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- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
Maybe it all begins at a dinner table in Beaverton, Oregon. It’s the late 1980s, at the height of the spotted owl controversy—a pitched battle between loggers and conservationists over whether preserving a bird’s habitat is more critical... View Details
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
would be a ways off. “This is a really big ship to turn,” he says. “But when I started hearing real, actual time lines—that was music to my ears.” It wasn’t just a vision but a plan. And just as importantly,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
The Path to Economic Revival
Pisano and Shih: It’s naive to believe that manufacturing can be shipped abroad without harm to U.S. competitiveness. Related Links Why Manufacturing Matters - HBS Working Knowledge Making Their Way James... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The City Solution
weatherizing an existing building’s exterior “skin” and upgrading its lighting and heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning, or HVAC, systems) can only go so far. Updating... View Details
- 23 Apr 2018
- News
Sowing the Seeds of Leadership
The online bio of EARTH University’s new president Arturo Condo (DBA 2000) describes him as “Ecuadorian by birth, Latin American by heart.” Condo, a distinguished scholar and author, and the former president... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 15 Feb 2023
- News
Grand Ambitions in the Great Plains
going to be in this sort of shipping container form factor. DM: There's a lot to do before the first modules arrive. MK: So I would say that the two biggest things on my mind right now are probably our permitting strategy—this is fairly... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
stuff in a box and ship directly to customers. Well, there’s a lot of uncertainty in that project, right? I don’t know if I can make the mattress. I don’t know if people will buy it online without trying it... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 11 May 2017
- News
Going with the Flow
day. I believed that families should be able to bank their children’s cord blood or make donations; but there needed to be a trusted, quality laboratory and logistics business enabling them to do so.... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
RX for Change
clinicians need to take responsibility for letting health care get out of their hands and help right the ship in the way health-care systems are being managed. Physicians can not absolve themselves View Details
- 14 Apr 2021
- News
The First Five Years: Mike Gandy Auzenne (MBA 2016)
partnership between a for-profit entity and a nonprofit organization. Organjet is a for-profit company that provides on-demand private jet and ground logistics for patients to... View Details
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Marjorie M.T. Yang (MBA '76)
we could send machinery to the Chinese factories we managed. In return, we received shipments of apparel that we then sold to discount retailers in the United States." With an initial focus on high quantity and low prices, Esquel was just... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
The Class of 1974: Timed for a Change
how it all happened. I have been a traveler and a student of a world that has become more complex and more diverse." Jack of Many Trades Since graduating from Harvard College in 1963, Chuck Mercer has worked... View Details
Keywords: Charles B. ("Chuck") Mercer
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
shipping containers—necessitates a white cap and a lab coat. The units feature a double-door protocol that requires the exterior door to be closed before a second internal door can be opened. In the far... View Details
- 26 Feb 2020
- News
Phoenix Rising
expansion have to reach everyone, from the dock to the boardroom. In November, Chinese President Xi Jinping and Mitsotakis announced an investment by China’s state-owned shipping giant COSCO in the Port of... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 17 Dec 2017
- News
How Music Forged a Fighter for Free Expression
camp in Uganda, and you heard a woman's song. Heaney: I was over in Africa doing some work, and in Africa, many of the organizations need very specific skill sets, medical training, View Details
- 22 Dec 2022
- News
LGBTQ+ Alumni Forums Expand; 2023 Alumni New Venture Competition Is Underway
their venture succeed," says Gernon. "It's an incredible springboard mechanism to motivate you to get your ideas down on paper and start working towards your goal of launching a venture." Past winners include Fleetzero, Inc., a builder of... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 18 May 2017
- News
Pioneer Spirit
program in the 1960s to his role today as president and CEO of Pioneer Group, which creates affordable housing through the renovation and preservation of historic buildings in the American Midwest. Freeman... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
strong relationships with our suppliers that we easily convinced them to extend us additional terms to fill that first big order. We shipped the product and waited. Day 30 arrived View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Keepers of the Flame
35 competition venues, another 35 separate training facilities, and approximately 50 miscellaneous sites for use as office space, warehousing, transportation, and other View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Ready for Takeoff
almost 9,000 miles of travel. "I think the logistical challenge that we have today in Brazil is probably bigger than any other country has seen." For Sender, the event has forced a complete rethink of operations at TAM, which flies to 42... View Details