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- 01 Jun 2012
- News
A Chapter in US–China Trade Relations
Harvard Business School) Born in Ipswich, Massachusetts, in 1785, Augustine Heard began his career as a seafaring merchant, captaining his first ship at 27. He founded Augustine Heard & Co. in 1840, after living and working in China for a... View Details
- 29 Apr 2019
- News
A Global Mission
International University in Klaipėda, which he helped to establish in 1991. He’s also working in Mexico, developing an idea for an overland shipping route in southern Mexico to rival the Panama Canal that will bring business opportunities... View Details
- 31 Jul 2019
- News
Honoring the Code
and myself only, it is my personal belief that allowing gays and lesbians to serve openly would be the right thing to do.” “Don't Ask, Don't Tell” went into effect when President Clinton came in, 1993. I'm commanding a ship in Norfolk,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
A Healthy Profit
crew is offered medical checkups, and more than 90 percent of employees participate in yearly health fairs that provide free screenings and educational resources. ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH “All of their cruise ships have an internal water... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 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
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Action Plan: Rapids Growth
three kids. Mindful of his relative ignorance of the niche business, Holley immersed himself. He learned all about the thermoforming process (which uses heat-formed plastic instead of fiberglass) that Eddyline pioneered, and he occasionally helped out with View Details
Keywords: Ryan Jones
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
The Eyes Have It: Business Plan Winners Pursue Global Vision
hadn't really thought about this problem until he visited Peru and noticed that hardly anybody there wore glasses. Back at HBS, in Associate Professor Stefan Thomke's elective course Managing Product Development, Houghton started developing glasses that would be... View Details
Keywords: eyeglasses
- 04 Sep 2013
- News
From HBO to HBS
affiliate in Hawaii couldn't pick it up," he recalls. "We shipped them tapes of the programming. "Fast-forward to today, HBO has multiple networks with over 100 million subscribers worldwide, only 40 million of whom are in the United... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Carl M. Plochman III: A Savory Success
transferred electronically, and computers monitor everything from the arrangement of cases on each shipping pallet to the consistency of Plochman's zesty brown Kosciusko mustard, one of eleven varieties enjoyed by mustard aficionados... View Details
- 22 Nov 2011
- News
A Storybook Beginning
constantly: POM and Service Management,” he states. “Ordering 500 Kindles, shipping them halfway around the world, getting them, intact, through customs and to schools way off the beaten track — that could be a Roy Shapiro case. And from... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Tech Trekker
Symbolics, the supermom helped lift the firm's revenues from $1 million to $120 million. From there, Lang led a string of turnarounds and product launches with software companies. In 1993 she signed on with Lotus Development Corporation. The company gave her free rein... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Batteries Included
Illustration by Klaus Kremmerz Supply-chain shortages put container shipping in the headlines during the pandemic, with images of vessels languishing in line at major ports worldwide. It made visible what Steven Henderson (MBA 2016), CEO and cofounder of Fleetzero,... View Details
- 04 May 2017
- News
Going the Distance
then bigger. Frey encourages would-be adventurers to think of themselves “as capable of much more than you currently envision” and to recognize that “real learning and personal growth come from stepping outside your comfort zone.” He quotes John A. Shedd’s 1928 book,... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Deep Dive
ship to launch and recover the submersible. He found a decommissioned US Navy ship laid up in a river in Washington State. The USNS Indomitable was originally built to hunt Soviet submarines at the end of... View Details
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
shipping containers—necessitates a white cap and a lab coat. The units feature a double-door protocol that requires the exterior door to be closed before a second internal door can be opened. In the far corner of the building, a... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
The Class of 1974: Timed for a Change
how it all happened. I have been a traveler and a student of a world that has become more complex and more diverse." Jack of Many Trades Since graduating from Harvard College in 1963, Chuck Mercer has worked as a textbook editor, encyclopedia salesman, View Details
Keywords: Charles B. ("Chuck") Mercer
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Marjorie M.T. Yang (MBA '76)
we could send machinery to the Chinese factories we managed. In return, we received shipments of apparel that we then sold to discount retailers in the United States." With an initial focus on high quantity and low prices, Esquel was just part of the pack of Asian... View Details
- 22 Dec 2022
- News
LGBTQ+ Alumni Forums Expand; 2023 Alumni New Venture Competition Is Underway
their venture succeed," says Gernon. "It's an incredible springboard mechanism to motivate you to get your ideas down on paper and start working towards your goal of launching a venture." Past winners include Fleetzero, Inc., a builder of electric cargo View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 18 May 2017
- News
Pioneer Spirit
engaged, which led him to exploring government contracts. First came several contracts with the US Postal Service to produce lobby desks, which were followed by several deals to build waterproof plywood shipping containers for gas masks... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Pursuing the Ultimate Deal
even as he arranges to receive a shipment of weapons from Iran. (“Arafat has to sign off on everything, down to airline tickets,” Ross said. “There is no way he did not know about the Karine A,” the ship that was seized in January... View Details