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- 26 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
How Cellophane Changed the Way We Shop for Food
first transparent packaging film, was invented in 1908 by the Swiss engineer Jacques Brandenberger. He dubbed it “cellophane” as a combination of the words “cellulose” (of which it was made) and “diaphane” (an archaic form of the word... View Details
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Frequently Asked Questions | HBS Online
Although professors and guest experts will not have direct, real-time interactions with learners, you will hear from them via short videos that explain key concepts and guide you through cases, exercises, and other interactive learning... View Details
- 03 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2010
to Customer Service Is your enterprise resilient or rigid? In this Q&A, HBS professor Ranjay Gulati, an expert on leadership, strategy, and organizational issues in firms, describes how companies can evolve through four levels to... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 10 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot
one way or another, grieving. According to David Kessler, an author and grief expert quoted in a recent HBR article, “The loss of normalcy; the fear of economic toll; the loss of connection. This is hitting us and we’re grieving.... View Details
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Power and Influence for Positive Impact | HBS Online
industry-leading experts from media, nonprofits, fashion, and agricultural technology. Description of silent animated video above: Learner scrolls through video interviews from prominent business leaders About the Professor Julie... View Details
- 10 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Retailing Revolution: Category Killers on the Brink
migrate to the web for your category of goods (for example ALDI and Dollar General). There is an argument to be made that, for certain combinations of demographic groups and categories, Internet penetration will remain low, and therefore... View Details
- 03 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Is the Future of MBA Education?
with team projects and experiential learning. Training might come initially through the collective work of multiple business schools, with cohorts of alumni who receive a short dose of either functional knowledge or research skills or teaching training, or some View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Going For The Summit
"baby-boomer" audience, iVillage launched its first Web site, Parent Soup (www.parentsoup.com), in 1995. The popular site offers online visitors a combination of expert and peer advice on child rearing, as... View Details
Keywords: Caroline Chauncey
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Making Kraft mayonnaise - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
combines its skill with that of expert production men to assure unvarying highest quality. There is no guesswork in making Kraft Mayonnaise. Ingredients are purchased on laboratory specifications. They are... View Details
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Field Course: Life Sciences Venture Creation - Course Catalog
software & data, contract research/manufacturing and more). The course will feature workshops with practitioners and domain experts providing guidance and exploring how to successfully navigate critical tasks when launching a life... View Details
- 17 Nov 2011
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Organizational Design
Questions To Be Answered: What are the best techniques for fostering innovation in multicultural teams? I want my functional experts to influence high-level strategy. How can managers get the best thinking out of support staff? What role... View Details
Keywords: Re: Ranjay Gulati & Raffaella Sadun
- 13 Jun 2018
- News
The First Five Years: Momchil Filev and Ben Faw (both MBA 2014)
age. Combining this market opportunity with the huge waste of returned goods from e-commerce, we saw the business case—and from there it was all execution.” What short- and long-term goals do you have for the company? Momchil:“The... View Details
- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why Evolutionary Software Development Works
industry experts to rate the comparative quality of each product relative to other products that targeted similar customer needs at the time the act was launched. Product quality was defined as a combination... View Details
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Tuce Zengin Van den Eynde
needs.” Tuce and her colleagues decided to think small, developing a little device that allows people to track important items – like glasses and keys – through a smart-phone app. With help from HBS Career Services, Tuce has found a summer assignment that View Details
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Field Course: Ideation and Prototyping for Innovation - Course Catalog
conduct rigorous customer and domain expert interviews to explore a problem space; how to synthesize data from interviews; how to develop and use customer personas and journey maps— all with the goal of becoming a domain expert. How to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Sustaining Business And Society For The Long Term
Professor Rebecca Henderson “Doing well by doing good” has rapidly gained momentum in recent years as business leaders, investors, and stakeholders have deepened their understanding of the double bottom line. To help managers combine... View Details
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Entrepreneurship in Life Sciences - Course Catalog
variety of life sciences ventures, including those in biotech, pharmaceutical, medical device, diagnostics, and related supporting technology and services organizations. In most classes, we will have case protagonists and guests, including life sciences entrepreneurs,... View Details
- 17 Aug 2011
- News
Breath of Life
Green: Participating in the stem-cell revolution. Courtesy David Green It was the kind of medical miracle that experts say will one day be commonplace. In June, an artificial trachea (windpipe), infused with a tracheal cancer patient’s... View Details
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Konstantin Chebotar
year, Konstantin helped organize an energy panel for the private equity conference held on campus last February. "I met dozens of private-equity oil and gas experts open to talking to me," he says. For his summer internship,... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing/Energy
- 24 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 24
experts' ability to combine and balance these two processes, we distinguish analytically among four positions of influence they can occupy-compliance expert, technical champion, trusted advisor, and engaged toolmaker-and trace the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel