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- 20 May 2013
- Op-Ed
Making America an Industrial Powerhouse Again
computer science, optics, and various engineering disciplines. We need to get over the outdated notion that manufacturing is "mature" and unconnected to science. Anyone who believes that should take a tour of a factory that... View Details
- 14 Aug 2025
- News
Back to the Future
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Scott Anthony (MBA 2001) is a clinical professor at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, and the author of Epic Disruptions: 11 Innovations That... View Details
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Mo Fong
Mo Fong (HBS ‘02, Stanford ‘95 ChemE, ‘96 MA Education ) Mo is currently the Executive Director at Stanford Technology Ventures Program in the School of Management and Engineering focusing on entrepreneurship research, programs and... View Details
- 26 Jun 2025
- News
The Vinyl Revival
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. When Caren Kelleher (MBA 2010) was at HBS, she started managing bands, mainly as a way to stay involved in an industry that she loved. It was right... View Details
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IFC India 2025: From Gray to Green: A Glimpse of the Future of Green Hydrogen in India - Blog - Business & Environment
Blog Blog Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author HBS Faculty Author HBS Staff Author Staff Author Students Topics Topics Accelerating Climate Solutions Conference 2023 Alumni Alumni Programs Alumni in Climate Networking Series Business... View Details
- November 1991 (Revised December 1996)
- Case
Pressco, Inc.--1985
A capital budgeting problem is viewed from the context of a marketing representative attempting to make a sale of energy saving heavy industrial equipment. Tax law changes promise to have a significant impact on the customer's decision process. Teaching purpose: To... View Details
Keywords: Capital Budgeting; Machinery and Machining; Valuation; Taxation; Customer Value and Value Chain; Cost vs Benefits; Inflation and Deflation; Cost Management; Product Marketing; North and Central America
Fruhan, William E., Jr. "Pressco, Inc.--1985." Harvard Business School Case 292-085, November 1991. (Revised December 1996.)
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
HBS Cyberposium Brings Online Future into Focus
"The Internet is an explosion like nothing we've ever seen before," declared Bob Davis, CEO of Lycos, the Internet search engine company, to an overflow crowd at the fourth annual Harvard Business School Cyberposium held last February at... View Details
Keywords: Meg Gardner
- 23 Feb 2011
- News
A Capitalist in China
published his first novel in January, China Fortunes: A Tale of Business in the New World, (www.johndkuhns.com) about a young American lured to China in the 1980s as the country embarked on economic reforms that transformed it into a global View Details
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FAQ - U.S. Competitiveness
environment, and commits the U.S. to a cleaner, lower-carbon energy system in the future. Why is U.S. competitiveness a global issue? With the world’s most productive large market, the U.S. is a key driver of worldwide prosperity. The... View Details
- 06 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017
forthcoming American Economic Journal: Economic Policy Selection and Market Reallocation: Productivity Gains from Multinational Production By: Alfaro, Laura, and Maggie X. Chen Abstract—Assessing the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Mar 2018
- Blog Post
Applying to HBS in Round 3?
engineering roles to product and brand marketing ones, I realized that I wanted to learn about skills and perspectives I couldn’t learn on the job: a macro view of finance and economics, how to think and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
How Do I Get Your Job?
slot in the slate? Maybe. It comes back to the curation aspect of this business. It’s very different from the search engine method of figuring out what’s worth watching. MB: Any advice for students or alumni considering a career in the... View Details
- 12 Aug 2008
- Op-Ed
Google-Yahoo Ad Deal is Bad for Online Advertising
these characteristics to influence prices. For example, consider an advertiser that is the sole bidder for a given term, e.g., a product that it alone sells. That advertiser's payment to Google does not reflect bidding to beat a... View Details
- 30 May 2019
- What Do You Think?
Is There a Distinctive West Coast Style of Management?
disrupting one’s own products and services, and operating with a nonhierarchical organization (à la Hamel). Salim presented many examples of exponential organizations under development; nearly all originated on or near the West Coast. The... View Details
- 10 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Homers: Secrets on the Factory Floor
employees on company time, with company material and/or tools. The origin of the term is unclear but probably refers to the fact that these artifacts are brought home. In the French aeronautics plant I studied, cutlery, toys, and decorative artifacts (such as View Details
- 11 Mar 2020
- News
Making It Rain
to gather weather data in an entirely new way—by extracting information from things like cell phone signals. When wireless signals hit atmospheric conditions like rain, for example, they lose strength. “We can reverse engineer the signal... View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Collaborative Cures
as well as additional funding for activities such as due diligence, market research, and other tasks necessary to determine the best route for product commercialization. Since its launch in 2013, fellows have created 17 companies in... View Details
- 12 Jan 2017
- News
Personalizing Women’s Path to Success
degree in chemical engineering, in 1989, she worked at Procter & Gamble in engineering and product development, and then in product supply, as the company started buying... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Ask the Expert: Barreling Ahead
being the case with the craft beer revolution? —Roger Ellis (MBA 1967) BUECHLER: The next 10 years are going to be interesting. In the short term, expect both the production side and the support side to continue to do well. Tank... View Details
- 10 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
New Venture Competition 2022: Business and Environment Ventures
carbon-neutral product. Sharing-OAurora Rotes, MBA 2009Sharing-O, the sharing platform for those things that are still too good to go, filling the gap between new and pre-owned. Let’s be sustainable today, not in 10 years. The most planet-friendly View Details