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01 Dec 2004
News

A Life by Design

created the distinctive Studebaker Hawk automobile. “Years later, I realized what an amazing place I had grown up in,” says Ross, who acknowledges her father’s influence on her own choice of careers — fashion product design. Over the past... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; toys; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Sporting Goods, Hobby, Musical Instrument, and Book Stores; Retail Trade

14 Jan 2015
Research & Ideas

Thriving in the Turbulence of Emerging Markets

company to increase capacity, despite high consumer demand for its economically priced two-wheeler. For 15 to 20 years, the scooter had a ten-year delivery period, Bajaj recalled in his interview. To those not familiar with India's closed... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Manufacturing; Auto

03 May 2013
News

Looking Through Glass, Historically

and principal owner of the Westmoreland Glass Company, a maker of functional and decorative glassware. Wilson still remembers the day when, as a four-year-old, he was taken by his grandfather to visit the factory. "I can still recall the... View Details

Keywords: Visual arts; crafts; glass making; Miscellaneous Manufacturing; Manufacturing

12 Feb 2016
News

Creating Common Ground in Communities of Conflict

HBS], I raised half of the money to launch. The community at HBS has been continued to be amazing,” she says. Supporters are drawn to Mendhro’s vision of connecting dreamers to dream makers and, ultimately, to other dreamers. “The stories that have come back are... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

01 Jan 2012
News

Cynthia Carroll, MBA 1989

Download Carroll profile Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1956 Born, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1978 Earns BS, Geology, Skidmore College 1982 Earns MS, Geology, University of Kansas 1982 Joins Amoco Production... View Details

01 Dec 2002
News

What You Know Depends on Where You Go

grow up just like ‘ours.' This approach has led to many failures,” says Arnold. Indeed, research by Arnold and Quelch has found that emerging markets tend to develop and grow quite differently, sometimes with a tighter product life cycle,... View Details

01 Dec 2011
News

Making the Case for Leadership

technologically innovative company away from specialty glass, television tubes, and fiberglass production into newer, faster-growing profit-making areas. At the time, the economy is plagued by recession, worker morale is flagging, and the... View Details

01 Mar 2006
News

The Producers

can rack up U.S. box office receipts of just over $380 million (not including consumer product tie-ins), and unexpected hits like Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ grossed $370 million in 2004, earning a respectable third-place... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries; Information

15 Feb 2011
First Look

First Look: Feb. 15

workplace interactions. Building on West and Zimmerman's (1987) now classic articulation of gender as "the product of social doings," we describe this organizationally induced behavior as "undoing" gender. We use this... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Sep 2008
News

The Levitt Brand

June 2006 at the age of 81, the Bulletin’s Class Notes were flooded with dozens of tributes from alumni who recalled his passion and commitment in the classroom and his lasting influence on their careers. “I was clueless going into... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

12 Nov 2014
Op-Ed

A Challenge to the New Congress: Pass Housing Finance Reform

those government guarantees, private financial institutions, recalling the burst housing bubble, would not assume the long term risks associated with these mortgages. (If the private investors were willing to take these risks, they would... View Details

Keywords: by Nicolas Retsinas & Rob Couch; Construction; Real Estate

01 Mar 2019
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2019

have been fixed by the right words? Has your best employee walked out the door without you ever telling them how much they meant to you? Do you still recall that wonderful thing someone said to you so many years ago? If so, then you know... View Details

08 Nov 2023
Blog Post

Zone Defense: These self-driving, AI-powered drones do recon so soldiers don’t have to

idea,’” Tseng recalls his older brother, Ryan, telling him. Ryan Tseng had already started two successful companies, and where Brandon saw a business opportunity in building AI software to operate unmanned systems for the military, Ryan... View Details

Keywords: Technology; Entrepreneurship

03 Feb 2003
Research & Ideas

Web Services

Movie buffs may recall that "plastics" was the whispered tip to Dustin Hoffman in The Graduate; if the movie were remade today, "Web services" might replace that advice. An overflow audience already seemed to know... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Service

01 Dec 2010
News

How to Survive Past Start-up

Commit deeply to the ideal of entrepreneurship first, and only then to a particular business model or product. That combination of commitment and flexibility can help founders react nimbly to market feedback, abandoning products and... View Details

Keywords: Bill Murphy Jr.; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Health and Personal Care Stores; Retail Trade

01 Dec 2006
News

Inside Intel

find excuses to visit Fab 3 just so they could put a bunny suit on.” Fab 3 was also important because it introduced the “McDonald’s approach” to erecting fabs. They were to be made as similar as possible. In the world of “McIntel,” exact replication would mean that... View Details

Keywords: Richard S. Tedlow; Hanna, Julia; technology; manufacturing; innovation; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing

23 Jun 2015
First Look

First Look: June 23, 2015

Experiment of On-the-job Learning of Knowledge Production by Local Workers Reporting to Return Migrants By: Choudhury, Prithwiraj Abstract—I study whether return migrants facilitate knowledge production by... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

23 May 2019
Book

These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems

espousing a triple bottom line of people, planet, and profits, rather than a single-minded focus on shareholder value. People of my vintage recall when business leadership was about serving customers at a profit and giving back to your... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Green Technology

25 Aug 2022
News

Open Market

Gretchen Howard (MBA 2002) came to HBS in part because she had a story in her mind about how her career would start: It was 2000, the apex of the dotcom bubble. She would move to Boston, study business, partner with a technologist from MIT, and build a transformative... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Keith Negley; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

Web

Commencement 2015 Address | About

When I think about Perseverance, I recall the evening I spent at a student vigil last fall. It took place during the period of unrest in Ferguson, Missouri, after the shooting of an African American teenager by a police officer. When I... View Details

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