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- 28 Nov 2016
- Blog Post
Why We Recruit: Wayfair
merchandising, easy product discovery and attractive prices for over 7 million products from over 7,000 suppliers across five distinct brands: Wayfair.com, Joss & Main, AllModern, DwellStudio and Birch... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
- September 2020
- Case
Apple Bets on Augmented Reality
By: Rory McDonald, David Lane and Mel Martin
In 2020, augmented reality (AR) was still a nascent technology with blockbuster potential, one which Apple was actively developing as its iPhone franchise waned. But the emergence of AR was uneven, including the disappointing Google Glass and the unexpected viral... View Details
Keywords: Augmented Reality; Industry Structures; Product Development; Commercialization; Competition; Corporate Strategy; Diversification; Information Technology; Technology Adoption; Information Technology Industry; Technology Industry; Video Game Industry
McDonald, Rory, David Lane, and Mel Martin. "Apple Bets on Augmented Reality." Harvard Business School Case 621-007, September 2020.
- 29 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Shoot for the Stars: What to Know About the Space Economy
A new space race—one fueled more by commercial conquest than intergalactic domination—is charting solutions to pressing problems in national security, climate change, and communication. With costs poised to drop and innovation on the... View Details
- Career Coach
Alan Braly
Alan (MBA ’10; SM, MIT ’11; BS, JHU ’02) has ~20 years of life sciences experience across a variety of therapeutic areas, roles, and sectors, working in product management, strategy, innovation, and product... View Details
Robert H. Sorensen
Sorensen led Perkin-Elmer to become one of the premier diversified technology companies in the United States. It developed the first commercial super minicomputer in 1979. During his CEO tenure, sales and earnings more than tripled and... View Details
Keywords: Computers & Electronics
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Green Dreams: Eco-Friendly Countertops
commercialized it. Since then, Magagnini and Strugatz had worked tirelessly to bring the product to market, and yet they still discarded more than they successfully manufactured. Meanwhile, Magagnini had too... View Details
- 12 Feb 2020
- News
Culture Shift at Big Blue
together to grow a business.” While others have struggled, Red Hat has been a huge success in the open source business, managing to retain a careful balance between the vastly different worlds of the commercial businesses that buy their... View Details
- 12 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: Electric Mobility in India
its expanded production capacity of over 400,000 units. With 1,600 employees, the facility hosts two vehicle lines and three battery lines. Ather's success in the market, amid customer uncertainty, can be attributed to their focus on... View Details
- July 2002
- Case
Introducing ... The XFL!
By: Susan M. Fournier, Stephen A. Greyser and Seth Schulman
When the XFL professional football league debuted on February 3, 2001, it generated a Nielsen rating of 10.1, higher than any nationally televised program in a Saturday evening time slot. The next week, ratings plummeted, and by week nine the XFL game earned the title... View Details
Keywords: Advertising; Forecasting and Prediction; Product Positioning; Consumer Behavior; Product Development; Culture; Commercialization
Fournier, Susan M., Stephen A. Greyser, and Seth Schulman. "Introducing ... The XFL!" Harvard Business School Case 503-015, July 2002.
- Web
Dream Realities - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center
Commercial photographers worked their medium not only to capture the realistic elements of a subject but also to imbue it with idealized qualities. The modernist sensibility manifested itself in the creation of fractured forms and... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Seeing glass in a new light
Rao Mulpuri (AMP 171, 2006) wants to transform the building industry by disrupting a common product: glass. View Dynamic Glass brings smart windows to buildings, and is gaining rapid adoption in North America—the California-based company sold out of View Details
- 11 Oct 2016
- Blog Post
Why We Recruit: HelloFresh
for?HelloFresh started recruiting on campus last Fall (Oct. 2015). We came back this Spring and successfully found two amazing HBS students that joined us in Toronto and NYC this past summer. We’re mainly looking for people who are entrepreneurial and can combine View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
- February 2018 (Revised April 2018)
- Case
Yunnan Baiyao: Transforming a Chinese State-Owned Enterprise
By: Michael Chu, William C. Kirby, Nancy Hua Dai and Yuanzhuo Wang
This case tells the story of how Wang Minghui, Chairman of Yunnan Baiyao Group since 1999, transformed a single-product traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) state-owned enterprise (SOE) into a major diversified consumer health player in China's highly competitive... View Details
Keywords: State-owned Enterprise (SOE); Traditional Chinese Medicine; Yunnan; Yunnan Baiyao; Consumer Health; Enterprise Transformation; Transformation; Health; Business History; State Ownership; Private Ownership; Business Strategy; Commercialization; Competition; Consumer Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry; China
Chu, Michael, William C. Kirby, Nancy Hua Dai, and Yuanzhuo Wang. "Yunnan Baiyao: Transforming a Chinese State-Owned Enterprise." Harvard Business School Case 318-078, February 2018. (Revised April 2018.)
- January 2011
- Teaching Note
Neoprene (TN)
By: Tom Nicholas
Teaching Note for 810-084. View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Eyes in the Skies
placed two more satellites into orbit in April of this year, bringing the total constellation to 14. Now that BlackSky’s analytics and constellation platform are largely in place, Minnick is focused on refining and marketing the firm’s View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand
- 23 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
2024 Summer Internships in Business & Environment
joining HBS. Brett Atkinson (MBA 2025, Section H), Summer Internship: Business Development Intern, Lithios, Inc Lithios is a venture-backed start-up commercializing a new electrochemical platform for producing sustainable, low-cost... View Details
William B. Bell
Bell diversified American Cyanamid, developing the company into the 5th largest producer of chemicals in the U.S., manufacturing over 5,000 products. Bell developed new processes for the commercial View Details
Keywords: Chemicals & Industrial
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IFC India 2025: Decarbonizing Rice Paddy Farming - Pioneering Sustainability in Indian Agriculture - Blog - Business & Environment
to charge a premium for sustainable products, limiting their interest to switch. Innovative Practices to Mitigate Emissions Our research identified several practices to reduce emissions while maintaining agricultural productivity and... View Details
Patrick E. Haggerty
Haggerty led Texas Instruments into the manufacture of transistors - the first to make them cheaply enough to be commercially viable. During Haggerty’s tenure, the company expanded its overseas market (47 manufacturing plants in 19... View Details
Keywords: Computers & Electronics
Gordon M. Binder
Binder led Amgen to become the first commercially successful and largest independent biotechnology company in the world employing over 6,000 individuals and generating in excess of $3 billion in revenue. In 1999, Binder was named Chairman... View Details
Keywords: Healthcare