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- 01 Oct 1997
- News
William K.L. Fung
told my father that I didn't want to be in a family company," says Fung with a chuckle. The elder Fung challenged his son to use his HBS skills to breathe new life into the trading company, founded by Fung's grandfather in Canton, China,... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 08 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 8
unexpected event in turn. Luck played a part, but so did smart leadership and sensemaking. Until the last reactor went into cold shutdown, Masuda's team took nothing for granted. With each new problem they encountered, it recalibrated,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Brand Power from Wedgwood to Dell: Part One
six visionary entrepreneurs through more than 250 years of history. All six built strong, meaningful brands and launched companies, often literally from scratch, which have endured to this day. The six include Josiah Wedgwood, the eighteenth-century British pottery and... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Reimagining the MBA
October 6 was palpable. As all 900-plus first-year MBA students streamed into the “hive” classrooms in Batten Hall and made their way to preassigned tables, they found on each a small cardboard box adorned with a big red question mark.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017
and allowed Christianity and Islam into China for the first time. Tang presents Taizong’s wisdom in conversations between him and his advisers that reveal core aspects of leadership, among them: how to... View Details
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Driving Profitable Growth - Course Catalog
portrays organizations with ample resources and capabilities, but whose growth prospects are limited by lack of demand in primary markets. Their challenge is to find, if possible, new sources of revenue through entry View Details
- 01 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Crowdfunding a Poor Investment?
for the Securities and Exchange Commission to pass rules that would allow for crowdfunding investment on a large scale. Already, companies have dipped their toes into crowdfunding through websites such as Kickstarter, Indiegogo, and... View Details
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The Route of the Exhibition - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center
distinguished advertising work in North American newspapers and magazines. The awards focused on numerous elements including effective campaigns, innovative marketing research, 29 and, as Bok wrote, the attainment of “a higher standard of art.” 30 During the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?
customer. ET then went a step further, locating an aluminum extruder in China that would manufacture some of the parts used in the panels. “We ship in 48 hours from our Singapore partner’s warehouse to the customer’s facility,” Sharpe... View Details
- 21 Dec 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #12: Vehicle to Everything - Claire Broido Johnson (MBA 2002), Chief Operating Officer of Fermata Energy
“batteries on wheels.” Fermata’s bidirectional vehicle-to-everything (V2X) charging platforms can turn electric vehicles (EVs) into revenue centers, extend the value of EV fleets and provide a solution to the electricity grid. As Claire... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
WATER Ltd.
to outsource water treatment because of its increasing complexity and strict regulatory requirements. Industrial water treatment is a capital-intensive industry, so that tends to drive it into the hands of large multinationals.” Indeed,... View Details
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles, Papers of the Decade
Networks Published: September 14, 2009 Many business leaders are mystified about how to reach potential customers on social networks such as Facebook. Professor Mikolaj Jan Piskorski provides a fresh look into the interpersonal dynamics... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Farming for Fuel
What happens when a group of Missouri corn farmers gets into the energy business? With consumers paying more than double for gasoline than they did a year ago, turning crops into fuel, not food, seems like a... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Case Study: Inside Story
Illustration by Lu Zhang Amelia Lin (MBA 2016) grew up feasting on the stories her parents told about how they met and what it was like for them to leave China to start a new life in the United States. These narratives were central to... View Details
- 08 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 8, 2008
into a stock of trust. Renewal through Reorganization: The Value of Inconsistencies between Formal and Informal Organization Authors:Ranjay Gulati and P. Puranam Periodical:Organization Science (forthcoming) Abstract We develop a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 10, 2007
this note: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=107047 Chongqing Tiandi Harvard Business School Case 207-019 In late 2000, Vincent Lo, a prominent Hong Kong developer was invited by the Deputy Mayor of Chongqing, View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
(PPE)ople First: Bringing Critical Personal Protective Equipment to Boston Hospitals
(HBS 2021) to raise money to purchase PPE for local Boston Hospitals. The Beginning Our initiative started in late March with an MBA student, Sophie Bai (HBS 2020), and an HBS professor, Jeff Bussgang. Having witnessed the spread of the virus in View Details
- 21 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Loyalty: Don’t Give Away the Store
shoppers modify their behavior to take advantage of reward or loyalty deals. How do behaviors such as cherry-picking and stockpiling play into the equation? A: When we looked at this data, we didn't see much of a stockpiling effect. Worst... View Details
- 11 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Road Map to Fix America’s Transportation Infrastructure
Any highway commuter who has wasted hours stuck in traffic can see the cracks in the United States' transportation system, as can any airline passenger who has been stranded overnight in an airport. Yet while many agree that the need for infrastructure change is... View Details
- 06 Jan 2012
- Op-Ed
Where Green Corporate Ratings Fail
News Corporation—a multinational media conglomerate that includes BSKYB, Dow Jones, Fox News, 20th Century Fox and Star, among other units—announced earlier this year that it has become climate neutral, meaning that its operations have no net impact on global climate... View Details