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- 01 Dec 2002
- News
What You Know Depends on Where You Go
market often lacks one or more core infrastructure elements, such as a supply of trained business professionals, liquid stock exchanges, predictable contract enforcement, or quality service providers for auxiliary needs like printing and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Gaining Currency
Kim Reynolds (MBA ’79), the weakness of the dollar is a good thing: It makes Markel’s products — insulated wire and tubing for cars — attractive to buyers from Europe where locally manufactured goods have grown pricey due to the euro’s strength. The weaker dollar has... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Trade Off
ideally under the auspices and rules of the WTO. The problem is that nowadays trade wars may have unintended consequences that complicate their resolution. Global supply chains are incredibly complex. When a... 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 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
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Microfinance's Big Payoff: Michael Chu and ACCION International
economy and brings food to the table through microenterprise - selling oranges, repairing shoes, making utensils out of scrap metal. We provide access to credit that those people can't otherwise get. Over the last five years, we've View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Case Study: Off to a Fine Art
option to her online consignment ceramics offerings, Giridharadas recouped about half of her investment within four months. Now she sees a bigger opportunity: Party supply rentals were a $5 billion industry in the United States in 2017,... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Bright Future for Green Business
Partners — touched on several systemic problems that hold the green tech industry back. One is a failure to think about the interrelationship of resources: You can grow great biofuels, for example, but only if you have an abundant supply... View Details
- 02 Jan 2014
- News
The Power to Change
maintains close ties with professors who helped his development, including entrepreneurial finance Professor Joseph Lassiter, who recently invited Wilcox to help teach a class about nuclear energy. "There is this great View Details
- 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 Dec 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Gimme Shelter
project,” says Oakes, who brings experience in finance and development to the table, plus a degree in architecture and the ability to flowchart anything. “It takes figuring out where there might be opportunities, and then being willing to... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Books
Mills shows how capitalism's financial value chain — comprising venture capitalists, bankers, and entrepreneurs and compelled by the lure of potential fortunes to be made — failed in its role to exercise caution in the formation and View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Expanding Summer Fellowships to Support Students
part of the HBS's Arthur Rock Center Accelerator program last year. ShelfLife is a B2B marketplace that enables small businesses to take advantage of economies of scale in the food and beverage packaging supply chain. “Specialty food and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Case Study: Glass Half Full
and customer acquisition. If you are building a brand, my advice is to keep Amazon while you build out your Shopify ecosystem, and then make the move. It may not be relevant in your business but buying inventory can keep the supply View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Damon Silvers
policymaker in Europe last week, and he confirmed the Japanese auto industry’s belief that its supply chain in the United States would be disrupted should the three automakers fail. That’s because key... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
Future. "One of the biggest unknowns right now is what Saddam Hussein will be allowed to do. Most people think that his reserves are very, very large. If he were free to expand the production and export of oil, that would definitely bring down prices." View Details
- 19 Sep 2012
- News
On a Sound Track
that is relevant in Shanghai, Panama, South Africa, Europe, or wherever. The United States is one big market. Contrast that with Europe, where we have a central office, but where there are lots of different markets that require different strategies and investments. Our... View Details
- 27 Jul 2022
- News
Alumna-Led Reproductive Health Startup Raises $4.7 Million
products more accessible so we created a 1:1 model where we donate a supply of our own prenatal vitamins to underserved women here in the United States who lack access to high-quality prenatal care,” she tells Forbes. “To date, we’ve... View Details
- 05 Nov 2013
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Start-Ups Get a Start in New Orleans
Everyone had to open up shop again," he says. He soon became an entrepreneur-in-residence at Idea Village, a nonprofit organization dedicated to keeping entrepreneurs in New Orleans by supplying them with strategic consulting and... View Details
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
stacks of the white foam growing racks—she lays out the challenge. Climate change and its progenies, drought and flooding, are threatening traditional agricultural systems. And even when those systems work, they still rely on carbon-intensive shipping View Details