Shipping and Logistics - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Mar 2018
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Making Sense of the Modern Startup

stuff in a box and ship directly to customers. Well, there’s a lot of uncertainty in that project, right? I don’t know if I can make the mattress. I don’t know if people will buy it online without trying it... View Details

Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)

12 Jul 2021
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Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis

production, donating $100,00 to the Frontline Responders Fund, and assembling and disseminating care packages for health care workers. "It has been an unprecedented time at FIGS. We are View Details

01 Sep 2010
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RX for Change

clinicians need to take responsibility for letting health care get out of their hands and help right the ship in the way health-care systems are being managed. Physicians can not absolve themselves View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Health, Social Assistance; Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance

01 Dec 2005
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Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper

The commercial real estate business was in a shambles fifteen years ago, but just look at it now. After a complete rehab, the industry has become the darling of investors eager for alternatives to lackluster stocks and bonds. But will the... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Real Estate

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HBS - Financials | From the CFO

informing their teaching in all the School's educational programs, their knowledge educates the next generation of leaders and influences the practice of management on a global scale. As I write, the world continues to face uncertainty.... View Details

17 Dec 2017
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How Music Forged a Fighter for Free Expression

camp in Uganda, and you heard a woman's song. Heaney: I was over in Africa doing some work, and in Africa, many of the organizations need very specific skill sets, medical training, View Details

01 Dec 2004
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Retirement's Changing Face

HBS alumni have a complicated relationship with the notion of retirement. The simple vision of leaving one’s career at the age of 65 and moving to a sunny clime to while away the days playing golf may work well for some. But an... View Details

Keywords: Personal Services

02 Oct 2015
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The ‘F’ Word

strong relationships with our suppliers that we easily convinced them to extend us additional terms to fill that first big order. We shipped the product and waited. Day 30 arrived View Details

Keywords: Walt Disney Studios

01 Jun 1996
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Keepers of the Flame

35 competition venues, another 35 separate training facilities, and approximately 50 miscellaneous sites for use as office space, warehousing, transportation, and other View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

03 Sep 2018
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Moving Pictures

leading and overseeing a group of creatives. You have to be brave and flexible enough to allow them to bring what they’re able to bring, while also keeping the ship on course.... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Christina Gandolfo; Arts, Entertainment

30 Jul 2024
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Reddit’s Rise

sort of ships passing and had a great meeting and I got really excited because it’s really rare that you get to work on an asset that is, I think, a pillar of the internet... View Details

01 Sep 2022
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Your Family, Your Work, Your Way

items that you circle that you think, hmm. I could have won myself back 30 minutes here or 30 minutes there. And more importantly as you go, you’ll see some themes. Maybe you tend to be a little bit of a perfectionist. You’re always kind... View Details

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Art Nature Business

ice from Spy Pond in the town of Arlington, Massachusetts. Established by Frederic Tudor in Boston in 1806, prior to the age of refrigeration, the Tudor Ice Company transported ice by rail and ship from... View Details

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Print View - Course Catalog

simulation, Clustering, K-Means, and variable transformations and interaction terms in linear and logistic regression. Module 3: Machine Learning... View Details

29 Apr 2020
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The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages

Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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