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- 03 Aug 2020
- News
A Clean Start
other chemicals) from carbon dioxide. His goal was to demonstrate—through research, discovery, and good business—a new way forward in reducing CO2 emissions. The first step was to lay out the photosynthesis process in black and white on a whiteboard. Brix then began to... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Entertainment Moguls Ponder the Future at HBS Conference
States and from international markets and skyrocketing production costs pose huge challenges to the movie industry. Film- production costs alone, Vogel pointed out, have risen 9.5 percent annually since... View Details
Keywords: Paula Maute
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Terence P. Stewart
happens, lawyering didn't come first for Stewart. After graduating from HBS, he worked for several years in the business trenches, in marketing at J.C. Penney and later as product manager at Kroehler Manufacturing Co., a furniture... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
The People’s Pods
production Bluetooth technology inside cars has been a factor. As recently as eight or nine years ago, if you wanted to use an MP3 player or an iPod in the car, you’d have to hook it up to one of those old cassette deck adapters. Now you... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
Future Tech Leaders Dive into New Program
Students in the new joint MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program have the opportunity to participate in five design cycles, which build the skills needed to take a product concept from hunch to launch. Students in the new joint MS/MBA:... View Details
- 07 Mar 2019
- News
Smart Marketing Brings Rapid Growth to Latino Brands
“And today, we have 250 to 300 products and brands that are properly represented at a store level. We're also starting to develop our own set of products and brands to try to maximize the possibilities of a... View Details
- 11 Jan 2019
- News
Case Study: Beating Bias
in his quest to help readers—particularly millennials and Gen-Zers—better understand how the news is spun. The launch product is a free daily newsletter that aggregates headlines from both the left and right, with analysis that... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Consumption Is America’s Competitive Advantage
United States, rather than investing massive sums to regain technological preeminence, is much better off becoming the best country at incorporating such advances in new products and services, no matter where the ingredients are produced.... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
New Releases
management. The Development Factory by Gary P. Pisano (Harvard Business School Press) Product development has long been a source of advantage for firms. In The Development Factory: Unlocking the Potential of Process Innovation, Associate... View Details
- 25 Aug 2014
- News
Wendell P. Weeks, MBA 1987
razor-sharp focus on the future. Although the products have changed over the years—from the glass bulbs for Thomas Edison’s electric light to the cover glass in Apple’s iPhones—Weeks sees a steady pattern of innovation paired with an... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
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Plymouth Motor Corporation Photograph Collection - Photography Collections - Historical Collections
accompanied materials in an exhibition about Plymouth that was mounted at Baker Library in the mid 1930s. Photographs illustrate various stages of automobile production from building engine blocks and transmissions to assembling and... View Details
- 08 May 2015
- News
Prestige brands can expand their reach—and make their core customers proud
“Brand extensions and new users are not by definition a threat to exclusive brands,” Keinan says. “But it is essential to understand and manage the perceptions and reactions of core customers to these new products and their buyers.”... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Bottom-Line Beauty
cheap. If a product doesn't affect the customer, we don't care about it." Meanwhile, Bluemercury is reaping the benefits of Malcolm's thrift and savvy, with projected revenues of $8 million for 2000 and five new stores slated to open in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Baker Library Photo Exhibit
Bourke-White and Lewis Hine, were meant to instill confidence in corporate America. Photos in the exhibit are drawn from more than 2,100 photographs from 115 businesses that were gathered in the 1930s. The intent was to supplement HBS classroom instruction in... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Meeting an essential health care need in India
industrial designer, and completed two rounds of in-hospital tests. Sundaram is now creating a product line of affordable, universal, non-invasive vitals-monitoring devices that mount to the bed. “We identified a significant global market... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Mobile robots revolutionize order fulfillment
launch Kiva Systems in 2003. “We decided products that could walk and talk on their own would be the best way to solve the problem,” says Mountz, who continues as CEO of the company he sold to Amazon.com in 2012. (Published April 2014) View Details
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How Relationships are Building Biotech
teams of almost 300 biotechnology companies that went public between 1979 and 1996. Even more than firm age, size, product stage, and receptivity of the equity markets, Higgins and Gulati discovered, the top executives' connections... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Mallory Stark
- Profile
Terrance McGuire
can’t translate it into a real product and ultimately build a profitable business around that product, it’s never going to help anybody because it never leaves the box.” For McGuire, the life sciences require a vastly different... View Details
- 15 Oct 2019
- News
Understanding Challenges Across the Supply Chain
partnerships or alliances. While in Argentina, Alvarez observed how business leaders have learned to be flexible and creative. “I’m impressed when I talk to people who are keeping their food businesses going, given the turmoil they face dealing with infrastructure... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Case Study: Farming It Out
understand requirements of modification and research to enhance the product. At a more mature stage or later on, to prolong the life cycle of the product, AGR could switch to a Microsoft ecosystem to focus on product only and let others... View Details