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Portrait Project

Jason George

living without formal power has greater potential for changing the world than the grasping that often defines us. I will care less about temporal things and rely more on daily grace, because it is sufficient. If I am strong enough I will... View Details

07 Dec 1999
Research & Ideas

Henry Heinz and Brand Creation in the Late Nineteenth Century

efficiently as possible. Increasing the company's product line was a potentially quick, inexpensive way to shape a nascent market for processed food. It was also a means, Heinz reasoned, of building the brand. In the 1870s, branding was a... View Details

Keywords: by Nancy F. Koehn

13 Apr 2023
Blog Post

Grolsch Brewing Company: Drink Sustainably

recyclable cardboard “TopClip” to replace the conventional glue and plastic approach to hold a six-pack together. We learned that this innovation has resulted in significant savings in methane emissions. Grolsch is also investigating View Details

10 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

Professors Introduce Valuation Software

In an age when mergers, acquisitions, and spin-offs are increasingly common in business, you need a new skill in your kit bag: the ability to analyze and value potential partners, deals, investments—even your own company. The Business... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 1996
News

New Releases

management. The Development Factory by Gary P. Pisano (Harvard Business School Press) Product development has long been a source of advantage for firms. In The Development Factory: Unlocking the Potential of Process Innovation, Associate... View Details

01 Dec 2012
News

Corruption 101

investment firm seeking a high-impact agribusiness project in rural Africa. A small company in Tanzania seems to fit the bill, but it faces health-safety issues with the potential to spread E. coli throughout the region. Another problem:... View Details

Keywords: Crop Production; Agriculture; Credit Intermediation and Related Activities; Finance

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Scott D. Cook | Baker Library

inspired him to seek an idea for a company of his own. One day when his wife was complaining about paying the bills, Scott realized that the new personal computers people had just begun to purchase in significant numbers could be put to vital, everyday use. Scott... View Details

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Benjamin Chang | MBA

biotech startup creating advanced gene therapies, which showed me the potential of the biotech industry in translating scientific breakthroughs to directly impact people. Founding Harvard OpenBio, our student-run biomakerspace, helped me... View Details

24 Apr 2014
News

From observers to active participants in the global economy

By investing in African countries, moving them beyond subsistence, Jonathan Bloom (MBA 1972) fuels some of the world’s potentially fastest-growing markets. As deputy vice president for the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), he... View Details

01 Jun 2010
News

Faculty Books

emerging markets’ potential and crafting strategies for succeeding in those markets. Government and Markets: Toward a New Theory of Regulation edited by Edward J. Balleisen and David A. Moss (Cambridge University Press) A field long... View Details

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

24 Jun 2019
Blog Post

Dance to the Music: How Noa Torok Found Her Dream Job at SoundCloud

acknowledges that her international status made the process more challenging. In addition to potential language/cultural barriers, there is the hard wall of visa status. “A lot of companies will help you through the process,” Noa says.... View Details

04 Sep 2007
Research & Ideas

Jumpstarting Innovation: Using Disruption to Your Advantage

the marketplace to new approaches. Entrepreneurs learn to identify ideas by raising their head above day-to-day operations and expanding their vision. They then prioritize and narrow the many ideas they generate into a potential... View Details

Keywords: by Lynda M. Applegate

Portrait Project

Anthony Terrizzi

products as I could find, from Asian boneless spare ribs to Italian meatballs, exposing customers to old and potentially dangerous foods. I recently printed and framed a picture of Asian boneless spare ribs to remind myself of the dangers... View Details

19 Dec 2019
News

A Ranch of One’s Own

from fellow creators,” said Lin, who spoke to the Skydeck podcast in March 2017 before the release of Lego Batman. (The Two Popes, with plenty of advance Oscar buzz, streams December 20 on Netflix). “We want to bring people and ideas together to elevate the View Details

Keywords: LEGO

01 Oct 1998
News

Putting on the Wheels

intimidating aura. "On a dreary January day, we drove over the border," he recalls. "The East German countryside, still under communist rule, bristled with barbed wire and watchtowers." But Hughes's initial assessment of the factory's View Details

Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner

01 Jun 2009
News

Social Enterprise Visionary

history, Austin and his coauthors identified the decision to mainstream social enterprise material into every aspect of HBS research and teaching as “a defining strategic choice.” Today, the initiative’s strategic objectives range from cultivating outstanding faculty... View Details

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

Portrait Project

Polina Yampolska

Ten years ago, sitting in a cramped, unheated kitchen in my family's apartment on the outskirts of Kiev, I wrote the closing paragraph of my college application essay: "I like to be a small part in a huge machine that is called human civilization, a part with a... View Details

Portrait Project

Judy D'Agostino

and red tape stifled hopes of settling. Each homecoming provokes interrogation at the border, a suspicious "what brings you here?” We all crave connection and belonging.Perpetually feeling out of place offers me a gift: it informs my commitment to be a leader that... View Details

07 Jun 2018
News

Sowing the Seeds of Leadership

As the second president of the Costa Rica–based EARTH University, Arturo Condo (DBA 2000) is following his passion for education that has a demonstrable impact on the world. “EARTH’s students have the potential to lift people out of... View Details

11 May 2016
News

World Bank Vice President and Treasurer: Negative Rates Not the Answer

said in an interview in Tokyo Wednesday. “What you find where you have had the expansionary monetary policy that has been useful, what you’ve also found is that it has led to maybe potential weaknesses in banks,” according to Oteh, who... View Details

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