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- 01 Jun 2012
- News
A Better World, One Idea at a Time
A dozen budding social entrepreneurs pitched their ideas for innovative products and services during the annual Social Enterprise Conference in February, and four came away with top honors. The sold-out event marked the 13th year of the... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
start up an unusually innovative venture. It was a "launch" truly deserving of that designation - a company that would rocket commercial payloads into space. Today, the firm they established, Orbital Sciences Corporation, having broadened... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
differences and beckons all who dare to envision lives unshackled by present realities. Steel City: A Story of Pittsburgh By William J. Miller, Jr. (PMD 56, 1988) Lyons Press Steel City is the story of the 1890s golden age of Pittsburgh, when its technological View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Big Turnout for Business Plan Contest
27. The winner of the business venture track, OsComp Systems, is commercializing an innovative technology that forces natural gas through pipelines at lower cost and with greater efficiency. The social venture track winner, Urban Water... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Beyond the Plastisphere
schedule. (In 2018, S’well distributed bottles to every public high school student in New York City, where the company is headquartered, displacing as many as 54 million single-use plastic bottles in one fell swoop. The company also... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Inside MTV’s Global Fame
bar at 5 a.m. singing “Born in the USA.” Or his wrestling match with the deputy mayor of Leningrad on the floor of the Winter Palace. When the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, Roedy was a few blocks away securing distribution for his fledgling... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Case Study: Sneak Peak
to help launch the product once they created a commercially viable recipe. In January 2013, they debuted their chocolate milk shake in the natural grocery channel (including Whole Foods Market and Sprouts Farmers Market). Over the course of two years, the team expanded... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Books: A Nation Transformed by Information
States was founded, a postal system (including roads) for the distribution of mail, copyright laws to protect intellectual property, and a plethora of newspapers and books were extant. The advent of electricity spawned the telegraph,... View Details
Keywords: Information
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Green Day
out of Imperial College London that uses magnesium silicates as its base. The silicates don’t contain carbon, and are heated at half the temperature of limestone, using biofuels; in addition, carbon is absorbed through the production process. The company’s View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Lesson from the Fall
assignments; Requiring that a different degree of directors’ wealth be at risk through investments in company shares to ensure they have interests totally aligned with those of shareholders; Completely separating the role of CEO and board chairman. This last View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
years, the mutual fund would shake up established norms of wealth creation and distribution in the United States. Indeed, it would help reshape America by uniting Wall Street and Main Street, two disparate worlds that previously had... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Case Study: Alumni Advice for a Health Care Startup
around value pricing versus current competitor pricing models. Use some of your large beta customers to tell your story. Those customers willing to invest time in a beta often want to be seen as innovative and can be powerful from a... View Details
- 29 Apr 2021
- News
Equal Partner
funders.” Spurred by her mentor’s advice, she cofounded her own early-stage investment fund, the WOCstar Fund. The fund focuses on innovative tech startups founded by women of color and inclusive teams. For Aditya, it is both an essential... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
New Releases
American and European MNCs. Writing for managers who seek to boost firm performance and for academics interested in organizational design, the authors detail how MNCs can fully tap the value creation potential of their globally View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Making A Difference: HBS Club of Puget Sound Reaches Out to Young Alumni
of membership and now as club president, Kwiker has worked to build a basic loyalty to the club and to foster connections to the extended HBS community. Her innovations have included more events targeted toward the entire alumni base,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Case Study: Paper Chase
Barnett (MBA 1983) Partnership is critical to your distribution growth. Reaching out to companies like Hallmark or Things Remembered (already in the card/gifting space) could be mutually beneficial—providing access for your company and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Water for Life
for reliable, affordable water service. Nearly two of every three gallons of water pumped through the dilapidated distribution system were lost or stolen. Desperate for a remedy, the Philippine government invited the private sector to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
An SUV Built for African Roads—by African Workers
the production process and lower costs. Yong believes the new facility could also spark manufacturing and innovation for local industry. With only 9 percent of the world’s vehicles being produced on the continent—mostly in South Africa or... View Details
Keywords: Amy Yee
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Case Study: Power Nappy
begging for some innovative engineering. “I wanted to figure out if we could make a plant-based diaper also the best-performing diaper on the market,” she says. After much R&D, Saigal launched Kudos in 2019. The company offers compostable... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Capitalizing the Corner Shop
inventory, meet payroll, or make some improvements to your business,” says Kehinde. “So all the data points we collect are around that, the team we hired are experts in that, and the technology we built is based on that.” Lidya has granted more than 10,000 loans in the... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell