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- 01 Feb 2002
- News
It's academic. (Not!)
Wasserman Taking the Game to a New Level: Zeynep Ton Finding Reason in the Irrational: Ulrike Malmendier Star Search: Boris Groysberg On the Case: First-Year Professors Develop a Taste for Teaching The Big...
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HBS - Key Metrics
(metric tons of CO2 equivalent) 10,547 9,098 9,103 11,562 11,614 Energy (kbtu) 8 138,198,893 121,948,442 122,569,467 150,713,824 152,538,748 Water (100 cubic feet) 9 48,244 32,735 40,754 51,025 48,626 Municipal Solid Waste (tons) 10...
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- 13 Dec 2019
- Blog Post
All Is Well in Texas: How Julia Cheek Founded Her At-Home Lab Testing Startup, EverlyWell
Julia Cheek’s time at HBS was nothing short of inspirational. In fact, two unicorn startups, Coupang, and Grab-Taxi all came out of her section alone! When she started at HBS in 2009, many of her classmates, regardless of previous experience, were interested in...
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How I Spent my 2+2 Deferral: Zoe Bhargava - MBA
experience from Twitter and grew into a Product Manager role. I spent the following one and a half years learning A TON in a wildly different setting with daily challenges I had never faced before. The start-up ceased operations in June...
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Doing Business with China: Early American Trading Houses - A Chronicle of the China Trade
of pounds of Chinese tea were exported annually. The Portuguese, the first European traders to enter China, leased and controlled Macao; by the 1700s the center of Western trade shifted to Canton (now Guangzhou). The Chinese government...
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- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Rounding the Bend
Illustration by Fernando Cobelo To help people visualize what a circular economy could look like and bring the challenges down to a closet-sized scale, Emily Bolon (MBA/MPA 2007) recommends the following exercise. First, make a mental...
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- April 2016 (Revised December 2016)
- Case
The Container Store
By: Tatiana Sandino, Zeynep Ton and Aldo Sesia
The Container Store (TCS) is a Texas-based retailer of organization and storage solutions. The company prides itself in taking care of its employees first, and its cofounder and CEO Kip Tindell practices Conscious Capitalism. Since its beginnings in 1978, TCS grew to a...
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Culture;
Conscious Capitalism;
Merchandising;
Customer Focus and Relationships;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Operations;
Service Delivery;
Going Public;
Performance Evaluation;
Performance Productivity;
Retail Industry;
United States
Sandino, Tatiana, Zeynep Ton, and Aldo Sesia. "The Container Store." Harvard Business School Case 116-020, April 2016. (Revised December 2016.)
- Profile
Bobby Tuohy
I was serving abroad I noticed that the way things really got done was through commerce, the market – that’s what builds security and stability.” “Harvard has the joint program plus a ton of supportive people,” Bobby says. “Even before I...
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Risks, Opportunities, And Investments In The Era Of Climate Change (ROICC)
The MBA course on "Risks, Opportunities, and Investments in an Era of Climate Change" is ideal for students who aspire to become entrepreneurs by starting their own company or joining a start-up that is driving innovation and solving challenges posed by climate change....
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- 16 Jun 2023
- News
On the Move: Adam Laitsas (MBA 2016)
Our “On the Move” series highlights HBS alumni who are taking on new roles and responsibilities. Here we speak with Adam Laitsas (MBA 2016), who was announced as EVP of International Strategy & Business Operations for the Professional Fighters League (PFL) MENA region...
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Choosing the Right Student Loan - MBA
expect all students to contribute to their education through a combination of savings and student loans. Borrowing loans can seem daunting, but if you do it wisely, you can minimize the amount you owe and the time it takes to pay them off. There are View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
School’s 100th MBA Class Graduates
(Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise); David Moss (Creating the Modern Financial System); Tom Nicholas (The Entrepreneurial Manager); Thomas Piper (Financial Reporting and Control); and Zeynep View Details
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Graduation
- 15 Feb 2024
- News
Startup Shepherds
By their count, Catalina Daniels and Jim Sherman (both MBA 1991) listened to approximately 300 startup pitches in 2016, the first year the HBS classmates worked side by side as angel investors in New York....
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April White
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Charlotte MacDonald
treadmill, inertia would take its course." Pursuing the MBA would represent an opportunity to step out in many directions at once. "I wanted to take time to experience a ton of different industries, different people, as fodder...
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Consulting
- 04 Apr 2024
- News
The Making of a Medical Milestone
A monoclonal antibody, tegoprubart works by minimizing activation of the immune system so it can’t mount an attack on the new organ. In clinical trials, the drug has been shown to be well-tolerated, with fewer of the serious side effects...
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Margie Kelley
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Climate Impact - Business & Environment
Agarwal MBA 2010 | Founder & CEO, Mati Carbon Removals “Mati uses enhanced weathering in agricultural fields for doing scalable, permanent carbon removals, with co-benefits to marginal farmers. Leveraging our proprietary technology, we are expanding in the Global...
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- 04 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is E-commerce at Risk in Apple's Security Dispute with the FBI?
initial conversation probably took place behind closed doors. But as soon as the media becomes involved, public opinion starts counting and Apple knows that. So they’ve made the reasonable argument that if they encroach on citizens’ privacy and security even once View Details
- 26 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: Financing the Climate Transition in India
entire fleet to electric (10k+ busses)c. Over a period of 10 years, they will save approximately 6,000 million liters of fuel and reduce CO2 emissions by 6.5 million [metric] tons Takeaways: Operational...
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- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Reunion Highlights: A Case in Point
novel case discussion. To a classroom full of the teenage children of reunion alumni, HBS assistant professor Zeynep Ton explained, “When we’re learning how to ride a bike, sometimes we fall off, but we get...
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- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Downtime
faculty and students, I can’t help but see the struggle between ambition, finding oneself, and the idea of reinventing oneself enacted each day. Zeynep Ton is an assistant professor in the Technology and...
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