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Fabtek (A)

By: Rowland T. Moriarty Jr., Benson P. Shapiro and Craig E. Cline

Concerns the selection and scheduling of orders by a small industrial titanium fabricator that in recent months has been plagued by poor deliveries and a lack of capacity. Four orders are offered, from which the student must select one. Each order represents different... View Details

Keywords: Customer Relationship Management; Business or Company Management; Time Management; Performance Capacity

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20 Aug 2020
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“Business as Usual, In a Different Way” – Creating an Impactful Remote Internship at Actis

any way they chose so there was great variety between fireside chats, Q&As, videos, and “multimedia extravaganzas.” Face time with senior leaders in locations around the globe was significantly increased with the addition of these... View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity; Other Financial Services

01 Jun 2014
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Feedback

traditional, fossil fuel–thirsty techniques. Africa can leapfrog Western agricultural methods directly into sustainable, organic farming, which is more suitable for smallholders. —Tre Baker (MBA 2008) via alumni.hbs.edu/bulletin Frank Fan Re: Frank Blethen (PMD 35,... View Details

01 Oct 2001
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Q&A: Orin Smith

that one of the most important things we've done is to popularize high-quality coffee and persuade the customer to pay a higher-than-average price for it. This enables us to pay two to three times what traditional coffee View Details

Keywords: Hanna, Julia; Hospitality; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade

01 Dec 2004
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A Case of Achievement

Makihara (AMP 75, 1977) view full profile Currently a senior corporate advisor at Mitsubishi Corporation, Makihara had been with the company for 36 years, including a stint as head of U.S. operations, when he was named president and CEO... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Jun 2020
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Post-Office

Prashanth Chandrasekar (MBA 2008) (pictured above right), but the company already had a strong remote-work ethos, with 40 percent of its employees working remotely and a globally distributed workforce with offices in New York, Austin,... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Remote work; COVID-19; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises

25 Jun 2013
First Look

First Look: June 25

price before that time is a martingale, and the price trajectory afterwards is a supermartingale. Finally, we explore the role of rental markets in sharing information about address value and assuring allocative efficiency. Download... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

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Jenny Tison

and fell in love with it,” Jenny says. “In my second and third years, I collected as much ice time as I could.” The hard work paid off: By the end of her senior season, she was the assistant captain of the Washington Little Capitals... View Details

01 Mar 2008
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Avoiding a Succession Crisis

many firms have not instituted a process for managing the development of potential leaders. Many have not even thought about the process of selecting a leader when the time comes for change. And as a result, they are as confused about who... View Details

Keywords: Joseph L. Bower; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises

13 Sep 2017
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Why We Recruit: Gorton's Seafoods

never been a better time to be in seafood. Based in Gloucester, MA, we pride ourselves in having the combination of an entrepreneurial environment that is typically found in smaller companies, along with the resources of a global... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail

10 Mar 2021
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Shattering Glass

Image by John Ritter In 2020, the number of women running Fortune 500 companies hit an all-time high: 37, or just 7.4 percent. Of those CEOs, only three (less than 1 percent) were women of color. In their new book, Glass Half Broken:... View Details

Keywords: April White; gender equity; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises

01 Jun 2012
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They Call Him Mr. China

million in US investor capital, Perkowski launched ASIMCO in 1994, quickly cobbling together a network of far-flung joint-venture factories, each number one or number two in its product category. And in each case, he managed to wrest majority control, unheard of at the... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises

01 Dec 2003
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Business Answers the Call

have founded schools, and have gotten their companies involved in tutoring and other in-school activities in their local communities. Scores of alumni serve on their local school boards or work with education-related organizations and... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

01 Jun 2005
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Marked Managers

conditions favor imprinting. Consider companies that have the following characteristics: distinctive corporate cultures, strategies, and structures, with large cohorts of young managers who are hired at roughly the same View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Career Imprints; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises

04 Oct 2019
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Changing of the Guard at Tesco

Photo via Tesco Photo via Tesco In July, the British retailer Tesco marked its 100th birthday with a 30-hour dance session in Wembley Stadium. Historic milestones aside, the company could also celebrate its recovery from an accounting... View Details

Keywords: Tesco; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade

20 Oct 2020
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Changing the Face of Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital at Harlem Capital

which they invested their own personal capital into startups, small business, and real estate. “After two years, we pivoted the syndicate to be venture-only and focused purely on diversity because most of our companies were diverse,”... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital / Private Equity

21 Nov 2013
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Case Study: BlackBerry and Thorsten Heins

phones, and focused the company on the critical launch of its next iteration of handsets, BlackBerry 10. The phones came in two versions: first launched was a touch-screen phone designed to attract mass-market consumers, followed by... View Details

Keywords: Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises

01 Jun 2010
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Green Dreams: Eco-Friendly Countertops

company’s product throughout its Seattle headquarters. Other customers include NASA, the Ritz-Carlton, Starbucks, Whole Foods, Amazon, Disney’s Epcot theme park, and Google. IceStone has come a long way since Magagnini’s dark day, and not... View Details

Keywords: Sarah Auerbach; Furniture and Related Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

09 Feb 2016
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Powering into the Future

Alexander Gruzen (MBA 1990) is CEO of WiTricity Corp., in Texas. In this video, he explains how his company is helping to lead the world toward a more sustainable future. “I wanted to create something very new and had a chance to join a... View Details

28 May 2019
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In My Humble Opinion: Family Dynamic

As CEO of Indonesia’s Sintesa Group, Shinta Widjaja Kamdani (OPM 31, 2002) is the third generation of her family to lead the highly diversified holding company that began as a rubber plantation in 1919. Kamdani had been at the View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Offices of Other Holding Companies; Offices of Other Holding Companies

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