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- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Up to the Challenge: Martin Gonzalez - Quiet Courage
Photography by Robert Schoen If I take one overall impression away from HBS, it's that everyone here has a powerful story to tell,” says Martin Gonzalez, a lanky Chilean whose own life story took a dramatic turn during his first year at Soldiers Field. A former... View Details
- 09 Apr 2012
- News
Rethinking Women's Clothing Sizes
- 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
- 14 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Getting Down to the Business of Creativity
for the course, including one on the Montague Corporation, a company based in Massachusetts that manufactures high-quality folding bicycles. The case illustrates the difficulties faced by a new company introducing innovation within an... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
manufactured consumer goods first used the union label as a way to show solidarity through their purchases. One hundred years later, men and women, and even teenagers, organized to protest sweatshop production in various countries around... 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
- 28 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
B2B Branding: Does it Work?
ingredient brand. It makes zero sales to end consumers, yet Intel built a consumer demand pull for its chips that required every PC manufacturer to incorporate them and to advertise Intel Inside on their products and in their ads. Other... View Details
- 07 Nov 2007
- Op-Ed
How Marketing Hype Hurt Boeing and Apple
production delays (the Airbus 380 is two years behind schedule) and customers know this when they place their orders. They will simply operate their existing 747s and 777s a little longer. In addition, no airline manufacturer ever wants... View Details
- 13 Jul 2011
- News
China Boot Camp
’76) of Esquel Group (the world’s largest manufacturer of woven shirts), Bruno Filipi (AMP 164, 2003) of Coca-Cola, and Alexander H.K. Zhang (MBA ’07), founder of Clear Suppliers Corporation, all opened their doors to the group, while HBS... View Details
- 06 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Sorting Out the Patent Craze
different manufacturers could not talk to one another. PCs would cost $10,000 because each company would have to design its own software, as well as craft proprietary storage, memory, and display components. But standards do not evolve... View Details
- 10 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 10
Publications 2006 Regional Studies Spatial Determinants of Entrepreneurship in India By: Ghani, Ejaz, William R. Kerr, and Stephen O'Connell Abstract—We analyze the spatial determinants of entrepreneurship in India in the manufacturing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Brand Name Management - The Art of American Advertising
The Art of “Posting” Brand Name Management A Marketing Revolution “Today [advertisements] are issued by the manufacturers of a particular article or special kind of articles . . . [that] may be obtained ‘anywhere,’ and the only request... View Details
- October 1981 (Revised April 1984)
- Case
H.J. Heinz Co.: The Administration of Policy (A)
Relates the April 1979 discovery of improper income transferal practices used at the H.J. Heinz Co. Background data on the company is presented, along with a detailed description of the organizational practices, the management incentive system, and the corporate... View Details
Keywords: Ethics; Business Processes; Compensation and Benefits; Manufacturing Industry; Manufacturing Industry
Goodpaster, Kenneth E. "H.J. Heinz Co.: The Administration of Policy (A)." Harvard Business School Case 382-034, October 1981. (Revised April 1984.)
- February 1991 (Revised November 1993)
- Supplement
Investment Analysis and Lockheed Tri Star
A set of five exercises in capital budgeting. Student calculates and compares various decision criteria (including IRR and NPV) for capital investment projects. This is an introductory case, where relevant cash flows are provided, and the focus is on the discounting... View Details
Edleson, Michael E. "Investment Analysis and Lockheed Tri Star." Harvard Business School Supplement 291-031, February 1991. (Revised November 1993.)