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Carl Laemmle
Laemmle, one of the most outstanding figures in Hollywood, created the “star” system that was to dominate American filmmaking. He consolidated independent studios and was responsible for the development of countless movie stars. Laemmle founded his own producing... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media
Charles R. Hook
Hook is known more for his progressive employment practices than for building Armco into the leading producer of sheet metal. He was an advocate of full-disclosure and loyalty policies towards employees and was also active in the field of public service, strongly... View Details
Keywords: Metals
Otto H. Falk
As head of Allis-Chalmers, Falk introduced a product line of earth-moving and other heavy machinery, including tractors, which used the internal combustion engine. Falk was hugely successful in leading Allis-Chalmers into the competitive... View Details
Keywords: Fabricated Goods
Thomas C. du Pont
duPont consolidated the military powder production industry to the point where the duPont Corporation was producing 90% of all explosives in the U.S. In a matter of four years, duPont acquired the stocks of more than 100 of his... View Details
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Introduction - The Medium - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
The Message The Product The Production The Worker The Audience Bibliography The Medium: Industrial Photography and the Machine Age Any great art which might be developed in this industrial age will come from... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
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Inside Intel
find excuses to visit Fab 3 just so they could put a bunny suit on.” Fab 3 was also important because it introduced the “McDonald’s approach” to erecting fabs. They were to be made as similar as possible. In the world of “McIntel,” exact replication would mean that... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
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Mr. Start-Up
Issue Focus: Entrepreneurship Cassidy: At Google, a more intense and frenetic experience than launching his own companies. Art by Joe Ciardiello Related Links Watch a video of Mike Cassidy explaining his approach to rapid product... View Details
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Science out into the open - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
HBS Home HBS Index Contact Us Harvard Business School Baker Library Historical Collections The Human Factor Introducing the Industrial Life Photograph Collection at the Baker Library Introduction The Exhibition The Request The Response The Collection The Medium The... View Details
- 03 Mar 2014
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Decommoditizing the Canned Tomato
its start in Parma, Italy, in 1899, when the great-grandfather of current CEO-owner Francesco Mutti canned and sold tomatoes to an illiterate rural population that identified the product by the two lions on its label. Even from the start... View Details
- June 2024
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Major League Baseball: Changing the Rules of America's Pastime
By: Stephen A. Greyser, Mac Levin and Brent Schwarz
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 924-307. The Teaching Note offers suggestions for using the case as a “product innovation” for different levels of students and their knowledge of baseball. Discussion plan questions for instructors are provided in the context of MLB’s... View Details
- May 2015
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Pricing in a Digital World (2015)
By: John Gourville
Dynamic pricing, especially as practiced by Uber and Lift, seems to be all the rage. In this case, we look at five interesting applications of dynamic price and price customization, each made possible by advances in digital technology. These range from the online... View Details
- June 1995 (Revised July 2006)
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Barilla SpA (C)
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
Hammond, Janice H. "Barilla SpA (C)." Harvard Business School Supplement 695-065, June 1995. (Revised July 2006.)
- 06 Apr 2021
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Disrupting the Waste Industry with Technology
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- 14 Dec 2022
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ChatGPT Is a Tipping Point for AI
- 01 Sep 2018
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Research Brief: Where Top-Down Tops Out
Raffaella Sadun (photo by Russ Campbell) Raffaella Sadun (photo by Russ Campbell) In the face of economic challenges, hospitals in the English National Health Service have turned to a strategy that has proven effective for small private and public organizations: hiring... View Details
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Daniel F. Gerber
Gerber created the baby foods market as well as the company’s advertising campaign - the “Gerber Baby,” a symbol that became world-famous. By 1973, Gerber was the world’s largest supplier of baby foods with sales of $278 billion. Gerber also added non-baby food View Details
Keywords: Food & Tobacco
Desiderio A. Arnaz
In 1951, Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball first telecasted their situation comedy - “I Love Lucy,” which was an overnight sensation. Desilu Productions literally created the phenomenon of reruns. Selling the rerun rights of “I Love Lucy” to... View Details
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Purifying silver nitrate for use in making photo-sensitive emulsions - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
HBS Home HBS Index Contact Us Harvard Business School Baker Library Historical Collections The Human Factor Introducing the Industrial Life Photograph Collection at the Baker Library Introduction The Exhibition The Request The Response The Collection The Medium The... View Details
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The final inspection - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
The Message The Product The Production The Worker The Audience Bibliography previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 next The final inspection ca. 1932 Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporation... View Details
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Breaking down the ingot - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
The Message The Product The Production The Worker The Audience Bibliography previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 next Breaking down the ingot ca. 1932 Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporation... View Details