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    Jerry Della Femina

    Della Femina was part of a new breed of executives that shook up the staid world of advertising in the late sixties. Wildly creative and eccentric, Della Femina pushed the envelope of provocative advertising throughout his career. He... View Details
    Keywords: Services

      William B. Rayburn

      Rayburn went from service station operator to CEO in a 35-year career with Snap-On. He presided over Snap-On’s impressive growth period achieving 52% market share, becoming the world’s largest independent manufacturer and distributor of small hand tools. Under his... View Details
      Keywords: Fabricated Goods

        Laurence A. Tisch

        the brothers next took to expanding Loew’s into the hotel business, buying hotels in New York, Chicago and San Francisco. By 1968, the brothers had built Loews into the third largest hotel operator, with assets of $278 million and... View Details
        Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media
        • 16 Sep 2019
        • News

        Smarter Farming

        and what we're now doing is to try to reuse and rethink how that land should be used to both create great products for global consumers, but more importantly to make sure that the environment is protected. “A big part of what has made... View Details
        Keywords: meat; dairy; cattle; Agriculture
        • January 2014
        • Article

        Networks and Productivity: Causal Evidence from Editor Rotations

        By: J. Brogaard, J. Engelberg and Christopher Parsons
        Using detailed publication and citation data for over 50,000 articles from 30 major economics and finance journals, we investigate whether network proximity to an editor influences research productivity. During an editor's tenure, his current university colleagues... View Details
        Keywords: Networks; Performance Productivity; Journalism and News Industry; Journalism and News Industry; Journalism and News Industry
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        • 30 Apr 2001
        • Research & Ideas

        Why Evolutionary Software Development Works

        ratings were gathered using a two-round Delphi (in which information from the first round is given to all experts to help them make their final assessment). To assess the resource productivity of each project, the researchers calculated a... View Details
        Keywords: by Alan MacCormack; Technology

          Eugene G. Grace

          Grace grew Bethlehem Steel rapidly during World War I, increasing production from 1.1 million net tons of steel in 1915 to over 3.3 million tons in 1919. Growing the company through various acquisitions, Grace’s Bethlehem Steel operated... View Details
          Keywords: Metals

            John A. Ewald

            Ewald is responsible for taking Avon public and beginning Avon’s international expansion. He is also credited with introducing the historic “Avon Calling” advertising campaign. During his CEO tenure, Ewald produced 23 years of consecutive growth and top level return on... View Details
            Keywords: Personal Care & Home Products
            • 21 May 2018
            • News

            Community Partners Delivers “Expert Goodness” to the Bay Area

            Clubs News Clubs News Since its launch in 1986, the HBS Association of Northern California’s Community Partners (HBSCP) program has deployed the expertise of more than 1,000 alumni volunteers to enhance the... View Details
            Keywords: Margie Kelley
            • 01 Dec 1998
            • News

            HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report

            It has been a busy fall here at HBS! Reunions went off without a hitch in early October (be sure to note the photos on page 14), the Alumni Board had a productive meeting on October 16 and 17, and record numbers of alumni volunteers plan... View Details
            • 01 Dec 2013
            • News

            To Market, to Market

            BLAVATNIK Photo courtesy of Blavatnik Family Foundation Universities are ripe with new advances in science and technology, and Harvard is no exception. But developing those findings into breakthrough therapies and cures for disease is a... View Details
            Keywords: Scientific Research and Development Services
            • 21 Sep 2018
            • News

            HBS Association of Southern California Boosts Support for Startups

            Clubs News Clubs News In an effort to bolster entrepreneurial activity and increase participation in the HBS New Venture Competition (NVC) among alumni in the region, the HBS... View Details
            Keywords: Margie Kelley
            • 22 Jul 2015
            • Research & Ideas

            Name Your Price. Really.

            Years ago, when I was a student in New York (and like many students, perpetually broke), I would often go to the Metropolitan Museum of Art for entertainment. The museum had a policy that visitors could pay whatever they wanted, so for as... View Details
            Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Consumer Products

              Lothar W. Faber

              Faber improved the Eberhard-Faber Company’s product line by adding fountain pens, mechanical pencils, and refill leads. Faber also invented the clamp tip type of pencil with a removable, adjustable eraser. Faber grew the company’s... View Details
              Keywords: Fabricated Goods

                Charles G. Mortimer

                Mortimer presided over an intensive period of growth and investment at General Foods. He dramatically expanded the company’s production capabilities and pursued acquisitions to balance the company’s product... View Details
                Keywords: Food & Tobacco

                  William F. Laporte

                  Laporte grew revenues, earnings, earnings per share and dividends every year of his CEO tenure with return on equity averaging 30% from 1971 to 1981. Laporte built American Home Products through debt-free strategic acquisitions and... View Details
                  Keywords: Healthcare
                  • 04 Feb 2008
                  • News

                  After Twenty Years, Rankings Remain Controversial

                  The School’s Centennial year just happens to coincide with another important anniversary, one many business schools would like to forget: the debut of BusinessWeek’s school rankings in 1988. Talk about disruptive. Up to that point, business schools built their... View Details
                  Keywords: Roger Thompson; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
                  • 01 Apr 1996
                  • News

                  Wake-Up Call: Farewell to the American Dream?

                  transition from the industrial era to the information/high-technology frontier presage a new era of prosperity, analogous to our transition from an agricultural to an industrial society? I don't think it will happen. The View Details
                  • 27 Aug 2007
                  • Op-Ed

                  Mattel: Getting a Toy Recall Right

                  million toys manufactured in China with lead paint and/or loose, potentially dangerous magnets. Clearly Mattel did not have sufficiently tight quality control procedures in its supply chain to compensate for the extra risks of outsourcing to relatively View Details
                  Keywords: by John Quelch; Consumer Products
                  • 06 Aug 2018
                  • Research & Ideas

                  Supersmart Manufacturing Tools are Lowering Prices on TVs, Bulbs, and Solar Panels

                  Management Practice in Business Administration at Harvard Business School, who recently published a paper on the topic of technology commoditization in MIT Sloan Management Review. According to Shih, manufacturers are able to duplicate the latest technology used in... View Details
                  Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Manufacturing; Electronics