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- 01 Jun 1997
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Thomas C. Høegh
Northwestern University, he returned home, cofounded a production company, and, as artistic director, gained a reputation for cutting-edge performances of both new and traditional material for radio, television, and the stage. In 1994, he... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The House that Howard Built
entrepreneurship, neither really understanding it nor teaching or researching it in a committed fashion. To its credit, from the School’s earliest years on, Deans Gay, Donham, and David had encouraged research on the importance of View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
The Check Is in the Mail
Credit due: Trade cards ca. 1870 (top) showed that everything from sewing machines to harvesters could be purchased on installment; the dangers of extending credit instead of demanding cash (bottom); Baker Library Historical Collections Financial View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Carving a Niche
for a long time, the major ski manufacturers just kept doing what worked last year.” Meanwhile, snowboarding companies were pushing the limits of production technology and design. The Faction Collective, where Hoye is cofounder and CEO,... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"
economic drivers" of business use of the Internet, explaining, "The change in the production process of information is altering the way it's distributed. Information is moving from paper into bits. That is a fundamental change in the... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 01 Sep 2017
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Is Private Equity Blockchain’s Killer App?
that the blockchain application could enable Northern Trust to achieve productivity savings of “somewhere in the neighborhood of 25 to 35 percent.” The firm—which has $1 trillion in assets under management and more than $7 trillion under... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
‘Green’ Trailblazers
Provides high tech products and services for building energy efficiency Jeffrey Brown (MBA 1983) Summit Power Group, LLC. Seattle, Washington Developer of electric power projects Michael Cavallo (MBA 1978) Clinton Climate Initiative New... View Details
- 09 Dec 2021
- News
Higher Returns
technology company, for about 10 years and sold it to another company. We then took that company public. And along the way, I was advising the White House Business Council, and I had worked on innovation policy and economic policy. And... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Lords of Strategy
Company; and HBS professor Michael Porter (MBA ’71). In addition to the pioneering roles played by this innovative quartet, there is another leitmotif — a fifth key player — that runs throughout the book: The industry would not exist as... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
Flavr Savr tomato, introduced more than 20 years ago. The decision was driven by the economics of bringing a value-added product to consumers, Baker says of the marketing of the White Russet. The fresh market would place the most value on... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Robots to the Rescue
Mountz Photo courtesy Kiva Systems Kiva's robots in action Main article: Where Innovation Rules In the News: Boston Globe: Amazon Buys Kiva for $775M Those who know Mick Mountz (MBA 1996) well were not overly surprised when he started a... View Details
- 11 May 2021
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Pitching to Win
Courtesy Harvard Innovation Labs Courtesy Harvard Innovation Labs On May 5, the Harvard i-lab presented the tenth annual President’s Innovation Challenge awards ceremony, a... View Details
- 13 Jun 2017
- News
Finding Common Ground
departments—with the goal of improving the health of honey bees in general and especially in production agriculture. Building trust is crucial to the relationships CollaborateUp fosters. Activists fear business executives will take... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Making Finance Personal
Cook Main article: Where Innovation Rules Necessity may be the mother of invention, but as Scott Cook (MBA 1976) can attest, an unhappy spouse can be a powerful prompter of innovation. Spurred by the complaints of his wife, Signe Ostby... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
radical transformations, including a power shift from its headquarters in London to an international secretariat in Johannesburg; a new federated governance structure that increases the influence of units in Africa and Asia; and View Details
- 28 May 2019
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INK: Maker’s Manual
canvas where you can be the person to fill it in and really own a corner of something. We can uniquely own mindshare for innovative products at Grommet. That’s so cool to me. EXCERPT To order a copy, please... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Running on empty
Week (June 29, 1999), using $10,000 in savings and working in a partner's garage, Hubbard discovered a way to remove the volatile elements from gasoline. Rendered inert and nonflammable, the resulting liquid product - dubbed "SpareTank" -... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Producers
innovator Stephen Chao (MBA ’81), hopes to eventually do production and distribution simultaneously. For now, however, Roadside is finding success by venturing where others fear to tread. “We’re surrounded... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
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Cleveland Global Alumni Conference a Sold-Out Success
investment in math and physical sciences. Moving on to challenges Merck has faced, Gilmartin explained that new drug discovery tools have increased the speed at which its competitors can introduce new products to the marketplace, even as... View Details