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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 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
- 05 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 5
firm's decision to emphasize a particular strategic orientation can depend on its competitors' orientation choices. Based on two studies of customer, technology, and production orientations, we show that the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Dec 2014
- News
Hacking Health Care
The health care industry needs so much improvement, it will take a whole movement to fix it. “The more leaders, the better,” says Luc Sirois (MBA 1997), who sees progress coming not through a single organization, but rather from groups of... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 16 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Researchers Contribute Globalization of Markets Papers
Twenty years has provided time to judge the success or failure of Theodore Levitt's predictions of a global economy populated by standardized products and marketing approaches. For the colloquium, a number of Harvard Business School and... View Details
Keywords: by Working Knowledge editors
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Duncan M. ("Greg") Murray (MBA 1964)
East, and in Cuba, where he was introduced to it last April while attending an ozone symposium. Murray reports that results from the treatment to date have been unspectacular but decidedly positive, with some new sensation in his affected... View Details
- 29 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Shoot for the Stars: What to Know About the Space Economy
in space is the fundamental transformation of how it’s being organized. For a long time, when most people thought about what we do in space as humans, they thought of it as primarily a government-led activity. They thought of the James... View Details
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
- 03 Jun 2002
- What Do You Think?
Are We Entering an Era of European Management Leadership?
shortened to thirty-five hours. What has happened? Take France, for example. French productivity is up; some would claim it is now higher than the U.S., just as is productivity... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Alumni Books
respected individuals in the investment world offer investors a set of simple and powerful rules and investment principles on how to challenge the market at its own game and win by not losing. Stanley Meltzoff — Picture Maker by Stanley... View Details
- 12 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Untold Story of ‘Green’ Entrepreneurs
In the 1920s, on pitch black nights in rural eastern Montana, the farmhouse owned by the parents of brothers Marcellus and Joe Jacobs stood out for one reason: it had light, although located far from power lines and gasoline supplies. It was a beacon in the dark that... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 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
- 26 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Developing-World Companies Teach Us About Innovation
level of its access to resources, identify and seize growth opportunities. Know Your Customers' Mindsets—intimately Innovation comes in two varieties: technology-push and customer-pull. Technology-push—introducing new View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Losing Our Competitive Edge
Business Review, how the United States has lost or is in the process of losing the ability to manufacture many of the cutting-edge products it invented. These include the batteries that power electric and... View Details
- 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 Mar 2012
- News
Where Innovation Rules
manufacturing, from entertainment to energy. Indeed, it is hard to imagine a world without the products and services created by HBS alumni. In the pages that follow, we present profiles of contemporary HBS... View Details
William K. Coors
Under Coors' leadership, the brewery underwent a period of massive growth. Though it was a regional brewery, it held the top market share in 10 of the 11 western states in which View Details
Keywords: Food & Tobacco
- 29 Aug 2024
- Blog Post
Exploring Sustainable Energy: A Visit to Vestas Wind Turbine Manufacturing in Odense, Denmark
In January 2024, Professors Willy Shih and Mike Toffel led 45 HBS MBA students on site visits to witness the energy transition and innovative sustainable production activities throughout Denmark and the Netherlands, in the second year of... View Details
- 23 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Oil Price Fallout: What Happens Next?
OPEC's role as manager of the world's oil supply has just about run its course." One reason OPEC's hold on the world oil market has loosened is that the U.S. has quadrupled its oil View Details
- 07 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
How to Help Small Businesses Survive COVID's Next Phase
like this.” Concentrate on the best profit opportunities. Small-business owners must identify their most valuable products and services and eliminate everything else. If a restaurant’s tried-and-true burger has a stronger gross profit... View Details