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August 2000
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Incat

Incat is a cutting-edge manufacturer of high-speed aluminum catamaran ferries. The company has been an entrepreneurial success story, growing to be the largest private employer in its home state of Tasmania, Australia. By 2000, Robert Clifford, the company's dynamic... View Details

Keywords: Production; Ship Transportation; Decision Choices and Conditions; Manufacturing Industry; Australia

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During his tenure, Luckenbach reorganized the company by withdrawing ships from the unprofitable intercoastal trade and re-deploying them on the international charter market. At the same time, he broadened the shore side activities of the... View Details

Keywords: Transportation

10 Aug 2010
First Look

First Look: August 10

in an environment in which consumers disseminate content without the assistance, or approval, of gatekeepers. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/510064-PDF-ENG Vereinigung Hamburger Schiffsmakler und Schiffsagenten e.V. (VHSS): Valuing View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

08 May 2015
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Continuing a family legacy

After gaining experience in a variety of industries, Angela A. Chao (AB 1995, MBA 2001) joined the family shipping business, where she is growing the business in new ways. (Published May 2015) View Details

19 Nov 2018
Sharpening Your Skills

E-Santa: Is Retail Ready for Digital Christmas?

Is Amazon's growing retail power capable of breaking the "wheel of retailing" theory? Retail Reaches a Tipping Point—Which Stores Will Survive? E-commerce is about to deal severe blows to many familiar store-based brands. How to Use Free View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

20 Oct 2016
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Uncharted Territory

things didn’t go according to plan. There were issues with manufacturing and shipping the balls. As CEO Matthews knew she needed to make a change: “We’re never going to make the best soccer ball," Matthews recounts to Business Insider.... View Details

10 May 2011
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First Look: May 10

strategy—made by Cake's team in response to market feedback. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/811041-PDF-ENG Vereinigung Hamburger Schiffsmakler und Schiffsagenten e.V. (VHSS): Valuing Ships Benjamin C. Esty and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Clifford D. Mallory

Mallory built one of the largest and most successful independent American shipping firms. Originally specializing in the operation of government-owned tonnage from American ports to the Mediterranean, Mallory later developed his famous... View Details

Keywords: Transportation

01 Sep 2009
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Read All About It!

steadily improved. Railroads were the big breakthrough, but by 1939, 10 percent of all intercity freight was shipped by motor vehicles. Getty Images For nineteenth-century passengers, riding the rails was a heady experience marked by the... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

October 2008 (Revised February 2009)
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Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering

Explores the journey of aggressive learning and capability building in the operations of a major Korean Shipbuilder. While DSHM had once used its superior learning capability to topple its Japanese competition, it now faced the potential for a similar attack from new... View Details

Keywords: Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Ship Transportation; Competitive Strategy; Globalization; Manufacturing Industry; Japan; China; South Korea

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Manuscript Collections - A Chronicle of the China Trade

generations of the Heard Family of Ipswich, Massachusetts, constitute the most comprehensive and detailed collection held by Baker Library on the China trade. Engaged in the China trade principally from 1840 to 1877, Heard & Co. records include business correspondence,... View Details

01 Oct 2002
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John Batcha: Sowing the Seeds to Fight Hunger

vegetable and flower seed, which Batcha sources, packages, and labels in a dozen languages, working out of his home in Charlotte, North Carolina. In the past four years, SPI has shipped nearly six million packets of seed abroad. Batcha... View Details

10 Mar 2021
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In My Humble Opinion: A Timely Tension

as a ship engineer. In time, she moved into business to, as she puts it, “understand how the world worked,” even as her passion for the environment continued. After two decades in the for-profit sector, including consulting work and... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Dec 2003
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Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?

panels. Instead, the panels would need to come from Asia — a considerable challenge for an eighty-employee company based in suburban Boston. Sharpe’s response was equally direct. ET partnered with a company based in Singapore and shipped... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Manufacturing

Oscar Gottfried Mayer

During his presidency, Mayer sought ways to improve operating efficiency through techniques of industrial engineering. He introduced cardboard cartons for sausages and vacuum-sealed, twin packs for hot dogs, which were then advances in packaging. He also improved the... View Details

Keywords: Food & Tobacco

24 Apr 2014
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Mining precious metals through e-waste recycling

hazardous. Discarded electronics are usually shipped to China, Africa, and India, where workers—frequently children with no safety equipment—tear the electronics apart, exposing themselves to lethal doses of toxins. BlueOak is building... View Details

Adolph Coors

Orphaned at age fifteen, Coors worked as an apprentice in a brewery in his native Prussia. Six years later, he began his westward journey as a stowaway aboard a ship headed for Maryland. Gradually moving west, Coors eventually landed in... View Details

Keywords: Food & Tobacco

Sven Von Appen

Keywords: Shipping and Logistics

01 Jun 2024
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Elevator Pitch: Bridging the Gap

Anas Aljumaily (MBA 2017) Elian Pres-Gurwits (MBA 2018) Cofounders, Gently Concept: Focused on urban markets, Gently is a last-mile delivery service that uses predictive analytics, electric trucks, and “nano-fulfillment” centers to provide sustainable, affordable... View Details

Keywords: logistics; EVs; delivery; nanofulfillment; entrepreneurship

02 May 2021
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They’re Banking on Him

stress-induced exhaustion and forced to take a short leave to recuperate. But he came back—and so did Lloyds, which ultimately reprivatized, repaying the taxpayer money it had borrowed. Now he’ll take on a task that many consider more difficult: Righting the View Details

Keywords: banking; leadership; turnarounds; Finance

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