by Karen Mills - Publications - Faculty & Research

13 Dec 2022
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The First Five Years: Christine Keung and Reggie Smith

study and without him none of it happens. He's taught me incredible ways of thinking about markets and is a friend and mentor. Professors Sophus Reinert and Tom Nicholas created some of the most enriching classroom environments possible on planet Earth. Professor View Details

01 Mar 2016
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Feedback

characterizes the sector. But the sad state of traditional public education negatively impacts all of us—even those who can afford private school for their children. I’m puzzled, though, by his organization’s support of the proposal for... View Details

15 Oct 2019
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Understanding Challenges Across the Supply Chain

there are situations such as Venezuela, which can’t feed its own people anymore.” For another case, Alvarez toured Molino Cañuelas’s flour mills in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and examined the company’s milling... View Details

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Trade Publications - Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School

World (Later Exhibitors’ Herald World and Motion Picture Herald) (New York: Chalmers Pub. Co, 1907-1972). Note: issues from January – June, 1909 online with Google Spice Mill (New York: The Spice Mill... View Details

01 Jun 2003
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Books

development, and other business activities where on–demand creativity is essential to success. — Deborah Blagg Wheel, Deal, and Steal by D. Quinn Mills (Financial Times Prentice Hall) As a follow–up to last... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Laura Singleton; Donald; Sull; Henry; Chesbrough; Rob; Austin; Leslie; Perlow; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Jun 2013
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Leadership Fellows

Hospital for Special Surgery; Ebele Mora, Year Up; and Karen Tang, Nonprofit Finance Fund. Not pictured: Chris Hurst, Mercy Corps, and Casey Littlefield, Social Finance. SUPPORTING SUCCESS: Fellowship donor Lou Fouts (MBA 1996) with... View Details

01 Mar 2009
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Alumni Books

questions, presenting unique strategies and concrete steps useful for handling the growing number of giants in our personal and professional lives. The Flavor Bible: The Essential Guide to Culinary Creativity, Based on the Wisdom of America’s Most Imaginative Chefs... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

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Media

This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details

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Credits – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

Library Editing: Karen Bailey, Katherine Fox, Joan K. O'Donnell Exhibition Design: Chris Danemayer, proun Design Exhibition staff: Rachel Wise, Priscilla Anderson, Martha Kearsley, Melissa Murphy Print Design: Eleanor Bradshaw Mary Lee... View Details

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Boston Manufacturing Company Records | Baker Library

the Boston Associates. The company operated the first mill in the world to combine all aspects of the manufacture of cotton cloth under one roof. The company built its labor force by contracting with... View Details

01 Mar 2005
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Women Entrepreneurs Share Insights at WSA Conference

THE CHALLENGE: Ana Shukla shares advice on securing venture capital. Karen Kerrigan and Brigitte Baumann (far left, center) stressed the importance of mentors and networks. As a first-time entrepreneur, Ana Shukla launched a... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Corporate Services; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

02 Dec 2014
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Building a Consumer-Centric Strategy: Highlights from the Marketing & CPG Club’s Conference

shared many General Mills brand campaigns (e.g., Betty Crocker, Cheerios, and Fiber One) that effectively tailored messaging to their Brand Champion. Kerri Hoyt-Pack of Nike Women’s Training closed the day View Details

01 Jun 2012
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Made in the USA

Jim Knott's Aquamesh lobster traps set a new standard for durability, quickly supplanting the wooden traps used by generations of lobstermen. Chinese knockoffs failed to match Aquamesh's patented process. Will business leaders reconnect... View Details

Keywords: Blagg, Deborah; cheese; lobster fishing; Fishing, Hunting and Trapping; Agriculture; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing

Profile

John Smith-Ricco

offered him an unusual amount of responsibility for profit and loss. Over his four-year tenure there, John helped manage familiar brands such as PopSecret popcorn, Fruit by the Foot, Fruit Roll-Ups, and Progresso Soup. Skills for greater... View Details

06 Apr 2017
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From Lobster Traps to Border Fencing

A Massachusetts firm that makes wire mesh for lobster traps says its technology could save millions in building the US-Mexico border wall proposed by President Donald Trump. "It's difficult to climb, it's difficult to cut—I think it just... View Details

Keywords: Donald Trump; homeland security; Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Jun 2008
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Tu Veux Sprechen Conmigo Online?

“It’s cool to say you speak six languages,” Karen Ong (MBA ’08) told the Boston Globe (March 12, 2008). “But the process of learning a language is boring.” So Ong decided to do something about it. She created MyHappyPlanet.com, an online... View Details

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Leading Race Work in Business Schools - Race, Gender & Equity

LGBTQ community opportunities in the cable, media, and entertainment industries. His research suggests that managers' perceptions of their subordinates are affected by the composition of the work group of which they are a part and View Details

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Rock 100: The Summit - Entrepreneurship

of Business Administration Noam T. Wasserman , Associate Professor of Business Administration Honorary Chairs Jim Breyer – Accel Partners and Breyer Capital Karen Gordon Mills – Harvard Business School... View Details

12 PM – 1 PM EDT, 17 May 2017
Webinars: Trending@HBS

Fintech and Washington: Defining the Future of Small Business Lending

Small businesses have often faced gaps in access to credit. An explosion of new online lenders are providing small dollar loans to businesses within days, with easy online applications and innovative credit algorithms. Is this a good development for Americas small... View Details