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  • 21 May 2016
  • News

Homegrown Heroes

When he founded One Championship in 2011, Chatri Sityodtong (MBA 1999) had a simple goal: to bring mixed martial arts competition (MMA) to the place where it all began. “Asia’s been the home of martial arts for 5,000 years, but no one’s ever tried to View Details
  • 17 Nov 2003
  • Research & Ideas

The Business of Babies

commercial business," Spar said. "I think this is wrong. The demands of the parent will outweigh political and moral opposition." However, those who want to succeed in the market need to fight to shape property, privacy,... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Health
  • Fast Answer

Field Course: Private Equity Projects and Ecosystems: Company, Industry, Market and Transaction Research

module on LSEG Workspace check out our Learn with Baker Library LSEG Workspace Introduction. Preqin
Information on PE & VC firms, funds, private companies, and deals. REIS
Search millions of real estate data points that cover every View Details
  • 26 Jul 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Why Great Ideas Get Stuck in Universities

commercial hindrance. A recent study of more than 500 biomedical startups suggests that ventures rooted in the core research of their founders have a more challenging time reaching key measures of success, such as raising capital or... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand; Biotechnology; Health
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Statista (Alumni Access) | Baker Library

will not be able to download it yourself. Read More You are allowed 100 downloads during the lifetime of the account after which a commercial account agreement with Statista is required to continue access. Contact... View Details
  • 20 Feb 2018
  • News

David Perry’s Green Revolution

decided to pursue something “that would make a positive difference in the world.” That’s when he found Indigo Ag, a company that is commercializing microorganisms that help plants grow. Indigo Ag’s scientists have identified microbes that... View Details
  • January 1998 (Revised May 1999)
  • Case

General Scanning, Inc. (A)

By: H. Kent Bowen, Sean McClenaghan and Charles Tillen
General Scanning, Inc. was founded by Jean Montagu and Pierre Brosens, two MIT mechanical engineers with an interest in developing innovative products based on the early application of lasers. They invented proprietary technology for laser beam positioning and scanning... View Details
Keywords: Transition; Entrepreneurship; Management Practices and Processes; Product Development; Strategic Planning; Research and Development; Risk and Uncertainty; Commercialization; Manufacturing Industry
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  • 06 Dec 2021
  • News

New Wave

Verdant Power cofounder Ron Smith (MBA 1979) stands aside the East River in New York, where his company launched the first commercially licensed tidal power project in the United States. It’s a muggy July day in New York City, and Ron... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Chris Sorensen
  • 15 Dec 2024
  • News

Keeping It Real

MAGIC MAN: One day in 2018, Doug Duda (MBA 1985) was walking up Eighth Avenue. “A guy grabbed me from behind, which is never a welcome sensation in New York City,” he admits. “It was another guy with a white beard.” The man asked Duda to join Real Beard Santas of... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Christmas; Santa; career change; food; acting
  • 01 Sep 2011
  • News

Innovation has a New Home: The Harvard Innovation Lab

understanding of entrepreneurship and innovation. Teams enrolled in Commercializing Science, a course that draws students from across Harvard to pursue multidisciplinary projects directed at moving research from the lab to the... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 15 May 2007
  • First Look

First Look: May 15, 2007

chains. They enter upstream partnerships with public sector research institutions, and later form commercialization alliances with established, downstream firms. We examine the alliance activity in a large sample of biotechnology firms... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • March 1990 (Revised June 1991)
  • Case

IBM Corp.: ""Make It Your Business"" (A)

By: Robert L. Simons
In 1987, IBM changed its strategy in an attempt to become a market-driven company rather than a product-driven company. The case begins with a description of the new strategy and the reasons for the change and then describes the top-down sales planning and quota system... View Details
Keywords: Commercialization; Competitive Advantage; Business Strategy; Goals and Objectives; Strategic Planning; Motivation and Incentives; Sales; Volatility; System; Information Technology Industry
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  • November 1990 (Revised September 1991)
  • Case

First Chicago Corp.: Corporate Strategy

Lays out the business challenges facing First Chicago Corp. in 1986: the banking industry has been deregulated, many corporations are bypassing banks in their search for capital, and foreign competition has increased. Their traditional market--corporate banking--has... View Details
Keywords: Restructuring; Investment Banking; Corporate Strategy; Emerging Markets; Commercial Banking; Banking Industry; United States
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  • 01 Sep 2008
  • News

Business Plan Contest Winners

seven-person DFA team, invited to ring the NYSE’s opening bell in honor of its achievement, included Jon Puz and Gilbert Tang (both MBA ’08), Krishna Yeshwant (HBS ’09), and colleagues from Harvard and MIT. The Harvard team members were drawn from a multidisciplinary... View Details
Keywords: awards; Educational Support Services; Educational Services
  • 01 Dec 1999
  • News

Now Hear This

The voiceover industry is booming. Those dulcet tones and distinctive pipes you've long heard on radio and TV commercials are now much in demand for CD-ROMs and the Internet, as well as for traditional markets such as cartoons and... View Details
  • 11 Jun 2015
  • News

Leading the way in sustainable style

pro-environmental policies are not only a social good, she says. They are also money savers that helped Esquel weather the economic downturn. Now she wants to share her company’s successful strategies with the industry through sustainability conferences and factory... View Details
  • 27 Apr 2017
  • News

Enabling a Transformational Educational Experience

India that provided supplementary education, support for marginalized farmers, and vocational training. He earned an engineering and economics degree in 2011, was a consultant at McKinsey & Company in India, and led commercial operations... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2024
  • News

The Exchange: Lessons from the Edge

they’re keen to give back. The vast majority of them are seen as statesmen and stateswomen who have contributed to the building blocks of their particular society, both commercial successes and significant not-for-profit entrepreneurs. I... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Educational Support Services; Educational Services
  • 01 Dec 2022
  • News

Flying High

idea that there is an enormous opportunity to make air travel better.” The startup saw space in the market between premium commercial airline options that were increasingly inconvenient and the ever-more expensive choice of private air... View Details
Keywords: April White; aviation; airlines; entrepreneurship; leadership; innovation; Air Transportation; Transportation
  • 11 Oct 2016
  • Blog Post

Why We Recruit: HelloFresh

for?HelloFresh started recruiting on campus last Fall (Oct. 2015). We came back this Spring and successfully found two amazing HBS students that joined us in Toronto and NYC this past summer. We’re mainly looking for people who are entrepreneurial and can combine View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail