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- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Short Takes
companies with such plans do not perform better financially. Further analysis prompted Beer and Katz to conclude that the real role of bonuses is simply to attract highly qualified executives to a corporation. "Companies are forced into... View Details
Keywords: Orna Feldman and Caroline Chauncey
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Inside Intel
move in stages. Intel moved in stages, as if its executives were working their way through a trance. At one point, Grove, to his own amazement, allowed another executive to persuade him “to continue to do R&D for a [memory] product that... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
An Orchestral Startup
two years ahead of Executive Director Lim's business plan projections and is proof that pleasure mixed with business can indeed lead to personal harmony. A second-generation Korean-American, Lim grew up in a musical family in upstate New... View Details
Keywords: Linda Goodspeed
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
profitability. He notes that Xerox Corporation, for example, is currently implementing a plan to reclaim its equipment, refurbish it, and resell it - without having any waste leave the plant in the process. "They not only hope to achieve... View Details
- 13 Jul 2020
- News
The First Five Years: Meaghan Fitzgerald (MBA 2016)
friends and family while hanging out in a VR living room, to attending a concert with hundreds of people from around the world, to just playing games together.” Can you tell us about your role as head of product marketing for AR/VR... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Curb Your Smartphone Habit
nonproductive work patterns. When people are working all the time, there’s a good chance that room for improvement exists in planning and prioritizing. When you and your colleagues seem to be working all the time, you may need to ask... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Starting Lineup: Upturning Travel
in 2011 “The best way to book bus tickets,” aggregating information on a half-million bus routes in 63 countries. Winner of the 2014 Alumni New Venture Competition’s Best Investment category, Busbud has debuted a product that allows third... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Case Study: Power Nappy
Illustration by Alvaro Dominguez Before she had a baby of her own, Amrita Saigal (MBA 2014) kept hearing from friends that the “natural” diapers on the market didn’t hold up as well as the old standards, like Pampers. Trained as a mechanical engineer, Saigal knew her... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Made in the USA
of the Blackstone River in Northbridge, Massachusetts, the factory manufactures zinc-galvanized, plastic-coated welded wire mesh used to make lobster traps, security fencing, and other wire products, using a process Knott invented. The company’s first success was... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Case Study: Sweat the Technique
Ackerly (MBA 1976) Until the product has user traction and the resulting revenues, it is just a dream. Pursue the analog option aggressively and produce the compelling and differentiated value that was the original design. Don’t let... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 30 Mar 2022
- News
Giving Hope and Comfort
that staggering number will meet less than 10 percent of the true need in Massachusetts. Feingold has big plans for Hope and Comfort. Over the next five years, he hopes to expand the size and extend the reach of the organization, to... View Details
- 01 Aug 2013
- News
A Cure for Cold Storage
Tufts biomedical engineering professor who had discovered a way to employ silk to create stable vaccine storage. Schrader, with a mechanical engineering background and experience in product development, was intrigued, and joined up with... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
The Digital Deck
As a professor in the Strategy Unit, Bharat Anand has studied how media companies move a traditional product into the online space. Some have managed that transition well, he says, and others have not. In the early days, Anand observes,... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Ink: Q&A with Kathy Wang (MBA 2011)
Kathy Wang (MBA 2011) can pinpoint the very moment she started drafting her first novel, Family Trust. It was January 1, 2017, as soon as her son went down for his nap. Wang was on hiatus from her career as a product manager at Seagate... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
A. G. Lafley, MBA 1977
Crest and Pampers, for example, have regained market share after losing their number one positions in the United States several years ago to Colgate-Palmolive and Kimberly-Clark, respectively. Crest won back the top spot recently by introducing teeth-whitening View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Case Study: On the Table
furniture design but in a warehouse, a fleet of trucks, and a staff of drivers—the type of capital-intensive vertical integration he planned for later on, after Gaia Design had established its reputation as a source for well-designed,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Streamlining the Supermarket
remake the traditional grocery store model. TakeOff’s micro fulfillment centers won’t host customers, so a supermarket-sized selection can be squeezed into a 90 percent smaller building footprint. And since mobile robots will retrieve View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Honorable Mention
Association's task force on admissions, were recognized for their efforts to help develop a long-term strategy to boost admission of women to the MBA Program. David Hughes, section president, student senator, and HBS Show production... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Story of Israel’s Economic Miracle
ingredient is the fact that Israel’s “economic miracle” is no miracle at all but rather the product of a calculated start-up mentality that permeates its history and culture. “Israel is the first start-up nation in history, the result of... View Details
- 20 Jan 2011
- News
Oil Spill Solution
plants, birds, fish, and shrimp. Smith’s planned two-day visit to test his products in the Gulf last May turned into an entire summer working with residents whose lives and livelihoods have been threatened.... View Details