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  • 2008
  • Article

Entrepreneurial Ventures and Whole-body Donations: A Regional Perspective from the United States

By: Michel Anteby and Mikell Hyman

Human cadavers are crucial to medical science. While the debate on how to secure sufficient cadavers has focused primarily on donors' behaviors, procuring organizations' roles in increasing donations remain less explored. The United States offers a unique setting in... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Behavior; Programs; Nonprofit Organizations; Business Ventures; Health Testing and Trials; Demand and Consumers; Supply Chain; For-Profit Firms; Organizations; Training; United States
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  • 01 Oct 1999
  • News

Four Promoted to Full Professor

Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail, won the Global Business Book Award for the best business book published that year. Christensen is currently head of the required General... View Details
  • 01 Feb 2000
  • News

HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report

The start of a new century is certainly a momentous time. When I think about the last century and what it has meant to HBS, I am struck by how much the School has grown in stature and scale. Our alumni play a pivotal role in reinforcing... View Details
Keywords: Edmund A. Hajim (MBA '64)
  • 08 Dec 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 8

innovations by single user individuals or firms and open collaborative innovation projects. We analyze the design costs and architectures and communication costs associated with each model. We conclude that innovation by individual users... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Research Summary

Supply Chain Inventory Planning

My work studies management decision-making in demand and supply planning contexts with a focus on forecasting and inventory planning decisions.  I examine these decision-making processes from both a supply chain (i.e. across firm) and an... View Details

  • 01 Mar 2008
  • News

Faculty Books

in entrepreneurship, the historical origins of "born global" companies; the importance of networks in new international market development; the role of public policy in shaping cross-border entrepreneurial activity; and the effect of... View Details
Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
  • September 2007
  • Case

Metro International S.A.

By: Tarun Khanna, Felix Oberholzer-Gee, Vincent Marie Dessain, Ane Damgaard Jensen and Anders Sjoman
Explores the business model of Metro International, a company publishing 70 editions of its free newspaper in 20 countries. Metro had been a pioneer in the free newspaper market, fighting incumbent publishers distributing traditional paid-for newspapers. Looks at the... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Business Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Digital Marketing; Advertising; Expansion; Globalized Firms and Management; Journalism and News Industry; Spain
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  • 01 Jun 1998
  • News

Rauner Honored

Bruce V. Rauner (MBA '81) (right), who recently endowed an HBS professorship bearing his name, was honored at a March 2 dinner held at the Dean's House. Rauner, managing principal of the Chicago-based private-equity firm GTCR Golder... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2006
  • News

Money and Mortals

provides a view of society’s changing attitudes toward money and depicts its influence on mankind. Donated in 1975 by the New York banking firm of Arnhold and S. Bleichroeder, Inc., the collection includes... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • January 2017 (Revised March 2017)
  • Case

Royal DSM: From Continuous Transformation to Organic Growth

By: William W. George, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Amram Migdal
Royal DSM CEO Feike Sijbesma was pondering the challenges of shifting DSM’s global organization from the constant transformations of the past 100 years to creating organic growth. When Sijbesma took the helm as CEO in 2007, he further pushed and completed the company’s... View Details
Keywords: Organic Growth; Organizational Change; M＆A; Mergers And Acquisitions; Divestment; Business Ventures; Business Divisions; Business Growth and Maturation; Restructuring; Change; Change Management; Transformation; Transition; Engineering; Chemicals; Mining; Ethics; Values and Beliefs; Finance; Capital Markets; Financial Markets; Food; Globalization; Global Strategy; Globalized Firms and Management; Globalized Markets and Industries; Health; Nutrition; History; Leadership; Leadership Development; Leadership Style; Leading Change; Management; Business or Company Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Management Practices and Processes; Management Style; Organizations; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Organizational Design; Ownership; Public Ownership; Performance; Strategy; Adaptation; Consolidation; Corporate Strategy; Value; Value Creation; Biotechnology Industry; Chemical Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Mining Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; Europe; Netherlands
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    Henry H. Benedict

    In 1882, Benedict and two partners organized a firm to sell the new Remington Typewriter. Four years later, the firm purchased the entire Remington plant, and took control of... View Details
    Keywords: Fabricated Goods
    • 2010
    • Book

    The Big Ditch: How America Took, Built, Ran, and Ultimately Gave Away the Panama Canal

    By: Noel Maurer and Carlos Yu
    On August 15, 1914, the Panama Canal was officially opened for business, thus changing the face of both world trade and military power and playing a pivotal role in the rise of the United States on the world stage. Today we view the creation of the Panama Canal as a... View Details
    Keywords: Political History; For-Profit Firms; Development Economics; Infrastructure; State Ownership; Ship Transportation; Panama; United States
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      Amory Houghton, Jr.

      Though he is now known for his post-business career as a New York Congressman, Houghton began his career at the family firm as an accountant in 1951. In his many years as CEO of Corning, Houghton focused on... View Details
      Keywords: Fabricated Goods
      • 01 Sep 2006
      • News

      Winston to Lead the Global Initiative

      As the new executive director of the HBS Global Initiative, Victoria Winston will be a central figure in the School’s efforts to chart the future for its global activities. Last winter, Dean Jay Light convened a faculty task force, led by... View Details
      Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
      • 01 Oct 1998
      • News

      Andresen Becomes First European and First Exec. Ed. Graduate to Endow HBS Professorship

      "to give a little back to America" in appreciation for the United States' support in rebuilding postwar Europe, Andresen notes. In announcing the new professorship, HBS Dean Kim B. Clark stated, "The timing of this gift couldn't be... View Details

        Joseph A. Martino

        Starting with the company as a 16 year old office boy, Martino went on to transform National Lead into one of the country’s leading industrial producers of lead products and paints. During his tenure as CEO, National Lead was among the top 50 U. S. View Details
        Keywords: Metals

          Robert A. Pinkerton II

          Pinkerton grew his grandfather's private investigating firm into a large security services company, providing such new services as event security, jewel thief investigation, and industrial building security.... View Details
          Keywords: Services

            Estee Lauder

            Lauder built one of the most successful and exclusive cosmetic companies in the world. She was the pioneer of the “free sample” strategy, which marked a new era of salesmanship. To retain their aura of exclusivity, her products were sold... View Details
            Keywords: Personal Care & Home Products

              Floyd L. Carlisle

              Carlisle purchased Northern New York Utilities with a group of paper manufacturers, which allowed St. Regis Paper and the other involved paper mills to control their own supply of electric power. Acquiring Hanna Paper Corporation in 1921,... View Details
              Keywords: Wood, Paper & Forestry
              • 01 Jun 2001
              • News

              Hawes Hall Makes Tip-Top Progress

              On a warm day in late April, the HBS community gathered to celebrate progress made in the construction of Hawes Hall, a three-story, 47,000-square-foot classroom building designed by the firm of Einhorn Yaffee Prescott. The “topping out”... View Details
              Keywords: Construction of Buildings; Construction