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- 03 Aug 2020
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A Clean Start
electrolyzer, combines electricity and CO2, and splits water to make formic acid, which can be stored like a conventional hydrocarbon liquid (think gasoline). OCO can then manufacture and sell that formic acid to customers who use it... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Inside the Partnership
to use for each major transaction is, naturally, Goldman Sachs. Second, selling should be separated from manufacturing to be sure the best manufacturing skills are dedicated to making the best product.... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
Chappell Russ Wilcox (MBA ’95) was two years out of HBS, married to classmate Gina Wilcox and working as a strategy consultant following a stint as a product manager at a Boston-area technology firm. But he had always wanted to launch and... View Details
- 09 Sep 2014
- News
Business Leaders Downbeat on Workers' Prospects
Keywords: Competitiveness; Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Manufacturing
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Case Study: On the Record
sell 100 vinyl records a month or have their songs stream on Spotify 1.5 million times,” says Kelleher, who led music app partnerships at Google Play before founding Austin-based record manufacturer Gold Rush Vinyl. The company grew out... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 19 Aug 2024
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Quantum Leap
a distance.” Thanks to these bizarre properties, quantum computers can solve problems that lie beyond the reach of classical ones. “Computationally, it’s like our generation’s discovery of fire,” says Carolyn Fu, an assistant professor of business administration who... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Short Takes
Be Flexible In today's competitive and volatile business environment, depending on forecasting as the basis for planning and strategy has become a particularly risky way to operate. Especially vulnerable are View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Caroline Chauncey
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Luxe Redux
— through quality of design, materials, and manufacture — is another key component of the luxury goods equation. “If someone puts a $100 towel in front of you, is it obvious what makes it a $100 towel? The product has to speak for... View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
made it far enough to launch a spring and fall collection and received widespread media coverage. The brand was slowly starting to gain traction with customers, too. But by the end of 2012, the startup—running low on cash and plagued by operational and View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Cleveland Global Alumni Conference a Sold-Out Success
had to undertake a complete transformation of how Merck operates," he said, outlining strategies that included stepping up resources devoted to scientific research and marketing, integrating divisions of the company, and heading off... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Four Promoted to Full Professor
president of Ceramics Process Systems Corporation (CPS), a firm he cofounded with several MIT professors in 1984. A former Boston Consulting Group project manager, he was instrumental in founding the firm's manufacturing View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
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Stewards of the Seventh Generation
and the costs sometimes associated with implementing "green" strategies - strong government regulation at home and abroad will continue to be necessary in order to motivate many businesses to become more environmentally accountable. He... View Details
- 03 Feb 2021
- News
Power Play
contributed complementary skills from the energy sector—to establish the firm’s leadership team. Advani believes the company’s middle-market private equity investment strategy is better executed and better aligns the firm with its... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Alumni Take Action to Improve US Competitiveness
example, the HBSCNY Skills Gap Project has placed more than 30 interns with tech firms and helped LaGuardia Community College develop a new health care curriculum designed to meet the skills needs of a nearby medical center. In Ohio, Dan Cunningham (OPM 27, 1999), CEO... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Ink: Alumni Book Recommendations
Recommended by Strategy consultant Vivek Ravishanker (MBA 2012) Shoe Dog by Phil Knight Knight on the idea that became Nike: “That morning in 1962 I told myself: Let everyone else call your idea crazy just keep going. Don’t stop. Don’t... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
From Bytes to Bites
THOMAS: A career switch from high tech to the restaurant biz calls on every bit of HBS know-how. Photo Courtesy Scherrer As a teen, Laurie Thomas (MBA ’93) didn’t devote her summers to extracurricular activities. Instead, the Wisconsin native worked, usually at her... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Gore All Business at HBS
see their business suffer, as American car manufacturers have, Gore noted. In attacking the climate crisis, Gore concluded, the rest of the world will follow if America provides leadership. “This is the only crisis that has threatened the... View Details
- 29 Sep 2022
- News
Securing a Resilient Future for Senegal
strategy also included a financing and guarantee mechanism that would provide additional liquidity to companies, for payment of salaries and other fixed costs. Diagne was head of the guarantee committee that reviewed all financing... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon