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  • 03 Mar 2015
  • First Look

First Look: March 3

on a sustained and balanced growth trajectory? Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/715008-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 514-078 Ghurka Ghurka was a 38-year-old luxury leather View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 May 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018

economic force is the selection between high- and low-type firms, which differ in terms of their innovative capacity. We estimate the parameters of the model using U.S. Census microdata on firm-level output, R&D, and patenting. The model provides a View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 01 Mar 2010
  • News

Eric Schiffer

masks to “Mr. Wonderful” talking picture frames. Left-handed baseball gloves, bare-root rosebushes, a leather holster for your iPhone once we had such a good deal on jackets that a fight broke out over the... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade
  • 01 Mar 2025
  • News

Work of Art

yearlong program ended, she moved into one of the nonprofit’s four live/work spaces. Dutta’s studio is a riot of raw materials; works in progress and piles of leather and velvet occupy every surface. One of her finished pieces hangs in a... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photos by Chris Sorensen; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment
  • 01 Mar 2006
  • News

The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could

California, headquarters to learn how he turned a struggling Bay Area ice-cream business into the nation’s leading producer. Today, as chairman and CEO of Dreyer’s Grand Ice Cream Holdings, Rogers, 63, presides over a $2 billion global enterprise with 7,000 employees.... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing
  • 29 Apr 2022
  • News

Clean Slate

the full size and development that they need. Dan Morrell: Born and raised in New Delhi, India, Naina Lal Kidwai and her sister lived in a household where business and social issues were important family concerns. When she visited her father in his office, she sat in... View Details
Keywords: Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities
  • 01 Mar 2013
  • News

Alumni News | Bookshelf

black box that transforms ideas into actual products and services. "Little bets labs," for example, allow companies large and small to rapidly build and test prototypes in the market using inexpensive web resources. "Find someone with a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; Manufacturing; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 10 May 2022
  • News

Alumni Achievement Awards 2022

in his big leather chair and knew I wanted to be in business someday. Those visits entered my DNA.” Culture shock: “My HBS study group had a good laugh when we went grocery shopping together. I was... View Details
  • 12 Jul 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Competition the Cure for Healthcare

car. If you want leather seats in a car, this costs more because leather costs more than plastic. If you want a TV set with a bigger screen and more features, that is more expensive; it takes more circuits,... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Health
  • 30 Sep 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Use the Psychology of Pricing To Keep Customers Returning

to play in spite of the pain, reasoning, "I don't want to let my $300 go to waste." And some people even count on their own irrationality and buy season tickets to a play or symphony series, knowing that it will force them to get out of the house. Is any of... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Mahoney
  • 16 Feb 2023
  • Blog Post

The Rituals of Case Method Teaching

of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, heads to the classroom, he makes sure to always carry the one item that he would feel lost without: the leather binder his father gave him 25 years ago. The binder, which holds his... View Details
  • 04 May 2018
  • News

How to Win the Kentucky Derby

feed is actually put into the stalls. And everything's cleaned, and all the leather and all the saddles are cleaned. And you put all the smells together, and it's like a magical smell. And it never changes, because all the ointments and... View Details
Keywords: horse racing
  • 25 Aug 2010
  • News

Games, Parties, Pranks, and Celebrations

on record-keeping suggested that “bingo therapy” would be good for patieints. Professors Shapiro and Piper told us to knock it off. The two behavior profs were too touchy-feely and could bring themselves only to look the other way. (While... View Details
Keywords: Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment
  • 01 Jun 2017
  • News

Supercharged

it—like a can,” she elaborated, glancing helpfully at my right foot. As I stomped down hard on the accelerator pedal, my entire upper body was thrown back into the tan leather seat. I felt a sensation in the pit of my stomach previously... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; illustrations by Tavis Coburn
  • 01 Dec 2007
  • News

Lighten Up

sporting goods companies. But Kim and Coup weren’t interested in selling the company yet. Meanwhile, Timberland, based in Stratham, New Hampshire, had been assembling a collection of brands under the umbrella of its outdoor group to... View Details
Keywords: Kathryn Jones; Sporting Goods, Hobby, Musical Instrument, and Book Stores; Retail Trade
  • 12 Jul 2021
  • News

Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis

has converted part of her luxury accessory company's factory and is leading other New York City leather goods and apparel factories to produce 30-50,000 masks per week for Weill Cornell and other hospitals... View Details
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