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- 28 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 28, 2016
Harvard Business School Case 316-124 Gotong Royong: Toward Sustainable Palm Oil In late 2015, Jeff Seabright, chief sustainability officer at Unilever, had to report to Unilever CEO Paul Polman on the effort to transform palm View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Oct 2017
- News
Can Farming Save the Planet?
wells. The people with whom he was working had come up with a process to take 90 percent of the oil out of the wastewater from an oil well, which can use millions of gallons of...
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- 01 Sep 2004
- News
American Dream
business down into 21 profit centers and use a strategic, cost-analysis approach to retail.” Although Hustead spent summers as a teenager working at Wall Drug, it wasn’t initially his career of choice. In 1973, after two years of college,...
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Jeremy Burnham
consultants, one guy who had been a software entrepreneur, and me, an oil and gas engineer,” says Jeremy. “Not one of us spoke Spanish, and none of us had any experience in...
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- 02 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Curse of Double-Digit Growth
change from two bloody civil wars between 1989 and 2003 that left the country torn apart by warlords notorious for using child soldiers and quarter of a million people dead. (UN peacekeepers plan to stay in place until 2017.) Werker says...
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by Kim Girard
- 02 Jan 2018
- Op-Ed
'Dear Working Knowledge'--Our Favorite Reader Comments of the Year
of life in the home--should be viewed as a miserable chore. I look forward to coming home from work and spending time mindfully cooking fresh foods and ... yes, even mindfully housecleaning (it takes less than an hour. Seriously.). It's...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Mar 2023
- News
Carbon's Second Act
Photo credits: Brenae Bowers Brix and Russ Campbell Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: This story starts the way all classic stories of tech entrepreneurship do: In Todd Brix's garage. Brix (MBA 1997) started his career in the...
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- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Fast Forward
Illustration by Chris Gash The School’s US Competitiveness Project launched four years ago with a simple but ambitious goal: figure out how companies in the United States can better compete in the global economy while raising living...
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Polaroid Instant Camera - New Directions: Building Baker Library's Collections
HBS Home HBS Index Contact Us Polaroid Instant Camera Instant photography was invented at Polaroid during the 1940s. Company founder Edwin H. Land masterminded the development of a one-step dry process that produced a finished photograph...
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- 01 Jun 2001
- News
But It's All Right Now (In Fact, It's a Gas)
suppliers for the project, ensued. One participant reported that Shearer “personally took them on and ran rings around them.” “The big oil companies are used to dealing with smaller players by keeping them...
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- 01 Mar 2004
- News
David “Bull” Gurfein: Bronze Star citation
obstacles were reduced in those designated lanes that were to be used in I MEF’s two-division assault into Iraq. The reinforced obstacles included two 4m x 4m berms, two 4m x 4m tank ditches, two chainlink fences 2m high, and a six strand...
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- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Energy Sources: Daniel Yergin and the EP Team
the New York Times but, he says, “I had great respect for Bob and HBS, and I was obsessed with the energy problem and saw this as a unique opportunity. All of us on the team felt a great responsibility to contribute to this important...
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- 16 Dec 2013
- HBS Case
D’O: Making a Michelin-Starred Restaurant Affordable
cost/quality tradeoff for a Michelin-starred restaurant," said Gary P. Pisano, the Harry E. Figgie, Jr. Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and the lead author of the HBS case study Chef Davide Oldani and Ristorante D'O. "And I'm...
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- 01 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 1, 2008
balancing profit, growth and control. Difficulties encountered in the business are due to management's attempts to design and use formal control systems to achieve profit and performance goals. Purchase this case:...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
South Africa Explorer
South Africa Explorer: January 2005 South Africa photos See our photo archive of past Alumni Travel programs Imagine spending New Year’s Eve in the bush of South Africa, tables decked out in white linen, dinner cooked over an open fire...
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Samuel Racana
improvisation and stage training have come in unexpectedly useful in life. What is your favorite childhood memory? Food has always been at the center of my family gatherings, whether during travels or at home. View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Ian Calhoun (MBA 2010)
Video Embed Ian Calhoun (MBA 2010) grew up in kitchens, first at the elbow of his mother ("a great cook, a schoolteacher, always happy to show me some stuff") and then, in high school and college, as a line cook in restaurants all over...
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Unconventional Energy - U.S. Competitiveness
Research Unconventional Energy America’s unconventional gas and oil resources are a once-in-a-generation opportunity to enhance the nation’s economic competitiveness while minimizing environmental impacts, and making major progress toward...
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Contemporary Leaders - New Directions: Building Baker Library's Collections
HBS Home HBS Index Contact Us Contemporary Leaders The development of the post-World War II American and global business world is the focus of increasing scholarly interest. Original company records are an essential component in fully...
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- 27 May 2020
- Blog Post
Creating Unity and Belonging through Food and Dance: ‘EKTA’ at HBS
family and I was alone in my dorm room missing my mom’s dahi vada and the rangoli I used to create with my sister Pallavi. So, I decided to set up my own little puja in my room and as I chanted the prayers, I felt like a part of me was...
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