Chemicals and glass - Publications - Faculty & Research

17 Dec 2008
Lessons from the Classroom

‘Ted Levitt Changed My Life’

Mrs. Lauder and sat down for a glass of champagne. It really does work. We grew our business incredibly. Everyone benefited from what was a very simple idea." Wagner doubts that Levitt would have much... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education; Retail

01 Oct 1997
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Brice Cutrer Jones

is no simple matter. Those who raise a glass of Jones's Sonoma-Cutrer Chardonnay are enjoying the delicate outcome of painstaking scientific research, months of careful growing, exceptional attention to detail, View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

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Research & Development, Project Code SX-70 - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

evolution of the process as brilliantly envisioned and developed by Edwin Land and his dedicated project team. It required successful outcomes in a number of arenas, all of which would need to coalesce into... View Details

08 Sep 2008
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The Value of Environmental Activists

There are many methods, most financial, to measure the success of companies in meeting goals. But the question becomes a lot harder at Harvard Business School when MBAs are challenged to measure the efforts of environmental organizations like Greenpeace and the World... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Energy; Utilities

10 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

Do You Have Change Fatigue?

Mintzberg argues that the best kind of leader doesn't try to effect much change. Rather, she functions like a queen bee, which "does nothing but make babies and exude a chemical that keeps everything... View Details

Keywords: by Nick Morgan

10 Aug 2015
Research & Ideas

New Medical Devices Get To Patients Too Slowly

innovator. By contrast, previous research by Harvard's David Carpenter and others found that first movers in new chemical drug categories typically receives the fastest FDA approval, with every follow-on... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health; Technology

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Forum - U.S. Competitiveness

Burning Glass Technologies, decided to study those questions. While we would not presume to arbitrate between the various schools of thought represented by distinguished scholars, we did conclude that a problem exists View Details

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Faculty - Private Capital Project

Faculty Faculty Co-Directors Victoria Ivashina Lovett-Learned Professor of Business Administration Victoria Ivashina is the Lovett-Learned Chaired Professor of Finance at Harvard Business School. She is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research,... View Details

15 Jun 2007
Research & Ideas

Remembering Alfred Chandler

Chemical and Pharmaceutical Industries. In his lifetime, he produced a range of books, edited collections, and articles covering railways, management, global competition,... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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Peggy Mativo-Ochola

As the daughter of two pioneering civil engineers in Kenya, Peggy Mativo-Ochola learned to be ambitious. "I saw my mother as a woman who broke glass ceilings and my father as a man who strove for... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit/Government/Education

01 Sep 2007
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Alfred D. Chandler Jr. Remembered

Matsushita. That volume was followed in 2005 by Shaping the Industrial Century: The Remarkable Story of the Evolution of the Modern Chemical and Pharmaceutical Industries. “Such science-based industries have... View Details

07 Apr 2015
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Warrior Spirit

of doing good. I feel far more alive today than I’ve ever been in my whole life.” Industrial and sleek, Evolve academies feature plenty of glass and brushed steel. It’s a... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries

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Commercialization of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

Corporation. All existing and pending patents were transferred to the new corporation. 17 Wheelwright left the company in the early 1940s, but stayed on as a member of the Board of Directors until 1948. In addition to Polaroid Day View Details

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Sergio Velasquez-Terjesen

View Video Sergio Velasquez-Terjesen (MBA 2019) is accustomed to changing directions. At age fifteen, he moved from his home in Venezuela in the midst of civil and political unrest, seeking safety and... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing/Energy; Consulting

20 Jan 2023
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Free Spirits

Illustrations by Edmon DeHaro “Cheers!” As her father’s wedding toast comes to a close, Vanessa Royle (MBA 2022) raises her champagne flute into the evening air to clink glasses with the groom, Andy. She tilts her View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Food Services and Drinking Places; Food Services and Drinking Places

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ARD - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

head of the chemical engineering department at MIT, and Jerome C. Hunsaker, head of the aeronautical engineering department at MIT, served as technical consultants. With Doriot's support, Dorothy Rowe, who... View Details

13 May 2013
Blog Post

Learning about the science in beauty

different kinds of exfoliators (physical, chemical and enzymes)? Among my pictures is one of me smelling an empty glass – that was during the Fragrance class where we learned... View Details

Keywords: Consulting; Consumer Products / Retail

November 1983 (Revised May 1984)
Background Note

Note on the Export of Pesticides from the United States to Developing Countries

This is an issues-oriented note designed to stimulate discussion of the ethical aspects of the sale of pesticides which are not approved for any use or only for restricted use in the United States to less developed countries. It is organized as follows: the problem,... View Details

Keywords: Pollutants; Ethics; Health; Chemicals; Developing Countries and Economies; Chemical Industry; United States

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29 Nov 2023
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A Holiday Benefit Dinner in LA; Seattle Club Revival Underway

So we do our own catering, and we’re finding partners to give us space. I have 200 wine glasses in my garage!” Weintraub adds that a few “really dedicated people” are essential to getting things off the... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

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HBS - The year in Review

transformation and seismic market shifts. Building RENAMED for James I. Cash In September 2020, Harvard Business School announced it would honor James I. Cash, the James E. Robison Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus, by... View Details

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