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- 16 Nov 2017
- News
The Business of Social Justice
communication, networking, and policy advocacy. As COO, Brooks is the steadying force who keeps the ship on course, by overseeing strategic planning, operations, and finances, as well as evaluating programs to determine what is working...
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Jennifer Myers
- 02 Sep 2018
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Havana Rising
shipping routes to avoid sanctions—traveling from the United States to Panama to Jamaica before arriving in Havana four to six weeks later. The history of Cuba’s private sector is relatively new, short, and complicated. After the fall of...
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Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 01 Dec 2013
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A Safer, Smarter Future for Tech Trash
e-waste accounts for only 2 percent of the trash in American landfills, it is responsible for 70 percent of toxic waste and is the fastest-growing municipal waste stream in the United States. Currently, most e-recycling is done in a very inefficient and hazardous...
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- 01 Jun 2012
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A Chapter in US–China Trade Relations
Harvard Business School) Born in Ipswich, Massachusetts, in 1785, Augustine Heard began his career as a seafaring merchant, captaining his first ship at 27. He founded Augustine Heard & Co. in 1840, after living and working in China for a...
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- 01 Jun 2011
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The House that Howard Built
Achievement, the Model UN, the state math contest — if there was a competition, I would enter it.” Thus the youthful Howard became an early adventurer, an exchange student in the American Field Service’s first-ever overseas program. Speaking no French, he View Details
- 02 Jun 2021
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On the Road Less Traveled
part of that. How do you think about your father now? Hajim: I've had friends from the Business School or other places really go downhill in life, you know, and he went as a rocket ship in the twenties, you showed a picture of him next to...
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- 29 Apr 2019
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A Global Mission
International University in Klaipėda, which he helped to establish in 1991. He’s also working in Mexico, developing an idea for an overland shipping route in southern Mexico to rival the Panama Canal that will bring business opportunities...
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- 01 Sep 2008
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Balanced Equation
particular talent that you wish you had? I wish I had an ear for foreign languages. And I’m not a very good dancer. What was your first job? In college I was a warehouseman at Ford. I would push a cart around and collect instrument panels and bumpers and stuff like...
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- 01 Jun 2011
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The Best-Laid Plans
with Urban Water Partners RelayRides explanatory video FashionStake-Reuters story An online shipping platform that uses social networks and smartphones. Low-cost medical care and monitoring that helps seniors to live at home. The “Skype”...
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- 01 Dec 1996
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Starting Up and Starting Over
will give them the $50,000. They will lose it. Then George will go back to teaching at MIT, and my son will concentrate on the family shipping business. They will both benefit, and it will be a small price to pay for an important...
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- 31 Jul 2019
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Honoring the Code
and myself only, it is my personal belief that allowing gays and lesbians to serve openly would be the right thing to do.” “Don't Ask, Don't Tell” went into effect when President Clinton came in, 1993. I'm commanding a ship in Norfolk,...
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- 01 Mar 2017
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A Healthy Profit
crew is offered medical checkups, and more than 90 percent of employees participate in yearly health fairs that provide free screenings and educational resources. ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH “All of their cruise ships have an internal water...
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Dan Morrell
- 13 Sep 2019
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Hollywood Ending
unflappable? “I don’t think I feel risk the way most people do,” she says with a shrug. “I think it’s because of my mom.” Margaret Whitman was the sort of bold character who volunteered for the Red Cross during World War II and hopped on a View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
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The New Space Race
direct them to specific orbital locations where, as a group, they will provide total global coverage 24/7, rather than viewing some of Earth some of the time. Spire wants to put up 100 of them to provide worldwide weather and shipping...
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Robert S. Benchley
- 15 Jun 2021
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June 2021 Books and Podcasts
life. Giants of the Sea: Ships & Men Who Changed the World By John D. McCown (MBA 1980) Independently published Covering the history and development of modern cargo shipping, Giants of the Sea includes the stories of nine men, those...
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- 01 Dec 2016
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Vive la Madeleine!
madeleines. The workforce is expected to increase from 19 to 25, possibly more. It’s the next phase of Jeannette—with added capacity, the company will be in position to expand its distribution exponentially and ship internationally. The...
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- 06 Dec 2021
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Rescue & Recovery
of what charity can look like the summer after college. With her Harvard degree in government in hand, she signed up for a service trip and was shipped to a remote area of South Africa to help with a construction project. As she unpacked...
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- 01 Jun 2000
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HBS Business Plan Contestants Pin Their Hopes on the Internet
that has already garnered $16 million in funding to link shipping companies with suppliers via the Internet. More than one hundred teams involving over three hundred students initially entered the competition. Some 95 percent of the...
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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 occasionally helped out with View Details
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Ryan Jones
- 01 Oct 2001
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The Eyes Have It: Business Plan Winners Pursue Global Vision
hadn't really thought about this problem until he visited Peru and noticed that hardly anybody there wore glasses. Back at HBS, in Associate Professor Stefan Thomke's elective course Managing Product Development, Houghton started developing glasses that would be...
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eyeglasses