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- 22 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Student Spotlight: Jesse Lou (MBA 2022) – Working to Change the Food System
co-founded this summer. PicoGreens is engineering single-celled algae (microalgae) to use as “crop plants” that sustainably produce foods and food ingredients. Instead of growing entire sugarcane stalks just to harvest their sugar, we can... View Details
Franklin P. Perdue
Under Perdue’s total-control leadership style, Perdue Farms grew from a small Maryland chicken farm into the United States’ third largest chicken producer with sales of almost $1 billion in the late 1980s. Perdue built his business on... View Details
Keywords: Food & Tobacco
Francis C. Rooney, Jr.
During his 23-year tenure as CEO, Rooney led Melville’s dramatic expansion as a focused retail industry conglomerate. His acquisition of CVS in 1969 became the primary profitability producer for the corporation. Under his leadership,... View Details
Keywords: Retail
Henry S. Wingate
A corporate lawyer by training, Wingate took over the helm of the Canadian mineral company in the middle of an expansionary period. Wingate presided over the construction of several new nickel-mining facilities as well as the unveiling of a new electrolysis technique... View Details
Keywords: Metals
Ohio C. Barber
Barber’s own match manufacturing company consolidated with three other firms in 1881 to form the Diamond Match Company, controlling about 85% of the trade in the industry. Diamond Match produced the first modern automatic match machine.... View Details
Keywords: Fabricated Goods
- 18 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Unspoken Cues: Encouraging Morals Without Mandates
The belief that business life entails personal choices is a "vocal" element in the School's context. Q: Can morals be manufactured, as the title of the book suggests? A: The term "manufacturing" evokes the notion of View Details
Daniel F. Gerber, Jr.
Gerber took over his father’s small canning business in 1917 and refashioned it into a leading producer of baby food products. When Gerber introduced strained baby food in 1928, the market was virtually untapped. At the time, baby food... View Details
Keywords: Food & Tobacco
John D. Ryan
Ryan’s negotiation skills helped put an end to bitter competition among Montana copper moguls in the early 1900s. When he assumed control of Anaconda, he capitalized on the increasing importance of copper in electricity production, growing Anaconda into the largest... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture & Mining
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IDEO: Human-Centered Service Design | Information Technology
the classroom. And it's really exciting to get to see them on the ground, experiencing the process as it was rolling out before our eyes when we were producing it. Ryan W. Buell ; C. D. Spangler Professor of Business Administration... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
The Power of Philanthropy
announced its approval of Kalydeco, a drug produced by Vertex that will immediately help some 1,200 cystic fibrosis patients and is viewed as a breakthrough precursor drug to forthcoming products that will help all other CF sufferers.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Research Brief: The Benefits of Bias
NIH grant applications from 1992 to 2005. She plotted links between applicants and evaluators—via professional publication citations—to determine potential bias. Then, to establish the quality of the funded projects, she tracked the number of publications and citations... View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
The Key to Innovation: Flexible Funding
business and other sectors so that we continue to produce and disseminate research and teaching materials with power in practice. To fulfill the School's enormous potential, a larger portion of the HBS annual budget will be invested in... View Details
Keywords: Robert Steven Kaplan
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Student Proposed Fellowship Program - Resources for selecting your organization
industry, (e.g. health care). GuideStar will produce a results list that can be filtered by geography and organization details. You may also choose to enter a blank search on the main page to see additional filters and advanced search... View Details
Richard J. Cullen
Cullen pioneered both the development of Kraft paper, as well as the paper industry as a whole in the South. Cullen was a leader in exploiting the resources of the southern woodlands as the raw material for making Kraft paper. Cullen was also one of the early advocates... View Details
Keywords: Wood, Paper & Forestry
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National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) working papers
Where can I find & search working papers from NBER? The NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals. NBER... View Details
Laurence F. Probst, III
Probst turned Electronic Arts from a simple producer of videogames into a bona fide and consistent “hit producer.” With such mega-hits as Madden NFL Football, The Sims, and Harry Potter, Probst has created a sustainable franchise. Under... View Details
Keywords: Computers & Electronics
William L. Mellon
Under Mellon’s management, the firm became a pioneer on several fronts. He opened the nation’s first service stations in 1913 became and expanded into international oil exploration. By the mid-1920s, Gulf’s refinery at Port Arthur, Texas, was the largest in the world.... View Details
Keywords: Utilities & Energy
George H. Mead
Mead, who started his career as a chemist and pulp mill foreman, built a paper mill empire. His knowledge of the manufacturing process and the paper market resulted in a steady expansion of the business. Mead was also active in the development of the Canadian paper... View Details
Keywords: Wood, Paper & Forestry
Richard W. Clark
With his ageless persona, Clark had an uncanny ability to tap into the social consciousness of America’s youth. After having served in front of the camera for many years, most notably as host of American Bandstand, Clark formed his own production company which View Details
Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media
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Water: reserves and usage
Where can I find data on water reserves and usage by country? World Water Development Report United Nations): provides a comprehensive review of the world’s freshwater resources. From 2003 till 2012, the WWDR was produced... View Details