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- 01 Sep 2018
- News
An SUV Built for African Roads—by African Workers
the production process and lower costs. Yong believes the new facility could also spark manufacturing and innovation for local industry. With only 9 percent of the world’s vehicles being produced on the... View Details
Keywords: Amy Yee
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Enhancing Students’ Cultural Intelligence
his classmates’ FIELD Global Immersion (FGI) projects. But in retrospect, he says, conducting field research in Mexico and developing and presenting innovative product ideas to senior executives at Colgate’s... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
The End of Cows?
Price is a market barrier for lab-grown beef, with production costs currently exceeding 250,000 euros per burger. (Photo courtesy of Cultured Beef) Price is a market barrier for lab-grown beef, with View Details
- 07 May 2025
- News
Scaling New Heights
Brianna Brown, chief product officer at City Fresh Foods in Boston. (Photo/video credit: Susan Young) City Fresh Foods has long served nutritious meals to students, seniors, and daycare centers in Greater Boston’s under-resourced communities. But when the company saw... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 24 Sep 2020
- News
The Race for a Vaccine
its pipeline, Moderna had refined its development process—which begins with an analysis of a virus’s messenger RNA (mRNA)—and it had improved its production capabilities. Two months earlier, when he'd met NIAID Director Dr. Anthony Fauci... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Tech for the People
Photos courtesy of Henry Tsai Photos courtesy of Henry Tsai HBS Leadership Fellow Henry Tsai (MBA 2017) was working as a technology and innovation advisor in the San José mayor’s office in the fall of 2017 when he began thinking about the... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
The Check Is in the Mail
Credit due: Trade cards ca. 1870 (top) showed that everything from sewing machines to harvesters could be purchased on installment; the dangers of extending credit instead of demanding cash (bottom); Baker Library Historical Collections Financial View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Carving a Niche
for a long time, the major ski manufacturers just kept doing what worked last year.” Meanwhile, snowboarding companies were pushing the limits of production technology and design. The Faction Collective, where Hoye is cofounder and CEO,... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
What Industrial Policy?
for only about one in 10 American jobs. A major reason for the decline in manufacturing employment in recent decades is the huge increases in the productivity of American factories. With those productivity... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
An Economy Undermined
our HBS professors had always warned that if we spent $5,000 today, we would be giving up a fortune ten or twenty years down the road, given the stock market’s rate of return. A famous futurist of the day was predicting that U.S. View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Cutting Edge
irrelevance. The company's signature wild cherry–flavored product all but disappeared from retailers' shelves; by 2012, annual revenues had sunk to about $1 million. Enter Steve Silk (MBA 1978), turnaround maestro and patron saint of lost... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
In Brief
Cambridge, Massachusetts tech start-ups in health care, energy, or information. More A Better World, One Idea at a Time A dozen budding social entrepreneurs pitched their ideas for innovative products and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
‘Green’ Trailblazers
Provides high tech products and services for building energy efficiency Jeffrey Brown (MBA 1983) Summit Power Group, LLC. Seattle, Washington Developer of electric power projects Michael Cavallo (MBA 1978) Clinton Climate Initiative New... View Details
- 07 Aug 2019
- News
Step Right In
confusing? It is. Fortunately, TechCrunch sent a writer to the MoFE pop-up in New York’s SoHo neighborhood recently to try it out. As TechCrunch explains it, Askaryan was a product manager at Bridgewater Associates but had long been... View Details
- 19 Jun 2019
- News
Connecting Patients and Providers
product was obvious. “Medicine has made unprecedented advancements over the last decades,” says Schucht, who is available for consultation with brain cancer patients through the Trustedoctor platform. “However, the way a patient accesses... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 29 Jun 2016
- News
The Latest Local Motor: A Self-Driving Bus
first storefront and future site of another microfactory. “We’re not going to disrupt the automotive industry without a serious breakout success.” What does that look like? “I want to be the first company to put a production autonomous... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Toy Story
began to chip away at LEGO’s market share with its construction blocks, including a popular line of warrior play sets. “Their products are based on a building system very similar to ours,” explains Moynihan. “They’ve done a really good... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Faculty and Alumni Books for March 2014
the World—With a Single Step by Mark Hurst and Phil Terry (MBA 1998) (Creative Good) Why do companies so often fail to give customers what they want? The authors provide a roadmap for anyone wanting to create better products and services.... View Details
- 05 May 2017
- News
Barnes & Noble Names Demos Parneros CEO
challenge is the sales performance; that’s no secret,” Parneros told the Times. “We’ve got to figure out ways to change things up a little bit and increase traffic.” Parneros told the Times that he sees strengths in the company’s expansion in educational View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis
twenty years of experience at J.P. Morgan & Company, where he headed global investment banking and global equities. The regulatory structure did not keep pace with two decades of deregulation and product View Details