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- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
she says. For a company the size of McDonald’s, it posed a massive operational challenge. Hurdles included everything from structure—McDonald’s kitchens were designed to operate in two separate “day parts,” breakfast and everything else—to securing global View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Making Their Way
export. With globalization, supply chains are lengthening and that means growth for railroads and other transportation modes.” According to the Association of American Railroads, an industry trade group, if... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Industry-Related Clubs Offer Alumni a New Resource
Association, a number of other HBS alumni associations exist. These include the African-American Alumni Association, the Association of Gay and Lesbian Alumni, the Christian Fellowship Alumni Association, the Supply View Details
- 20 Nov 2015
- News
Room to Grow
and focus it up the supply chain and let the market forces determine which of the growers, processors, and distributors are going to succeed and be responsive to these market opportunities,” says Kendall.... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 14 Nov 2019
- News
Keeping Red Lobster Fresh
joined the Monterey Bay Seafood Watch program. We've actually partnering with Worldwide Wildlife Fund on fishery improvement projects. We've had we've actually had NGOs audit our supply chain which was which... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
currency manipulation. In the first phase of the crisis, between mid-2007 and mid-2008, the dollar depreciated roughly 25 percent against the currencies of its major trading partners, including 9 percent against the renminbi. Because this coincided with simultaneous... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Savings and Loam
process was painful, he concedes, but federally insured deposits would make all the pain and suffering worthwhile by clearing a key blockage in the system. While he was building Walden Local and its supply View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Heartland
Let me tell you what’s fantastic about offal.” Jordan Kraft Lambert (MBA 2016), Colorado State University’s first director of agricultural innovation, is a full-body talker, and the topic of organ meat has her fired up. The parts of the cow typically seen as... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
MBA course, in which he would combine then-emerging thinking at HBS about entrepreneurship with some new kinds of financial strategies he had been roughing out. Entrepreneurial Finance seemed like a logical name for the course. Almost nobody up the food View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 21 Dec 2022
- News
HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion
decreased supply of traditional food exports of wheat and corn from Russia and Ukraine will also result in rising prices, Shih said. "You'll pay more for everything that uses wheat and corn and flour.” Harvard Ukrainian Research... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2020
in an Omnichannel World, Vol. 8 edited by Santiago Gallino and Antonio Moreno, Sicupira Family Associate Professor, Technology and Operations Management Unit Springer Series in Supply Chain Management The... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
The Middle Way
Woods”—a series of demonstrations involving environmental and First Nations activists blocking the path of logging equipment and chaining themselves to trees and bulldozers. The protests attracted international attention and spread beyond... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photos by Kamil Bialous
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
their supply chains in the developing world. I wanted to get involved in that.” During his year as a Leadership Fellow at the WWF, Murphy served as director of enterprise planning and got to know the... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
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 11,000-square-foot facility supplies more than two thousand... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
New Horizons for Iraq
supply chain and its parallels to the business world. It was a long deployment; the fact that we didn’t experience a single loss of life is an awesome testament to the training and stamina of the crew. The... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
James McNerney Jr.
engage in global cooperation to get these planes done. Another lesson was IT systems. We lost visibility of the supply chain because our systems weren’t good enough to keep track of manufacturing activity.... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
until many years later that I came to appreciate the dissenting view of the Vietnam War." Ed Mathias, now a managing director of the Carlyle Group, a merchant bank in Washington, D.C., came to HBS after serving as an officer in the Navy View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg