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- 20 Mar 2000
- Research & Ideas
Incubators: The New Venture Capitalists?
you're hiring for your startup." But with the good incubators already having their hands full, said Corey, entrepreneurs are also going to make the case for themselves. "You obviously want to spend a lot of time interviewing these people, but to a large... View Details
Keywords: by Kenneth Liss
- 26 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
How Cellophane Changed the Way We Shop for Food
assigned his patents to La Cellophane Societe Anonyme, a French company formed for the sole purpose of marketing the invention. In 1923, the company licensed to DuPont the exclusive rights to make and sell cellophane in the United States.... View Details
- 12 Feb 2021
- News
How Dunkin’ Donuts Took Over the World
Philippines, you saw that the wives of some of the Dunkin’ Donuts owners were selling donuts off site, which sort of troubled you at first because of issues of quality control and branding. But then you saw the potential in that, and it... View Details
Keywords: brands; leadership; management; strategy; operations; career; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade
- 10 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
Globalization: The Strategy of Differences
separate company. Meanwhile, sales of its own branded products have been focused on the East Asia region, particularly Greater China, where the contract customers cannot sell at a low enough price to compete. With this move, the company... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Edward D. Bullard: The Personal Touch
business. After graduating from UC-Berkeley and HBS and a short stint at Price Waterhouse, Bullard cut his teeth as an E.D. Bullard sales manager in Detroit, "trying to sell products during a horrible recession," he recalls with a... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 27 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Dynamics of Standing Still: Firestone Tire & Rubber and the Radial Revolution
and within four years Sears was selling one million units per year.1 In the mid-1960s, B.F. Goodrich embraced radial technology as a means to win market share from its larger rivals, and the company introduced the first American-made... View Details
- 08 Feb 2010
- HBS Case
Looking Behind Google’s Stand in China
working inside the country to create value for its Chinese users, employees, and business partners. To critics, Google was selling out its core principles to play in the world's second largest economy. “Google shot themselves in the foot... View Details
- 19 Oct 2021
- Research & Ideas
Fed Up Workers and Supply Woes: What's Next for Dollar Stores?
and they don’t need to have a lot of foot traffic because it’s a low-fixed-cost model. Maybe you’re not selling as much, maybe you don’t have as many customers, but it’s sales per square foot. And here, I’m mostly talking about Dollar... View Details
- 09 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Most Accountants Aren’t CrooksWhy Good Audits Go Bad
build relationships that allow them to sell their more lucrative consulting services. Thus, from the executive team down to individual accountants, an auditing firm's motivation to provide favorable audits runs deep. As the collision case... View Details
- 30 Mar 2018
- What Do You Think?
What Should Mark Zuckerberg Do?
was another issue to be addressed. Up to now, Facebook had little control over the information gathered by app designers, which they could in turn sell to third-party organizations largely unknown to the company. Facebook had, indeed,... View Details
- 17 Dec 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
‘Ted Levitt Changed My Life’
"Ted Levitt changed my life," wrote Barry Koh (HBS PMD 30, 1975). "In our very first class he opened my eyes to how people are motivated to make decisions. Before, I thought as an engineer—the best attributes and the best price View Details
- 24 Nov 2015
- Research & Ideas
Developing Your Next CEO for the Family Business
built a manufacturing company for Manitowoc Cranes as an Outsider CEO before buying that company and selling it, then being recruited by his family’s fifth generation hot sauce maker, McIlhenny Company. These family members have the right... View Details
- 27 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Working to Change the Food System
sugars or vegetable oils, using a lot less land and resources. It’s no secret that these are powerful organisms, but past attempts to scale production have faced challenging unit economics (high up-front capital costs for facilities, View Details
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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
Social Strategies That Work
Over a billion people use social platforms on the Internet, making them the most frequently visited category of sites. Some platforms, such as eHarmony, MeetUp, and Twitter, allow us to connect to strangers. eHarmony alone is estimated to account for one in six new... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
One Man Crime Wave
a textile mill, and issues of whether or not to keep or sell the mill, protect the employees and community, and maintain or forfeit personal integrity. In these, and in his thrillers, MacDonald clearly prefers small and family-owned... View Details
- 04 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
When Founders Recruit Friends and Family as Investors
risk-averse than they might otherwise have been, which can result in a lower exit value. An experienced investor explained, "When an entrepreneur has all of their own personal wealth or their family's wealth tied up in a deal, they are more likely to be... View Details
Keywords: by Noam Wasserman
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By: Debora L. Spar
I'll have a girl, please
American Public Media [Marketplace], 12 September 2006
DR. DEBORAH SPAR: "The ability to choose gender is really only the first... View Details
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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... View Details