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- 22 Jul 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #7: Turning Waste Heat to Power
market.” As developers, Janice and her team are packaging financing and technology know-how to execute cost and energy saving projects, using the ORC or “Organic Rankine Cycle” process. The ORC process can make major reductions in CO2... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
New Releases
chosen." In Down to Earth, Reinhardt draws on studies of companies in industries as diverse as energy and packaged consumer goods to illustrate approaches for reconciling shareholder value with environmental performance. One such company,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Do Good: Eat Chocolate
investing ahead of its growth, the company has become more focused on breaking even in the current economic climate. From the start, Endline knew that her approach to chocolate would be “colorful, whimsical, and playful.” The reusable, recyclable tins that serve as... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; candy; chocolate; Crop Production; Agriculture; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Throwing Your Opponent: Strategies for the Internet Age
Navigator 1.0 part of a whole package of Internet tools, it sidestepped the competition by offering its product as a stand-alone browser. By also distributing Navigator over the Web and using a new pricing model that essentially made it... View Details
Keywords: by Daniel Penrice
- Student-Profile
Talia Gillis
to employees without legal representation, highlighted how difficulties in calculating social benefits, severance packages or assessing settlement offers created significant barriers for employees, rendering many legal protections futile.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
directors to know what’ s going on. We’ ve got to figure out ways to get information to them in packages they can understand. Technology offers an immense opportunity that we haven’ t taken advantage of. It’ s entirely possible for a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Alumni Books
find the right opportunities; how to package yourself to make sure you secure an interview; how important preparation is for an interview so that you are relaxed and give a great performance; how to show your passion and ask the perfect... View Details
- 25 Apr 2005
- Research & Ideas
New Learning at American Home Products
sales to Johnson & Johnson's Tylenol); Dristan and other cold and allergy-relief medicines; and drugs for asthma, hemorrhoids, and other ills. Canned and packaged goods brought in 11 percent, including such brands as Chef Boyardee... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Action Plan: Casting Call
Bert Berkley (MBA 1950) calls it “the dumbest thing I’ve ever done in my life.” Having served in the US Army during World War II for three-and-a-half years, he was offered (and accepted) the chance to go home one day early if he signed up for the Army Reserves. Called... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; hobbies; balance; meaning; longevity; aging; Paper Manufacturing; Manufacturing
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Making Eco Easy
consumption, but found that everything from shampoo to toothpaste to glass cleaner came packaged in single-use plastic. Gina Pak (MBA 2015) during her presentation at the 2019 HBS New Venture Competition (photo by Susan Young) Gina Pak... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 17 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why E-commerce Didn’t Die With the Fall of Webvan
Packaged good manufacturers were eager to create a direct-to-consumer link like the one Dell found to sell computers. Such a link would minimize wasteful and inefficient marketing practices, which to date have mostly focused on broadcast... View Details
- 02 Nov 2016
- Blog Post
Career and Internship Choices for the Classes of 2016 and 2017
consumer packaged goods, with the later appearing to be driven by interest in smaller, early-stage companies. View a complete analysis of the career and internship choices for the MBA Classes of 2016 and 2017. View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 30 Sep 2019
- Book
Book Excerpt: Why a Volume on Race, Work, and Leadership
respect to black leaders’ economic influence over the past century. Most remarkably, the former president of the United States, Barack Obama, was placed at the helm of the US economy in the midst of the Great Recession and executed multi-billion-dollar stimulus View Details
- 23 May 2018
- News
John A. Paulson, MBA 1980
remarkable success built confidence—and investors—and by 2006 led him to attract $6 billion under management. In 2005, Paulson was looking for new investment opportunities and began researching mortgage bonds. “The system was geared to sourcing mortgages, View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 09 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Excerpt: ’Fortune Tellers’
Wall Street Journal, the Commercial and Financial Chronicle, and the Chicago Tribune. Some forecasters packaged snippets of their forecasts to be sold through news syndicates and to appear in daily newspapers such as the Alton (Illinois)... View Details
Keywords: by Walter A. Friedman
- 06 Oct 2003
- What Do You Think?
Is “the Innovator’s Solution” to Sustained Corporate Growth an Unnatural Act?
business processes [are outsourced] under the pretext of 'cost savings' ... huge compensation packages [encourage cautious leadership]." Mainak Banerjee, in concurring with Eckel's latter point, says, "The worst thing that can... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- Web
Socioeconomic Inclusion | MBA
aid packages for domestic and international students. Our need-based financial aid process incorporates a holistic look at student’s financial circumstances. Members of our Financial Aid team are available to assist students in navigating... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Straight to the Heart
business. Often I help clients find love in a different package than they envisioned initially, but they end up happy. Can you explain? Last week I had a very successful CEO come to me and ask for help in finding a particular type of... View Details
- 22 Sep 2009
- News
The Case for Regulatory Reform
This is week when the Wall Street chickens come home to roost. In the wake of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, the Obama administration has sent Congress a package of regulatory reforms aimed, in large part, at... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Touting Green Energy’s Potential
reducing carbon emissions gradually to achieve an 83 percent reduction by 2050. The centerpiece of this legislative package is the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 (known as the Waxman-Markey bill). “Entrepreneurs, venture... View Details