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- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Stacey Lawson (MBA '96)
drawings," says Lawson, who worked on a prototype for the product and a business plan as part of a field study with Associate Professor David M. Upton. She then spent five months lining up venture capital... View Details
- Portrait Project
Mohit Bathija
and torn shirt, was standing in line at Siddhi Vinayak Temple in Bombay with men, women, and dozens of other ... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Digging Deep
was a little like jumping off a cliff,” she says of the move. “You don’t change your mind midway.” DMOS has also expanded its product line from two to five shovels and found a new market in fans of... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
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Special Collections & Archives Use and Publication Form | Baker Library
most materials in the collections and, therefore, cannot grant permission to use specific materials. Reference staff will provide copyright information when known. If your publication or product cites, quotes, or uses information from the... View Details
- 10 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
Lessons from the Browser Wars
diffused into the market. The debate was this: Did Microsoft win because its Internet Explorer was the technologically superior product to Netscape Navigator, or was Microsoft just more successful at the distribution end by convincing... View Details
An Wang
Labs’ sales exploded. Later products included several lines of sophisticated mini computers and such revolutionary word processing software as the Office Information Systems (OIS) series. By the end of... View Details
Keywords: Computers & Electronics
- 22 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
Name Your Price. Really.
galleries. But there was a catch: I couldn't just put my money in a slot; I had to stand in line with everyone else, many of whom were paying the suggested donation of $15. Sometimes, I boldly told the clerk I would pay 5 cents. Other... View Details
- 17 Aug 2015
- News
The Play Alchemist
users can vote on the projects they want Uncharted Play to help bring to life. The app will work hand in hand with Uncharted Play’s newest line of smart-sports products. Referred to as its “+” line, these will be the first and only View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- Profile
Fred Smith
Fred Smith comes from an impressive of line of entrepreneurs. His grandfather founded what would become the largest tour company in Jamaica. Fred's father created his own tour company, then extended the family's interests into real... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
New Releases
Technology Integration by Marco Iansiti (Harvard Business School Press) In the old days, coping with technological change was simple: you kept track of developments, tried to decide if they had legs, and implemented them when the market seemed ready. New technology fed... View Details
Keywords: Robert Binstock
- 29 Jan 2025
- Blog Post
Finding Professional Purpose: Building an Impactful Career that Reflects your Values with Lisa Tanzer (MBA 1993)
undergraduate background with limited exposure to business, I began my career as an Associate Consultant at one of the Big Four accounting firms (PwC), focusing on strategic planning in financial services, business services, telecommunications, and consumer products.... View Details
Lillian M. Vernon (Katz)
Katz took some of her family savings to place a small ad in Seventeen magazine for small handbags and belts in 1951. Within a few weeks, she had received $16,000 worth of orders, and sales have skyrocketed ever since. She began expanding her View Details
Keywords: Retail
- Portrait Project
Patricia Barron
our approach to China, saying he could jeopardize our negotiations. I was often the lone voice pushing for line jobs for talented women for whom staff moves were the norm. Business is more productive if one... View Details
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Rahul Bajaj, MBA 1964
"We remained profitable," notes Bajaj, "because we quickly realized we needed to restructure our product line and increase the productivity of our workforce." Through a... View Details
- Alumni WDYDWYD
Patricia Barron
our approach to China, saying he could jeopardize our negotiations. I was often the lone voice pushing for line jobs for talented women for whom staff moves were the norm. Business is more productive if one... View Details
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Getting Things Done: Motivating Yourself and Others - Course Catalog
(ii) designing incentive systems, broadly defined, that motivate both individual performance and organizational behavior. Students will learn to apply these concepts to enhance their own productivity while also developing skills to... View Details
- 07 Jan 2009
- What Do You Think?
Is the World Really Flat?
Arnott put it, "Entrepreneurship is the motor that gets technology to market." According to Kamal Gupta, "Scientific research and technological innovations create new products, but the top line and bottom View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Case Study: Sound Check
Venture Incubation Program. Fast forward several months and much web development later, and now LS offers a B2B SaaS product that can transform any website from a static display of content into an interactive experience, fully... View Details
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Arum Kang
contrary to her expectations, a line of children's hair accessories failed to post the sales numbers she had anticipated. "When I got to the floor," Arum says, "I saw that my product was... View Details
- 29 Jul 2021
- News
Support System
their harvest or the ability to move their product beyond Africa to be marketed and sold. The result? They take what they could get from the traders who showed up in the village with trucks from time to time. Through a family View Details