Shipping - Publications - Faculty & Research

30 Nov 2016
Blog Post

Why I Didn’t Think I’d Get in to HBS

guy who looked like he might have worked in finance (yes!). It turned out that he had, before going to medical school and traveling to Africa where he worked on a ship that docked in various ports performing lifesaving surgeries on... View Details

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Erling Lorentzen | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

where his family had shipping lines. Soon he saw an opportunity for a new business. His idea was to create eucalyptus forests in a deforested but fertile area of Brazil’s interior and to then turn the trees into pulp for paper. Erling... View Details

01 Aug 2001
News

Amy Schiffman Langer (MBA '77)

respected spokesperson for patient needs and rights. She advises corporate and government cancer programs and medical professional organizations, gives presentations on cancer survivor- ship at national conferences, and testifies before... View Details

Keywords: Alumni Achievement Award; Health, Social Assistance

17 Nov 2020
In Practice

How Retailers Can Thrive in a Shopping Season Like No Other

capacity to fulfill the high volume of orders is going to be challenging for many retailers and third-party logistics companies. Some companies like Walmart are adding pop-up centers for online orders inside the distribution centers that typically View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Retail

24 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

These Coronavirus Heroes Show Us How Crisis Leadership Works

Schinecker, CEO of Roche Diagnostics, leads a company that received the FDA’s first emergency use authorization for a commercially developed COVID-19 test on March 13. Roche now believes it can ship up to 400,000 test kits per week.... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George; Health

01 Jun 2017
News

Ink: Home Cooking, Secure Retirements, and Restoring Humanity to Finance

Hungry Ocean: A Swordboat Captain’s Journey by Linda Greenlaw “Linda Greenlaw is a ship captain up in Maine. She documented one 30-day trip—prepping, being on the ocean, jostling to get the best piece of water to fish, and even managing... View Details

01 Feb 2000
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Breaking Down Barriers: The Electronic Wallet

airline ticket, or renewing a car registration - users activate their wallets, which then enter credit card, billing, and shipping information onto a point-of-sale form with a single click. But even the most basic wallet doesn't stop... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

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Trade Publications - Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School

Dodge, 1868-1961). Note: issues from March-November, 1870 online with Google Lloyd’s Register of British and Foreign Shipping (London: Cox and Wyman, printers, 1764-1913). Note: issues from July, 1878 – June, 1979 online with Google... View Details

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Transportation - Business & Environment

High-Speed Rail Track construction for high-speed rail for intercity travel Mass Transit Mass transit or public transport to get around cities Ridesharing More people in fewer vehicles Ships Increased efficiency and alternative fuels... View Details

02 Dec 2019
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Supporting the School as a Student and Young Alumna

drive the ship rather than just keep it running,” she explains. While Iyer’s focus is on the business side, she marvels at the creative side. “I’m excited to be in this environment, constantly meeting people such as artists and engineers... View Details

01 Jun 2010
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Green Dreams: Eco-Friendly Countertops

Strugatz also have made sustainability a core principle. They realized, for example, that they were shipping 15,000 sample swatches each month, only to have them discarded once customers picked colors. So instead, Magagnini assembled... View Details

Keywords: Sarah Auerbach; Furniture and Related Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Dec 2018
News

INK: The Bookshelf

of this book is that the volatility through the messy middle of any project is about achieving a positive slope. Your job is to manage the lows and maintain a focus on optimizing the highs.” CLASSIC Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing “There’s a... View Details

01 Apr 1998
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Booting Up

presenting informative photo displays of the latest large-size footwear, the Web site (www.designershoes.com) offers a special service to locate and ship hard-to-find items. "We get e-mails from people searching, say, for size 13AAA boots... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

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Influence of the China Trade and the Heard Legacy - A Chronicle of the China Trade

records Augustine Heard & Co. preserved for posterity. The company kept shipping receipts, custom documents, export lists, telegrams, insurance vouchers, accounting books, ship designs, factory plans, and... View Details

September 2006 (Revised August 2007)
Case

The Dubai Ports World Debacle and its Aftermath

By: Julio J. Rotemberg

Describes the political ramifications in the United States of Dubai-based DP World's acquisition of London-based Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company (P&O). Because P&O operated some port terminals in the United States, DP World obtained clearance from the... View Details

Keywords: Foreign Direct Investment; Multinational Firms and Management; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Government Legislation; National Security; Business and Government Relations; Ship Transportation; Dubai; United States

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01 Jun 2000
News

HBS Business Plan Contestants Pin Their Hopes on the Internet

that has already garnered $16 million in funding to link shipping companies with suppliers via the Internet. More than one hundred teams involving over three hundred students initially entered the competition. Some 95 percent of the... View Details

10 Jun 2022
Blog Post

New Venture Competition 2022: Business and Environment Ventures

Vacuum is commercializing technology developed at Harvard that mimics the ocean's natural process of absorbing C02 using renewable electricity. Click Here to Watch Alumni Track Winner: FleetZeroSteven Henderson, MBA 2016Fleetzero is building a fleet of electric View Details

28 Nov 2016
Blog Post

Why We Recruit: Wayfair

rocket ship with constant new challenges and opportunities to make an impact as our business scales. We’re data-driven and transparent, and we move quickly to empower smart people to take ownership to drive action. There really is no cap... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail

01 Sep 2014
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HBS Faculty Explore Ideas Around the World

conceived the ambitious online oral history archive together with Chilean shipping entrepreneur Sven von Appen (AMP 76, 1977). The project is building an evidence base for emerging markets by documenting the personal experience of top... View Details

Keywords: faculty research

01 Mar 2010
News

Analyze This

and China (937). What about the Middle East? Answer: Iran (4), Israel (225), Jordan (11), Lebanon (31), Pakistan (74), Saudi Arabia (103), Syria (1), Turkey (135), and the United Arab Emirates (127). No copies ship to Iraq or Afghanistan.... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information

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