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- 01 Dec 2010
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Ilene Lang
contribute to a majority of the company’s U.S. profit and with a strategic focus on embedding women’s ideas and contributions in product development, Campbell has delivered... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
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HBS Moves Ahead with Curriculum Innovations
will be assigned to work with companies in roughly a dozen different countries on the introduction of a new product or service. They’ll do a fair amount of advance preparation in Allston, and then during the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Cultural Revolution at GE
Jeffrey Immelt (MBA ’82) had a tough act to follow when he took over as GE chairman and CEO in September 2001 from the legendary Jack Welch. Ever since, Immelt has been on a mission to transform the $152 billion industrial View Details
Keywords: GE; General Electric; Jack Welch; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing
- 06 Jan 2012
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Where Are They Now?
his company, Sundaram Medical Devices, was awarded in 2010 in the first annual HBS Alumni New Venture Contest. But Mahesh, the founder and CEO of Sundaram, a manufacturing start-up in Chennai, India, that is building high-quality,... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools
- 01 Jun 2018
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The Evolution of Modern Pricing Models
the same assortment. However, certain cheaper items required some extra clicks and scrolls to discover. TT: In the end, we were able to increase Zalora’s gross margins by up to 31 percent in some experimental conditions—and it did not... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
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Q & A: Confronting New Technologies: When Doing Right Is Wrong
technologies seldom make sense to managers, given their corporate perspective. There are two reasons for this. First, customers exert tremendous influence over managers' decisions and the directions they pursue. Since customers cannot use... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
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Mobile robots revolutionize order fulfillment
launch Kiva Systems in 2003. “We decided products that could walk and talk on their own would be the best way to solve the problem,” says Mountz, who continues as CEO of the company he sold to Amazon.com in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Faculty Research Online
thinking too much or thinking too little. See http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/6630.html. From SpinPop to SpinBrush: Entrepreneurial Lessons from John Osher During a panel discussion on entrepreneurship, Professor Bill Sahlman and several... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
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Action Plan: Fired Up
company in 2015, moved it to his home state of Utah, and began assembling a team that embraced what he saw as Traeger’s greatest appeal: “Our products give people the confidence to prepare View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
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Retirement's Changing Face
service that automatically kept track of addresses, travel plans, and important dates. Launched by Adams and Brian Robertson (MBA ’04), the company had grown to 45 employees View Details
Keywords: Personal Services
- 03 Aug 2020
- News
A Clean Start
other chemicals) from carbon dioxide. His goal was to demonstrate—through research, discovery, and good business—a new way forward in reducing CO2 emissions. The first step was to lay out the photosynthesis process in black View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Taking Time to Make Time
not productive to sit in a room and try to figure out where you want to be in 10 or 20 years. Instead, think about what you can do in the next year or two to broaden your learning, experiences, View Details
Keywords: Time management
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
HBS Posts Strong Results in 2008
centers. The intellectual capital generated by this research is transformed into programs and products offered in a competitive marketplace by Executive Education and Harvard... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
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Meeting an essential health care need in India
industrial designer, and completed two rounds of in-hospital tests. Sundaram is now creating a product line of affordable, universal, non-invasive vitals-monitoring devices that mount to the bed. “We... View Details
- 09 Sep 2021
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Let’s Redefine 'Productivity' for the Hybrid Era
- 27 Jun 2016
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Ulf Mark Schneider Has Plans to Make Nestlé Healthy
in 2015, compared with 4.2 percent rate for the group as a whole, while Nestlé is aiming to lift annual sales of health products to as high as 10 billion francs. The health operations also bring stronger profit margins. The group’s... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
What's Cookin'
American economic system.” Castaldo's own path to the industry began in brand management for Clairol; in 1980, he was recruited by Burger King Corporation and left five years later as vice president of advertising. Explaining the leap... View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia
- 01 Jun 2011
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An Economy Undermined
fact, stocks on average did not rise at all in the 1970s. Productivity grew more slowly in the ensuing thirty years than it had for any prolonged period since the 1800s. My class’s first decade out from HBS was marked by economic View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
We Rise
What Barna wasn’t fully prepared for, though, was the additional obstacles that came from fundraising while female. “Trying to explain the needs and consumer behavior of women buying beauty products to... View Details