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- 01 Jun 2007
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Reaching New Heights
First-year students in Section G raised nearly $12,000 toward the construction of a new primary school in Nepal after hearing a presentation from former Microsoft executive John Wood. After a trek in the Annapurna region, Wood quit his job and seven-figure stock option...
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- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Surveying Students’ Summer Plans
be part of GE just as it’s relocating its headquarters to Boston.” Graham Fairbairn (MBA 2018) Hometown: Sydney, Australia Destination: General Mills, Minneapolis “I come from a consumer packaged goods background and have had the...
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Julia Hanna
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Creating a more just and celebrated multicultural world
products are sold at Whole Foods, specialty stores, and online. Endline’s approach to chocolate is “colorful, whimsical, and playful.” The reusable, recyclable tins that serve as sweetriot’s packaging feature artwork submitted by art...
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- 01 Sep 2009
- News
A Book by Its Cover
Courtesy Harlequin Packaging and branding fantasy as though it were detergent, one-time self-described Procter & Gamble “soap salesman” Larry Heisey (MBA ’54) “turned Harlequin from a niche purveyor of romance novels into a global giant,...
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- 04 Sep 2019
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Advanced Statistics Are the New Foam Fingers
package it in a way that’s consumable?” One easy way to do this: Measure the flashy stuff. A program called Statcast calculates hitters’ launch angles and exit velocities on batted balls, while capturing spin rates for pitchers. Those...
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- 19 Feb 2008
- News
The Scoop Behind the Silver Screen
media and a not-so-distant future when content is streamed instead of being packaged on a DVD? “We’re climbing a mountain,” Samuels responded. “Nobody knows what’s on the other side. Nobody knows how to monetize it yet,” he said,...
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- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Case Study: Declawing the Competition
fifth box? 3) Consider partnering with local humane societies. For example, offer a reduced-cost first package after an adoption—the goal being to associate the joy of bringing a pet home with your product. — Laura Viaches (MBA 2008)...
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- 01 Jun 2023
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Action Plan: Net Proceeds
about packaging. Think about the ingredients in packaging the same way you think about ingredients in your food, Goodwin advises. Choosing recycled plastic is better. If you do choose virgin plastic, look for rigid types that retain their...
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- 01 Apr 1996
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HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
recommendations for developing a strategy for alumni lifelong learning. The group is building on work begun three years ago, as well as gathering current input - including data from the executive education program and the HBS Publishing Corporation - in order to...
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Cathy Connett
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Hierarchy's Last Stand
underperform and be overcompensated. A caricature, but sadly still true: consider the enormous pay packages for CEOs in companies that lose money. Shareholder protests (such as those in the United Kingdom), voting against compensation...
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- 01 Jun 2000
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Priceline's Jay Walker: The Future is Wow
The future of e-commerce will be shaped by a new generation of companies that can consistently deliver convenience, information, entertainment, and savings -- an as-yet-unrealized package that will have an impact summed up by...
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- 01 Sep 2018
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Ask the Expert: Delivering the Goods
public-private partnership in the world. The core mission is universal service: going everywhere six days a week, and a seventh day for package delivery. Some people believe that only a public agency can be trusted to provide this kind of...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
A Random Sampling of HBS Graduates in the News
they prayed." HBS's answer to Leno and Letterman, Larry Klein (MBA '80), who fully intends to keep his day job as an investment advisor, has recently packaged that and some two hundred other jokes to help financial professionals add a...
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Nancy O. Perry
- 09 Nov 2015
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Chuck (MBA 1970) and Sue Fienning
served as a section correspondent since graduation. Raised in the Midwest by parents who believed in giving back to society, Fienning now lives in South Carolina where he serves as a senior advisor to Sumter Packaging Corporation, a firm...
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- 28 May 2021
- News
Unspent Love
Kingston’s father carried them up to the children’s rooms. Kingston opened the first gift on her 12th birthday, 10 days after her mother’s death at the age of 48. “When I was a child, opening the next package felt like a treasure hunt. As...
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- 15 May 2018
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Spreading the Safety Net
a critically ill loved one without this same level of benefits. I had inadvertently created classes of employees — and by doing so, had done my part to contribute to America’s inequality problem. The new policy gives warehouse employees access to the same benefits...
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- 01 Mar 2015
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Fıelds of Gold
elsewhere, obscuring its source and often producing a lower-quality product. The wholesaler sells the packaged saffron to a distributor. The distributor sells it to a retailer. The retailer sells it to the consumer. Retail price: Average...
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- 01 Dec 2000
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Global Leadership Initiative's Director Focuses on Technology
about "everyday leaders" that can be packaged in multimedia formats. A third project, led by Harvard Graduate School of Education doctoral candidate Ellen Pruyne, examines how people develop the ability to envision a better future. What...
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- 01 Dec 2016
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HBS Alumni On Leading Their Alma Mater
decades? SG: Cost is absolutely a challenge. We’re very fortunate at HBS to have the capability to provide robust financial aid packages and to be able to support our students while also furthering our research and our goals. We’re always...
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Dan Morrell
- 01 Sep 2015
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The Protagonist Goes Prime Time
managing a Beijing sock factory, came packaged with a CD-ROM of short video clips. The case laid the foundation for a new type of storytelling within the confines of the tested HBS case method, but the fledgling online video technology...
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April White