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WesTrek 2025: Exploring the future of tech in Silicon Valley - Recruiting
launched in 1996, WesTrek has connected generations of students with alumni and industry leaders across the Bay Area. WesTrek 2025 raised the bar by bringing together over 80 students for an action-packed dive into venture capital,... View Details
- 23 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
Product Disasters Can Be Fertile Ground for Innovation
including a 20-article investigative series in the New York Times that discovered similar cases at other hospitals. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) started investigations of the CT devices, dozens of patients joined in a... View Details
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Early Years at HBS - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
B. Donham offered Doriot a position as assistant dean. 3 Doriot's career as an educator started when he began teaching Factory Problems and the Taylor System course. 4 In 1926, the Dean appointed Doriot Associate Professor of Industrial... View Details
- 03 Nov 2008
- HBS Case
Economics of the Ethanol Business
Reinhardt, with Senior Researcher James Weber and Agribusiness Program Director Mary Shelman (HBS MBA '87), examines the complex political and economic underpinnings of the ethanol industry and the dilemma facing the farmers of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Farming for Fuel
with senior researchers James Weber and Mary Louise Shelman, examines the complex political and economic underpinnings of the ethanol industry and the dilemma facing the farmers of Mid-Missouri Energy (MME). The farmers must make major... View Details
- 21 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
The VC Quandary: Too Much Money
It might be hard for the ordinary business owner or consumer to imagine having "too much" money. But that's exactly where the venture capital industry finds itself: with too much money available for the number of emerging... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Student Conferences, at a Glance
CDs anymore. If the music industry doesn’t respond to this change quickly, it’s going to be in big trouble.” — Russell Simmons, chairman & CEO, Rush Communications; cofounder, Def Jam Recordings Dynamic Women in Business Conference... View Details
- 04 Mar 2025
- Blog Post
WesTrek 2025: Exploring the future of tech in Silicon Valley
computing, cloud computing, and robotics redefining the future. Organized by the Tech Club and launched in 1996, WesTrek has connected generations of students with alumni and industry leaders across the Bay Area. WesTrek 2025 raised the... View Details
Keywords: Technology
- 02 May 2023
- Blog Post
Sustainability Career Advice from the Career & Professional Development Office
Four years ago, I got involved with coaching and career education programs. This led me to working with students interested in industries such as consumer products, retail, sustainability, agribusiness, and hospitality. Living sustainably... View Details
- 27 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018
developments in the Bangladesh ready-made garment industry after the fire at Tazreen Fashions factory, including formation of the Bangladesh Fire and Building Safety Accord (“Accord”) and the Alliance for Bangladesh Worker Safety... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 31, 2017
Abstract—The Food and Drug Administration approves new medical devices after in-depth reviews of safety and effectiveness data. Some have advocated for shorter review times to encourage innovation. We evaluated whether regulatory review... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 06 May 2002
- Research & Ideas
A Toolkit for Customer Innovation
pace of change in many markets accelerates and as some industries move toward serving "markets of one," the cost of understanding and responding to customers' needs can easily spiral out of control. In the course of studying... View Details
Keywords: by Stefan Thomke & Eric Von Hippel
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Kilimanjaro
last day when he was ready to give up. “I asked the others to leave me so that I could go back down, but they wouldn’t.” His fellow hikers offered various forms of support, be it sharing food or water or, in the case of Brian Redmond (MBA... View Details
- 27 Aug 2019
- Blog Post
Meet the PRIDE Club
came from a tech background after working in operations and product in Uber and ofo (a bike-sharing tech company) for four years. Alex decided to attend HBS to take a break from the hectic startup life and to explore different industries... View Details
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Early Years at HBS - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
B. Donham offered Doriot a position as assistant dean. 3 Doriot's career as an educator started when he began teaching Factory Problems and the Taylor System course. 4 In 1926, the Dean appointed Doriot Associate Professor of Industrial... View Details
- 06 Nov 2019
- Op-Ed
Torched Planet: The Business Case to Reinvent Almost Everything
The world is. on. fire. The Earth is burning. We only have a little time to arrest climate change, and if we fail to do so the consequences will be both dire and irreversible. We have the technology and the resources to fix things, if we want to. We even have a... View Details
- 06 Sep 2004
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Prepare for a World Without Cheap Oil?
if nothing else, has fostered a sense of entrepreneurship and opportunity in the renewable energy sectors." And Chip Levy suggests that "This is a great time to leap into a growth industry ...We developed the petroleum View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 10 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Winners and Losers in the Retail Revolution
provides a wide array of in-aisle treats and accessories to drive impulse purchases. At the same time, they've maintained a strategy of exclusivity with pet food so that they are not stocking all of the same items that Walmart and the... View Details
- 09 Mar 2016
- Lessons from the Classroom
In This Classroom, Beer Can Improve Your Grade
combined into one “industry” in which those teams compete, independent from the other industry groupings. With each round, teams can see how they’re faring and how their rivals are performing, altering their path as needed. The game... View Details
- 10 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 10, 2015
Business School Case 715-433 Uber and the Taxi Industry (A) No abstract available. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/715433-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 715-434 UberX & Lyft (B) No abstract... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne