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- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Screen Saver
with Dreyers for ice cream and PepsiCo for the bottled Frappuccino," recalls Beeninga, who is now retired. "It was a time of exploring where we could take the brand, and Gerry would always ask, 'Where does the consumer give us... View Details
- 11 Aug 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Melissa Fensterstock (MBA 2012)
retiring for the evening. On a trip to Southeast Asia, my husband Michael and I discovered an exotic blend that the locals suggested we use as a bug spray. It was all-natural and smelled more like a perfume than bug spray. We used the unmarked View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Innovation as P&G’s Key
many pages. But more recent triumphs are also instructive, such as how the tired Herbal Essences brand was revived in part by pouring it into a curvaceous, nestable bottle intended to appeal to Gen-Y women. The Game-Changer is rich with... View Details
- 20 Feb 2014
- News
Managing the World’s Trouble Spots
program started in Haiti two years ago to fight water-borne disease. Partnering with a local recycling center, Goodwin and his team helped create 26 centers, each one run by Haitian entrepreneur. The program, which washes and grinds plastic View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Carl M. Plochman III: A Savory Success
facility the company built five years ago that pumps out millions of mustard bottles a year, and a zippy Web site that invites visitors to join the Mustard Lover's Club. His decision to attend HBS, Plochman notes, was "a fairly radical... View Details
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
Helping Leaders Chart an Ethical Path
Plastic bottles are sorted for recycling at Cedar Environmental on the outskirts of Beirut, Lebanon. Professor Nien-hê Hsieh tries to bring his students to the “gray area”—that uncomfortable and all-too-common space where leaders face... View Details
- 10 May 2022
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2022
Emeritus, Stanford University 2020 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences Gainfully employed: “My first job was at age 7—a paper route that paid $2.45 a week. I always worked: sacking groceries, working at a bottling plant for 75 cents... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Eric Schiffer
doesn’t matter if I like something. Another time we bought bottled water that came in assorted flavors, all very unusual. To get the deal we had to buy all four flavors, one of which was bamboo. It tasted as bad as it sounds. We finally... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
bottles of correction fluid later, Staples continues to expand. "You have to live the reality," explains Stemberg, "but dream the dream." Yet the plethora of products, services, and satisfied customers is more than even Staples' visionary... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Better Mousetraps: At Product Design Fair, Student Ideas Get Real
manufactures Good Grips brand kitchenware, focused on building a better squeeze bottle for use in bathing babies. To demonstrate the new easy-grip bottle, Wes Owen (HBS '00) stood at a table giving a bath to a baby-sized doll in a little... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Straddling Two Worlds
the day that the team first won the MLS championship in 1996 very clearly. “We were in the locker room with bottles of champagne popping, and I said, ‘I don't care how much money I lose on this team, this moment makes it all worthwhile.'... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 08 Apr 2021
- News
Real Talk
guys—I mean big, rugby-playing, Afrikaner boys—break down in tears at times, sharing their stories. It was often pain that they had bottled up from past experiences, and it was amazing,” he reflects. “When they were able to do that and... View Details
- 25 Aug 2010
- News
Games, Parties, Pranks, and Celebrations
1973I’s last class mutated into an unruly morning cocktail party, which was followed by threats to withhold diplomas. 1978I threw the infamous “over the hump” party at the midpoint of our first year. It involved interrupting the second class of the day at its midpoint,... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
James E. Burke, MBA 1949
within a year of the crisis, thanks to decisions by Burke and his team to recall millions of bottles and replace them in a matter of weeks with pioneering tamper-resistant packaging while keeping the media and public well informed, the... View Details
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
Barbara Hackman Franklin, MBA 1964
positions. In 1973, Franklin left the White House to become one of the first commissioners of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. She focused on society's most vulnerable consumers—children—introducing the first child-resistant caps to medication View Details
- 22 Sep 2017
- News
The Epicenter of Miami’s Vice
wait for an extra hour to make the scene look even more aspirational. So to the extent that you could get in, to the extent that you had a sponsor, a king pin or a celeb who said, you know what? She's with me. If you go in there, there's Dom everywhere, people sending... View Details
- 26 May 2022
- News
Bidding Up
delivering papers and I got paid $2.45 a week for delivering papers. I mean, I worked in a bottling plant and I got paid 75 cents an hour. It was just a little local bottlers, we’d collect bottles off of the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
have their stacks of bottles burst as a SodaStream user hits the machines' carbonation button. The message: making your own soda saves the world from the scourge of plastic bottles. The ad was rejected by CBS but went viral, ultimately... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
What's Cookin'
high-quality family dining at a reasonable price; it would be a mistake to put a $45 bottle of wine on our menu." When consistency suffers, it doesn't take long for it to affect a restaurant's reputation, he adds. "If a customer has the... View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia
- 03 Sep 2018
- News
Moving Pictures
going to press with a major story that could sink your company because you’ve gone public that very week. Katharine Graham’s story is the story of a business leader.” It’s not unlike the decision of Johnson & Johnson CEO James Burke (MBA 1949) to pull every View Details