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- 02 Sep 2021
- News
Elevating Ethiopian Entrepreneurs
In this video, Startup Factory Ethiopia cofounder Thomas Ferede (MBA 2009) explains the mission of his organization—and how the HBS network has helped further its goals. “So Startup Factory Ethiopia is a... View Details
William C. Norris
An electrical engineer by trade, Norris pioneered Control Data Corporation (CDC) into a leading mainframe computer maker, giving IBM heavy competition during the 1970s and 1980s. Norris was also a great philanthropist, building CDC View Details
Keywords: Computers & Electronics
Alfred C. Fuller
Fuller developed a new, unique brush for household use and employed salesmen, called independent “dealers,” to sell his brushes directly to the consumer. Fuller grew sales of his firm from $40,000 in 1910 to $12 million in 1924. By 1930, Fuller had 1,200 View Details
Keywords: Personal Care & Home Products
Frank C. Ball
In 1885, Ball Brothers Company, founded by Ball, his brother and uncle, began making glass fruit jars and caps. In 1887, they built a factory in Muncie, Indiana and converted the company into a corporation with Frank Ball as president. By... View Details
Keywords: Fabricated Goods
Frank J. Fahey
Fahey created a sales organization to distribute Gillette products throughout the world. By 1917, Fahey was producing 1 million razors per year compared to just 91,000 in 1904, and had established factories in England, France, Germany and... View Details
Keywords: Personal Care & Home Products
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Alumni News | Bookshelf
Assembly-Line Innovation The title of the 2012 e-book Building a Growth Factory (Harvard Business Review Press) conjures an image of raw materials being dumped into a black box and emerging on conveyor belts as fully formed iPhones,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Baker Library Photo Exhibit
with visual evidence of the interaction between worker and machine. The collection invites the viewer to reflect on art and industry and humanity and modernization. In the image above, titled “War work–Hudson” (circa 1944, photographer unknown), women View Details
Bowman Gray, Jr.
cigarette factory in the world. He also diversified the company acquiring Hawaiian Punch and Chun King Chinese foods. Gray grew company’s sales from just over $1 billion in 1957 to nearly $2 billion by 1967. View Details
Keywords: Food & Tobacco
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Polaroid Films | Baker Library
Cambridge. Produced for Polaroid Stockholders Meeting, 1969-1970 Play Video duration: 0:52 Edwin Land in a new factory space. Produced for Polaroid, Dr. Land Stockholders Meeting, 1969-1970 Play Video duration: 1:16 Ansel Adams takes a... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
From a ‘blank slate’ to ‘Mr. China’
experience who were open to new ideas. A self-confessed “blank slate” upon his arrival—he had never been to China and didn’t speak Chinese—Perkowski used $150 million in US investor capital to launch ASIMCO, an auto parts manufacturing business, in 1994. By cobbling... View Details
- 08 Feb 2018
- Blog Post
WesTrek: A Recap of the Largest Professional Trek at Harvard Business School
Dropbox, where WesTrekkers spent an intimate evening socializing and learning from these companies’ executives. On the final day of programming, a few dozen students had the opportunity to visit some Tesla employees at Tesla’s main View Details
Keywords: Technology
- 21 Nov 2019
- Blog Post
Finding My North Star at the Crossroads of Profit and Purpose
factory in the middle of the city, and it is probably the only city in India where you can drink clean water straight out of the tap. Both my grandfather and father worked at Tata Steel, the iconic steel manufacturing factory. I grew up... View Details
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Jack Perkowski
experience who were open to new ideas. A self-confessed “blank slate” upon his arrival—he had never been to China and didn’t speak Chinese—Perkowski used $150 million in US investor capital to launch ASIMCO, an auto parts manufacturing business, in 1994. By cobbling... View Details
John F. Dryden
1875, less than 2% of Americans had life insurance, which was considered a luxury item. By 1899, that number had grown to 17%. Dryden also pioneered “industrial” life insurance by making small industrial policies available to factory... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 21 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: Renewable Energy - CleanMax
factory of an automobile parts manufacturer. The manufacturing company is a customer of CleanMax and pays CleanMax a recurring fee for the solar energy generated on the roof of its factory. The solar system was separated into three... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Instilling Production with Principles
Video Embed The Esquel Group has reduced water consumption at its factories by more than 50 percent in the last nine years. Asia–based Esquel Group is one of the world’s largest manufacturers of high-end cotton shirts, producing about 100... View Details
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Instrument of Pictorial Publicity - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center
further incentive for advertisers to use it for public relations as well as advertising purposes.” 6 Thus, readers of Fortune magazine would see William Rittase’s documentary images of workers and factories in its editorial pages, and his... View Details
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Joel Bryce
"help" Sub-Saharan Africa. Or perhaps it's the values instilled in me by my parents; they taught me to love, to serve, even to favor the poor and marginalized. Or maybe it was Shupe Nkhwaza, the single and selfless mother of four running a small juice View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Looking to the East
studied at Tokyo University, is president and CEO of Fanuc India, an arm of Japan-based Fanuc, a world leader in factory automation and robots. Kulkarni was invited by the Indian government to participate in the meeting because of his... View Details
- 05 May 2020
- News
Fighting Climate Change Requires a New Capitalism
Rebecca Henderson spent her young adult years living two lives. At work, she preached the risks of resisting change to MBA students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, drawing on lessons she learned while watching factories... View Details