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- 01 Sep 2018
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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...
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Ryan Jones
- 01 Jun 2015
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Learning from Global Immersion Experiences
When ‘Business As Usual’ Is Anything But HBS students conduct field research at an optical store in Istanbul. “The logistical challenges are enormous. Everyone involved in FIELD is deeply invested in anticipating View Details
- 01 Apr 2020
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What My Time in Vietnam Taught Me About Dealing with Shortages
Paul Ignatius (MBA 1947) Paul Ignatius (MBA 1947) Paul Ignatius (MBA 1947) was a government official in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations. He served as assistant secretary of defense for installations View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
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Creating the Shopping Experience of the Future
product developer and marketer, and self-proclaimed “child of curiosity”—has to sell Glass itself to a public that still seems uncertain about both its logistics View Details
- 14 Jul 2021
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The First Five Years: Nicolas Manes (MBA 2020)
from small- and medium-sized farms and ship it to our warehouses, where we prepare the orders. After the order is prepared, we ship the orders...
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- 01 Feb 2000
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Jerry Shafir: A Simmering Success Story
vegetables and to package, chill, and ship the finished product, there is constant motion in Kettle Cuisine's cramped but immaculate Somerville, Massachusetts, kitchen. The...
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Feb 2001
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The Road Taken: One Family's Worldly Adventure
The first in a series of occasional articles on HBS graduates who have taken a leave from their careers to explore personally enriching projects off the beaten track. For some busy executives, spending quality time with the family means dinner at home a few nights a...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2014
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HBS Faculty Explore Ideas Around the World
Building an Evidence Base for Emerging Markets It’s one thing to research the history of companies in Europe, the United States, or Japan, where libraries, archives, and public records are abundant. But what about emerging markets, where...
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- 01 Sep 2009
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Rich Wilson
held every four years, the Vendée Globe is the most grueling and dangerous prolonged competition on the planet. This year, thirty boats started and only eleven finished; Wilson came in ninth. At 58, the...
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- 04 Nov 2016
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The Competitiveness of Lost Causes
international markets, they’re developing ambitious plans for their producers.” Lack of infrastructure makes follow-through on those plans challenging in Haiti, the third-poorest country in the world and the site of a catastrophic...
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Apr 2001
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Khoo Teng Chye: Technology Turnaround in Singapore
about fifty thousand a day — the island nation of Singapore is the biggest container port and transshipment hub in the world. “We can turn ships around faster than anybody else,” boasts Khoo, a civil...
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- 01 Oct 2001
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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...
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- 01 Jun 2013
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It's Show Time, Folks
For the School's newest alumni, Commencement marks the culmination of hours of hard work and the promise of new beginnings. For staff working behind the scenes to welcome thousands of visitors from all over the world, it's a View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
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Baker’s Man of Steel
A day at the office is a little different for Bobby Delaney. As crane operator for the Baker Library construction project, he uses a combination of levers and foot pedals to swing tons of steel through the air, placing the load in just...
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- 04 Sep 2019
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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...
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- 01 Apr 1996
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"Foundations" Paves the Way for Entering MBAs
- virtually an HBS case study itself in logistics management. According to one planner, Foundations core design team member Stever Robbins (MBA '91), coordinating 253 individual schedules and the needs of...
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- 01 Nov 2018
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The Power of Civility
lot about logistics and moving dignitaries around. And that grew into a private sector company that I launched that took it to the next step. Not only did I handle dignitaries,...
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- 16 Nov 2015
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Connecting with Indigenous Traditions
Diego, followed by managing king crab and salmon fishing in Washington State and Alaska. “I was in Dutch Harbor, navigating the logistics of catching View Details
- 07 Oct 2011
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Tea’s Time
job and give it a shot,” she says. Tea, the resulting company, made its first shipment in September 2002, just eight weeks after Rawdon left her job. “We shipped to 60 different boutiques View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
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Q&A: Camille Tang Yeh of the Asia-Pacific Research Office
Both transitions have strategic and competitive implications for firms operating in and out of the region. The current "reconstruction" of Asia offers insights about differentiating systemic from asystemic...
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