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- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Get Ready for Saudi Oil Shock
producing its oil, each of the five or six key field that are still around 90 percent of their production are in real danger of a pending production collapse. You might see the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
What Industrial Policy?
for only about one in 10 American jobs. A major reason for the decline in manufacturing employment in recent decades is the huge increases in the productivity of American factories. With those productivity... View Details
- 08 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
Building an Internship Program at Your Startup: An Interview with Facily’s Diego Dzodan (MBA 1999)
with cancer and passed away a couple of years later,” Dzodan shared. “After he passed, I had to start working on the company because it was a small business and there were no managers.” Their father’s passing took an emotional toll on the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do I Get Your Job?
price point, packaging, colors. I wanted to make a product that I would buy and that my friends would buy. OW: I’m sure it wasn’t all smooth sailing in the early months or years. Were there any moments where... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 13 May 2013
- Blog Post
Learning about the science in beauty
life as a consultant!). In fact, it’s been incredible to leverage all my experience at BCG while at Sephora. So for those of you spending your summers in consulting know that while it doesn’t pay off in beauty products, View Details
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Latin America - Global Activities 2020
that Fondo Esperanza is interested in experimenting to learn which product could work, not just for their bottom line but for its impact on borrowers. For the organization, repayment of the loan is not a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Busy…Very Busy
30, 2007). “Many telecommuters miss the regular hubbub of the office.” So his CD not only “instantly builds the credibility of home-office workers, it also boosts their confidence and productivity.” Freund offers CDs or downloads of... View Details
Keywords: Arts, Entertainment
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Double Vision
novice, peppering a Best Buy sales associate with a series of rapid-fire product questions, including "What's LTE—is it contagious?" AD TYPE: Product focus. This is also an... View Details
Keywords: Arts, Entertainment
William C. Procter
Under Procter's guidance, P&G grew out of its mid-western roots as a soap producer into a national consumer goods conglomerate. Procter was responsible for the creation of many famous brands, including Crisco shortening, but also... View Details
Keywords: Personal Care & Home Products
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Q&A: Donna Dubinsky
beautifully integrated — you’ll be able to dial a phone number from your address book, order a product from a Web site, and charge your account from one device. What does your own PDA look like? I’ve just switched to our new Visor Edge... View Details
John G. Smale
Known for his patient managerial style, Smale worked at Procter & Gamble for 38 years. Under Smale's leadership as CEO, P&G's earnings and stock price doubled while the company expanded abroad and into higher margin products. Two years after retiring as... View Details
Keywords: Personal Care & Home Products
Joseph C. Wilson II
Though the innovative technique was only partially owned by Wilson’s company, the rights were eventually broadened and Haloid changed its name to Xerox in 1961 to reflect its new product. Being the sole... View Details
Keywords: Computers & Electronics
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Giving Amazon the Boot
would ship it for us,” she says. “And you didn’t have to sell anything on Amazon. So they would store it and ship it, and it was really cost effective.” Ultimately, realizing... View Details
Reuben Mark
Restructuring continued with several rounds of lay-offs, plant closings and reconfigurations. Finally satisfied, Mark began investing again and engineered Colgate’s acquisition of Mennen in 1992. Other international purchases followed and these acquisitions, coupled... View Details
Keywords: Personal Care & Home Products
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Answering the Call
popularity of this case about an unglamorous product in an obscure industry. “I think its durability comes from the opportunity to discuss the basic management issues it raises... View Details
- 01 Apr 2020
- News
What My Time in Vietnam Taught Me About Dealing with Shortages
given authority to decide whether spare parts should be sent to combat troops or to the evolving production base. By centralizing inventory control in this manner, the optimum use was made of scarce supplies. The US economy can work... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Q & A: Confronting New Technologies: When Doing Right Is Wrong
focus instead on improving the performance of existing products - what I call sustaining technologies. For this reason, good companies have little difficulty succeeding in sustaining innovation - even radical innovation. If their... View Details
Charles B. Wang
Realizing that most of the software industry’s products were not responsive to the demands of its customers, Wang founded CA in 1976 with the intent to change that. Though Wang has made numerous acquisitions... View Details
Keywords: Services
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Vivek Ranadivé
In a few years there will be no such thing as an e-business," says Vivek Y.Ranadivé (MBA 1983). As founder, chairman, and CEO of Palo Alto-based TIBCO Software, Inc., (www.tibco.com) it would seem that Ranadivé is predicting the demise of... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing
- 02 May 2005
- What Do You Think?
Where is Consumer Generated Marketing Taking Us?
definition of a disruptive technology, less for a lot less)? Or is it something to be regarded as providing just one of several important inputs to future product development and marketing decisions... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett