Invention - Publications - Faculty & Research

February 1997
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Archer Daniels Midland: Direction and Strategy

By: Ray A. Goldberg and Thomas N. Urban Jr

Sets out the strategy and competitive competencies of one of the leading grain trade and processing companies in the world. An overview of the company's innovations in corn and oilseed by-products is provided. The strategy of the firm is to add by-products to corn,... View Details

Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Strategic Planning; Business Strategy; Value Creation; Food and Beverage Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry

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September 1985 (Revised September 1987)
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H.J. Heinz Co.: Plastic Bottle Ketchup (A)

By: John A. Quelch

The Heinz Ketchup product manager must decide whether or not to launch a new plastic bottle and, if so, what marketing program and support to place behind it. View Details

Keywords: Decisions; Food; Product Launch; Innovation and Invention; Food and Beverage Industry

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02 Aug 2022
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PayPal Names Blake Jorgensen as CFO

Photo via Wall Street Journal and PayPal Photo via Wall Street Journal and PayPal Former Electronic Arts CFO Blake Jorgensen (MBA 1988) has been named the new CFO at PayPal, the Wall Street Journal reported this week. In addition to his decade as chief financial... View Details

12 Jul 2022
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Expanding the Power to Prosper

After building her career on Wall Street, with roles at Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs, Stella Dyer (MBA 1994) launched Millicent, a blockchain-based company that Dyer hopes will make the global banking system more inclusive. Funded in part by British government... View Details

Keywords: Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance

30 Mar 2022
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Working with Software Robots

08 Nov 2021
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Building Your Scaled Digital Organization

27 Sep 2021
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AI Adoption Skyrocketed Over the Last 18 Months

02 Dec 2020
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Want to See the Future of Digital Health Tools? Look to Germany.

17 Sep 2020
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Are You Ready for the Quantum Computing Revolution?

19 Apr 2018
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One Last Pitch

The 2018 New Venture Competition started last fall with 360 teams. By Wednesday, April 18, just 12 teams—four finalists from each of the Alumni, Student Social Enterprise, and Student Business tracks—were left standing, vying for $315,000 in prize money and in-kind... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

13 Jun 2017
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Finding Common Ground

When he took some skeptical conservationists to a meeting at agribusiness giant Monsanto’s headquarters not long ago, Richard Crespin (TGMP 4, 1999) says it seemed the only thing missing was ominous John Williams theme music playing in the background. “One of them told... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli

20 Jan 2017
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Bringing Power to the People

Xavier Barbaro (MBA 2006) is CEO of Neoen, a French firm that generates electricity from renewable sources, operating in multiple countries. In this interview, he talks about how the electricity the company produces is bringing power to communities where there has been... View Details

01 Dec 2006
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The Hard Way

Russo at home in her Brisbane apartment. She credits her domineering Sicilian father with teaching her the street smarts to succeed in business. PHOTO BY PATRICK HAMILTON /NEWSPIX/NEWS LTD. Every successful entrepreneur can look back and, with the clarity of hindsight,... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

01 Sep 2005
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Business Plan Contest Has Many Winners

With its ninth annual competition last May, the HBS Business Plan Contest has become a well-established start-up that hits “home runs” every year. This year’s traditional track winner was Karen Grajwer (MBA ’05), founder of Uplift, an Internet and retail-store venture... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Mar 2005
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Better Care at Lower Cost

The U.S. health-care industry isn’t immune to the forces of disruptive innovation that already have transformed other businesses, from computer manufacturing to retailing, HBS professor Clayton M. Christensen told 250 participants at the fifth annual Alumni Healthcare... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Health, Social Assistance

22 Jan 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019

which financial market development impacts the diffusion of 16 major technologies, looking across 17 countries, from 1870 to 2000. We find that greater depth in financial markets leads to faster technology diffusion for more capital-intensive technologies but only in... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

06 Feb 2007
First Look

First Look: February 6, 2007

depression, led to a crisis in the industry. Nonetheless, the pioneering group of forecasters shaped the core problems, and invented many of the techniques, that influenced the maturation of the industry in the decades that followed.... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

17 Oct 2006
First Look

First Look: October 17, 2006

that invented the PC in 1981. While Lenovo was arguably the best-known brand in China, it was virtually unknown in the rest of the world. In 2004, over 90% of Lenovo's revenues came from China, but with this major deal, Lenovo aimed to... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

04 Aug 2006
What Do You Think?

What Happens When the Economics of Scarcity Meets the Economics of Abundance?

Summing Up There's no need to rethink important economic constructs just because of the growth of the Long Tail phenomenon and its impact on demand and supply. Or is there? That was part of the debate that occupied respondents to this month's column. As El Hakeem... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett