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- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Design Moguls
The HBS Design Fair 2000, held December 4 in Kresge Hall, showcased final projects for the MBA elective course, Managing Product Development, taught by Associate Professor Stefan Thomke. Second-year students on the Capstone Snowboard Products team proposed two products... View Details
Keywords: Educational Services
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Business Plan Contest Has Many Winners
With its ninth annual competition last May, the HBS Business Plan Contest has become a well-established start-up that hits “home runs” every year. This year’s traditional track winner was Karen Grajwer (MBA ’05), founder of Uplift, an Internet and retail-store venture... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Flex Time
Lauri Union (MBA 1992) manages Union Corrugating Company (UCC) from Boston, where she lives with her husband and two young children. While her early years at the company required more time on-site in North Carolina, she’s managed to scale back her trips to two or three... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
- 30 Jan 2009
- News
What’s It Worth to You?
How much is a CEO worth? What is appropriate compensation for the leader of a large and complex organization? One frequent reply has been “Let the market decide.” The “market” apparently decided that Lehman Brothers CEO Richard Fuld was worth nearly $500 million over... View Details
- 16 Mar 2010
- News
New Site Offers Free Wardrobe Advice
- 17 Mar 2011
- News
Make or Break for the USA?
As the global economy grows ever more competitive, American manufacturing is at a critical juncture. The country has been surrendering jobs, production capacity, and know-how to other countries at an alarming rate. The answers to this dilemma aren’t as obvious as they... View Details
- 10 May 2016
- First Look
May 10, 2016
of the information externality exceeds the subsidy that would be necessary to operate the service. We estimate each dollar spent on the service yields a $10 private return. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 26 Aug 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Built for Global Competition from the Start
business life cycle how these fledgling ventures can operate across multiple countries. The course would also identify advantages and liabilities of starting an international company, how to manage it locally and globally, and building... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could
driving the Porsche as his company car. “With God as my witness, that’s what happened,” says Rogers, who still seems amazed by the turn of events. Taking Dreyer’s National When Rogers and Cronk took over on May 20, 1977, Dreyer’s was a $6-million-a-year View Details
Amadeo Peter Giannini
Giannini grew Bank of America into the world’s largest bank. Three years after surviving the San Francisco earthquake of 1906, Giannini’s banking operations expanded by opening its first branch in San Jose. He continued to open banks... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- December 2015 (Revised February 2017)
- Case
BRF
By: David E. Bell and Natalie Kindred
In 2015, BRF's new leadership team is transforming several aspects of the Brazilian protein giant, which had grown sluggish after the 2011 merger that created it. Underlying their reforms are the common goals of reducing bureaucracy, streamlining decision making, and,... View Details
Keywords: BRF; Brasil Foods; Tarpon; Brazil; Marketing; Protein; Commodity; Commodities; Branding; Turnaround; Culture; Transformation; Mergers; Change Management; Private Equity; Distribution; Food; Goods and Commodities; Supply Chain; Mergers and Acquisitions; Trade; Brands and Branding; Food and Beverage Industry; Brazil
- 2005
- Working Paper
Wintel: Cooperation or Conflict
We study the incentives of complementors (producers of complementary products) to cooperate vs. compete and how these interact. In a system of complements, like the PC, the value of the final product depends on how well the different components work together. This, in... View Details
Keywords: Investment; Price; Time Management; Product; Product Development; Research and Development; Conflict and Resolution; Motivation and Incentives; Value
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, and David B. Yoffie. "Wintel: Cooperation or Conflict." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 05-083, July 2005.
- 2003
- Article
Closing the Loop: Product Take-back Requirements and their Strategic Implications
In Asia, Europe, and North America, regulators are seeking to reduce waste disposal and develop recycling markets by requiring manufacturers to manage the end-of-life disposition of products they produce. Such policies attempt to "close the loop" for products ranging... View Details
Keywords: Wastes and Waste Processing; Energy Conservation; Product Development; Strategy; Policy; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Manufacturing Industry; Asia; Europe; North and Central America
Toffel, Michael W. "Closing the Loop: Product Take-back Requirements and their Strategic Implications." Corporate Environmental Strategy 10, no. 9 (2003).
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Stealth Mogul
unnoticed in the business press. “I love the fact that we are not covered,” Nelson told the Times. Among its successes, Providence turned its founding investment in cellular telephone operator VoiceStream Wireless into a hefty return when... View Details
- Web
Our Leadership | Information Technology
Our Leadership Elizabeth (Beth) Clark Chief Information Officer Application & Service Administration Irene Good, Managing Director IT Financial Management & Business Operations Carolyn Pyburn, Senior Director Enterprise Engineering &... View Details
Paul C. Henshaw
A geologist by training, Henshaw was not immune to being on the frontline of mine exploration and development. Through his efforts, Homestake became an established provider of uranium. In addition, he personally was responsible for expanding Homestake’s mining View Details
Keywords: Agriculture & Mining
Harlow H. Curtice
Curtice took the helm of General Motors during the height of the post-war automobile boom. He dramatically impacted the boom by approving a $1 billion investment in the company. In so doing, General Motors expanded the scale and scope of its View Details
Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace
- 08 Sep 2016
- Blog Post
4 Unexpected Things I Learned at HBS
Finance I course. Coming from an operational background, I had very limited exposure to interpreting problems and solutions through a financial lens. After finally admitting to myself that I was not going to master these concepts on my... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Lighten Up
Coup says. “Timberland’s on two orders of magnitude larger than us in terms of people, in terms of sales, in terms of complexity of operations, and in terms of the number of countries it operates in.” But size has its advantages. As a... View Details