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22 Apr 2016
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Bringing the Next Pandemic Vaccine to Your Doorstep with MIMIX - Blog: Health Supplement

complex. No other company produces patch-based vaccines, so the process is completely new. Patch production combines elements of roll-based manufacturing (think Band-Aids) with a unique fill-finish process... View Details

Anthony Mayo

Tony Mayo is the Thomas S. Murphy Senior Lecturer of Business Administration and C. Roland Christensen Distinguished Management Educator in the Organizational Behavior Unit of Harvard Business School (HBS). He currently teaches and serves as the course head for... View Details

Keywords: advertising; airline; education industry; nonprofit industry; publishing industry; service industry

07 Jul 2021
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Good News for Disgraced Companies: You Can Regain Trust

Sucher says. “For companies that want to take this seriously, it can be done.” About the Author Lane Lambert is a writer based in the Boston... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

17 Oct 2019
Research & Ideas

‘Chick Beer’ for Women? Why Gender Marketing Repels More Than Sells

after 62 years in stores, following growing complaints that the branding was sexist. And Chick Beer didn’t seem to catch on, as the company no... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Consumer Products

Gerald C. Chertavian

Gerald Chertavian is the Founder of Year Up, one of the nation’s largest and most effective youth workforce development programs. Chertavian was a successful technology entrepreneur and Wall Street banker, but it was through his many years as a Big Brother... View Details

Lynn S. Paine

Lynn Sharp Paine is a Baker Foundation Professor and John G. McLean Professor of Business Administration, Emerita, at Harvard Business School. A member and former chair of the General Management unit, she has served in numerous leadership positions including Senior... View Details

John F. Batter

John Batter is a retired Litigation Partner in the Boston Office of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP where his practice focussed on on the defense of public and private companies and their directors and management against breach of fiduciary duty claims and... View Details

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Senior Executive Leadership Program - Middle East (SELPME)

By: Stefan H. Thomke

Change is everywhere in the Middle East today, as many countries seek to diversify their economies and encourage new industries. While the region's complexity includes distinct political and economic conditions in each country in addition to an uncertain global... View Details

December 2022 (Revised January 2025)
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Akooda: Charging Toward Operational Intelligence

By: Christopher Stanton and Mel Martin

The Akooda case describes the challenges confronting founder and CEO Yuval Gonczarowski (MBA ‘17) in 2022 as he attempts to boost sales. Launched in November 2020, Akooda was an AI company that mined 20 different sources of digital data, from tools like Slack, Google... View Details

Keywords: Data Mining; Productivity; Monitoring; Data Analysis; AI and Machine Learning; Knowledge Management; Operations; Problems and Challenges; Employee Relationship Management; Information Technology Industry; Technology Industry; Information Industry; Boston; Israel

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12 Aug 2019
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How Scale Changes a Manager's Responsibilities

I've experienced first-hand the excitement and pain that come as companies with a few founders scale to hundreds or thousands of employees. At somewhere around 75 to 100 employees, running a business becomes... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin

April 2023
Supplement

Fresh Food Generation

By: Brian Trelstad

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This case highlights one of five BIPOC entrepreneuers in the Boston area as part of the HBS Impact Investment Fund. In fall 2021, a team of... View Details

Keywords: Growth and Development Strategy; Entrepreneurship; Race; Food and Beverage Industry

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17 Nov 2020
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Why a Blended Workforce May Be Key to Lasting Competitive Advantage

In recent years, companies have been anxious about the lack of skilled workers to fill pivotal jobs. But then came COVID-19 and a subsequent recession. The ensuing business turmoil and record-high unemployment may have temporarily distracted companies from their... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph B. Fuller

Dante Roscini

Dante Roscini holds the Professor of Management Practice Chair endowed by the MBA Class of 1952 at Harvard Business School. He joined the faculty in 2008 after a two-decades-long career in finance. He currently teaches the course Business, Government, and the... View Details

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Instrument of Pictorial Publicity - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center

(1934):133. By permission of the Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Behring Center, Smithsonian Institution. Victor Keppler. Beer and Target, ca. 1934. olvwork490099 Documentary, public... View Details

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Innovation & the War Effort - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

companies. 26 As head of the Office of Scientific Research and Development during World War II, Bush enlisted Polaroid in the cause, and the View Details

05 Oct 2021
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First-Gen Voices: Eric Westphal on Tapping into the Global Alumni Network & Making a Difference Across Borders

make it work in Brazil, but they only had a middle-school level education and ultimately decided to start over and immigrate to Boston where my uncle had lived,” said Westphal. “I stayed behind in Brazil with my older sisters for some... View Details

09 May 2023
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Where to Find Remote Work Now: 250 Million Job Postings Paint a Complex Picture

company is based is another big factor, Sadun says. “What's in the San Francisco and Boston talent pool is likely very different from what is in Savannah or Miami Beach,” she... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

13 Dec 2019
Blog Post

All Is Well in Texas: How Julia Cheek Founded Her At-Home Lab Testing Startup, EverlyWell

entrepreneurship through the Rock Center, titled Earl Martin Phalen: Ready to Roar. Though she did not start a company while at HBS, she still focused heavily on taking entrepreneurship courses. Julia also... View Details

Rosabeth M. Kanter

Rosabeth Moss Kanter holds the Ernest L. Arbuckle Professorship at Harvard Business School, specializing in strategy, innovation, and leadership for change. Her strategic and practical insights guide leaders worldwide through teaching, writing, and direct... View Details

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