Shipping Industry - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2015
News

The Military and the MBA: Lance Batchelor (MBA 1993)

talked for 10 minutes with the benefit of real, personal experience about what it feels like to be on a ship at sea, operating a complex weapons system. The ex-military guys and girls brought something interesting and unique to the... View Details

Keywords: National Security and International Affairs; Government

October 2008 (Revised February 2009)
Case

Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering

Explores the journey of aggressive learning and capability building in the operations of a major Korean Shipbuilder. While DSHM had once used its superior learning capability to topple its Japanese competition, it now faced the potential for a similar attack from new... View Details

Keywords: Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Ship Transportation; Competitive Strategy; Globalization; Manufacturing Industry; Japan; China; South Korea

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01 Sep 2020
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Giving Amazon the Boot

would ship it for us,” she says. “And you didn’t have to sell anything on Amazon. So they would store it and ship it, and it was really cost effective.” Ultimately, realizing that Amazon “is like the world’s... View Details

Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade

01 Sep 2014
News

HBS Faculty Explore Ideas Around the World

conceived the ambitious online oral history archive together with Chilean shipping entrepreneur Sven von Appen (AMP 76, 1977). The project is building an evidence base for emerging markets by documenting the personal experience of top... View Details

Keywords: faculty research

13 Apr 2023
Blog Post

Grolsch Brewing Company: Drink Sustainably

recyclable cardboard “TopClip” to replace the conventional glue and plastic approach to hold a six-pack together. We learned that this innovation has resulted in significant savings in methane emissions. Grolsch is also investigating potential alternatives to plastics... View Details

01 Dec 2005
News

Buy the Book

publishing industry today ships books to stores and waits for customers to purchase them. James Patterson represents the age of brands, in which a supplier builds a persistent demand and designs production... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Market Research, Photo, Translation, Veterinary and Other Services; Professional Services

13 Jul 2016
News

From Money to Ministry

LST (landing ship tank), where he shared a command over 150 sailors. “It was a great leadership experience,” Quainton says. “I had to learn how to make a team out of men who’d come from vastly different experiences and education.”... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

28 Jun 2011
News

Bold Ascent

expand into other offerings, such as clothing and sleeping bags, in the months ahead. Before launching SlingFin, Baka started Mountain Hardwear with fellow SlingFin founder and 33-year industry veteran/gear guru Martin Zemitis. (Columbia... View Details

Keywords: hiking; Sporting Goods, Hobby, Musical Instrument, and Book Stores; Retail Trade

01 Jun 2000
News

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... View Details

12 Apr 2018
Op-Ed

Op-Ed: The Trouble with Tariffs

Stacks of shipping containers waiting to be filled with export goods. ralfgosch In March, when the Trump administration released its proposed tariffs list against China, I was eager to get a look. After all, these are the products from... View Details

Keywords: by Willy C. Shih; Manufacturing; Auto; Steel; Air Transportation; Technology; Telecommunications

30 Jan 2006
HBS Case

The Case of the Mystery Writer’s Brand

Patterson, and book clubs. In nineteenth-century agricultural marketing, farmers transported their crops to market and waited for people to buy them, much as the publishing industry today ships books to... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Entertainment & Recreation; Information; Publishing

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This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details

August 1996 (Revised December 1999)
Case

J Boats, Inc.

By: Robert L. Simons

During the 20-year evolution of a family-owned, entrepreneurial sailboat company, two founders leverage their design and marketing skills to build one of the most recognized brands in the recreational boating industry. The founder then considers management succession... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Entrepreneurship; Family Business; Risk Management; Financial Management; Leveraged Buyouts; Brands and Branding; Competitive Strategy; Capital Markets; Valuation; Shipping Industry; Shipping Industry

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10 Jun 2022
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New Venture Competition 2022: Business and Environment Ventures

Vacuum is commercializing technology developed at Harvard that mimics the ocean's natural process of absorbing C02 using renewable electricity. Click Here to Watch Alumni Track Winner: FleetZeroSteven Henderson, MBA 2016Fleetzero is building a fleet of electric View Details

02 Dec 2019
News

Supporting the School as a Student and Young Alumna

Serrena Iyer (MBA 2018) Working in the entertainment industry is a dream come true for Serrena Iyer, who after graduating from HBS landed at the aptly named DreamWorks Animation as senior manager of strategy and operations. It’s a passion... View Details

01 Jun 1996
News

Capitalist Revolutions Analyzed in MBA "Foundations" Course

Britain, Germany, the United States, and Japan), three cases per country, and a time span of three industrial revolutions - ultimately became a two-year, all-or-nothing process. The draft of the first case, a one-hundred-page treatise on... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

04 Sep 2013
News

From HBO to HBS

affiliate in Hawaii couldn't pick it up," he recalls. "We shipped them tapes of the programming. "Fast-forward to today, HBO has multiple networks with over 100 million subscribers worldwide, only 40 million of whom are in the United... View Details

Keywords: Hanna, Julia; HBSO; HBS; faculty; Arts, Entertainment; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

05 Oct 2010
First Look

First Look: October 5, 2010

Affect Credit Ratings? Authors:Bo Becker and Todd Milbourn Abstract The credit rating industry has historically been dominated by just two agencies, Moody's and S&P, leading to longstanding legislative and regulatory calls for... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

February 2011 (Revised January 2013)
Case

Fairstar Heavy Transport (A)

By: Guhan Subramanian and Rhea Ghosh

In 2009, the small heavy marine transport company Fairstar entered into bidding on one of the largest contracts in the history of the industry. The case chronicles the company's year-long tendering process, leading up to a final make-or-break meeting. View Details

Keywords: Negotiation Process; Decision Making; Contracts; Transportation Industry; Transportation Industry

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