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- 22 May 2020
- Blog Post
Reflections on Service - Armed Forces Alumni Association Student Profiles
entity and everyone’s journey is different. Right at the beginning, however, I got my first look at the tangible impact to people’s lives that made my experience truly unforgettable. It was only my second week as a Naval officer when I found myself conning the View Details
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
shipping containers—necessitates a white cap and a lab coat. The units feature a double-door protocol that requires the exterior door to be closed before a second internal door can be opened. In the far corner of the building, a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
of at least 51 people in Panama after they ingested medicine made with diethylene glycol, an industrial chemical similar to antifreeze that a Chinese company used as a substitute for pharmaceutical-grade syrup. In June, officials at the... View Details
- 20 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
How an Order Views Your Company
into the business to the day the product departs the shipping dock. The researchers encouraged businesses to think of that order as the actual customer, and watched as they routed that person here and there among departments, perhaps... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston
- Web
Brand Name Management - The Art of American Advertising
they were manufactured linked consumer goods to the glorification of modern industrial life. “The frequent depiction of majestic factories on trade cards is simply further proof of the obvious confidence and optimism with which... View Details
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
Minoru Makihara, 75th AMP, 1977
enterprises have long held a special place in society, and none more so than Mitsubishi. Its origin goes back to the 1870s, when three sailing ships transported raw materials to Japanese manufacturers and carried exports to markets... View Details
- 06 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
Van den Ende Rozen: Greenhouse Rose Production
site, as we neared the site, we noticed hundreds of small greenhouses alongside the road. From their signage, the crops ranged from vegetables to flowers. We had driven into the heart of the country’s world-class horticulture industry and... View Details
- 23 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 23, 2008
a question related to whether the poor should be helped by the government or if they should help themselves, while the measure of luck is the share of the oil industry in the state's economy multiplied by the price of oil. The correlation... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 19, 2009
provides a mandate for restructuring. But survival is not the end goal. In fact, cost cutting and restructuring are simply the first steps in repositioning and leading a company and industry through the crisis and in defining how business... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Apr 2022
- Blog Post
The HBS New Venture Competition Turns 25: Celebrating A Quarter Century of Innovation and Entrepreneurship
of the arduous journey of building a successful venture,” said Jodi Gernon (MBA 1991), director of the Arthur Rock Center. “The winners and the participants have gone on to raise over $21 billion and have created over 15,000 jobs in such diverse View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
The commercial real estate business was in a shambles fifteen years ago, but just look at it now. After a complete rehab, the industry has become the darling of investors eager for alternatives to lackluster stocks and bonds. But will the... View Details
- 26 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 26, 2008
pioneered shipbuilding techniques that not only allowed him to build ships at unprecedented rates, but he also spurred the whole shipbuilding industry to do the same. His fame made him the object of envy and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Matchmaker of the Modern Economy
Boston has always been fueled by an Enlightenment belief in scientific progress and human perfectibility. It is home to America's first public school, Boston Latin School (1635), and college, Harvard College (1636). After the American Revolution, Boston became a major... View Details
Keywords: by Spencer E. Ante
- Profile
Arthur Rock
Computer. Rock has had a remarkably intuitive sense of the people with whom he invested and his steady hand and ever-curious intellect provided invaluable mentorship and advice to a legion of technology giants. What has become standard View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
New Horizons for Iraq
supplies, and services required for the ship’s ten-month deployment, the longest for any Navy vessel since the Vietnam War. On May 1, 2003, when President Bush visited the ship and declared an end to major hostilities in Iraq, Fabry... View Details
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate
time MBAs pile into a field, it's a good contrarian indicator. Gallows humor aside, market pros see parallels, but no repeat of the 1989 crash. That optimism rests on the knowledge that the industry today bears little resemblance to the... View Details
- Web
Case Method 100 Years | Baker Library
Faculty writes 600 cases for classroom instruction of military personnel 1946 to 1947 Industrial Films Introduced in the Classroom HBS introduces the use of industrial films into case teaching. 1951 Task... View Details
- June 2023
- Case
Russia's Invasion of Ukraine in 2022: Consequences for Agriculture
By: José B. Alvarez and Natalie Kindred
Russia's brutal full-scale invasion of Ukraine that begain in February 2022 caused major destruction to Ukraine's agriculture sector, one of the most productive and important in the world. This note provides a brief overview of certain singificant moments and moments... View Details
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS
development of the U.S. railroad industry in the latter half of the 19th century. Al went straight to the sources and expanded upon them in a series of important articles in the Business History Review. That work developed into his... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 20 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 20, 2007
concept—subsequently often referred to as the "$100 PC"—was launched at the Media Lab in 2003 before being spun into a separate nonprofit association, One Laptop Per Child (OLPC), founded by Negroponte in January 2005. At the time skeptics, including... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace