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- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Security Chief
acquisitions. Today, the company Parker leads from its headquarters in Bradenton, Florida, offers a wide range of products to protect people and property, has 6,500 employees, operates in 35 countries, and... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Class Acts
year. After graduating from Queen's, Minto took a job at Colgate-Palmolive Canada. She soon became known for her flair - presenting products to the company's sales force while zooming about in hockey gear... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
predicts that Dell’s innovation-driven comeback will be one for the ages and that more than half of Dell’s profits will soon come from product lines it didn't have five years ago. Faculty Books The Impact of... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Culture Clash: Exploring Cross Cultural Conflicts in Business
organizational values and business ethics, Paine has long focused on American companies engaged primarily in domestic U.S. business. But faced with an increasing number of questions from international students about whether U.S. corporate... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
The Levitt Brand
between the multinational company, which adjusts its products and practices from country to country (at great cost), and the global corporation, which operates “as if the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
Commercializing Science and included members with medical, science, public health, and business backgrounds from HBS, MIT, and across Harvard University. The realization that DFA’s product had the power to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
in income while the bottom 80 percent lost that same $600 billion from 1979 to 2008. That translates into an average gain of $500,000 in annual income for each person at the top, while the bottom 80 percent... View Details
- 02 Dec 2019
- News
Supporting the School as a Student and Young Alumna
money and ideas flow is, and what the production process involves. Supportive Classmates and Alumni “I got an incredibly good response from many alumni, especially those who were more senior,” Iyer recalls.... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Women at the Top
They came from as far away as Nigeria and as close as Harvard Square, from industries ranging from banking to television. They were entrepreneurs who headed their own... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2022
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Turning Point: Sparking Change
feel like a million dollars, because I had successfully defended my position in front of 70 people and a tough professor. I was in love with marketing from then on, but Chip Bupp, my operations and View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Ink: The Habit of Innovation
seminal research into product failure notes, “knowledge gained from failures [is] often instrumental in achieving subsequent successes.” So capture knowledge to maximize the... View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
result of my arrogance from 30,000 feet. I failed to get the other groups invested in the program. I completely fiddle-dee-deed the long-lead timetable. I delegated the entire project to a handsome but clueless assistant View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
New Horizons for Iraq
ready now.” We had been counting on two more days to finish our work along a 56-mile front — reducing physical obstacles, such as berms, ditches, and electrified fences, to clear lanes for American forces to roll into Iraq from Kuwait.... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2020
for leaders. For example, globally dispersed businesses can't reserve key leadership roles for people from exclusive groups; leadership must become inclusive, or fail. Leaders must learn to collaborate in a world of networked... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Camel and the Unicorn
become even more popular as the COVID-19 pandemic has made both the Valley’s products and its real estate prices seem ever more impractical. But if those dire predictions come true, it might not be because of inflated valuations. It could... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
CEO-to-employee pay ratios—say, 60 to 1—improve consumer perceptions. A firm with a 1,000-to-1 ratio would have to offer a 50 percent discount on its product to gain a similarly favorable impression.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
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Admit It: You’re in Denial
the line in order to retool his factories for its successor, the Model A. To make the change, he shut down production for months, at a cost of close to $250 million. This chain of events was disastrous for the company because it allowed... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Greylock
One of the country's most renowned venture capital firms, for nearly four decades Greylock has emphasized building businesses rather than stocks, providing hands-on assistance to entrepreneurs, and helping companies contribute new View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
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Faculty Q&A: Price Check
a limited time. Many of its products sell out the first time they’re offered, and a majority of the revenues come from first sales. So the question of how to price new products... View Details
- 25 Feb 2021
- News
Building Hope
gained attention in recent years as an off-label medication for treatment-resistant depression. Zapolin says that unlike plant medicines that involve intense psychedelic explorations, ketamine has a short period of onset lasting about an... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Morrell