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Frank C. Ball
In 1885, Ball Brothers Company, founded by Ball, his brother and uncle, began making glass fruit jars and caps. In 1887, they built a factory in Muncie, Indiana and converted the company into a corporation... View Details
Keywords: Fabricated Goods
- Alumni WDYDWYD
Mary Falvey
now advise early stage companies and help them achieve their "firsts." To today’s women leaders: Don’t beat yourself up because you can’t obliterate the glass ceiling; it will take a few more generations. Stay focused on... View Details
- 19 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Why Privacy Protection Notices Turn Off Shoppers
State’s David Norton, compares the phenomenon to seeing bulletproof glass at a bank. “Bulletproof glass is something meant to protect us, but sometimes its very presence can View Details
- Portrait Project
Brian Sykes
Franciscan, I yearn to revitalize the city. Provide the mentally ill with help they so desperately need. Build affordable housing. Purge the sidewalks of broken glass and human waste. I’ll make San Francisco... View Details
- 30 Jun 2016
- Blog Post
4 Ways I've Changed at HBS
difficult situations that required very different leadership approaches, I began to ask myself what would I do in such scenarios? Was I prepared to make the tough choices, to rally teams, and to push a vision forward? These questions,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
The Biggest Industry You’ve Never Heard Of
It’s a sunny May afternoon in LA. Søren Bjerg, a slender and pale 21-year-old with chunky glasses and a black hoodie, is sitting in the den of the house he shares with a half dozen other guys. It’s decorated the way you might expect it to... View Details
- 13 Aug 2018
- Research & Ideas
Women Heart Patients Have Better Survival Odds with Women Doctors
for Disease Control. In the emergency room as a business, the customer lives or dies. "Here we find that who you are and who is advocating for you, who is treating you, is making a difference" “This is really like a View Details
- Portrait Project
Chris LaColla
I was running late for my flight home to Chicago, but I was frozen in front of a small glass case in a museum in Tokyo. There was only one word on the sign using letters I knew– kintsugi. When a piece of pottery breaks, it is repaired... View Details
- Portrait Project
Robyn Bolton
a glass of champagne at the end of every day, toasting to family, friends, faith and time. I want to help everyone embrace their ridiculousness. To help them passionately give voice to uncommon beliefs. To encourage people to proclaim... View Details
- Blog
Faculty Reflections on International Women's Day
do see some positive signs. In our book, Glass Half-Broken, we showcased organizations that designed inclusive people practices from hiring to retention as well as developed inclusive male and female managers that run those practices. The... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Green Dreams: Eco-Friendly Countertops
have been a huge mistake. Two years earlier, she and her partner, Peter Strugatz, had purchased the assets of Great Harbor Design at public auction for $26,000. The former owner had invested $4 million in perfecting a durable building surface made from cement and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
These Walls Can Talk
(Javier Larrea/Getty Images) Today: Most smart homes connect basic electronic devices such as lights, locks, smoke detectors, security cameras, and thermostats. Tomorrow: Homes will be fully outfitted with smart appliances, which can make... View Details
Keywords: April White
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Photograph Albums - Photography Collections - Historical Collections
polishing machines toil. Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Company “Some Pictures of Flat Glass Production” Toledo, Ohio Mss: 606 1939 L694 1 album, 21 photographs Formed in 1930, the Libbey-Owens-Ford View Details
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Blake Landro
Motivated to make a difference in the world, Blake Landro seriously considered law school. But while working at a law firm after college, Blake found that he “liked the business side of the firm more than the law itself.” He felt a career... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Feedback
while at the Law School in 1970, one of the last of the Harvard ROTC students for some four decades.) During our two-year stint at the Business School, Cambridge was a hotbed of antiwar sentiment, with police chasing dissenters with tear gas, broken View Details
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Krisha Patel | MBA
AI/ML Formative experience at the intersection of technology and business: I co-founded a startup in high school, developing a thin, film-like lens that could adhere to an existing glasses lens to make... View Details
- 30 Nov 2021
- News
Cold Calculations
Courtesy Steve Payne The Arctic Ice Project is pursuing a radical solution to climate change: restoring the Arctic ice. “The project’s scientists believe that a thin layer of hollow glass microspheres—spread in strategic, limited... View Details
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John Bracaglia
A 2+2 HBS admit, John Bracaglia spent the employment portion of his program working on projects that involved elements of machine learning, collaborating with some of the world's leading technology pioneers, including Google, on high-profile projects, such as Google... View Details
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Colt Stander
Chances are there haven’t been many MBA candidates who have designed eyeglasses for Nickelodeon and Geoffrey Beene, or the mobile console for a micro-ablation tool used in surgical suites. “I’ve had the unusual experience,” Colt Stander says, “of seeing my design for... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Green Day
dynamic glass that can reduce total HVAC energy usage by 25 percent. Rao Mulpuri (AMP 171, 2006) loves talking about Soladigm glass. You can hear it in his voice. Dynamic glass, he says, is ideal for the task of View Details