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Elizabeth E. Boit

Boit was the first American woman to establish ownership in the textile industry. She joined forces with Charles N. Winship to establish the Winship, Boit & Company in 1888. While Winship oversaw production, Boit managed the finances... View Details

Keywords: Fabric & Apparel

Fred M. Gibbons

Gibbons was one of the early pioneers in the software development industry. While working at Hewlett-Packard, he developed the Pfs:file software suite which enabled Apple Computer users to manage a host of View Details

Keywords: Computers & Electronics

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Michelle Luo

Michelle wants to help students explore opportunities available in Tech and Entertainment & Media. She worked as a Product Manager at Google prior to HBS and then transitioned to Entertaiment & Media... View Details

20 Nov 2006
Research & Ideas

Open Source Science: A New Model for Innovation

innovation and product development strategies. His latest research analyzes how open source norms of transparency, permeable access, and collaboration might work with scientists. What he and his coauthors discovered:... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

20 Oct 2015
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Internalizing Global Value Chains: A Firm-Level Analysis

Keywords: by Laura Alfaro, Pol Antras, Davin Chor & Paola Conconi

September – October 2011
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The Manufacturer's Incentive to Reduce Lead Times

By: Santiago Kraiselburd, Richard Pibernik and Ananth Raman

It is generally a well acknowledged fact that, ceteris paribus, reducing the lead times between downstream and upstream parties in a supply chain is desirable from an overall system perspective. However, an upstream party (e.g., a manufacturer) may have strong... View Details

Keywords: Cost; Demand and Consumers; Order Taking and Fulfillment; Production; Supply Chain Management; Sales; Manufacturing Industry; Retail Industry

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01 Dec 2004
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A Life by Design

created the distinctive Studebaker Hawk automobile. “Years later, I realized what an amazing place I had grown up in,” says Ross, who acknowledges her father’s influence on her own choice of careers — fashion product design. Over the past... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; toys; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Sporting Goods, Hobby, Musical Instrument, and Book Stores; Retail Trade

22 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity

and innovation tend to be used interchangeably, but when it comes to novel ideas in business, they are not necessarily the same thing. "Creativity and innovation are different stages in the same process," says Professor Teresa M. Amabile. "Creativity is... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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Social Recycling Transforms Unwanted Goods into Happiness

By: Grant Edward Donnelly, Cait Lamberton, Rebecca Walker Reczek and Michael I. Norton

Consumers are often surrounded by resources that once offered meaning or happiness but that have lost this subjective value over time—even as they retain their objective utility. We explore the potential for social recycling—disposing of used goods by allowing other... View Details

Keywords: Disposition; Well-being; Prosocial Behavior; Pro-environmental Behavior; Happiness; Behavior; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Environmental Sustainability

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Laurie Matthews

her husband live in Boston’s South End with their crazy Portuguese Water Dog and awesome cat. Work Experience: Advertising Account Management at Y&R; Deutsch; Grey; Arnold, among others View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products; Consumer Products; Consumer Products; Consumer Products

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The Art of American Advertising: 1865 - 1910

Home Site map Map / Directions Search: General Information HBS Home About Annual Report Campus Commencement Dean Nohria Employment Fifty Years of Women Give News New Construction Academic Programs Doctoral Programs Executive Education MBA Summer Venture in View Details

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Career Outcomes | Research Associates

Research Analyst Economic Research Consultant Vice President of Finance Consultant Decision Scientist Product Manager Research Lab Manager Professional development put into... View Details

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Asher Kinyon

Asher looks forward to helping students understand and prepare for careers in the Technology and Investment Banking industries. Having spent time as an Investment Banking Analyst, several years across various roles at a hypergrowth Tech startup, and last summer at... View Details

23 Aug 2004
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Strategy for Small Fish

The art of business today seems to be the ability to influence resources your company doesn't own—resources such as the production scheduling of manufacturing partners, the packaging requirements of distribution partners, and the... View Details

Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien

27 Feb 2013
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Sidetracked: Why Can’t We Stick to the Plan?

had described the souk — a marketplace where you can buy products ranging from fresh food and spices to handicrafts and even gold — as a "must-see." Our plan for the afternoon was clear: Greg and I wanted to have an enjoyable... View Details

01 Jan 2004
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A. G. Lafley, MBA 1977

at Harvard Business School. MBA in hand, he arrived at P&G at the age of 30 as an assistant brand manager for Joy dishwashing detergent. A variety of other assignments followed, such as helping turn around P&G's beauty View Details

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Interior of packing house - The Request - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

The Message The Product The Production The Worker The Audience Bibliography previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 next Interior of Packing House ca. 1933 California Fruit Growers Exchange Photographer unknown This house is... View Details

30 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018

The gender punishment gap in hiring and firing dissipates at firms with a greater percentage of female managers at the firm or local branch level. The gender punishment gap is not driven by gender differences in occupation (type of job,... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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Introduction - The Audience - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

HBS Home HBS Index Contact Us Harvard Business School Baker Library Historical Collections The Human Factor Introducing the Industrial Life Photograph Collection at the Baker Library Introduction The Exhibition The Request The Response The Collection The Medium The... View Details

October 2016 (Revised July 2017)
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The Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra: Cultural Entrepreneurship

By: Rohit Deshpande and Annelena Lobb

The Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra (LA Phil), under the leadership of Deborah Borda, had enjoyed great successes in the 2000s and 2010s, even as other U.S. orchestras faltered. The architecturally acclaimed Walt Disney Concert Hall had opened its doors. The... View Details

Keywords: Product Positioning; Arts; Music Entertainment; Growth and Development Strategy; Business Growth and Maturation; Cultural Entrepreneurship; Music Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Los Angeles

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