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- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Back at the Ranch
The summer training program at Bear Hug Cattle Company starts truly at square one. “The first day is about teaching the guys how to just be out here and not die,” says lead instructor Zach Aguilar, gazing out from under his broad-brimmed hat to the grassy rangelands of... View Details
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Cristina Ros Blankfein
look and design to inspire a positive reaction. By the holiday season in 2014, Be Mixed launched its first major production run and is currently being sold in 17 different food stores in the New York City... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faculty Q&A: Playing the Hits
entertainment executives do is spend a large chunk of all their production and advertising budgets on a small portion of their total output. It can lead to big failures, of course, but it's the best strategy in the long run. When you look... View Details
- 15 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Free Software
proprietary software portfolios to invest in open source software (OSS) projects that can sometimes seem unrelated to their core business. "This new reality upends the classic rules of strategy," Iansiti says, "and it's... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Faculty Research Online
HBS Working Knowledge is an online forum for innovation in business practice, offering a first look at new thinking from HBS faculty. Read the complete articles summarized below by visiting their Web links. What Is Management’s Role in... View Details
- 20 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Student Spotlight: Summer Internships in Business and Environment
joining HBS. Cal Brooks (MBA 2022, Section A), Summer Internship: Commercialization Strategy Intern at Malta Malta is building a new type of electro-thermal energy storage system that can collect and store energy from any source (i.e.... View Details
- 25 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Lean Strategy Not Just for Start-Ups
garnering revenues of $4.15 billion in 2012 with products like Quicken, TurboTax, and QuickBooks. But there lies the potential rub. "Success is a powerful thing," said Cook, who now serves as chairman of Intuit's Executive... View Details
- 15 Feb 2022
- News
The Alumnae Entrepreneur Behind Mary J. Blige’s Super Bowl Locks
Britney Winters (MBA 2016); Mary J. Blige during the Super Bowl halftime show (Courtesy subject; Kevin C. Cox / Getty Images) Britney Winters’ (MBA 2016) online wig and hair product company, Upgrade, got the opportunity to show off its... View Details
- 06 May 2002
- Research & Ideas
A Toolkit for Customer Innovation
"Listen carefully to what your customers want and then respond with new products that meet or exceed their needs." That mantra has dominated many a business, and it has undoubtedly led to great... View Details
Keywords: by Stefan Thomke & Eric Von Hippel
William S. Farish
Farish, who had established himself as one of the leading independent oilmen in Texas, joined with Standard Oil becoming head of the firm in 1937. Farish was one of Standard Oil’s leading authorities on new View Details
Keywords: Utilities & Energy
James E. Burke
When Burke took over Johnson & Johnson, the company had thousands of products including Tylenol, which had a 35% share of the analgesic market. Two incidents of cyanide-laced Tylenol capsules dropped Tylenol’s market share to 7%.... View Details
Keywords: Healthcare
- 15 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Health Care Conundrum
quickly than inflation; restriction of access and services; standards of care that lag behind accepted benchmarks; frequent treatment errors; wide variations in practice patterns; slow adoption of best practices; and slow diffusion of... View Details
- 08 Sep 2011
- What Do You Think?
What’s Apple’s Biggest Challenge: Replacing Steve or Wall Street?
pursue opportunity and successful new product development in spite of investor impatience. The real challenges may lie elsewhere, for example "the market place," as Jasper Ojongtambia suggests, or... View Details
Michael A. Volkema
business. In addition to this plan, Volkema created a more cost-effective production process and introduced an array of new customer products, allowing HM to return to profitability, earning net income of... View Details
Keywords: Fabricated Goods
- 24 Oct 2013
- News
Searching for a Better Society
"Lots of companies were buying the same products for different prices, and we were trying to make it more transparent. The problem was that the product users did not want transparency. We approached it like... View Details
- 23 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Oil Price Fallout: What Happens Next?
The last six years have proved just how fluid the international oil market is. And if recent support of the Keystone Pipeline by the U.S. House of Representatives and the Nebraska Supreme Court (which approved the pipeline's path through that state) are any indication,... 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 Jun 2002
- News
The Mind Speaks, Marketers Listen
been used by the likes of Coca-Cola, General Motors, and AT&T to craft marketing strategies. “Most new products are developed and launched using focus groups and questionnaires,” Zaltman said, “and 60 to 80... View Details
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Activating a Legion of People | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
meaningful and productive without compromising an organization's own efficiencies? I'm hoping to bring some of my United Way lessons to WCS to figure out how we might engage a broader set of committed individuals in some our work, both... View Details
- 31 Mar 2002
- What Do You Think?
Is This the Decade of the Investor?
to assess the fairness of the division of returns. And before making assumptions about the future, "we still need to get a firm handle on just how much productivity increased before we take actions based upon assumptions of increased... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett