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  • 20 Oct 2016
  • News

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
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Spring 2014 Reunion Photo Galleries - Alumni

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Spring 2013 Reunion Photo Galleries - Alumni

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Fall 2014 Reunion Photo Galleries - Alumni

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Fall 2012 Reunion Photo Galleries - Alumni

casual surfing. The cost of purchase for photos is based on processing and shipping costs. Harvard Business School does not benefit from the sale of any photographs. Continue to the HBS Alumni SmugMug photo gallery . Find a reunion Choose... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2009
  • News

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
  • 01 Oct 2002
  • News

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
  • 01 Dec 2003
  • News

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
  • October 2019
  • Supplement

Hidrovias do Brasil: Navigating Unchartered Waters: Video Supplement

By: Boris Groysberg and Sarah L. Abbott
Since its founding eight years earlier, Hidrovias do Brasil (“Hidrovias”), an integrated logistics provider serving corporate customers exporting products from South America via the Atlantic Ocean, had grown to 900 employees and $253 million in annual revenues.... View Details
Keywords: Human Resources; Entrepreneurship; Growth Management; Finance; Leadership; Operations; Problems and Challenges; Human Capital; Growth and Development; Private Equity; Shipping Industry; Brazil
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  • December 2017
  • Case

Piracy in Somalia (A)

By: Sophus A. Reinert and Alissa Davies
A Somali fisherman stands on a beach in early 2011, considering his options: should he embark in his tiny fishing vessel or join a nearby pirate crew? His war-ravaged country, entering its 20th year of civil war, was in the midst of a famine that had claimed hundreds... View Details
Keywords: Pirates; Foreign Aid; Civil War; Private Property; Human Rights; Economic Development; Globalization; War; Property; Crime and Corruption; Rights; Development Economics; Moral Sensibility; Shipping Industry; Somalia
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  • October 2009 (Revised May 2011)
  • Background Note

Memo From Counsel: Antitrust Law and Customer Allocation

By: Lynn S. Paine and Lara Adamsons
When do antitrust laws come into play in a bidding situation? What should a company do if an antitrust violation is uncovered? This memo discusses "hard-core" antitrust violations, focusing on bid rigging and market allocation, under the laws of the U.S. and other... View Details
Keywords: Laws and Statutes; Bids and Bidding; Monopoly; Shipping Industry; United States
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  • January 2004 (Revised May 2006)
  • Case

Yamato Transport: Valuing and Pricing Network Services (A)

By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee, Tarun Khanna and Masako Egawa
Yamato Transport is the leading Japanese parcel delivery company and has dominated its industry for more than two decades. In response to new competitive challenges, Yamato must decide how to reposition itself in the industry and optimize the size of its network. The... View Details
Keywords: Value Creation; Competition; Transportation Networks; Monopoly; Shipping Industry; Japan
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  • September 1992 (Revised November 1997)
  • Case

DHL Worldwide Express

By: John A. Quelch
The worldwide sales and marketing manager must determine the degree to which pricing strategy and tactics should be standardized or left to the discretion of the DHL subsidiary in each country. View Details
Keywords: Governance; Business Subsidiaries; Price; Marketing Strategy; Multinational Firms and Management; Sales; Shipping Industry
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  • 24 Apr 2014
  • News

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
  • 01 Mar 2012
  • News

Shop Talk, Different Avenues

launched in Japan in 2009, and last November we started shipping from the United States to over 90 different countries. MT: So your site translates into the local currency? AM: Yes. There are also duties, taxes, and a flat rate for... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; shopping; e-commerce; Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Retail Trade
  • 01 Sep 2020
  • News

Comeback Trail

Koehn, and Debora Spar—to weigh in on what advice history can offer as we navigate the current economic crisis. The Devil You Don’t Know Professor David Moss on the danger of treating this economic crisis like its predecessors Righting the View Details
  • 02 May 2021
  • News

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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Spring 2018 Reunion Photo Galleries - Alumni

casual surfing. The cost of purchase for photos is based on processing and shipping costs. Harvard Business School does not benefit from the sale of any photographs. Continue to the HBS Alumni SmugMug photo gallery . Find a reunion Choose... View Details
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Spring 2016 Reunion Photo Galleries - Alumni

casual surfing. The cost of purchase for photos is based on processing and shipping costs. Harvard Business School does not benefit from the sale of any photographs. Continue to the HBS Alumni SmugMug photo gallery . Find a reunion Choose... View Details
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Fall 2018 Reunion Photo Galleries - Alumni

casual surfing. The cost of purchase for photos is based on processing and shipping costs. Harvard Business School does not benefit from the sale of any photographs. Continue to the HBS Alumni SmugMug photo gallery . Find a reunion Choose... View Details