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- 24 Apr 2020
- News
Spreading the Love
Government Manufacturing Emergency Response Team (M-ERT) to determine what Lovepop could produce from among the list of PPE needed—N95 respirators, surgical masks, face shields, gowns, hoods, coveralls, and hospital beds—and to assist... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Professor Ramchandran Jaikumar Remembered
Ramchandran Jaikumar, the School's Daewoo Professor of Business Administration and a renowned authority on manufacturing management and technology, died on February 10 of a heart attack while mountain climbing in Quito, Ecuador. He was 53... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
William F. Connell (MBA '63)
manufacturing, announced that Ogden would spin off its shipyard and six manufacturing companies. Bill Connell, then 47, was executive vice president of Ogden, and after seventeen years with the company, he was not willing to accept the... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Laser focus on medical breakthroughs
a number of groundbreaking companies, including Transgenic Sciences, a developer of novel manufacturing processes for new drugs, which was acquired by Genzyme. She also founded Lumenos, a consumer-directed health plan for self-insured... 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... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Ideas against AIDS
is now chairman and CEO of Hayes Lemmerz International, a world leader in the manufacture of wheel rims for truck and cars. Of his association with Viravaidya, Clawson told the Boston Globe (May 29, 2007), “It’s one of the greatest... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Entrepreneur’s Rwandan Start-Up Gets HBS Support
(SHE), and its first business, a Rwandan start-up that employs sixty women to manufacture and distribute low-cost sanitary pads. In recognition of her achievements, Scharpf in March was named the first HBS Social Entrepreneurship Fellow... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Drive-In Nation
a dealer’s back lot, it will nonetheless embody a defining moment in a global race for supremacy. Manufactured by Toyota, this is the car that will propel the Japanese company ahead of General Motors as the world’s largest automaker, a... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
For African farmers looking to escape poverty, honey brings sweet success
Yusuf Keshavjee (OPM 17, 1991) helps African farmers and their families escape poverty through beekeeping. He cofounded Honey Care Africa (HCA), a private-sector enterprise in Kenya that partners with local NGOs and international development and financial institutions... View Details
- 21 Sep 2016
- News
Leadership in Motion
New Rochelle–based manufacturer of undergarments for people with limited mobility, to a Peekskill company whose sweet potato pies were served at the 2014 Super Bowl. TAP’s staff comprises about 40 consultants, including some HBS... View Details
- 01 Oct 2015
- News
Banking on Trust
development. “We catalyzed demand for change, crowd-sourced solutions, and implemented them in transparent ways,” she notes. Her perspective was broadened when her HBS classmate and husband, Scott Rockafellow (MBA 1990), launched a furniture View Details
- 06 Aug 2015
- News
A Wall Street Pioneer Comes Home
returning to her hometown of Grand Haven, Michigan, in 1996 to care for two family members, Sherwood continued to consult for Goldman Sachs while serving on the board of JSJ Corporation, a durable goods manufacturing company cofounded by... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Dressing by Number
More Retail Revolutions Manufacturing Makeup on Demand Although it isn’t available yet, Mink, a 3D home printer that produces custom makeup, has already made serial inventor Grace Choi (MBA 2013) a cosmetics celebrity. Katrina Lake knew... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Turning Point: Sparking Change
made manufacturing a fascinating, exciting topic in a way I’d never expected. Years later, as an entrepreneur, whenever I had to bring on a new manufacturing plant for ComfortCake, I wasn’t intimidated by... View Details
- 09 Aug 2011
- News
A Toast to Macchu Pisco
Asher: Distilling pisco, riding a wave. Courtesy Melanie Asher In America, it’s the new big thing in cocktails and mixology, or so proclaimed the New York Times (June 22, 2011): “Pisco, the clear grape spirit of South America .the fastest-growing spirit in the... View Details