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Joseph P. Routh
When Routh assumed the position of President in 1938, Pittston’s coal and oil production businesses were generating $26 million in revenues and losing approximately $1 million on the bottom-line. Through shrewd investments and tight View Details
Keywords: Agriculture & Mining
- 10 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 10, 2017
highlights the key insights from the rich firm-level literature on MNCs. We then focus on how financial conditions in host countries affect the extent of FDI-related capital inflows, shape the operations of foreign firms, and mediate the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Aug 2020
- News
Empowering Rural Communities
to launch than the sector in which he would be working. “We wanted to start a company that helps people and benefits society,” he recalls. The energy sector, which was at the beginning of what Riley calls the “renewable power revolution,”... View Details
- 21 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 21
Harvard Business School Case 717-403 Videojet In 2005 Craig Purse, the CEO of Videojet, a company recently acquired by the conglomerate Danaher, is dealing with the unexpected failure of a new high-tech printer just launched in the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
Understanding Business Firsthand in South Korea
launched an upscale version of the cake and enlisted a team of first-year MBA students to help refine the product’s marketing strategy. The six-person team was among a group of 180 students, led by two HBS faculty members, who worked in... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Entrepreneurs Speak at HBS
companies with estimated annual revenues of $4 billion, is one of the world's most colorful business leaders. His oft-repeated message: "If your business isn't fun, it's ultimately going to be worthless to you." From its airline to View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Faculty Research Online From HBS Working Knowledge
How Europe Wrote the Rules of Global Finance After decades of liberalization, controls on cross-border capital movements are again being examined by financial institutions, governments, and policymakers around the globe. Associate... View Details
- 31 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 31
colleagues to refocus radically on truly modern phenomena, on anticipating the future, and on altering our theorizing and methods accordingly, or we will never catch up. Marketing Complex Financial Products... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
- April 2022 (Revised April 2023)
- Case
Highland Park Wood Co. (Abridged)
By: David E. Bell
A major home builder wishes to purchase lumber (Southern pine). The builder wants delivery in six months but prefers to lock-in the price near current rates. The lumber wholesaler must decide on a pricing and sourcing strategy. Examples include: 1) buy & hold, 2) wait... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Goods and Commodities; Futures and Commodity Futures; Price; Forest Products Industry; Forest Products Industry
Bell, David E. "Highland Park Wood Co. (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 122-098, April 2022. (Revised April 2023.)
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Yoga Inc.
amenities. (Bloomberg/Getty Images) “Yoga is at the core of our identity and culture,” Yeung continues. “It has kept us grounded in who we are as a company. It influences our brand strategy, the product categories we go after, and the... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Halber
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Dean Clark Reflects on the School’s Key Initiatives
remarkable. We then work equally hard to make sure the students we want can come to Soldiers Field. The prospect of graduating with high levels of debt can narrow our applicant pool and restrict the career paths of our graduates, so we are working to improve our... View Details
- 22 Sep 2017
- News
Turning a Disorder into an Opportunity
Michael Fieldhouse (AMP 177, 2009), director for Emerging Businesses and Federal Government at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Australia (HPE), launched the Dandelion program in Australia in 2015, introducing people with autism spectrum... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Crowdfunding capital for small business
James ("Brad") McGee (MBA 1987) cofounded iCrowd to bring entrepreneurs together in online communities to network and to help provide the financial and commercial resources businesses need to thrive. He View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Faculty Research Online From HBS Working Knowledge
What Companies Lose from Forced Disclosure Increased corporate financial reporting may benefit many parties but not necessarily the companies themselves. New research by Assistant Professor Romana Autrey and her coauthors looks at the... View Details
- 09 Dec 2015
- Research Event
When Hosts Attack: The Competitive Threat of Online Platforms
In the online marketplace, oodles of retailers and developers rely on “platforms” such as Amazon.com, the Apple App Store, Facebook, and Twitter to get their products and services into the hands of users. Retailers, for example, sell... View Details
- 12 Jun 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Minal Mehta (MBA 2011)
to Boston and launched our first BollyX classes. Partnering with boutique gyms, national gym chains, and dance studios, we quickly found that not only was there a tremendous appetite for Bollywood workout classes among fitness consumers,... View Details
- 19 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 19, 2016
Grommet The Grommet, an online product launch platform, was at the brink of scaling its business. The Grommet's daily launch and sale of innovative consumer products, using... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Newman's Own Brand of Charity
Sector, details the 1982 launch and subsequent development of Newman's Own. Based in Westport, Connecticut, the company began as "something of a lark," according to Newman, with two thousand bottles of vinaigrette salad dressing made from... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
The Rankings Game
school in one ranking fail to make the top five in others? The answer lies in the methods the publications use to evaluate schools. The big five — Bloomberg Businessweek, U.S. News & World Report, Forbes, the Financial Times, and the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
The Sky’s the Limit
launch last fall with “two ex-Microsoft guys.” All three are pilots, and fittingly, their first product is a flight-planning software program called Voyager. “It’s for general aviation pilots — private... View Details