Productivity - Publications - Faculty & Research

23 Jun 2014
News

How a Top Female Exec at Google Brings Poise from Ballet to Business

Keywords: Google; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing

01 Dec 2013
News

Single Mom at 15 Now Silicon Valley Star

Keywords: Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing

19 Feb 2013
News

Sam Adams: Now (finally) in a can

Keywords: beer; Beverage and Tobacco Product Manufacturing; Beverage and Tobacco Product Manufacturing

01 Dec 2012
News

Sunny's MBA

In 1986, as a 26-year-old with a degree in agricultural management and little business experience, Sunny Verghese (AMP 115, 1994) was newly employed by a venerable Indian conglomerate to oversee a textile mill in Nigeria. A foreign exchange crisis was making it very... View Details

Keywords: Crop Production; Crop Production; Crop Production; Crop Production

28 Oct 2008
First Look

First Look: October 28, 2008

platform-based products (applications) and users of such products. We show that the unique equilibrium under platform compatibility leads to higher profits than the symmetric equilibrium under incompatibility. Notwithstanding,... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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

22 Jan 2018
Sharpening Your Skills

Why You Are Unhappy at Work

importance of being supportive. Hazard Warning: The Unacceptable Cost of Toxic Workers A productive workplace can be easily disrupted by one unruly employee. Here's what companies can do to detox the problem-makers. If the CEO’s High... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

Profile

Arvind Chandrababu

recommended to the company by a friend who works there; they contacted me early last September. I feel that it’s perfect for me. I’ll be in product management, which means taking a product from initial... View Details

Keywords: Technology; Nonprofit / Government

01 Dec 2017
News

2017 in Finance: Helping Consumers Improve Their Financial Life

Large consumer banks have historically collected a lot of data on their customers, which they have used to sell standardized products. Increasingly, however, we have seen new entrants using customer data to help the consumer and provide them with customizable View Details

Keywords: Omer Ismail (MBA 2007), chief commercial officer, Marcus by Goldman Sachs, the firm’s digital consumer financial services business; Finance

Profile

Allen Yang

PepsiCo's foodservice division, and became a product engineer at a start-up, Yipit, an online aggregator of daily deal services, such as Groupon and LivingSocial. "Being accepted to HBS gave me the courage to try new things,"... View Details

Keywords: CPG; Tech; Financial Services

Wilbert L. Smith

After leaving behind the first family company, Smith-Premier Typewriter Company, Wilbert and his brothers formed the entity that later became L.C. Smith Corona. Under Wilbert Smith’s leadership, the company re-engineered their product, capitalizing on improvements made... View Details

Keywords: Fabricated Goods

Joseph P. Routh

When Routh assumed the position of President in 1938, Pittston’s coal and oil production businesses were generating $26 million in revenues and losing approximately $1 million on the bottom-line. Through shrewd investments and tight... View Details

Keywords: Agriculture & Mining

Larry L. Prince

Prince continued Genuine Parts’ record 50-year history of consecutive sales and earnings increases. Through an expanding product line and strategic acquisitions, the company revenues have increased from $3 billion to over $8 billion.... View Details

Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace

Thomas B. Pickens

Starting his career with only a small drilling, exploration and production firm, Pickens developed a knack for acquiring oil-rich properties. His luck afforded him the wealth he used to begin his famous string of attempted hostile... View Details

Keywords: Utilities & Energy

Alfred E. Mann

Mann was a prolific inventor who developed many lifesaving medical devices including the rechargeable pacemaker which formed the basis of the successful Pacesetter company. Mann continued to perfect the pacemaker and developed other biomedical devices. Though he sold... View Details

Keywords: Healthcare

Rose M. Knox

Knox built the largest gelatin distribution company in the U.S. After her husband’s death, Knox directed advertising to women, published recipes and financed constant research on gelatin usage. Through diversification efforts, Knox lessened the company’s dependence on... View Details

Keywords: Food & Tobacco

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