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  • 12 Sep 2024
  • Blog Post

Amager Bakke: I Like This Waste Incinerator in My Backyard!

In January 2024, Professors Willy Shih and Mike Toffel led 45 HBS MBA students on site visits to witness the energy transition and innovative sustainable production activities throughout Denmark and the Netherlands, in the second year of... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2004
  • News

David Horgan: Iraqi Briefing, 21st November, 2003

but resistance becomes more deadly. Coalition military morale has collapsed. The outcome will be decided by approaching US elections. High economic and political costs force rethinks. Oil drives all. Production averaged about 2 million... View Details
Keywords: Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

    Amory Houghton

    Houghton diversified Corning Glass products and expanded, for the first time, into the field of consumer goods. He sharply reduced the prices for beakers, Pyrex ovenware, and electric light bulbs, making them more attractive as... View Details
    Keywords: Fabricated Goods

      Robert H. Johnson

      Under Johnson, Ingersoll-Rand enjoyed growth in products as well as profitability. In his early years, the focus of the industrial products firm was to cut costs and invest in View Details
      Keywords: Fabricated Goods

        Carlos Reines

        holds an MBA from Harvard. Carlos was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. Carlos loves helping early stage founders in areas such as fundraising, creating a strong team, building an MVP, finding product market fit. View Details

          John Pitcairn

          Pitcairn shepherded his small plate glass company into an industry leader with a capitalization of $25 million in 1916. Pitcairn accomplished such expansion through plant acquisition and sales growth, as well as through investment in technologically innovative View Details
          Keywords: Fabricated Goods

            H. Brewster Atwater, Jr.

            Despite a worldwide recession, Atwater led General Mills through 10 consecutive years of market value growth. He re-focused General Mills on its core products and services, and in so doing, enabled the company to profitably expand on a... View Details
            Keywords: Food & Tobacco
            • Web

            Crisis Leadership - Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School

            change ingrained habits and emerge as industry leaders. One such firm was the renowned Waltham Watch Company, which pioneered the production of watches from interchangeable parts. Like all manufacturers of non-essential products, Waltham... View Details
            • Web

            Site Credits - Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School

            John G. McLean Professor of Business Administration Tom Nicholas Associate Professor of Business Administration Emma Rothschild Jeremy and Jane Knowles Professor of History Website Design and Production : Alex Taylor, Big Ring Design... View Details
            • 01 Mar 2006
            • News

            Faculty Books

            its decision-making, marketing, brand management, innovation, acquisition strategies, corporate culture, and human-resource management. Managing Product and Service Development by Stefan H. Thomke (Irwin/McGraw-Hill) Professor Thomke... View Details
            Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
            • 07 Jan 2009
            • What Do You Think?

            Is the World Really Flat?

            three-by-three matrix composed of high/mid/ground-level products and services and high/mid/ground-level know-how—for example, developers of high-level (think microprocessors), mid-level (motherboards), and ground-level (laptop computers)... View Details
            Keywords: by Jim Heskett
            • 05 Mar 2001
            • What Do You Think?

            Fine Coupling: Can Human Resource Management Learn from Supply Chain Management?

            rather, how do we get the organizations of the world to agree to standardized job types?" Suresh Annappindi points out that "...although people and products cannot be equated and subjected to the same exact metrics ... we can... View Details
            Keywords: by James Heskett
            • Web

            Alumni in Climate Networking Series: Miami - Blog - Business & Environment

            Careers Climate Rising Climate Stories Clubs Courses & Curriculum Creating Emerging Markets Entrepreneurship Event Faculty Faculty Research IFC Decarbonization & Sustainable Production 2023 IFC Decarbonization & Sustainable View Details
            • July 2010 (Revised March 2016)
            • Case

            MacroMarkets LLC

            By: Robin Greenwood and Luis M. Viceira
            MacroMarkets co-founder and CEO Samuel Masucci III is meeting with a strategic partner for his firm. Co-founded with Yale University Professor Robert Shiller, MacroMarkets' main innovation is the "MacroShare," which allows investors to take long or short, levered or... View Details
            Keywords: Macroeconomics; Financial Instruments; Financial Markets; Investment Funds; Investment Portfolio; Innovation and Invention; Risk Management; Product Positioning; Demand and Consumers; Financial Services Industry
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            • December 2001 (Revised January 2002)
            • Case

            Nestle S.A.

            By: Ray A. Goldberg and Hal Hogan
            Peter Brabeck wants to focus Nestle as a wellness company in the global food system and do so in a way that provides both growth in sales and margins in both developed and developing countries. View Details
            Keywords: Brands and Branding; Product Development; Supply Chain Management; Food; Multinational Firms and Management; Business Growth and Maturation; Sales; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Switzerland
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            • 07 Dec 2015
            • Blog Post

            What I Wish I'd Known About HBS

            differently? What do they wish they’d known? What advice do they have for prospective students and new students? Greg Sequin, a West Point graduate and finance officer, got interested in tech while at HBS. He did a product management... View Details
            • 06 Mar 2018
            • First Look

            First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018

            provide insights into why and how investors use reported environmental, social, and governance (ESG) information. Relevance to investment performance is the most frequent motivation for use of ESG data followed by client demand and View Details
            Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

              Thomas M. Rauch

              Through significant investments in research and development, Rauch enabled Smith Kline to build a pipeline of new products and drug applications. During his leadership, Smith Kline’s revenues increased from $259 million to $357 million –... View Details
              Keywords: Healthcare
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              Making Kraft mayonnaise - 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 Making Kraft mayonnaise ca. 1933 Kraft-Phenix Cheese Corporation... View Details

                James S. Bell

                Bell created the brand name Gold Medal for his company's flour. During the 1890s, Bell created selling and buying networks as part of a vigorous program of vertical integration. Bell also increased the company's production from 8,000... View Details
                Keywords: Food & Tobacco