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- November 2003
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Procter & Gamble 2000 (B)
By: William A. Sahlman and Ryland Matthew Willis
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
Keywords: Valuation; Innovation and Management; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Mergers and Acquisitions; Product Launch; Corporate Finance; Retail Industry
Sahlman, William A., and Ryland Matthew Willis. "Procter & Gamble 2000 (B)." Harvard Business School Case 804-100, November 2003.
Michael Kaplan
positions in the venture capital and financial space before his entrepreneurial spirit led him and his brother to launch Fashion to Figure as a single store they ran themselves for two years before expanding the business. Recently, Kaplan... View Details
- Profile
Tiffany Pham
“Ultimately, the MOGUL platform leverages technology to connect women and empower them to learn from each other as well as support themselves.” What have been the best and most challenging parts about launching the company? “The best part... View Details
- 17 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why E-commerce Didn’t Die With the Fall of Webvan
induced about 12 percent of the pharmaceutical market to buy that way. Once that was done, it was comparatively straightforward to use the same inducements to persuade people who had Web access to do that over the Internet, saving the cost of telemarketing centers. Q:... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- Blog Post
Building a Startup at HBS
researchers, or product managers – we could use our time at HBS as an opportunity to both launch a product and build a business from scratch. After discussing a number of pain... View Details
- 13 Jun 2017
- Blog Post
What is the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program? A Q&A with Professor Tom Eisenmann
graduates of this program go on to do? “Program alumni will lead technology ventures. Immediately upon graduation, we expect that many MS/MBAs will launch their own startups. Others will manage the design and development of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Mr. Start-Up
Issue Focus: Entrepreneurship Cassidy: At Google, a more intense and frenetic experience than launching his own companies. Art by Joe Ciardiello Related Links Watch a video of Mike Cassidy explaining his approach to rapid View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Digging Deep
irritation, Pieper could empathize: Having logged thousands of miles sailing in the Pacific Ocean, she knew that gear is important—that it should be portable, perform well under stress, and preferably look good. It was an aha moment that led her to View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 03 Aug 2020
- News
A Clean Start
other chemicals) from carbon dioxide. His goal was to demonstrate—through research, discovery, and good business—a new way forward in reducing CO2 emissions. The first step was to lay out the photosynthesis process in black and white on a whiteboard. Brix then began to... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Meeting an essential health care need in India
When his mother became ill in 2008, Krishna Mahesh (MBA 2005) came face to face with India’s deep deficit of quality hospital beds. It inspired him to launch Sundaram Medical Devices, which develops high-tech, low-cost hospital beds that... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Mobile robots revolutionize order fulfillment
launch Kiva Systems in 2003. “We decided products that could walk and talk on their own would be the best way to solve the problem,” says Mountz, who continues as CEO of the company he sold to Amazon.com in... View Details
- 14 Jul 2021
- News
The First Five Years: Nicolas Manes (MBA 2020)
Photos from Villa 31 in Buenos Aires. Photos from Villa 31 in Buenos Aires. What inspired you to launch Nilus as “an impact-driven company that applies technology to fight against food insecurity”? “We just couldn't believe that one-third... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
2017 in Retail: Voice-Activated, One-Hour-Delivery Shopping
devices. And this year, we started using our voice to shop. Amazon launched that trend with Alexa, and recently Google and Walmart announced they are teaming up to do the same thing. We are in the early days of this digital commerce—it... View Details
- 08 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
2+2 Where Are They Now Spotlight: Brooke Carter (MBA 2019)
wanted to avoid. Where are you currently working? Can you describe your role? I am currently working as a Product Manager at Grammarly, the company behind the AI-powered writing assistant. I’ve been at the company for almost a year and... View Details
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Cristina Ros Blankfein
launch the company in 2014. Bootstrapping the effort, they spent the better part of a year refining the formula, putting the right team in place to produce the mixers, making sure that the product was right... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
The Mind Speaks, Marketers Listen
been used by the likes of Coca-Cola, General Motors, and AT&T to craft marketing strategies. “Most new products are developed and launched using focus groups and questionnaires,” Zaltman said, “and 60 to 80... View Details
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Field Course: Ideation and Prototyping for Innovation - Course Catalog
learning-by-doing approach to build students’ deep expertise in a focus area and their skills at ideation and prototyping for innovation, leveraging AI tools. The course is designed for students whose career goals include: Launching new... View Details
- 19 Apr 2016
- News
LuminOva Makes Great Strides Tackling Infertility
video, Blavatnik Fellow and cofounder Alexandra Dickson (MBA 2013) and CEO Theresa Tribble (MBA 2009) detail the progress the company has made since launching at the Harvard i-lab and winning the 2015 Deans’ Health and Life Sciences... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Stacey Lawson (MBA '96)
illustrations of standard parts, such as valves, pumps, and gears. Today Lawson is the vice president of marketing at InPart, a company she cofounded upon graduating from HBS. InPart, now fifty employees strong, is creating a library of information about standard... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
New Magazine Makes Its Mark
Phillips and Nelson: Book reviews are their business. Courtesy Allison Nelson and Jon Phillips Three years after launching Bookmarks magazine, a bimonthly guide to new books, Allison Nelson and Jon Phillips (both MBA ’95) are still... View Details