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- 01 Jan 2009
- News
Jorge Paulo Lemann, A.B. 1961; Carlos A. Sicupira, OPM 9, 1984; Marcel H. Telles, OPM 10, 1985
was a senior partner for more than 25 years before selling the firm to Credit Suisse First Boston in 1998. At Garantia and later at GP Investimentos, Lemann invested in management talent and diverse acquisitions, including a retail chain, View Details
- 04 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 4
Cotton Manufacturing At the time of the American War of Independence (1776-1783) and for several decades after it, Great Britain dominated the global production of cotton textiles. In fact, Britain became so dominant in View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Brand New
World War II, members played a key role in the Normandy invasion. When Sundy left the army for the corporate world, he turned his attention to similarly storied names such as Cheerios, Betty Crocker, KitchenAid, and Maytag in his marketing roles at General View Details
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Marjorie M.T. Yang (MBA '76)
Brooks Brothers, Marks & Spencer, and Nordstrom. What isn't known to consumers is the name behind all these labels-a family-owned textile and apparel manufacturer headquartered in Hong Kong called The Esquel Group. With seventeen plants... View Details
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Research Links - The Art of American Advertising
Advertising Ephemera Collection , Baker Library holds more than 8,000 trade cards, over 1,100 of which are available in digital form, representing the full range of products and businesses advertised through this medium from the 1870s... View Details
- 15 Aug 2016
- Blog Post
Prepare for Your Interview with Research
the most recent products or services launched by the company? ABI/Proquest and Nexis are two article databases with powerful search interfaces that allow you to dig deeply into a company’s activities and events. Key Players in the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Damon Silvers
they shouldn’t unionize. The employer’s legal right to coercively interfere with employees’ choices is at work in a way that’s completely inappropriate. The election process itself allows for long delays in litigation and uncertainty. I worked on an organizing campaign... View Details
- 22 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 22
and exploration in terms of innovation streams—incremental innovation in existing products as well as architectural and/or discontinuous innovation. Based on in-depth, longitudinal data from 13 business units and 22 innovations, we... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Aug 2019
- Blog Post
Leveraging Academic Opportunities to Attain My Post-HBS Job
Earlier this summer, I joined Plaid as a Product Manager, culminating my transition from HBS back to the “real world.” My path to joining Plaid full-time didn’t follow the traditional recruiting route. My plan was to join an early to... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019
course of history—and their own lives. The Captain, Linda and the Tiger Shark: Their Love Was His Armor by Carlos M. Lago (MBA 1977) Mill City Press A novel about love almost lost to the sea—and what lurks within. Fintech, Small Business... View Details
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How the Giants of Enterprise Seized the Future
nineteenth century. From a bobbin boy in a steam-driven textile mill, where he was paid $1.20 a week, he moved on to a telegraph office, then to the Pennsylvania Railroad, and eventually to the gigantic complex of View Details
Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow
- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
How Technological Disruption Changes Everything
market where customers are being overserved by the prevailing offerings. The concept of "overshooting" suggests that companies try to keep prices and margins high by developing products with many more features than customers can... View Details
- September 1994 (Revised September 1994)
- Case
Acer Group, The: Vision for the Year 2000
By: D. Quinn Mills and Richard C. Wei
In the early 1990s, Acer, Inc. set two goals: to be a top-five PC company worldwide in 1995 and to be a global consortium of companies by the year 2000. The company identified potential obstacles concerning capital, image, number of experienced international managers,... View Details
Keywords: Mission and Purpose; Goals and Objectives; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Organizational Structure; Global Strategy; Multinational Firms and Management; Experience and Expertise; Marketing Strategy; Production; Rank and Position; Business Strategy; Capital; Computer Industry; Japan
Mills, D. Quinn, and Richard C. Wei. "Acer Group, The: Vision for the Year 2000." Harvard Business School Case 495-001, September 1994. (Revised September 1994.)
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Rahul Bajaj, MBA 1964
production of a commodity that most Indians needed, I didn't mind." Bajaj's antiestablishment views prevailed, and by the beginning of the 1980s, Bajaj Auto had increased its annual production to 172,000... View Details
- 12 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 12, 2007
location of transactions and the boundaries of firms in a productive system. It proposes that systems of production can be viewed as networks, in which tasks-cum-agents are the nodes and transfers—of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
executives set standards for leadership. As good as the late 1980s were to forest products company Boise Cascade (BC) Corporation, the early 1990s spelled near disaster for its primary business — making plain, white copier paper. Like... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 20 Apr 2016
- News
Steps to Success
B,” she recalls. With Goldberg’s help, Ruhr got a summer job working for General Mills in its Stockton, California, regional grain office. Upon graduating, she went to work for the company, first on the trading floor at the Chicago Board... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 06 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 6
Publications August 2013 Cambridge University Press Democracy and Its Elected Enemies: American Political Capture and Economic Decline By: Rosefielde, Steven, and Daniel Quinn Mills Abstract—Democracy and Its Elected Enemies reveals... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #14: Bonita Stewart (MBA 1983) – A Career Devoted to Creating the Future
their established physical intensity targets. It will certainly not be easy, but our brands are committed and up to the challenge.” The global scope of textile emissions overall is daunting. A 2020 BBC report warned that “textile View Details
- 25 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 25
Co. Ltd. Founded in 1986, Red Star had become the leading department store in China for furniture and home equipment products (bathroom, lamps, textiles complements, etc.). The business model of Red Star was... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne