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- 30 Jul 2001
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Future of Corporate Governance?
stakeholder councils" comprising employees, lead customers, suppliers, and others offers a useful solution to the governance vacuum that exists in many large corporations today. Not so fast, says Gopi Vaddi. While agreeing that... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 12 Dec 2011
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Clocky, the Runaway Alarm Clock
something to you, but if competitors had products that blew Apple away on function, the design wouldn't win you over. Apple succeeds because in addition to providing an appealing design, it does the functions pretty well." In the case, Nanda mentions the Roomba,... View Details
- 20 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
Gaps in the Historical Record: Development of the Electronics Industry
the replacement of electric power by electronic technology for its punched-card tabulators. In 1954 came its 650 computer, powered by vacuum tubes (an invention at the end of World War I), followed by its 1400, powered by a transistor... View Details
- 14 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World
producing vacuum pumps and systems. Its Chinese team was the first to live through the effects of the new pandemic and the restrictions imposed by the government. Learning from its subsidiary in China gave the company tremendous... View Details
Herbert W. Hoover
Hoover was instrumental in introducing vacuum cleaners to the market and creating the world’s most famous vacuum cleaners’ trademark. By the mid-20th century, Hoover’s international corporation was operating... View Details
Keywords: Fabricated Goods
Paul V. Galvin
$47 million. Wishing to overcome his firm’s dependence on vacuum tubes, Galvin developed transistors to be used in car stereos. Building on this new technological advancement, Motorola entered the semiconductor field. View Details
Keywords: Computers & Electronics
- 02 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
Four Companies that Conquered America
maker earned a break when it managed to get a Best Buy buyer to take one of its vacuum cleaners home to test. The buyer was impressed. Fortunately for Dyson, Best Buy became the first U.S. retailer to stock Dyson View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
James A. Gray, Jr.
Through his advertising efforts, Gray was able to return Camel to its position as the best selling cigarette brand. In 1939, Gray greatly improved R. J. Reynolds’ leaf operations by installing vacuum conditioners, which eliminated the use... View Details
Keywords: Food & Tobacco
- Portrait Project
Lina Fares
I wasn't ready. I never will be ready. Her laughter, her smiling eyes, her wit, her warmth, her strength; I wasn't ready to live without them. When I lost my mother I felt a huge vacuum in my life. She raised my sister and me on her own.... View Details
Herbert W. Hoover, Jr.
Grandson of Hoover Company’s founder, Herbert Hoover Jr. joined the family firm at a young age, working on the assembly line in summers between school. As he gradually moved up through the company, succeeding his father as president in 1954, Hoover learned the ins and... View Details
Keywords: Fabricated Goods
- 30 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Do Mergers Hurt Product Quality?
comprised 88 mergers and thousands of brand name products in 20 product categories. Including items such as vacuum cleaners, lawn mowers, power drills, and washing machines, the categories were chosen based on how frequently they were... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Research Brief: A Path to Moral Management
Eugene Soltes (photo by Russ Campbell) Eugene Soltes (photo by Russ Campbell) Making ethical and moral decisions in business can be murky and is difficult to teach in the vacuum of a business school classroom, argues Associate Professor... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 08 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Return of the Salesman
Durable" (by Howell J. Harris) "Suchard and the Emergence of Traveling Salesmen in Switzerland, 1860-1920" (by Roman Rossfeld) "Managing Door-to-Door Sales of Vacuum Cleaners in Interwar Britain" (by Peter Scott) "Ambassadors of Commerce:... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- What Do You Think?
To Whom Should Boards be Accountable?
Summing Up "It is pretty clear to me to whom the board is accountable: the shareholders."—J. W. Penland "When the board deviates from long- and short-term shareholder interests as it has recently done in some instances, it creates a View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 10 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
New Venture Competition 2022: Business and Environment Ventures
entrants, underscoring the growing level of interest and opportunities to address this critical issue. The winners of both the Tough Tech Prize and Alumni Track had innovative approaches to confronting the climate challenge: Aaron Sabin (MS/MBA 2023) won the Tough... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Telling the Electronic Century's Unfinished Story
countries, and economic forces that shaped the infrastructure for an unprecedented new era of technology. Beginning with the vacuum tube in the 1920s and progressing through the inventions of the transistor, the integrated circuit, and... View Details
- 05 Apr 2022
- Blog Post
The HBS New Venture Competition Turns 25: Celebrating A Quarter Century of Innovation and Entrepreneurship
transformative technology that solves the world’s most important challenges through the convergence of breakthrough science, engineering, and leadership. $10,000 Winner: Carbon Vacuum Aaron Sabin (MS/MBA 2023) View Video Carbon View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Where Conservation Means Business
sequestered in subzero conditions. Next to the freezer sits a vacuum seal machine used to rid books and documents of bug infestations. The airless environment inside a sealed plastic bag asphyxiates the paper-munching invaders without... View Details
Keywords: Roger thompson
- 15 May 2015
- Blog Post
How to Get a Global Perspective at HBS
intersected with governmental policies and other forces like the country’s heritage and culture. The fact is that we are never operating in a vacuum when we do business, and BGIE reminded us that the other forces in play were always... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Ticktock
and function in order to avoid the danger of your product becoming a flash-in-the-pan fad? In the “Clocky” case, Nanda cites the Roomba, iRobot’s robotic vacuum cleaner, as an example of a product that manages to steer clear of that fate.... View Details