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- 13 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
Career Journey: Karan Khimji, Co-Founder of 44.01
included the two professors, Juerg Matter and Peter Kelemen, who had first discovered peridotite’s capacity to mineralise CO2. I joined him as his co-founder and Chief Commercial Officer. That was two years ago and we’re now an established carbon removal company. We... View Details
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Judges - Alumni
have limited time to capture investor attention. Be direct, avoid unnecessary jargon, and clearly communicate the problem, solution, market opportunity, and business model. Highlight the team: Investors bet on people Ideas matter, but... View Details
- 27 Oct 2015
- News
Sweet Success
when they buy syrup,” he observes. “That’s about a $500 million US market. But today people have started looking for healthier alternatives to sugar in the sweetener market, which is exponentially larger.” “If the maple industry can View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
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Research & Development, Project Code SX-70 - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
medium. Among the popular subjects were pensive portraits of Land and playful snapshots of Polaroid colleagues. The team ventured outside the laboratory as well into the surrounding neighborhoods where they captured views of everyday life... View Details
- 31 May 2017
- What Do You Think?
Can Amazon Do What Walmart Couldn’t, Stop the 'Wheel of Retailing'?
years later another colleague relies on Amazon for delivery of dog food to a remote location in Maine at a price comparable to the local supermarket.) There is no question that Bezos has built a retailing juggernaut, one that is capturing... View Details
- 06 Jun 2008
- What Do You Think?
Why Don’t Managers Think Deeply?
colleagues, trained to admire and teach action, would walk away shaking their heads and asking each other, "Is he alright?" It is perhaps no coincidence that Tony often came up with some of the most profound insights at faculty meetings and informal... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 20 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Managing the Family Business: Survival’s Secret Sauce
The secret sauce of long-term business success can't be captured in numbers. As the operations manager of a leading and fast-growing Brazilian business recently explained to a reporter, "There's a secret sauce in this business [but] it's... View Details
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Yinka Shonibare CBE RA Wind Sculpture (SG) V 2019 | About
Asia, Africa and Europe—and of course the diaspora in the United States.” Wind Sculpture (SG) V was acquired by Harvard Business School in 2021 for the C. Ludens Ringnes Sculpture Collection. In this work, Shonibare employs Dutch wax textiles to visualize the idea of... View Details
- 07 May 2007
- Research & Ideas
Rediscovering Schumpeter: The Power of Capitalism
pages long, but it perfectly captures the essence of capitalism. The 2 chapters preceding and the 2 following it flesh out the argument. So in the space of a little more than 40 pages, we have probably the richest material ever written on... View Details
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Introducing One-Step Photography - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
After one minute, he peeled away an 8-by-10-inch print from the negative. A sequence of photographs captured the tense moments as Land posed for his portrait, followed by his visible relief when the first public demonstration of instant... View Details
- 30 Oct 2017
- Blog Post
How My Engineering and Manufacturing Background Prepared Me for an MBA
managers are often faced with limited resources and time, and thus, dealing with ambiguity and making business decisions based on information available, even if it does not capture the whole picture, is a skill that I have had to develop.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- What Do You Think?
Is Stakeholder Management Facing New Headwinds?
captured the spirit of respondents when she said, “For Harvard Business School to give up on the case method would be a step backward, not forward.” Reminding us that the method was adapted from teaching techniques practiced at Harvard... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
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Research Summary
By: Leslie A. Perlow
There has been tremendous change in the workplace — ubiquitous technology, 24/7 globalization, hyper-efficiency and now significant changes in work location. Professor Perlow’s research explores the implications for the ways we work and live, and what we can do to... View Details
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MBA Elective Curriculum-- Competing Through Business Models
The words “business model” are inescapable in our daily fare of business news. These two ubiquitous words seemed to effortlessly rise up to prominence during the dot-com boom of the late 1990s. When businesspeople, journalists, academics, and other... View Details
- 08 Sep 2008
- HBS Case
The Value of Environmental Activists
There are many methods, most financial, to measure the success of companies in meeting goals. But the question becomes a lot harder at Harvard Business School when MBAs are challenged to measure the efforts of environmental organizations like Greenpeace and the World... View Details
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Overview
Professor Ferreira's research primarily focuses on how retailers can use algorithms to make better revenue management decisions, including pricing, product display, and assortment planning. In the retail industry, anticipating consumer demand is arguably one of the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
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Future Vision
that lie ahead for business leaders? The curricula in all our academic programs is driven by faculty research, which is always evolving. Through their work with practitioners, and in the field, faculty are able to capture remarkable... View Details
- 18 Jul 2019
- Lessons from the Classroom
The Internet of Things Needs a Business Model. Here It Is
in the business-to-business space.” Indeed, the kinds of innovation possible in the B2B world seem limitless. By placing sensors on machinery and connecting them to the internet, companies can capture real-time data on their assets and... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
New Urban Order
Increase waste recycling in general. And, finally, focus on capturing the energy generated when decades-old trash decomposes. Public policy is a big factor in making a lot of this happen, Jackman points out. For starters, you have to make... View Details
Keywords: Kathleen Fu, Deborah Blagg, Julia Hanna, and Maureen Harmon; illustrations by; energy; environment; sustainability; entrepreneurship; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services
- 04 Feb 2016
- Blog Post
Meet the HBS Tech Club
knowledge-building events for our members. Finally, we are working to capture and leverage the wealth of knowledge that is latent in our student population from previous work and internship experiences to share with others. What advice... View Details