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- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Innovation: An Orchestra of One
earning a $15,000 runner-up prize. Shortly thereafter, the three founded Sonation and renamed the product Cadenza. Chao and her cofounders met with Apple last fall and are focused on developing an iPad and iPhone app for Cadenza, the... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
To create breakthrough strategies, harness creativity to the scientific method
strategies. Procter & Gamble employed this model when it wanted to become a major player in the global beauty-care sector. It transformed the down-market Oil of Olay into a world-class brand and proved that... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Multiple generations of computing
Palm Computing, with founder Jeff Hawkins, she introduced the PalmPilot, the first successful handheld computer. Under Dubinsky’s leadership it became the fastest-selling computer and consumer electronics View Details
- 12 Jan 2017
- News
Personalizing Women’s Path to Success
degree in chemical engineering, in 1989, she worked at Procter & Gamble in engineering and product development, and then in product supply, as the company started buying cosmetics businesses. When a New... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Democratizing Funding, Diversifying Funders
profile for Republic-listed companies different, but the platform is also selling products and services less likely to resonate with what Hofmann calls the “traditional white-male VC.” She holds up the example of the black-owned startup... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
- 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 has only been 23 years since... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
The Sparkles in Our Skies
companies out there in the world, whether or not they’re in the diamond industry.” For Aether, that means vertical integration, including the production of on-site wind and solar energy. And it means finding... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
'Rooted' In Innovation
whom are women, who average under a dollar a day per capita income. Since cassava spoils within three days of harvesting, it is traditionally used in small-scale family cooking. Roughly 40 percent of the annual harvest is lost due to... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Baker Library Gets New Executive Director
at HBS after serving as director of Microsoft’s Knowledge Network Group, where she led a global organization of 100 people delivering information and knowledge-based products and services. She has previously headed information services in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Robert Goodwin
Borders, and Goodwin led a group of his classmates to make the dream a reality. Why did you decide to become the CEO of Executives Without Borders? In my time overseas, I witnessed extreme poverty but saw few working on solutions that addressed View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Serving through TechnoServe
encourages its clients to “look at production as a business and figure out what their competitive advantage is,” Tierney explains. He has led efforts to modernize the organization, which was founded in 1968... View Details
- 07 Aug 2019
- News
Step Right In
confusing? It is. Fortunately, TechCrunch sent a writer to the MoFE pop-up in New York’s SoHo neighborhood recently to try it out. As TechCrunch explains it, Askaryan was a View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
A "Growing" Online Community
year expanding throughout Latin America. Agropool's revenues will come from fees charged to companies selling products on its Web site. With the online community growing in Latin America, Grippo noted the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Noted & Quoted
“Some Democrats view Medicare as a successful cost controller, pointing to its low administrative overhead, which they peg at 3 percent. But that figure ignores an inconvenient truth: Medicare’s unfunded liabilities, estimated at about... View Details
- 04 Dec 2014
- News
Hacking Health Care
The health care industry needs so much improvement, it will take a whole movement to fix it. “The more leaders, the better,” says Luc Sirois (MBA 1997), who sees progress coming not through a single organization, but rather from groups of... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Alumni Books
respected individuals in the investment world offer investors a set of simple and powerful rules and investment principles on how to challenge the market at its own game and win by not losing. Stanley Meltzoff — Picture Maker by Stanley... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Post-Office
productive after they moved. I thought that was interesting given the aging workforce problem we have. It could help people extend their careers by even five years by letting them choose where they want to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis
a dirty product that was a consequence of deregulation. Our government decided at some point it was OK to sell instruments that were known to be dangerous. “You can’t go anywhere in America and buy a toaster... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Cynthia Carroll
since 2007 by Cynthia Carroll (MBA ’89), the first woman and first non–South African to hold the firm’s top spot. In addition to South Africa, from which it derives roughly half its profits, Anglo operates... View Details
- 07 Jun 2011
- News
Back to the Future
entrepreneurship was General Georges Doriot’s.” Doriot, who had “a giant class,” had students form teams that worked on projects that often “showed interest in the future or new products and markets,” Alden says. Today’s HBS... View Details