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Robert E. Gross

Gross developed the popular World War II military pursuit plane named the Lightning in the U.S. and the Hudson in Britain. Gross’ Lockheed accounted for 6% of U.S. airplane production during World War II... View Details

Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace

07 Jan 2009
What Do You Think?

Is the World Really Flat?

three-by-three matrix composed of high/mid/ground-level products and services and high/mid/ground-level know-how—for example, developers of high-level (think microprocessors), mid-level (motherboards), and... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

01 Mar 2003
News

All in a Day's Work

through a day on the job to find out: Mardie Oakes, an HBS Service Leadership Fellow at Boston Community Capital, a community development financial institution, and Paul Sternhell, an entry-level manager at Samsung Electronics. Cookies... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Boston Community Capital; Samsung; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management; Real Estate

January 1994
Article

Foreign Multinationals in British Manufacturing, 1850-1962

By: G. Jones and Frances Bostock

This article draws on a new database to describe the dimensions and characteristics of 685 foreign companies which established British manufacturing subsidiaries between 1850 and 1962. The numbers of foreign companies grew from the 1890s, expanded rapidly in the... View Details

Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Business Subsidiaries; Expansion; Chemicals; Metals and Minerals; Food; Mergers and Acquisitions; Market Entry and Exit; Research and Development; Trade; Investment; Production; United Kingdom; United States; Scotland; Wales

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01 Dec 2017
News

2017 in Energy: A Future of Lower Energy Prices

of healthy, albeit relatively slow, economic growth in the developed world and increasing urbanization in developing economies, we expected to see growing demand for oil and natural gas and a subsequent... View Details

Keywords: Sarah Wright (MBA 1997), founder, Hull Street Energy

23 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

How One Center of Innovation Lost its Spark

another. Tire executives apparently assumed that the bias tire would continue as the dominant design, and this assumption was enacted through their company's well-honed new product development process which... View Details

Keywords: by Donald Sull; Manufacturing; Transportation; Auto

01 Sep 2012
News

What’s the Big Idea?

call positive inner work life,” says Teresa Amabile, the Edsel Bryant Ford Professor of Business Administration. “That makes it more likely that employees will be creative in their thinking and productive in their work. So you get this... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Corporate Services; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management

01 Dec 2007
News

Exhibit at Baker Library Marks HBS Centennial

Hawthorne facility’s multiple and diverse production units made most of America’s telephones and related equipment. Four years after the company launched a study of its workers’ productivity, a perplexed Hawthorne official invited HBS... View Details

Keywords: Elton Mayo; Fritz J. Roethlisberger; Telecommunications; Information

26 Jun 2025
News

The Vinyl Revival

interesting challenge and also an opportunity. Myself, I was getting burned out on working on digital products and keeping people glued to their phones, and so to have the chance to pivot into something where I could demonstrate I could... View Details

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IFC India 2025: Decarbonizing Rice Paddy Farming - Pioneering Sustainability in Indian Agriculture - Blog - Business & Environment

Careers Climate Rising Climate Stories Clubs Courses & Curriculum Creating Emerging Markets Entrepreneurship Event Faculty Faculty Research IFC Decarbonization & Sustainable Production 2023 IFC Decarbonization & Sustainable View Details

01 Mar 2017
News

Students Forecast Climate Change’s Impact

this past fall with an open challenge: choose an organization whose operating model will be significantly affected by climate change, and tell us what it should be doing to address it. Students posted responses to the prompt on HBS’s Open Knowledge—a public blogging... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

01 Jun 2002
News

Ads Improve Consumer Decisions

in 1995. Linking this with Nielsen viewer panel data on over fifteen hundred individuals, Anand and Shachar developed a model to determine how well TV viewers' choices of programming “matched” their likely viewing preferences (based upon... View Details

Keywords: Laura Singleton (MBA 1988)

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Neil Band | MBA

delivery for my senior thesis. Formative experience at the intersection of technology and business: At Kensho, an AI/ML fintech company, I learned that the greatest discoveries of this century will be due to unprecedented scale of collaboration. Whether I was working... View Details

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Wartime Innovation - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

one of Doriot's former students, chose Doriot to serve as lieutenant colonel in the Quartermaster Corps. The Corps was responsible for research and development of new materials and products for combat... View Details

01 Feb 2012
What Do You Think?

Is Support for Small Business Misplaced?

investments in research and development, was emphasized by several respondents. Mark Hopkinson remarked that "most big companies rely for their tech pipeline of new products on the innovation that comes from small business, acquiring... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

15 Sep 2003
Research & Ideas

The Lessons of New-Market Disruption

performance. That initially led managers inside both companies to resist devoting scarce resources to developing those technologies because their lead customers were saying they wanted additional performance features, not fewer. But... View Details

Keywords: by Clark Gilbert; Technology

05 Aug 2016
News

Accelerating Change on Medicine’s Final Frontier

technologies. NeuroLaunch is also working with startups outside the medical sphere: consumer-facing businesses that are developing products to tap brain waves to facilitate learning, meditation, mood and... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley

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Global Activities 2020-2021 - Global Activities 2021

for good in society. This report features a selection of stories that highlight the School’s influence and impact around the world during fiscal year 2021 (July 1, 2020–June 30, 2021). Africa Developing the Skills to Drive Change in... View Details

04 Apr 2023
Blog Post

African American Student Union Spotlight on Tech

before and during the MBA program. McKenzie Jones (MBA 2024) Where is your hometown? My hometown is Gainesville, Florida. What was your pre-MBA industry and role? Technology, Product Marketing Manager at Google. At what point did you... View Details

11 Jun 2001
Research & Ideas

E-Commerce Unplugged

tickets for the game. What does Soda X get out of the transaction? Revenues from Soda X products and services jointly developed with alliance partners such as Guess? and Chicago Fire, revenues from View Details

Keywords: by Nitin Nohria & Marty Leestma

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