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- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Big Turnout for Business Plan Contest
27. The winner of the business venture track, OsComp Systems, is commercializing an innovative technology that forces natural gas through pipelines at lower cost and with greater efficiency. The social venture track winner, Urban Water... View Details
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Business at the Base of the Pyramid - Course Catalog
generating commercial returns equal to or greater than conventional businesses. This success has drawn the attention of large multinational corporations, looking at the base of the pyramid for the growth that has become ever more... View Details
Muriel Siebert
been reserved for large commercial clients. Siebert left her business for five years to become the Superintendent of Banks for the state of New York; another first for a woman. Siebert returned to her firm in 1983 and built it, once... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 10 May 2023
- News
Students Strive to Solve Climate Change
plans to expand the company to other African nations; Angela Son will focus on what the clean economy transition means for the future of work; Karan Khimji cofounded 44.01, which eliminates CO2 from the atmosphere by converting it into inert rock; and Dylan Small will... View Details
Keywords: Carbon capture
- January 2011
- Teaching Note
The Travails of Rubber: Goodyear or Badyear? (TN)
By: Tom Nicholas
Teaching Note for 808118. View Details
William M. Allen
In 1945, when Allen was appointed CEO, Boeing faced cancellation of $1.5 billion in wartime contracts. Under Allen’s leadership, Boeing kept course and later prospered. In 1952, Boeing’s B-52 was chosen by the Air Force as its intercontinental bomber, and in 1959, the... View Details
Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace
- 05 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Watching for the Next Economic Downturn? Follow Corporate Debt
3.6 percentage point rise in the probability a financial crisis will ensue. When commercial lending is backed by real estate, the alarm sounds even louder. Each standard deviation increase in real-estate backed corporate credit relative... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
P. Roy Vagelos
Vagelos had an uncanny ability to turn scientific research into commercial blockbuster success. He is credited with rejuvenating Merck’s research efforts, culminating in the development of breakthrough applications for hypertension, heart... View Details
Keywords: Healthcare
Robert H. Sorensen
Sorensen led Perkin-Elmer to become one of the premier diversified technology companies in the United States. It developed the first commercial super minicomputer in 1979. During his CEO tenure, sales and earnings more than tripled and... View Details
Keywords: Computers & Electronics
- Career Coach
Okan Okutgen
manufacturer. He has also experience of consultancy from Bain & Company. Okan also serves as a mentor to startups as they help try to get seed funding in accelerators. Okan has a Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering degree, but has always been in the View Details
- February 2015
- Case
Credem: Banking on Cheese
By: Nikolaos Trichakis, Gerry Tsoukalas and Emer Moloney
Credem, an Italian regional bank, grants loans to Parmigiano Reggiano producers and holds the cheese as collateral in its own warehouse during the maturation process, essentially replacing part of the operations for the cheese producers and gaining deep operations... View Details
- April 2014
- Supplement
Ingrid Johnson: Reflections on Leading Change
By: Michael Tushman
This case discusses the issue of leading change at the business banking division of Nedbank, a prominent South African bank, between 2005 and 2009. (This timeframe, beginning just 11 years after Apartheid's end, covers Ingrid Johnson's leadership of this division... View Details
Keywords: Leading Change; Restructuring; Personal Development and Career; Commercial Banking; Banking Industry; South Africa
Tushman, Michael. "Ingrid Johnson: Reflections on Leading Change." Harvard Business School Video Supplement 414-709, April 2014.
- August 1996 (Revised October 2003)
- Case
NutraSweet in China (A)
By: Michael Y. Yoshino and Carin-Isabel Knoop
Eve Stacey, a recent Harvard MBA, has the challenging task of evaluating the market opportunity for NutraSweet in China. She must decide how best to develop the market for the product in China. May be used with NutraSweet in China (B). View Details
Yoshino, Michael Y., and Carin-Isabel Knoop. "NutraSweet in China (A)." Harvard Business School Case 397-029, August 1996. (Revised October 2003.)
- Jan 2014
- Case
Rethinking Cities: Chicago on the Move
It is impossible to discuss national competitiveness without considering cities and the regions they anchor. Cities are transportation hubs, centers of commercial exchange, and the locus of lives. They thrive by the ways they connect to... View Details
James Stillman
Benefiting from his close ties to William Rockefeller and “the Rockefeller crowd,” Stillman was able to not only grow National City’s commercial banking business, but also to expand operations into the investment banking arena. Under... View Details
Keywords: Finance
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The Route of the Exhibition - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center
presented in the context of fine art. They were works, The New York Times explained, “of a high standard of artistic merit, judged by professional photographic standards, as well as a respectable level of proved commercial value.” 23 The... View Details
- April 2005
- Teaching Note
Boeing 787: The Dreamliner (TN)
By: Richard L. Nolan and Suresh Kotha
Teaching Note to (9-305-101). View Details
William E. Boeing
Boeing was a pioneer of commercial aviation. Boeing organized United Airlines outfitting it with 25 specially designed, heavy-duty planes. Boeing also designed and constructed a fleet of bi-planes, B-40s, to be used in the mail service.... View Details
Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace
Clarence Birdseye
While Birdseye did not invent the process of quick freezing, he was the first to create a commercially viable business with the technology. His advancements in the quick freezing process ensured that the foods' nutrients and taste would... View Details
Keywords: Food & Tobacco
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Advancing Diagnostics that Can Save Lives
and commercialize medical diagnostic tools that will, ultimately, improve health outcomes. Lee’s DZD was one of the inaugural startups in 2016 at the Life Lab, a state-of-the-art wet lab and coworking space in Allston for Harvard... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young