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- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Back on Course
the fact that those models produced 70 percent of the firm's revenue. "They were practical, but ugly," noted Heese, who expressed distaste for the "fiberglass bathtubs" that are all too common these days. Chris- Craft plans to launch a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Merck’s Gilmartin on Vaccines, Global Health
but most have been driven away by fears of liability and government discount price-setting. “No one company or handful of companies can undertake all the research” necessary to produce needed vaccines, he said. Incentives must be... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The Blue-Green Revolution
Much hope and plenty of money are riding on the idea that batterypowered electric cars will help slow global warming by reducing tailpipe emissions. But when it comes to reducing the greenhouse gases produced by heavy... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Get Ready for Saudi Oil Shock
producing its oil, each of the five or six key field that are still around 90 percent of their production are in real danger of a pending production collapse. You might see the production from any one of these fields drop by as much as... View Details
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Brian T. Bedol
knew was that life,” he said. With that foundation, it was no surprise that Bedol became a successful entrepreneur himself. After graduating from Boston University with a degree in communications, Bedol became an advertising copywriter and then landed a job as a View Details
James F. Lincoln
Lincoln, as president of the world’s largest producer of welding equipment, pioneered the incentive wage system. Lincoln’s “Incentive System” rewarded workers according to their productive capacity and made the company the lowest cost... View Details
Keywords: Fabricated Goods
- 10 May 2019
- News
Bringing Art to the People It Depicts
“Instead of overthinking it, I thought I could be a part of the change to start supporting our own,” the rapper and record producer told the Harvard Gazette. “We have a hard time supporting our own sometimes because it’s so close to us.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Feedback
“the sound of dog food glopping out of a can.” (Buy a of copy of his book, MouthSounds, if you want to know more.) I’ve long enjoyed Fred’s creative ability to make me smile. I put him in a special category of entertaining HBSers, including the late Jay Ward (MBA... View Details
Stephen Birch
Under Birch’s direction, Kennecott Copper experienced impressive growth. In 1915, the firm had 450 employees and $11 million in sales. By the time of Birch’s death in 1940, Kennecott Copper had nearly 29,000 employees and sales in excess of $177 million. Kennecott... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture & Mining
Jean Riboud
Riboud is credited with building the world’s leading oilfield testing company. During his tenure, he produced a 19-fold increase in revenue (to $6.4 billion) and a 44-fold increase in earnings (to $1.2 billion), often View Details
Keywords: Utilities & Energy
Herbert H. Dow
Dow Chemicals began by producing bleaching powder as its main product. Through Dow’s inventiveness, Dow Chemical expanded dramatically, especially with the discovery of many uses for brine. Dow manufactured insecticides, oxychloride for... View Details
Keywords: Chemicals & Industrial
- 27 Aug 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Learning From Japan’s Remarkable Disaster Recovery
chrysanthemum producer to a provider of closures for families who have lost their loved ones. It was memorable to hear him talk about how his mission in life was developed and how he had redefined his business." “Post-disaster... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Case Study: Something New
launching Anomalie in 2016, she was a supply-chain manager for Apple Watch—and a bride-to-be in search of a wedding gown. In the process, the self-described TOM nerd discovered that one city in China produces 75 percent of the world’s... View Details
Keywords: April White
George W. Lucas
Lucas has produced and directed some of the most successful films in history including the Star Wars Trilogy and the Indiana Jones series. Through his Industrial Light and Magic subsidiary, he has pioneered some of the most dramatic... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media
Clarence W. Seamans
After making a name for himself in sales at E. Remington and Sons, Seamans and his associates bought the company and eventually merged it into what became Union Typewriter. Under Seamans' leadership, Union Typewriter acquired other business machine View Details
Keywords: Fabricated Goods
- 08 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 8
Working Papers Modeling a Paradigm Shift: From Producer Innovation to User and Open Collaborative Innovation Authors: Carliss Y. Baldwin and Eric von Hippel Abstract In this paper we assess the economic viability of innovation by View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
Roy L. Ash
In 1953, Ash and his partner, Tex Thornton, bought Litton Industries, a small West Coast producer of microwave tubes. Litton embarked on an aggressive acquisition course. By 1961, the same year Ash became president of the company, Litton... View Details
Keywords: Fabricated Goods
- Fast Answer
Music & Activism: Market Research Resources
code/local level? Cambridge, MA Town Gown Reports – yearly report produced for the City of Cambridge by each local university, including demographic information on students SimplyAnalytics generates tables and maps for the... View Details
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Introduction - The Medium - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
photography, Machine Age photographers created elemental shapes and abstractions of industrial production that extolled the functional beauty of worker and machine. In an image produced for the Bigelow-Sanford Carpet Company, for example,... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Kicking Off a Startup: Jennifer Rottenberg (MBA '96)
television markets but will hold their games in intimate, spectator-friendly venues. This strategy should produce the revenues and crowds (per-game target: 2,500 fans) to meet initial break-even projections. The league will draw on a fan... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry