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- 15 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Business IT Innovation is so Difficult
chains, and speeding communications. The result: "People can spend more time thinking up new products and servicing customers, and less time checking boxes." To get there, most firms must be willing to... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- Profile
Jeremy Andrus
classmate who was managing a $1 billion–plus hedge fund. Having those kinds of relationships as you make your way 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... View Details
- 13 Aug 2024
- Op-Ed
Can AI Save Physicians from Burnout?
hampering productivity and significantly impacting physician well-being. In the United States, physicians spend between 34 and 55 percent of their workday compiling clinical documentation and reviewing EMRs. While some of this contributes... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
A Message from Dean Clark
We are poised on the cusp of a new millennium, with all the promise and possibility such a milestone implies. At HBS, our mission for the 21st century - to educate leaders - is rooted in the traditions established by those who founded the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Navigating Uncertainty: Dean Datar on HBS’s Path Forward
With Harvard navigating an array of pressures, Jana Kierstead, Executive Director of the MBA and Doctoral Programs and External Relations, spoke with Dean Srikant Datar about how HBS is responding to new challenges while maintaining its... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Covering the Issues
banker, for instance, who authored "A New World for Women" in 1936, concluded, "It is inevitable that more and more women will occupy places of responsibility in our country's banks." Indeed, the Bulletin provides a window on the... View Details
Thomas Adams, Jr.
Experimenting with chicle (a gum substance from the Mexican Spodilla tree), Adams discovered a commercial use for the substance by utilizing it in the manufacture of a chewing gum. Adams developed public acceptance of this new and unique... View Details
Keywords: Food & Tobacco
John W. Culligan
Culligan capped off a 49-year career with American Home Products as its CEO from 1981 to 1986. During his tenure he doubled AHP’s research & development budget, building a pipeline of 24 new drugs and 48... View Details
Keywords: Healthcare
- Fast Answer
Sustainability in Manufacturing Industry
This is a part of Baker Library's Sustainability Research Guide. Background Readings The Next Economic Growth Engine Scaling Fourth Industrial Revolution Technologies in Production This paper summarizes View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Reunion Highlights: A Case in Point
first-ever for teenagers, was inspired by the success of a preteen program begun in 2003. After turning the discussion to favorite products (portable CD players were popular) as well as to others that didn’t work so well (toasters came in... View Details
Jerry Della Femina
Della Femina was part of a new breed of executives that shook up the staid world of advertising in the late sixties. Wildly creative and eccentric, Della Femina pushed the envelope of provocative advertising throughout his career. He... View Details
Keywords: Services
- 28 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
B2B Branding: Does it Work?
company's stakeholders. Efforts are focused on a single, global corporate brand rather than individual product brands. The payback on marketing expenditures is measured rigorously to the satisfaction of the hard-nosed engineers and... View Details
- May 2024
- Supplement
Net Protections (C)
By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Nobuo Sato and Akiko Kanno
In Case C, in spring 2021, four years after the launch of atone, the company is considering how to grow the service given slow merchant adoption. View Details
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, Nobuo Sato, and Akiko Kanno. "Net Protections (C)." Harvard Business School Supplement 724-397, May 2024.
Floyd L. Carlisle
Carlisle purchased Northern New York Utilities with a group of paper manufacturers, which allowed St. Regis Paper and the other involved paper mills to control their own supply of electric power. Acquiring Hanna Paper Corporation in 1921,... View Details
Keywords: Wood, Paper & Forestry
Laurence A. Tisch
the brothers next took to expanding Loew’s into the hotel business, buying hotels in New York, Chicago and San Francisco. By 1968, the brothers had built Loews into the third largest hotel operator, with assets of $278 million and... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media
William B. Rayburn
Rayburn went from service station operator to CEO in a 35-year career with Snap-On. He presided over Snap-On’s impressive growth period achieving 52% market share, becoming the world’s largest independent manufacturer and distributor of small hand tools. Under his... View Details
Keywords: Fabricated Goods
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Stacey Lawson (MBA '96)
illustrations of standard parts, such as valves, pumps, and gears. Today Lawson is the vice president of marketing at InPart, a company she cofounded upon graduating from HBS. InPart, now fifty employees strong, is creating a library of information about standard... View Details
- January 2014
- Article
Networks and Productivity: Causal Evidence from Editor Rotations
By: J. Brogaard, J. Engelberg and Christopher Parsons
Using detailed publication and citation data for over 50,000 articles from 30 major economics and finance journals, we investigate whether network proximity to an editor influences research productivity. During an editor's tenure, his current university colleagues... View Details
Keywords: Networks; Performance Productivity; Journalism and News Industry; Journalism and News Industry; Journalism and News Industry
Brogaard, J., J. Engelberg, and Christopher Parsons. "Networks and Productivity: Causal Evidence from Editor Rotations." Journal of Financial Economics 111, no. 1 (January 2014): 251–270.
- August 2017 (Revised July 2018)
- Case
MannKind Corporation: Take a Deep Breath, This Time Afrezza Will Work
By: Elie Ofek and Amanda Dai
In June 2014, MannKind Corporation announced that after years of development and billions of dollars in expenses, the FDA had finally approved its drug, Afrezza. MannKind would thus be the only company with an inhalable insulin on the market. As an alternative to... View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Product Launch; Product Positioning; Marketing Strategy; Adoption; Pharmaceutical Industry
Ofek, Elie, and Amanda Dai. "MannKind Corporation: Take a Deep Breath, This Time Afrezza Will Work." Harvard Business School Case 518-031, August 2017. (Revised July 2018.)