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    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
    • 16 Sep 2015
    • Research & Ideas

    Can Applied Economics Save Homeless Puppies?

    matching system for New England, correcting public school choice programs in New York and Boston, and tackling markets for new medical residents, economists, and lawyers. That... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail
    • 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
    Keywords: Consumer Products; Consumer Products; Consumer Products
    • 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
    • May 2022
    • Case

    From GOP to NFT: Anthony Scaramucci and the Launch of Flatter NFT

    By: Lauren Cohen, Richard Ryffel and Grace Headinger
    Anthony Scaramucci, Managing Director of SkyBridge Capital, considered whether he should officially greenlight the launch of SkyBridge’s own NFT platform — Flatter NFT. He had led the investment firm to push first into Bitcoin and then Ethereum to make SkyBridge a... View Details
    Keywords: Business Startup; Fintech; Technology; Cryptocurrency; Web3; Business Startups; Volatility; Decision Making; Entertainment; Entrepreneurship; Investment; Strategic Planning; Adoption; Competitive Advantage; Technology Adoption; Finance; Currency; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry; Technology Industry; New York (city, NY)
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      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

        Charles G. Mortimer

        Mortimer presided over an intensive period of growth and investment at General Foods. He dramatically expanded the company’s production capabilities and pursued acquisitions to balance the company’s product... View Details
        Keywords: Food & Tobacco

          William F. Laporte

          Laporte grew revenues, earnings, earnings per share and dividends every year of his CEO tenure with return on equity averaging 30% from 1971 to 1981. Laporte built American Home Products through debt-free strategic acquisitions and... View Details
          Keywords: Healthcare
          • 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
          Keywords: Growth and Development Strategy; Product Launch; Adoption
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          • 01 Dec 2011
          • News

          Welcome to the Future

          creativity in mind. These spaces are designed to enable and facilitate HBS’s new required FIELD course, which focuses on intensive small-group exercises and team dynamics, activity not well-suited for Aldrich-style amphitheater... View Details
          Keywords: Garry Emmons; Construction of Buildings; Construction

            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
            • Web

            Buy Now, Pay Later: Credit and Information Technology

            as Xerox. D&B was also an early adopter of information technology when it came to computers. Innovations that were first seen primarily as a means of reducing costs would go on to expand the quality and range of View Details

              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
              • 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
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              • 06 Aug 2018
              • Research & Ideas

              Supersmart Manufacturing Tools are Lowering Prices on TVs, Bulbs, and Solar Panels

              Management Practice in Business Administration at Harvard Business School, who recently published a paper on the topic of technology commoditization in MIT Sloan Management Review. According to Shih, manufacturers are able to duplicate the latest technology used in... View Details
              Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Manufacturing; Electronics

                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
                • 11 May 2016
                • News

                World Bank Vice President and Treasurer: Negative Rates Not the Answer

                Reacting to a spate of nations adopting negative interest rates—essentially charging depositors for parking their money—World Bank Vice President and Treasurer Arunma Oteh (MBA 1990) told Bloomberg News that... View Details
                • 01 Dec 1998
                • News

                HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report

                It has been a busy fall here at HBS! Reunions went off without a hitch in early October (be sure to note the photos on page 14), the Alumni Board had a productive meeting on October 16 and 17, and record numbers of alumni volunteers plan... View Details
                • 01 Mar 2018
                • What Do You Think?

                Two Decades Later, is the 'New Economy' Finally Here?

                potential for ecommerce growth in the country which relies (on) a lot of machine learning and AI the growth rate through the new economy prospects is just starting to take off here in Bangladesh.” Jacob Navon added, “Is the View Details
                Keywords: by James Heskett

                  Charles E. Hires

                  Hires invented one of the world’s most popular soft drinks – root beer. He incorporated his company with a capitalization of $300,000, which steadily expanded into millions. He was also a pioneer in the production of condensed milk,... View Details
                  Keywords: Food & Tobacco