're in the unfortunate position of experiencing very real scarcity, there are tactics you can employ to minimize the brand damage and even profit from the error. What's your scarcity story? Has your company... View Details
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Introduction - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
venture capital is inextricably linked to Georges F. Doriot, an educator and a founder of the industry. During his 40-year tenure at Harvard Business School, the charismatic professor taught business and leadership in his celebrated View Details
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Educating Business Administrators - A Concrete Symbol: The Building of Harvard Business School 1908-1927 – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
other active calling,” he wrote. “The classical schools and the colleges do not offer what I want. . . . Here is a real need and a very serious problem.” 1 By the turn of the twentieth century, a rising managerial class was overseeing the growing View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Learning from the Past
works know themselves less well than they might, and to their cost." Strassler credits his successful business career with giving him the time and wherewithal to undertake and finance the project. In 1963, he and his associates took over the management of an ailing... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Youth Movement: HBS Clubs Make Students a Top Priority
Headed by newly elected president Maryann Pernorio (MBA '90), HBSA-SNE invites student clubs - such as the Manufacturing & Technology Management Club (MTM) - to attend dinner programs that have included speakers such as John Welch,... View Details
Keywords: Amy E. Dean
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Faculty Books
Manufacturing Morals: The Values of Silence in Business School Education by Michel Anteby (University of Chicago Press) How does HBS try to ensure that its faculty and students embrace proper business standards? Associate Professor Anteby... View Details
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Rob Humble
Rob Humble's degree in mechanical engineering gave him entrée to Raytheon's Operations Leadership Development Program. In the course of two years and three rotations, Rob managed a 45-person team that manufactured aircraft, directed a... View Details
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Bei Guo
R&D, and venture capital." With her colleagues, Bei visited businesses that ranged in size from a startup "that began in a hotel room with a couple of laptops" to a large manufacturer that was developing a new, much... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Charlie Williams (MBA 1939, DCS 1952)
many others go on to distinguished careers in financial services. Williams retired in 1986. When the Class of 1939 graduated from HBS, business and employment were still in a slump, salaries were at Depression levels, and war clouds were on the horizon. I went to work... View Details
- 19 Oct 2011
- News
A Good Look
Levy: Ingredients for beauty from an unlikely source. Photo courtesy Kerty Levy A company that manufactures the nutritional ingredients used in animal feed doesn’t seem like the most likely incubator for a beauty products division. But... View Details
Edward G. Budd
During the 1910s and 1920s, Budd constructed a successful business supplying car bodies, including an all-steel sedan body, to auto manufacturers such as General Motors, Studebaker, Ford and Chrysler. In the 1930s, Budd pioneered the... View Details
Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace