Fine Arts Industry - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jan 2004
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Donald P. Nielsen, MBA 1963

art of the deal, replicated the Hazleton model, acquiring twenty companies and amalgamating the industry to create a global capability for the world's pharmaceutical makers. In 1987, with the View Details

26 Jan 2016
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January 26, 2016

should allocate its resources over the next year in order to become profitable and ensure future growth. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/816006-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 815-022 The Ullens Center for Contemporary View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2006
News

The Baby Business

elsewhere that regulation can provide the legitimacy and order that nascent industries need in order to grow. Are there any calls for regulation from within the baby business itself? In the early days of a technology, few participants... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Government; Health, Social Assistance

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Impact Stories | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

of Philanthropy with Business Cindy Ko MBA 2005 Background Making a difference in the world, as cliché as it so... Artful Leadership Meredith Hodges When she arrived at HBS, Meredith “Max” Hodges (MBA 2010) ... An Educated Investment... View Details

19 Feb 2008
Research & Ideas

Radical Design, Radical Results

the competitive advantage gained by how a product "speaks" to a customer is clear. Just think about how Apple began its resurrection in 1998 with the unthinkable design of computers made of translucent blue, orange, and pink plastic, the original iMac.... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Consumer Products

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Timeline - Race, Gender & Equity

gas-powered automobile built in the U.S. 1894 Boycott of Pullman sleeping cars leads to general strike on railroads Pullman Porters 1900 U.S. Industrial Commission declares trade unions good for democracy 1902 Willis H. Carrier designs... View Details

01 Oct 2000
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Faculty Retirements

Robert H. Hayes An expert on industrial management and competition, Robert Hayes, the Philip Caldwell Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus, joined the HBS faculty in 1966. He has taught numerous courses and thousands of students... View Details

01 Sep 2003
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Fred Newman

traveling “sound effects guy” on Garrison Keillor’s A Prairie Home Companion radio show, “doing what I used to do behind teachers’ backs.” He uses acoustic technology to enhance the art of storytelling. “Information is in words,” says... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries

01 Mar 2017
News

Lego Stays on Script

marketing, Michael Moynihan (MBA 1993), has been with the company since 1996, long enough to remember its missteps in attempting to broaden Lego’s customer base by expanding into product categories such as action figures, arts and crafts,... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

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Harvard Business School and Polaroid - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

as by his words.” George E. Bates, "Polaroid Corporation," Harvard Business School Case 246-006, 1948 87 Edwin Land identified the intersection of science and art as the cornerstone of his research-based View Details

28 Sep 2015
News

Rockin’ for a Cause

firm. A veteran in the industry with recent experience in late-stage start-ups such as Mandiant and ArcSight, Scheel joined the company in 2014. Symantec is spinning off Veritas, a storage and back-up business it acquired a decade ago.... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Symantec

04 May 2023
Blog Post

Why Business Travel Still Matters in a Zoom World

nonstop flights—matters most when collaborators are in different time zones or overcoming cultural distance. “It seems that, if the two locations are in the same time zone and are culturally similar, then Zoom is good enough. It’s fine to... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

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Past Issues - Alumni

Now, serving as the nexus for a community of farmers, entrepreneurs, investors, and researchers, she feels entirely at home. Work of Art Trading private equity for the arts, Jason Price is incubating a world-class View Details

23 May 2017
First Look

First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017

alcoholic beverage to a sophisticated natural product and fine accompaniment for gourmet food. By creating wine as a symbol of social status, the reimagined wine industry became a reinforcer of social and... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

13 Jul 2017
News

Making Friends with Mother Nature

In 2006, the entire region celebrated the opening of the Wild Center, a 54,000-square-foot, interactive museum experience. The center includes live wildlife exhibits, a movie theater, an art studio, a large system of trails, and... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli

01 Mar 2019
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2019

So you feel good, lose the baby weight, and are more present, while raising thriving children—in an entirely do-able, time-saving, with-you-in-the-trenches way. Confessions of a Christian by Art Hilsinger (MBA 1952) Independently... View Details

21 Dec 2021
Blog Post

Middle East & North Africa - Global Activities 2021

Abi Chaker, the founder and CEO of a Lebanese recycling company, to understand the challenges he faces. Abi Chaker launched Cedar Environmental as a sorting and composting company in 1999, but quickly realized that the waste management View Details

11 May 2011
Research & Ideas

Building a Better Board

should become industry standard. “When companies get into trouble it doesn't usually happen overnight; it happens over the course of two or three years. Figuring that out before the numbers go bad is the greatest View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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Michael Maples

was extraordinarily low,” he recalled. “The art of building something is very different from the art of being a good buyer. Not many entrepreneurs really end up making good VCs.” Maples,... View Details

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