Industrial Development - Publications - Faculty & Research

April 2010
Teaching Note

Wyeth Pharmaceuticals: Spurring Scientific Creativity with Metrics

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Keywords: Restructuring; Decisions; Innovation and Invention; Research and Development; Health Industry; Health Industry

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18 Nov 2010
Research & Ideas

GM’s IPO: Back to the Future

investment banking--give their points of view. Joseph Bower, Baker Foundation Professor The GM IPO represents the beginning of the end of a remarkable piece of intervention by the Obama administration. The government's involvement in the US auto View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Auto

22 Jun 2021
Research & Ideas

The COVID-19 Mutiny: When Teams Leave and Take Their Clients

pandemic has motivated and facilitated lift outs in two key ways: Market volatility has motivated searches. Market agitation at any level, from firm to industry to global, can motivate people to browse job ads and take or make that first... View Details

Keywords: by Robin Abrahams, Boris Groysberg, and Steven L. Manchel

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Marc Alain Boucicault Archives | Social Enterprise

Impact Measurement Inclusive Finance International Development K-12 Education Leadership Fellows Leadership in Challenging Times MBA Programs Microfinance Non Profit Management Nonprofit Supportive Services Public Sector Public-Private... View Details

01 Dec 2010
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Faculty Research Online

Professor Amy Cuddy. See http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/6461.html. Mindful Leadership: When East Meets West Professor Bill George is fusing Western understanding of leadership with Eastern wisdom about the mind to develop leaders who are... View Details

28 Mar 2018
Blog Post

Event Planning for Recruiting Success - Part 1

average attendance at on-campus presentations is 20 students. The Career & Professional Development staff coaches students to understand their personal career criteria in order to focus their job search on industries, functions, and... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

22 Nov 2024
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Healthcare Club Hosts its 25th Annual Conference; Alumni Step Out for Global Networking Night; Meet the Club Leader: Andrea Fantacone

Healthcare Alumni Conference Marks 25 Years The HBS Healthcare Alumni Association (HBSHAA) hosted its 25th Annual Conference at the Charles Hotel in Cambridge on November 7, and once again offered an exclusive agenda that was jam-packed with industry thought leaders... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

05 Dec 2016
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The Dragon’s Tale

country that had missed the industrial revolution that happened in many other countries in the 19th century, and then had suffered terribly under Mao since 1949. The so-called Great Leap Forward in 1958 triggered a famine that killed 40... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

27 Nov 2023
Blog Post

Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability Series - Opportunities for Green Entrepreneurship in the Face of Policy Inaction

Enlisting support from local communities, she developed a process to turn the weeds into a material that can be used to weave diversified products. Today, MitiMeth trains artisans in this process, providing income earning opportunities... View Details

24 Jul 2007
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First Look: July 24, 2007

industrial ecology literature that highlights the environmental benefits of by-product synergy. By-product synergy is defined as the conversion of a firm's waste stream from a manufacturing process into valuable feedstock for another... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Oral History, Business History and Business Archives in India - Creating Emerging Markets

growth of business history in India. Geoffrey Jones (Business History Initiative) discussed the Creating Emerging Markets project and how the oral histories being generated were being used in both teaching and research. Chinmay Tumbe (IIM-Ahmedabad) reviewed how oral... View Details

April 2024 (Revised July 2024)
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Market Dynamics and Moral Dilemmas: Novo Nordisk’s Weight-Loss Drugs

By: Joseph L. Badaracco, Tom Quinn and John Schultz

Danish pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk was owned by a charitable foundation, and since its founding in the 1920s had focused on producing insulin to treat diabetes. In 2017, however, it released Ozempic, a diabetes treatment with the revolutionary side effect of... View Details

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Flatiron School: Reflections from Summer 2020 - Recruiting

Insights & Advice 16 Nov 2020 Flatiron School: Reflections from Summer 2020 tag All Industries All Locations Student & Alumni Stories Summer Internships In the summer of 2020, HBS Career & Professional View Details

24 Oct 2018
News

Exploring the Future of Work for Women

and presentations by HBS faculty, industry leaders and scholars. “We wanted to explore the idea at the highest levels,” Viswanathan said. “The whole idea of what changes in work mean for women is still unexplored. We invited business... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

06 Feb 2023
Blog Post

Meet the Black Investment Club

aerospace industry where she led highly technical teams at The Boeing Company developing disruptive technologies to usher in the future of mobility and responsible innovation. The major focus of her work was... View Details

Keywords: Private Equity; Venture Capital; Investment Management / Hedge Fund

05 Oct 2010
First Look

First Look: October 5, 2010

Affect Credit Ratings? Authors:Bo Becker and Todd Milbourn Abstract The credit rating industry has historically been dominated by just two agencies, Moody's and S&P, leading to longstanding legislative and regulatory calls for... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

21 Nov 2016
Research & Ideas

It Matters That Your CEO Doesn't Know Much About Sales

targets, but a tactical tool that’s rarely part of strategy formulation. Develop the best product, and let the sales department figure out the best way to get it to the customer, they think. And many sales leaders like it that way.... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

31 Mar 2002
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You’re Wasting Your Employees! What You Can Do About It

leaders were trained, sophisticated strategic-planning systems were supposed to help senior managers decide which businesses to grow and which to harvest. 1 Unfortunately, all the planning and investment were unable to stop the competition from imitating or... View Details

Keywords: by Christopher A. Bartlett & Sumantra Ghoshal

03 May 2013
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Looking Through Glass, Historically

creative years—Westmoreland was assigned 31 patents. At one time, an estimated 150,000 glassworkers were employed in Czechoslovakia, earning one-fifth of what their American counterparts did. Nevertheless, for many years, the American glassware View Details

Keywords: Visual arts; crafts; glass making; Miscellaneous Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Mar 2014
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The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria

industries for decades. And even though Mustapha and his sons had earned a reputation as hard workers, there was only so much they could produce within a system that left farmers either chronically undersupplied or dealing with bags of... View Details

Keywords: Francis Storrs; John H. Davis; Michael Halse; Crop Production; Agriculture; Administration of Economic Programs; Government; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing

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