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- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?
base. As a result, they get cost savings, and we get sales.” Welcome to the new reality in U.S. manufacturing, where, more than ever, intense foreign competition is driving product and strategy innovations. Even those firms without direct... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
don’t make it past five years. Stacey Abrams and Lara Hodgson want to help today’s entrepreneurs beat the odds by revealing the unseen tethers that keep small businesses from growing and thriving. Drawing on firsthand experience starting... View Details
- 27 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Build Winning Streaks
correspond to the official hierarchy of titles, whether chief executive, head coach, manager, or lord-high-anything-else. Dusty Baker was firm on this point: "Your coaches may not be the leaders. They're in charge of their... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Your Own Medicine
hospital bed in jeans and Chuck Taylors, mussed brown hair, smiling just enough to reveal dimples, with his hand out in front of him, holding two small white pills. "First dose of HT-100. That's it," she says, pulling up the photo on the... View Details
- 13 Feb 2020
- News
Not Throwing Away My Shot
Schultz (MBA 1983) was working as an executive chairman for a tech company, and on his way home from a fundraising presentation at a venture firm when he had an epiphany. A longtime executive with a personal interest in history, he had... View Details
- 08 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile
high levels of inequality. While closing the borders of small markets to globalization has been a recipe for slow growth and low productivity, opening them all too often is a recipe for instability and shocks. Effective institutions,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Over the Top
right to nominate directors into something that is real — and has a real chance of holding boards of directors accountable to company owners.” Major business groups lost no time denouncing the reform measures as vehicles for ceding enormous power to a View Details
- 18 Aug 2021
- News
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
the elements of our Credo focused on creating a community unified in its mission to improve quality of life.” The release goes on to note that Edwards has partnered with firms that have expertise in using capital to benefit underserved... View Details
- 10 Nov 2014
- HBS Case
How Restaurants in Lima and Copenhagen Became Best in the World
Viking, its literary press, which any serious author would be over the moon to get a contract with. HBSWK: What would you say is the biggest conflict Noma faces? Khaire: When you as a firm are depending entirely on the chef's creativity... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
This Is What I Do
with the investment-management firm PIMCO, Lemmon is now the deputy director of the Women and Foreign Policy Program at the Council on Foreign Relations, the influential, nonpartisan think tank headquartered in New York. She has recently... View Details
- 18 Aug 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs
money, bought out his partner, and relaunched the company with new people, eventually moving over to an advisory role as chairman of the board. Potentia initially accepted small amounts of funding to pursue several ideas before zooming in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
therefore not suitable for industrial applications.” He turned down the money, bought out his partner, and relaunched the company with new people, eventually moving over to an advisory role as chairman of the board. Potentia initially accepted View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
eventful. The lessons of their experience speak volumes for all of American industry, as firms large and small grapple with a host of new challenges that those beginning their careers in 1971 never... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
attempt at starting his own company. Because venture capitalists were unwilling to fund travel businesses in the wake of the 1973 fuel crisis, Belkin financed his startup with an American Express card and small investments from twelve... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 10 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018
was a vertically integrated food company with a management system that allowed it to innovate and grow systematically. With sales of $2 billion in 2016, the firm not only produced flour, vegetable oil, and packaged food products, it also... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
a few years ago, thanks to a marquee investment: In July 2017, Softbank’s Vision Fund led a $200 million funding round into Plenty, a San Francisco–based vertical farming startup. “That really moved the needle,” she says. Don Goodwin, the founder and president of... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
They also detail how the city's business leaders stepped in to begin the slow, arduous process of creating new organizations, strategies, and alliances that eventually turned Cleveland into a vibrant commercial center. As part of "Cleveland Day," students and Cleveland... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 16 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
Hack.Diversity, which aims to improve Black and Latinx representation in Boston’s innovation economy; launching Little Black Library to promote education on racial justice and the Black experience by sharing books; and helping raise capital for Uptrust, a software... View Details
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance
provided by an international development agency. Rainforest Expeditions (RFE) was a small Peruvian ecotourism company that detected the opportunity to open an eco-lodge in the Tambopata-Candamo Reservation area, in the Peruvian Amazonia.... View Details