Business Plan - Publications - Faculty & Research

10 Jan 2008
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Operations Management

Sharpening Your Skills dives into the HBS Working Knowledge archives to bring together articles on ways to improve your business skills. Questions to be answered: Can "lean" productions methods improve service industries? How can a... View Details

Profile

Zihan Lin

deliberate. "We made concessions to get the deal done so that we could learn from it. Without business acumen, you'll never get a product off the R&D shelf and into doctors' hands to benefit the patients who need it."... View Details

02 Nov 2020
News

The First Five Years: Julianne White (MBA 2017)

enjoy that Some days I work with our CFO on food-spend projections, or help our COO build a multi-year strategic planning framework. Other days, I work with my team to coordinate food donations or manage inventory turns. Even though we... View Details

17 Mar 2023
News

Dean Datar Meets with Alumni in New York

remarks, Dean Datar talked about several innovative initiatives that he anticipates will have lasting value for the School and that place the School at the cutting edge of addressing the challenges facing business and society today.... View Details

07 Jun 2019
Book

Are You a Digital Manager?

teams within and sometimes outside their organization. This raises questions like: How will you innovate? How will you bring out the best ideas in your teams working together near and far? How will you drive change within the organization and the broader View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

Profile

Mariano Bomaggio

during my undergraduate career, I became more interested in the business side of things. It seemed more complex; there were more dimensions you cannot control compared to a standard engineering problem." After graduation, Mariano... View Details

Keywords: Tech; Manufacturing/Energy

01 Oct 1999
News

New Chairman Updates Development in MBA Program

businesses. The excitement surrounding the annual student Business Plan Contest also illustrates the enormous amount of interest and motivation in that field. In response to this interest, our Career... View Details

01 Mar 2011
News

Local Hero

and COO of the 2010 World Series–winning Giants, is on the air at a local sports radio station. He’s announcing plans to take the Series trophy on tour, not only throughout Northern California but also across the country to the site of... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment

07 Jul 2009
First Look

First Look: July 7

considerations into account when planning Colbun's future, especially in the light of new opportunities and challenges posed by global climate change. The case analyzes the Chilean electricity sector and the operations of Colbun to... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

15 Jan 2013
First Look

First Look: January 15

Medical City Edmondson, Amy C., Sydney Ribot, and Tiona ZuzulHarvard Business School Case 613-022 Describes Lake Nona, a 7,000-acre residential and research cluster in central Florida, and its process and innovation culture, and Lake Nona... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

21 May 2024
Blog Post

IFC India: From Trash to Treasure: Inside a Waste Management Site in Mumbai

in 2020, Dalmia Polypro recycled approximately 19,000 metric tons of waste, with plans to scale to 80,000 metric tons by 2025 . Their innovative approach not only streamlines the process but also creates a network of smaller View Details

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... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing

10 Jul 2000
Research & Ideas

The State of the Markets

and the United States: Dr. Werner G. Seifert, chairman of Deutsche Borse (the German Stock Exchange) and an architect of the planned merger between his Frankfurt-based organization and the London Stock Exchange; James L. Cochrane, senior... View Details

Keywords: by James E. Aisner

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Building Competitive Advantage Through Operations

in order to proceed with business as usual; today, firms with superior and novel operations can generate huge competitive advantage because of them. Second, where operations was once viewed primarily as a manufacturing function, service... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Throwing Your Opponent: Strategies for the Internet Age

change their ideas constantly while they are trying to build complex new products and technologies." In addition, by making it possible to "organize businesses in new ways, offer new products and services, and distribute those products... View Details

Keywords: by Daniel Penrice

01 Sep 2024
News

Action Plan: Yes, Chef!

make it interesting, chop an onion, add a little garlic and a few chili flakes, sauté that in olive oil, and add the tomato sauce. Then cook the pasta and toss it in there. And put a lot of parmesan in it. Parmesan makes everything taste better.” View Details

Keywords: Christine Speer Lejeune

01 Oct 1996
News

Sherman Baldwin: Leadership under Fire

Baldwin adds, "there's no substitute for knowing as much about your business as possible. A high degree of expertise paves the way to greater challenges and responsibilities." Married to an attorney since 1992 and the father of an infant... View Details

Keywords: James E. Aisner

20 May 2019
Research & Ideas

Activist CEOs Are Rising Up—and Their Customers Are Listening

the Washington Post headlined, If Howard Schultz runs for president, Starbucks will be on the ballot, too. Schultz’s political ambitions mark a growing wave of business leaders speaking out on social issues—termed “CEO activism” by... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

31 Mar 2023
News

How Can We Solve the Teacher Shortage Crisis?

changes in who's entering? Are we seeing changes in the quality of who's entering and in the outcomes they're getting for students? So those are the three tranches we think about—of total supply and distribution, quality of the educator, and then data analytics for... View Details

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services

01 Dec 2012
News

From Where We Stand

decided to focus my business efforts on investing in the arena of residential real estate. (It was clear to me that there would be capital shortages, but I believed in the continuing presence of a strong demand for housing.) I exited this... View Details

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