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- 30 Oct 2018
- News
Paths of Victory
based in Montreal, allows businesses to design and order industrial equipment online through a free, web-based CAD program loaded with hundreds of designs for industrial parts that are then created via 3D printing and shipped to the... View Details
- 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
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Brand New
Crumbl Cookies. “If it is a long day of meetings and we’re both tired, my wife and I love to order cookies delivered to our house. I’m a traditionalist, so my favorite is the milk chocolate chip—and I want to try the salted caramel cheesecake.” Course correction: Turn... View Details
- 13 Jan 2021
- News
Stress Test
there any precedent for the logistical demands of this moment? On a smaller scale, you can look to the holiday season. There’s always a lot of stuff to ship and a deadline for arrival. It happens every year, and it’s been getting worse... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Corporate Governance Conference Addresses Global Challenges
furthered at the conference, last fall HBS researchers started work on a case with the Beijing-based Cosco Group, one of the world's largest shipping companies. By this measure and many others, the conference achieved its goals. — Laura... View Details
- 26 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 26, 2008
Kaiser mastered the management and execution of plans for several large-scale projects that contributed to the growth and improvement of contemporary America, including the Hoover Dam, one of the wonders of the modern world. During World War II, when the United States... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
AIDS in Africa—What’s the Solution?
destroyed agriculture...it has destroyed the entire fabric of society," Chigwedere said. Treating only one company's workforce is tantamount to finding a high spot on a sinking ship, he added. "The ship is still going to... View Details
Keywords: by Julie Jette
- Web
Contemporary Black Artists and Public Art | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Europe, and their respective economic and political histories. In 2004, he was nominated for the Turner Prize and in 2010, his first public art commission, Nelson’s Ship in a Bottle , was displayed on the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Q&A: Orin Smith
A native of rural Chehalis, Washington, Orin C. Smith (MBA '67) was an EVP for Danzas, an international freight shipping company, when Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz approached him in 1990 to join the fledgling company. Schultz, Smith... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
One-on-One with Peter Cuneo
to make the changes that are needed. I don’t have the same fears about making those changes that most people do. It may come from my experience as a Navy officer on a ship during the Vietnam War. Once you come through a war, your... View Details
- 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
- 20 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 20
away from Brazil (as Vale increased its exports to China and purchased Chinese vessels to ship iron ore to Asia) were reasons to start an open campaign to pressure Vale and Roger Agnelli to invest in integrated steel mills in Brazil. In... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Matchmaker of the Modern Economy
Boston has always been fueled by an Enlightenment belief in scientific progress and human perfectibility. It is home to America's first public school, Boston Latin School (1635), and college, Harvard College (1636). After the American Revolution, Boston became a major... View Details
Keywords: by Spencer E. Ante
- Profile
Arthur Rock
power struggle with new CEO John Sculley, the board sided with Sculley and Jobs departed in a fury. Rock was on pple’s board and thus in the middle of the calamity. The board did not believe Jobs had the experience and focus to right the View Details
- 19 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 19, 2009
http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=309074 Yataro Iwasaki: Founding Mitsubishi (A) Harvard Business School Case 808-158 Considers the entrepreneurial career of the founder of Mitsubishi, Yataro Iwasaki, who built a large View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Feb 2023
- News
Grand Ambitions in the Great Plains
going to be in this sort of shipping container form factor. DM: There's a lot to do before the first modules arrive. MK: So I would say that the two biggest things on my mind right now are probably our permitting strategy—this is fairly... View Details
- 09 Aug 2013
- Research & Ideas
Read All About It: Digital CEO Buys Traditional Media!
third-party retail sales might cannibalize some of Amazon's own revenues in certain product categories. Then Amazon went a step further with its Prime membership announcement, offering participants free shipping for all transactions for... View Details
- 06 May 2002
- Research & Ideas
A Toolkit for Customer Innovation
development project at BBA might progress in the following way: A customer requests a meaty flavor for a soy product, and the sample must be delivered within a week. BBA marketing professionals and flavorists jump into action, and the sample is View Details
Keywords: by Stefan Thomke & Eric Von Hippel
- 12 Sep 2019
- News
Skydeck Voices: Finding My Muse
think about can I create some kind of quirky farm-to-table, like, shipping containers and restaurant incubator and something that's really unusual and very different there and so those areas of conflict help me start seeing, “Well there's... View Details
- 26 Feb 2020
- News
Phoenix Rising
says. “It’s a positive sign for foreign investors who want to see Greeks investing in Greece first.” China isn’t waiting. When President Xi Jinping visited Athens in November, the two leaders announced 16 different agreements, including a 600 million investment by... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint