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- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Vital Signs
there are companies that have done well because of the pandemic. The former are stronger because instead of building a business based on a pandemic that will hopefully end sooner rather than later, you have really built an essential View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Additional alumni books for your consideration.
Resisting the impulse for drastic change, Bhidé offers a blueprint for correcting the historic misalignment between the numbers-driven financial sector and the innovation-driven “real economy.” He advocates tough, straightforward limits on the activities of View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Who Owns Yoga?
them from stealing I must go to the lawyers,” he said. By 2011, there were some 5,000 Bikram Yoga studios worldwide. Deshpandé notes that Bikram succeeded through the strategic use of branding and legal protections, and that he also started early in the United States... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
HBS Business Plan Contestants Pin Their Hopes on the Internet
cash and in-kind services. They are KNUMI, which is developing technology to enable "media content providers to create a highly interactive experience for end-users"; Sound MicroSystems, which is commercializing technology for the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Innovation: The Fish-Farming Fix
eggs have a short shelf life. Norway’s salmon farms meet some 40 percent of global demand for the species, for instance, but can harvest eggs only during the few months of spawning season. How do you boost production the rest of the year?... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Jerry Shafir: A Simmering Success Story
Boston's Legal Sea Foods restaurant chain, where he met his future partner, Christopher Nessen. A production chef at the company, Nessen provided the culinary and technical expertise for Kettle Cuisine. He was well acquainted with the... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Savings and Loam
Cummings is staying on as board chair.) On the lending side, Walden Mutual will offer commercial loans to sustainable food and farming businesses across New England. That means not only production farms but... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Delivering the Goods
chains, eliminating much of the distance products are shipped today. There will be great opportunities, especially in niches like cross-border shipping, for those who can use 3D printing to avoid regulatory constraints. What is less clear... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
A Case for Coffee
Another highlight of the trip was a stimulating case discussion on coffee production led by two local alumni, Thomas Dixon (MBA ’88) and Tim Piper (MBA ’88). Dixon and Piper both work for the Tanzania arm of TechnoServe, a global... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
HBS Cyberposium Brings Online Future into Focus
student volunteers from the Communications, Media, and Computing Ventures Club who organized seven provocative panel discussions and a number of leading-edge product demonstrations and entrepreneurial workshops. The two-day event... View Details
Keywords: Meg Gardner
- 23 Feb 2011
- News
A Capitalist in China
became the first American to acquire commercial hydroelectric generating equipment from China. Today he is chairman and CEO of China Hydroelectric Corporation, the country’s largest owner of small hydroelectric projects. In fact, he may... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Inspiration Is Not Enough
According to venture capitalist Jeffrey Harris (MBA 1981), there are entrepreneurs, and then there are transformative entrepreneurs. The former group includes Richard Branson, who has created many great products and services but not one... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Arthur Rock (MBA '51)
In 1957 a group of eight scientists, disenchanted with the management style of their Nobel Prize-winning boss, William Shockley, walked out of Shockley Semiconductor Laboratories in Palo Alto. Armed with the technical expertise to View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
The Sky’s the Limit
launch last fall with “two ex-Microsoft guys.” All three are pilots, and fittingly, their first product is a flight-planning software program called Voyager. “It’s for general aviation pilots — private pilots and View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Buy the Book
perspective. “I’d never actually heard a product speak,” he recalls. “It was like listening to a can of Coca-Cola explain how it would like to be marketed.” That initial encounter inspired Deighton to write “Marketing James Patterson,” a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Alumni Books
large book on the life and work of the late Stanley Meltzoff, a noted U.S. commercial artist, has nearly 190 color plates showing works ranging from illustrations for the Armed Forces’ Stars and Stripes and his covers for Field & Stream,... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Brand New
because they play such a significant part in people’s lives,” says Sundy, now senior vice president and chief commercial officer for another American classic, La-Z-Boy. “Sometimes these brands get old or stale,” he admits, “but they still... View Details
- 09 Sep 2016
- News
MaiTai Global and Kiteboarding
can see it-- if you look at the roots of technology, a lot of the commercial success and just waves of productivity that emerged from technology, all were centered around the formation of communities. And if... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Case Study: Your Call Is Important to Us
Duncan for the company’s Hack Week competition, in which employees are invited to spend a week pursuing a passion project. Their idea for a personality-forward voice assistant won an award and, with it, some funding. “Seeing that Spotify was interested in View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Academic Cross-Pollination
productively at the intersection of business, science, and technology. His second-year elective, Commercializing Science and High Technology, is designed to attract business, science, engineering, law, and... View Details