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- 14 Feb 2007
- Op-Ed
Tata-Corus: India’s New Steel Giant
this lies within Tata Steel itself, as in its acquisition in Singapore. And the rest lies in the broader ambit of the Tata group through its acquisitions of Daewoo's truck assets in South Korea, Tetley Tea in the U.K. and ritzy hotel... View Details
Keywords: by Tarun Khanna
- 17 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
What’s Good about Quiet Rule-Breaking
What do software engineers, flight attendants, factory workers, mail carriers, truck drivers, and hospital nurses have in common? According to HBS professor Michel Anteby, these professions—and many others just as dissimilar, maybe even... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 18 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, July 18, 2017
Business School Case 217-062 The U-Turns of National Truck Stops Raj Makam had spent months trying to restructure a 2006 investment he had made in National Truck Stops, Inc. (NTS) as a senior member of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
Faculty Spotlight: Professor Jurgen Weiss
potentially make electric cars more common and faster than we thought. Can you walk me through it? Jurgen Weiss: Companies like Amazon or FedEx or UPS that own all the delivery trucks look much more closely at the total cost of ownership.... View Details
- 18 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Excerpt: Manufacturing Morals
teams will know where to halt their golf cart-size plows. In the fall, leaves are meticulously assembled in piles at a distance from the main paths and then trucked out of sight. All the paths linking the periphery of the campus to its... View Details
Keywords: Education
- 07 Aug 2017
- Blog Post
A Summer Internship with the City of Boston
most urgently need? Do people know how to find the food truck closest to them at any given moment? Taken together, they amount to the lifeblood of Boston—the sometimes unglamorous but always necessary work that makes a city thrive. They... View Details
- 26 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Yes, You Can Raise Prices in a Downturn
Finally, performance pricers relentlessly communicate their value. An example is PACCAR, producer of Kenworth and Peterbilt trucks in a market viewed as a commodity by others. Throughout 70 consecutive years of profitability—a period from... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Making Their Way
United States would burn 1 billion fewer gallons of fuel a year. Says Ward, “We compete with trucks for intercity freight, but we also cooperate. More and more trucking companies are offering customers a... View Details
- 19 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
A Day at Royal FloraHolland: The Epicenter of the Global Flower Market
demonstrated its logistical prowess with a 15 km-long overhead runway system, an innovative solution that efficiently transports flower carts across its vast warehouse complex, effectively saving the equivalent of about 200 truck trips... View Details
- 17 Jul 2020
- News
Support System
of their harvest or the ability to move their product beyond Africa to be marketed and sold. The result? They take what they could get from the traders who showed up in the village with trucks from time to time. It is a problem Akuete and... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 20 Dec 2016
- Research & Ideas
The 10 Most Popular 'Cold Call' Podcasts
the consumer. Professor Forest Reinhardt explains how a big, sophisticated company used small details, from trucking routes to the color of refrigerators, to put its commitment to the environment to work on its behalf. Wal-Mart:... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 15 Aug 2024
- Blog Post
Navigating the Future of Renewable Energy at Port Esbjerg
operations, Port Esbjerg has undergone significant change over time. The port's infrastructure, including roads redesigned for transporting colossal wind turbine blades, highlights the commitment to renewable energy. Every roundabout at the port has been designed to... View Details
- 21 Aug 2017
- Blog Post
A Summer Internship with the City of Boston
most urgently need? Do people know how to find the food truck closest to them at any given moment? Taken together, they amount to the lifeblood of Boston—the sometimes unglamorous but always necessary work that makes a city thrive. They... View Details
Keywords: Consulting
- 19 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 4/5
back of a pickup truck by the ankles and dragged on a country dirt road in Jasper, TX for over three miles. The impact of being dragged severed James’ arm, shoulder, neck, and head from the rest of his body, which continued to be dragged... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Good Odds
Purchasing directly from producers instead of relying on a middleman lowers the cost of sourcing, for instance. Relying on its own fleet of trucks enables the company to pick up produce just before shipping, avoiding the cost and delay of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Case Study: Off to a Fine Art
the United States, where infrastructure already exists. Ultimately, GAIA decided to invest in its own supply chain. Today the company has a fleet of 20 delivery trucks and 40 drivers, plus a centralized warehouse. The staff has grown from... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 12 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
Amager Bakke: I Like This Waste Incinerator in My Backyard!
2023, the facility received 590,000 tons of waste which was transformed into 283 GWh of electricity (powering roughly 94,000 households) and 1,300 GWh of heating (providing heat for 87,000 apartments). Around 300 trucks arrive daily to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Case Study: Tip the Scale
photos courtesy of Walden Local Meat In 2014, Walden Local Meat founder and CEO Charley Cummings (MBA 2011) crisscrossed New England in a company truck to personally deliver orders of chicken, pork, lamb, and beef—all pasture-raised on... 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 Dec 2003
- News
Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?
company’s engineers integrated a sensor into the bearings used on light trucks that would not only serve the friction reduction purpose of the bearing, but also be the sensor for the antilock braking system. As a result of this added... View Details