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Trade Catalogs - The Art of American Advertising
reapers, threshers, and harvesters that could significantly increase grain output. The growth of registered patents from several thousand a year in the mid 1800s to over 50,000 a year by the end of the century was indicative of the...
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- 01 Sep 2011
- News
‘Green’ Trailblazers
1984) The Nature Conservancy Worldwide locations A charitable environmental organization that works to preserve the plants, animals, and natural communities that represent the diversity of life on Earth by protecting the lands and waters they need to survive Kate...
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- 23 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Oil Price Fallout: What Happens Next?
emissions will go right back up." The precipitous decline of oil prices also threatens the long-term viability of some of the country's shale oil projects. Shale oil is expensive to harvest and becomes prohibitively so as oil prices...
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- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Merrill Lynch's Stan O'Neal
limited. O’Neal’s mother worked as a “domestic,” cleaning houses, and when he wasn’t harvesting crops with his three younger siblings, he sold and delivered newspapers. As it turned out, his father wasn’t cut out for farming either, and...
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- 22 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Student Spotlight: Jesse Lou (MBA 2022) – Working to Change the Food System
co-founded this summer. PicoGreens is engineering single-celled algae (microalgae) to use as “crop plants” that sustainably produce foods and food ingredients. Instead of growing entire sugarcane stalks just to harvest their sugar, we can...
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- 25 Apr 2012
- What Do You Think?
How Will the “Age of Big Data” Affect Management?
(Seena Sharp) Avoid allowing Big Data to remain the "purview of the select few" only for use for one-off and one-time decisions." (Jonathan Spier) Maintain the attitude that "fast is better than perfect." (Mike Flanagan) Avoid the temptation of View Details
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- 17 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
Navigating Tradeoffs: How Purpose Becomes a Company's ‘Lighthouse in the Storm’
of compostable fiber. “We thought very highly of ourselves and patted ourselves on the back for doing such an amazing job and for the impact we were going to make.” As workers began harvesting lettuce and putting it into the eco-friendly...
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by Ranjay Gulati
- 27 Jul 2019
- Op-Ed
Does Facebook's Business Model Threaten Our Elections?
profiles of their friends, who didn’t even use the application, were accessed by Cambridge Analytica who was able harvest information for 87 million people—many of whom had never authorized it. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg later said...
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by George Riedel
- 24 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
Managing Alignment as a Process
the new LOBs to a similar share over the next five years. SMI would harvest cash from its mature businesses to invest in the growth of the new businesses. SMI's executives recognized that this strategy required extraordinary alignment and...
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- 04 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
STUDENT SPOTLIGHT: JESSE LOU (MBA 2022) – WORKING TO CHANGE THE FOOD SYSTEM
co-founded this summer. PicoGreens is engineering single-celled algae (microalgae) to use as “crop plants” that sustainably produce foods and food ingredients. Instead of growing entire sugarcane stalks just to harvest their sugar, we can...
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Photograph Albums - Photography Collections - Historical Collections
photographs Photographs and accompanying captions portray detailed views of the production of raw silk in Japan during the 1930s. Images include the raising and feeding of silkworms, the harvesting of cocoons, the reeling of the silk...
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- 04 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
STUDENT SPOTLIGHT: JESSE LOU (MBA 2022) – WORKING TO CHANGE THE FOOD SYSTEM
co-founded this summer. PicoGreens is engineering single-celled algae (microalgae) to use as “crop plants” that sustainably produce foods and food ingredients. Instead of growing entire sugarcane stalks just to harvest their sugar, we can...
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- 29 May 2020
- Op-Ed
How Leaders Are Fighting Food Insecurity on Three Continents
AmeriCorps service members, it now is focused on maximizing food production by expanding growing space and adjusting crop plans. The goal is to double last year’s harvest of 3 tons of food, which is being given free of charge to local...
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- 07 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Case for Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking
Massachusetts, and TerraPower of Bellevue, Washington. Each is working on new nuclear reactor designs to harvest and run on radioactive waste fuels, such as thorium (a waste product of rare earth mining), and depleted uranium (the waste...
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- 24 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
The FDA: What Will the Next 100 Years Bring?
the work, not to mention the volume, is staggering. Just a few of the actions taken by the agency this past summer include: Licensed a new vaccine, ACAM2000, to protect against smallpox. Warned consumers not to eat raw oysters harvested...
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- 05 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 5, 2008
Abbey Winery (Abridged) Harvard Business School Case 606-004 Freemark Abbey must decide whether to harvest in view of the possibility of rain. Rain could damage the crop but delaying the harvest would be...
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Martha Lagace
- 31 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Faculty Reader: Who is Reading What This Summer?
Union.” The second book, one I am well into, is my colleague Shoshanna Zuboff’s magisterial The Age of Surveillance Capitalism. This book is one of genius. It provides a sweeping description the rise and impact of business models that are premised on View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
MBA vs. MBA
of Washington.” Clifton also cites Edwards’s roots in the district — he has lived in Waco since 1987 and keeps a high profile, frequently appearing at ribbon cuttings and community events. On a cloudy September day, for instance, Edwards appears in the Cotton View Details
- 09 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 9, 2016
sought to market value-added shellfish products in a traditionally commodities-based industry, while facing supply uncertainties and regulatory, environmental, and foreign exchange challenges. Clearwater harvested lobsters, clams,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Rocket Science Retailing: A Practical Guide
in improving processes. Retailers can certainly learn from the auto industry's experience. Like in manufacturing a few decades ago, there is a lot of low-hanging fruit in retail operations today. However, to harvest these fruits retailers...
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