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Social Enterprise - Faculty & Research

and ESG Performance." Journal of Corporate Finance 91 (April 2025). Hurtigruten: Sea Zero By: Christian Kaps and Michael W. Toffel March 2025 | Case | Faculty Research Hurtigruten was deciding whether the next ship they built should be... View Details

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Historical Data Visualization - Business History

Median US Home Prices Unadjusted Trends Over Time Managing Distance Merchant Shipping Tonnage Trends Over Time Managing Distance Mobile Phone Subscriptions per 100 People Trends Over Time Corporations Natura Cosméticos Trends Over Time... View Details

11 Oct 2023
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Soldier On

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes In November of 2022, 33-year-old Phillip Jones (MPA/MBA 2021) was elected mayor of Newport News, Virginia, where he had spent part of his childhood. The son of two Air Force veterans, he served six years in... View Details

09 Jan 2012
Research & Ideas

Location, Location, Location: The Strategy of Place

introduce them in Japan. Unfortunately, Japanese consumers were hooked on a completely different technology, forcing Vodafone to abandon ship after a few rocky years. "Vodafone needed to study the Japanese handset," Alcácer... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

01 Sep 2023
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Elevator Pitch: Standard of Care

Illustration by Drue Wagner Mike H. M. Teodorescu (DBA 2018) CEO, SurgiBox Dan Brown (DBA 2019) CFO Concept: Founded in the wake of Haiti’s 2010 earthquake, SurgiBox’s lead product is a portable operating room that fits into a backpack and runs on a rechargeable... View Details

Keywords: entrepreneurship; healthcare; surgery; Ukraine; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

24 May 2018
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Distance Still Matters in Business, Despite the Internet

Lalocracio Location has always been a vital resource in business. “Location, location, location,” as they say in real estate. But then along came the internet in the 1980s, and suddenly distance-related business costs collapsed for transactions, communications,... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Shipping; Shipping; Shipping; Shipping; Shipping

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Curriculum - Business & Environment

markets across Europe. The Covid-19 pandemic caused huge increases in the cost of shipping, so Sian launched experiments to ship roses by ocean using refrigerated containers. Chris Kulei, the Executive Director, was interested in not only... View Details

01 Jun 2024
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Alumni Achievement Awards 2024

Photographed by Susan Young; Edited by Julia Hanna MORE ON THE RECIPIENTS Read more about the 2024 recipients, and learn about past recipients. ALUMNI ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS SITE MORE ON THE RECIPIENTS Read more about the 2024 recipients, and learn about past recipients.... View Details

12 Aug 2019
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How Scale Changes a Manager's Responsibilities

think about "the how" of every aspect of the business (including many of the issues above, but also how to manage funds, manufacturing and shipping if applicable, payroll, insurance—the list is endless). As you scale and hire... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin

30 May 2005
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Six Steps for Making Your Threat Credible

intimidate the local population, some captains took to sinking their ships as soon as they landed. Now there was no choice but to stay and fight. Scuttling the ships made the threat—"We will fight to... View Details

Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra

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The Chao Center: The Heart of HBS Executive Education

shipping and trading enterprise, the Foremost Group. His wife, a passionate believer in the equality of men and women and in women's education, achieved her own lifelong dream, earning a master's degree in Asian literature and history in... View Details

19 Sep 2023
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2023 Summer Internships in Business & Environment

company growing crops hydroponically in the US. Their method of growing uses 80% less water, 90% less land, and 95% less shipping fuel than long-distance field grown produce. Utilizing greenhouses allows BrightFarms to grow and deliver... View Details

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Historical Data & Sources - Business History

Ships and Sea Transport (London: George Routledge and Sons, Ltd., 1931), opp. p. 8, map. Distances Between Ports U.S. Navy, Hydrographic Office, Table of Distances Between Ports (Washington: GPO, 1942), opp. p. 4, map. Ford: Countries of... View Details

Portrait Project

Sneha Biswas

once told me that I must study well because men want educated wives. So, I did. But somewhere along the journey, my goal shifted. I wasn’t doing it for a husband, but for the respect that women, like my mother, deserve. I worked on ships... View Details

04 Apr 2024
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The Making of a Medical Milestone

and were shipping tons of equipment every year. I completed a year of residency afterwards, but I realized that what excited me the most about medicine was not direct patient care, but the potential to run medically associated... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition

University technology that stabilizes vaccines into a thin film strip which can be shipped and stored without refrigeration, eliminating the need for the cold-chain. Vaxess strives to not only lower the cost of distribution, but also... View Details

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Events - Business History

email to bhi@hbs.edu to attend. Nov 25 25 Nov 2024 Business History Seminar Charles Fawell (Yale University), “Empire on the Line: Shipping Corporations, Sovereignty, and the Sea Corridors of European Colonialism, 1850-1920" 3:30 p.m. -... View Details

03 Mar 2003
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Top Ten Legal Mistakes Made by Entrepreneurs

unpatentable in Japan. The same is true with trademarks. A tremendous amount of money might be spent in developing a brand in the United States, yet when the product is shipped overseas it could violate trademarks of companies dealing in... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

01 Mar 2024
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Case Study: Testing the Waters

Illustration by Christina Spano Endurance training was nothing new to Lauren Picasso (MBA 2014), who’d raced through her younger years as a cross-country runner and swimmer. In 2017, when she was director of marketing at Jet.com and looking for a physical challenge,... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade

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Meagan Hill

project, an application that allows ship engineers to instantaneously tag photos and observations to online blueprints, won the competition for best business plan. After graduation, Meagan will join two HBS alums at BASE Equity Partners,... View Details

Keywords: Financial Services

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