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- 01 Apr 2000
- News
A Place in the Sun
planet." "There are certain images that come up with five-star service that I just don't like: telephones, swimming pools, valet service," Evanson says from his 500-acre island. "It's a way of differentiating our product, which is...
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Julia Hanna and Garry Emmons
- 07 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Case for Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking
of which is wastewater production. Again, Lassiter points to a market-based solution: Select Energy Services in Houston is among many companies turning their attention toward fracking water management. The frack water treatment market is...
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- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2005
McKinsey in Cleveland as well as a Toyota plant in Kentucky. “My biggest immediate challenge when I return to India will be finding the cultural fit again.” Having worked summer jobs as a teenager in a TVS service station and aluminum...
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- 16 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 16
operations cover food and home and personal care, and its brands include Lipton Tea, Hellmann's, Bird's Eye, Wall's, Ben and Jerry's, Surf, Domestos, Comfort, Dove, Sunsilk, Pond's, Signal, Axe, and Calvin Klein. In particular the book...
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Martha Lagace
- Web
Annual Report 2019 - Annual Report 2019
sales, podcasts, and webinars and other learning programs. Chief Information Officer Ron Chandler, with extensive experience in IT leadership, technology design, and management both in academia and in professional and financial services...
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- 18 Jan 2021
- Book
How Thinking Like a Startup Helps Governments Solve More Problems
discussed other key points from the book: Martha Lagace: What do you mean by “possibility government”? Mitchell Weiss: Possibility government is the pursuit of novel programs and services by public officials and their outside private...
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by Martha Lagace
- November 2015 (Revised January 2016)
- Teaching Note
McDonald's Corporation: Managing a Sustainable Supply Chain—From Amazon Soya to Cage Free Eggs
This case provides an opportunity for students to consider how large, multinational corporations should respond when targeted by activists regarding environmental and social concerns in their supply chains. Greenpeace targeted McDonald's because its chicken supplier...
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- 04 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018
the Largest Bank in the U.S.? When Jamie Dimon took over as CEO of JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPMorgan Chase) in 2005, he reaffirmed the commitment to pursue a "universal bank" strategy—providing a full range of products and View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
them. Ellis draws on his long distinguished career in client services in the financial markets to provide common-sense and accessible advice to anyone with an interest in maximizing their investment returns over the long haul. Inside...
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- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Class Acts
both inside and outside the School. For the past four years, he has managed his family's $1.4 million real-estate and service business, successfully turning the company around by restructuring debt, stabilizing the firm's tenant base, and...
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- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Starting Up and Starting Over
himself had detected a groundswell of impending postwar entrepreneurialism among his fellow GIs, based on conversations with them during his service in the Pacific. Back at Soldiers Field in 1946, Mace, with the backing of Dean David, set...
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- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
operators, in addition to government-run vehicles. The result: an unregulated, competitive chaos on roads already choked with cars, motorcycles, and three-wheeled tuk tuks. If all goes to plan, bus service will be consolidated on clean,...
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- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
MBA course, in which he would combine then-emerging thinking at HBS about entrepreneurship with some new kinds of financial strategies he had been roughing out. Entrepreneurial Finance seemed like a logical name for the course. Almost nobody up the View Details
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Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Deep Dive
a revolving crew of geologists, biologists, and oceanographers who collect and analyze data from every dive. They are studying the forbidding environments and the biodiversity that thrives in these places and the ways in which life can adapt to changing temperatures,...
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- October 2018 (Revised August 2019)
- Module Note
Supply Chain Management
By: Willy C. Shih
This note on supply chain management provides background for the seven class supply chain module in the Technology & Operations Management required curriculum course taught at the Harvard Business School. This module includes four broad topics: sourcing and supply...
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Supply Chain Information;
Supply & Demand;
Supply Chain Industries;
Supply Chain Management;
Supply Chain;
Food and Beverage Industry;
Food and Beverage Industry;
Food and Beverage Industry;
Food and Beverage Industry;
United States;
Asia;
Europe;
Japan;
China
Shih, Willy C. "Supply Chain Management." Harvard Business School Module Note 619-023, October 2018. (Revised August 2019.)
- 01 Feb 2018
- News
HBS Professor Emeritus Hugo Uyterhoeven Dies at 86
restructured John’s Island’s management company, Community Condominium Services, Inc., by reducing costs while improving services and its hurricane protection practices. At the John’s Island Club, he was a regular speaker and co-chair of...
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- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Screen Saver
Gamble, and other consumer-goods businesses. "Create or identify the need, and then fulfill that need in a big way." Lopez arrived at Starbucks in 2004 to lead its global consumer-products division and, over time, expanded his responsibilities to include subsidiary...
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- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sweet Deal
Hostess Brands, the maker of some 30 iconic American bakery products such as Wonder Bread, Ho Hos, Ding Dongs, and Twinkies, declared itself in liquidation and its assets for sale last November. As an adviser to the Teamsters union, Harry Wilson (MBA 1999), who had...
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- 21 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 21
excessive economic concentration, so lucidly and incisively analysed here, are not limited to the financial services industry. For the problem is now widespread: while five firms control 80% of the banking industry, a similar or greater...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 3, 2015
job test scores or grant managers discretion in making hiring decisions. We implement our test in the context of the introduction of a valuable job test across 15 firms employing low-skill service sector workers. Our results suggest that...
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Sean Silverthorne