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- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
observes, however, that while large companies often find it easy to identify opportunities and needs for new product ideas, "they find it difficult to shift into an entrepreneurial mindset that creates View Details
- 02 Jan 2008
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Stories 2007
psychologically painful as it is, is the first step to awareness of new opportunities in career and in life, says Harvard Business School's Timothy Butler. In this Q&A and excerpt from his new book,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Aug 2005
- HBS Case
Classic Cases Live On at HBS
fledgling New Jersey protective-packaging company. Under his leadership, Sealed Air soon became known for its quality products and technological innovation. By the time Dunphy stepped down as company... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Answering the Call
234,629 In 1971, T.J. Dermot Dunphy (MBA 1956) became CEO of Sealed Air Corporation, a fledgling New Jersey protective-packaging company. Under his leadership, Sealed Air soon became known for its quality View Details
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A Day at Royal FloraHolland: The Epicenter of the Global Flower Market - Blog - Business & Environment
Research News 19 Sep 2024 A Day at Royal FloraHolland: The Epicenter of the Global Flower Market Nguyen Le , Trang Nguyen & Jack Yan Author Students tag Courses & Curriculum IFC Decarbonization & Sustainable View Details
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Laurie Matthews
of change. Her approach to coaching is based on 20+ years as an advertising agency account leader in New York City and her prior years as a teacher and counselor. Laurie is now a Director in CPD and oversees relationships with 300+... View Details
Amos L. Beaty
In 1907, Beaty became the attorney for Texaco, and was able to secure new laws, which smoothed the way for the company’s entry into the Oklahoma oil fields. In 1920, Beaty was elected president of the company. During his presidency, Beaty... View Details
Keywords: Utilities & Energy
Patrick E. Haggerty
Haggerty led Texas Instruments into the manufacture of transistors - the first to make them cheaply enough to be commercially viable. During Haggerty’s tenure, the company expanded its overseas market (47 manufacturing plants in 19 countries), focused on View Details
Keywords: Computers & Electronics
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India - Industry specific research
promotes the textile industry. Site includes information about commercial policy, developments in various sectors of the industry and production and price information. View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
On a Sound Track
through the business world is a great advantage. The IPO went well? Yes, we raised nearly $190 million, which enabled us to retire debt and go in some new directions. My main challenge now is managing growth and our increasing... View Details
- 16 Sep 2019
- Blog Post
Finding my Passion in the Startup Space
Valley, work and learn from amazing people, and launch and manage new product lines in the home services space. For someone who is passionate about startups, living in Silicon Valley is extremely exciting.... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Jerry Shafir: A Simmering Success Story
much engaged in his entrepreneurial adventure. "We're still small: around $13 million in sales," he observes. "But we're growing rapidly. I love product development, brainstorming new ideas, being in the... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 24 Jul 2018
- Op-Ed
4 Ways Managers Can Exercise Their 'Agency' to Change the World
with ideas, solutions, information, and energy that feed into their decision-making processes. Over the years, I’ve witnessed my own students convince senior executives to improve labor practices in the supply chain and workplace that end up improving View Details
Keywords: by George Serafeim
- Portrait Project
Anthony Terrizzi
I will throw the bad food away. As a teenager in upstate New York, I got my first real job as a meat slicer in the deli department of a large grocery store. I spent much of my time memorizing the names of Italian cured meats and scooping... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Innovation, Inc.
help students launch and creatively manage new businesses, including both stand-alone start-ups and ventures operating within an established organization. Tripsas notes, “Whenever a firm introduces a truly novel product, it has... 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
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
Minoru Makihara, 75th AMP, 1977
into Japan's most famous, prestigious, and powerful collection of companies (or keiretsu), offering a wide array of products and services, but in the early nineties, Mitsubishi Corporation, the general trading company within that group,... View Details
Alfred E. Mann
Mann was a prolific inventor who developed many lifesaving medical devices including the rechargeable pacemaker which formed the basis of the successful Pacesetter company. Mann continued to perfect the pacemaker and developed other biomedical devices. Though he sold... View Details
Keywords: Healthcare
- 15 Mar 2024
- News
Hungry for Change
with single-use plastic from food packaging clogging landfills. She envisioned her new company as the “Patagonia of the food industry.” Today, Sun & Swell—a team of 10 based in Santa Barbara, California—sells pantry staples and snacks.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Fixing What Ails the Drug Industry
In 2008, private investors and the National Institutes of Health plowed more than $100 billion into pharmaceutical research. And yet, “We’re not seeing the new diagnostics, treatments, preventative approaches, and cures that we might have... View Details