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- 01 Sep 2011
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Green Day
able to accomplish so far, but doesn’t want all the credit. Just about the only topic that lights up his voice more surely than dynamic glass technology is the team he’s hired — including CFO Mike Armsby (MBA 1997) — to make the technology a View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
The Business of Love
company, would you take it?” Cuban asked , before a dramatic commercial break. Kang quickly answered, “No,” taking no money from the investors. She calmly explained the ambition of Coffee Meets Bagel—and that of every startup in the new... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
HBS Business Plan Contestants Pin Their Hopes on the Internet
cash and in-kind services. They are KNUMI, which is developing technology to enable "media content providers to create a highly interactive experience for end-users"; Sound MicroSystems, which is commercializing technology for the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Innovation: The Fish-Farming Fix
finalist in MIT’s $100K business plan competition, won Fish 2.0’s $25,000 second prize, and earned a $100,000 FOUNDER.org grant. And all the attention—as well as lessons Kozachenok learned in HBS professor Vicki Sato’s Commercializing... View Details
- 24 Jul 2018
- News
How Amy Hood Won Back Wall Street and Helped Reboot Microsoft
April of that year to reach $20 billion in annualized revenue from the commercial cloud business by fiscal 2018, a goal they passed in the first quarter. It was a “look over here” move that took investors’ eyes off the waning PC business.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
The Levitt Brand
“The Globalization of Markets.” In it, he described “a new commercial reality — the emergence of global markets for standardized consumer products on a previously unimagined scale of magnitude.” In a world made much smaller and more... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
The Next Big Swing
Oscar-nominated 2011 adaption of Michael Lewis’s Moneyball. But well before baseball stats went Hollywood, Tippett was quietly turning industry heads with something decidedly less flashy: a graphics-light, stat-heavy computer baseball simulation game called Diamond... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Arthur Rock (MBA '51)
In 1957 a group of eight scientists, disenchanted with the management style of their Nobel Prize-winning boss, William Shockley, walked out of Shockley Semiconductor Laboratories in Palo Alto. Armed with the technical expertise to View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Instilling Production with Principles
competitors in an industry often known for low wages and dismal environmental records. “We can be a catalyst of change,” says Yang, who is planning sustainability conferences and factory tours to share her company’s successful strategies. “We’re not going to just count... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Studying Japan from the Inside
quite a few companies face this issue. Another challenge is corporate governance. Historically, banks acted as monitors for Japanese companies, and the boards of Japanese companies were dominated by insiders. Last April, however, the View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Lighten Up
attorney, put up seed money and became a silent partner. (Jardine is no longer involved in the company; his ideals soon clashed with the realities of a commercial venture.) Soon after, Coup and Kim moved to Boulder, the laid-back college... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
seize up, and that the interest rates charged to issuers of short-term commercial paper and corporate bonds would leap upwards, leading to a painful squeeze for all kinds of private-sector borrowers. Not many people foresaw that this... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
We're all working as a team to beat the odds, and when we have a commercial success, it's like hitting a home run." "The era of the swashbuckler with a hunch who hits it big and goes broke on alternating Sundays has been the stuff of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Making the Case for Leadership
company’s culture on three cornerstones: quality, performance, and valuing the individual employee. As for strategy and the bottom line, the commercial areas he focused on were the medical-services business and the fiber division—even... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; National Security and International Affairs; Government; Health, Social Assistance; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Joel Bines
Bines to help turn Letts around. Once again, Bines found himself taking on responsibilities he had never held before - this time as an operations manager - and rising to the occasion. So when Letts was sold to a large commercial printing... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management
commercial operation." "Big budget museums don't have a lot of financial leeway," adds HBS professor William J. Poorvu, treasurer and trustee of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, who has written a case about this quirky Boston... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Snapshot: Gary DiCamillo, Polaroid's CEO
filmless camera with CD-ROM software that captures and edits images on personal computers, and the PDC-2000, an affordable digital camera for industrial and commercial photographers. DiCamillo takes a somewhat cautious approach, however,... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Aug 2013
- News
A Cure for Cold Storage
started two years ago in the HBS class Commercializing Science—a course open to students from across the University—which pairs scientific research teams with students looking to help them pursue a market for their discoveries. One of the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
All in a Day's Work
is located in Dudley Square, Roxbury’s commercial hub and the intersection of several major streets — there’s a quiet hum of activity in the open, airy room where twelve BCC staffers are beginning their day. Since its founding in 1985,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Dean Jay Light Takes Charge at HBS
school in terms of the development and commercialization of the life sciences.” As for an HBS fundraising milestone recently achieved, Light observed, “The campaign really has served to energize and engage alumni around the world. See... View Details