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- 29 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
The History and Influence of Andy Grove
held against him the fact that he is an immigrant. Nor was he held back because he is of Jewish origin. When he graduated first in his engineering class at the City College of New York in 1960, he was quoted in The New York Times to the... View Details
- 30 Jun 2021
- In Practice
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2021
What’s on HBS faculty members’ reading list for summer 2021? Which books are most meaningful to them and why? Below, faculty share their top picks, ranging from biographies and memoirs to their colleagues’ latest works. Julia Austin: Social justice and the Obamas I... View Details
Keywords: by Kathryn Haviland
- 10 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Retailing Revolution: Category Killers on the Brink
With the demise of Circuit City in 2009 one would have reckoned that Best Buy's best days were ahead. Instead, Best Buy is working fiercely to reinvent itself: its comparable store sales have barely kept up with inflation since 2008, and... View Details
- 04 May 2021
- Blog Post
Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month at HBS
those of many other AAPIs, immigrated to the U.S. from Vietnam with no money. When the North Vietnamese took over the city of Saigon, my grandparents were forced to sign away their businesses to the government and escaped persecution of... View Details
- 17 Dec 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Rise of Medical Tourism
first for-profit hospital in the southern city of Chennai in 1983. Today the Apollo Hospitals Group manages more than 30 hospitals and treats patients from many different countries, according to the case. Tarun Khanna, a Harvard Business... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Every Trick in the Book
’80s—moving it from the city streets to the suburban shopping center, standardizing the book-buying experience, and starting the familiar race to big, bigger, and biggest, and cheap, cheaper, and cheapest. By 1980, analysts were... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 07 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Customers Need to Hear from You During the COVID Crisis
time its parent company announced $100 million in product donations, including 200,000 face masks to New York City hospitals to help keep healthcare workers safe. Given the prevalence of fake news proliferating in social media, consumers... View Details
Keywords: by Jill Avery and Richard Edelman
- Web
Commercialization of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
of selling aids (folders, display cards, primers, demonstration lamps) and to run newspaper ads and test campaigns. Inviting advertisements touted the benefits of the "variable density" polarizing windows on the "Copper King" railcar of the Union Pacific streamliner... View Details
- 28 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Coronavirus Could Create a 'Bankruptcy Pandemic'
companies to be sure, but also small- and medium-sized businesses, individual households, and cities and states. And all of these entities (with the exception of US states) can in principle file for bankruptcy protection. But all such... View Details
- 06 Aug 2019
- Cold Call Podcast
Super Bowl Ads Sell Products, but Do They Sell Brands?
Kenny: : "This flat tire needs a man," says the narrator of the Goodyear Tire commercial that aired during the inaugural Super Bowl between the Green Bay Packers and the Kansas City Chiefs in 1967. The ad featured a damsel in... View Details
- Research Summary
Markets of Progress: Coffee, Commerce, and Community in the Soconusco, Chiapas, 1867-1920
Markets of Progress presents a new holistic story of rural development in Mexico at the turn of the century. In the Soconusco, as in regions throughout the world, the accelerating circulation of commodities and capital, ideas and immigrants reshaped society... View Details
Keywords: Commodities; Coffee; Mexico; Foreign Investment; Institutions; Immigration; Developing Agriculture; Development; Export Crop; Emerging Market; Property Rights; Labor History; History; Capital Markets; Business History; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Latin America; Mexico; Central America
Jon Staff
Jon Staff is the founder and CEO of Getaway, a company that provides simple, unplugged escapes to tiny cabins outside of major cities across the United States. Getaway grew from Jon’s lifelong appreciation for the great outdoors, having... View Details
Shara Ticku
Shara Ticku is the CEO and Co-Founder of C16 Biosciences, the makers of Palmless : the platform for sustainable palm oil alternatives. C16’s proprietary technology platform uses biomanufacturing to create next-generation ingredients and materials that successfully... View Details
- February 2024
- Teaching Note
Masdar City: Aiming for Sustainable and Profitable Real Estate
By: Boris Vallee and Sean Bracken
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 223-036. View Details
- May 12, 2015
- Article
Small Wins Go a Long Way in Improving U.S. Rail Transportation
Kanter, Rosabeth Moss. "Small Wins Go a Long Way in Improving U.S. Rail Transportation." Harvard Business Review (website) (May 12, 2015).
- Research Summary
Overview
The overarching goal of my research is to produce works that are influential and informative to both academics and practitioners in the field of operations management. To accomplish this, I collaborate with industry partners who provide knowledge about their field,... View Details
- February 2012 (Revised September 2013)
- Case
Edward Lundberg and the Rockville Building: Energy Efficiency Finance in Commercial Real Estate
By: John D. Macomber and Frederik Nellemann
A commercial landlord analyzes options for funding and accomplishing energy efficiency retrofit. The situation is complicated by lease terms and uncertain effectiveness of the intervention. Students must grapple with obstacles including changing energy prices,... View Details
Macomber, John D., and Frederik Nellemann. "Edward Lundberg and the Rockville Building: Energy Efficiency Finance in Commercial Real Estate." Harvard Business School Case 212-067, February 2012. (Revised September 2013.)
- August 2012
- Teaching Plan
Living PlanIT (TP)
By: Robert G. Eccles, Amy C. Edmondson, John Macomber and Ryan Johnson
Eccles, Robert G., Amy C. Edmondson, John Macomber, and Ryan Johnson. "Living PlanIT (TP) ." Harvard Business School Teaching Plan 413-039, August 2012.