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- 01 Feb 1999
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Too Much of a Good Thing?
Bower, the Donald K. David Professor of Business Administration, in his 1986 book, When Markets Quake, documented the problem as it affects the petrochemical industry. He has also observed it in other sectors over the years. "In one View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Curb Appeal
supervisors and chatted with workers in green jumpsuits. She then sped over to DSNY headquarters, just a few blocks north of City Hall, to discuss the details of the agency’s emergency snow response with her executive team. “Don’t screw... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
pharmaceutical and chemical industries have taken note: The venture capital arm of the pharma giant Merck, for instance, invested $5 million in SEEQC’s Series A round, where it was joined by the South Korean chemical company LG Chem,... View Details
- 22 Sep 2023
- News
Capital Connection
complexities of capitalizing their projects—from debt to equity funding options—on their own. This is precisely where DLS steps in, leveraging 20 years of industry experience and relationships to connect clients with the right investors.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint
RESEARCH CENTER (Silicon Valley) Bringing insights from tech industry into the classroom As West Coast companies make game-changing technological advances in areas such as generative AI, the metaverse, and blockchain, the center develops... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
retribution. Fusion Strategy: How Real-Time Data and AI Will Power the Industrial Future By Vijay Govindarajan (MBA 1976, DBA 1978) and Venkat Venkatraman Harvard Business School Press Tech giants like Facebook, Amazon, and Google can... View Details
- 15 Dec 2023
- News
Exploring Business Opportunities in Africa; Alumni Grapple with Plastic Waste Problem
significant demographic implications for the future and the promising scope of emerging markets. “Africa’s evolution is not much talked about—outside the circles that closely watch the continent—but it has massive implications for the... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 05 Feb 2019
- News
The First Five Years: Karan Shah (MBA 2016)
Camshafts Limited (PCL) was founded by my father, Yatin Shah, 25 years ago in a small, 100-square-meter shed. In the beginning, the company manufactured 600 camshafts a month. Today, PCL is listed on the Indian stock exchange, manufactures over 10 million camshaft per... View Details
- 24 May 2017
- News
John J. Brennan, MBA 1980
experience to Vanguard in 1982, joining the Valley Forge, Pennsylvania–based pioneer of index funds when it was only seven years old. By 1989, the year he was named president, the company was regarded as an emerging View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
author Alexander Mirza proposes a solution to the human capital challenges faced by service industries amidst unprecedented labor shortages, and technological and geopolitical shifts, and offers a framework for diagnosing the root causes... View Details
Keywords: podcasts
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Task Force
had experience with retail in emerging markets: Monroy, who is Colombian, worked for Procter & Gamble in Mexico for seven years, while Campbell held a number of positions at Walmart, with stints in India and China (which was “like going... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
New Urban Order
standardization has been a failure mode for innovation and productivity until recently,” he observes. Yang has spent much of his career in the cleantech industry and is founder and CEO of Liatris, an eco-friendly insulation startup. He... View Details
Keywords: Kathleen Fu, Deborah Blagg, Julia Hanna, and Maureen Harmon; illustrations by; energy; environment; sustainability; entrepreneurship; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
One Man Crime Wave
and with a family to support, “living in a dump over a hardware store with kerosene heat,” one biographer wrote. But the Army learned that MacDonald had done well in Industrial Procurement at HBS and offered him a job. He enlisted in... View Details
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
Business Administration, Emeritus Alumni Achievement Awards Ralph M. Barford (MBA '52) President, Valleydene Corporation Limited Chairman, GSW Inc. Despite occupying diverse industry sectors, several of Canada's best-known blue-chip... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Step Change
different in this sprawling city of 20 million than it is in Silicon Valley or any other entrepreneurial hot spot. Yet, 10 or 11 years ago, incubators and accelerators were only emerging concepts in Egypt. An Arabic word for entrepreneur... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
first is a mission-driven real estate development firm focused on creating desirable affordable housing for single mothers and their families. The second is a nonprofit that uses a percentage of the firm’s revenues to provide emergency... View Details
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
need to do this again at scale to address the climate emergency and seize the opportunities that come with it. Stephen Renter (MBA 2013) Chief Operating Officer, Commonwealth Fusion Systems Seize the Opportunities BIO IPCC's AR6 is yet... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Making Their Way
clear that if my family was going to stay in manufacturing, we would have to become globally competitive.” The Wisconsin businesses were sold in 2002, and a new company with a new strategy, Chirch Global Manufacturing (CGM), was born. “China was View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Q & A: Pat Russo - Focused on the Future at Lucent Technologies
Fortune magazine's "Fifty Most Powerful Women in American Business." Why has Lucent performed so well since its divestiture from AT&T? We have been growing globally faster than our markets. Our ability to focus on the hottest growth segments in the communications View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
The Future of Books
living in an HBS case study over the last 15 years, as the book industry has been transforming itself into a more digital industry. As recently as five years ago, some of the crystal ball folks said, “Oh, physical books are going to go... View Details