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- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Mead Treadwell
the Arctic. There are multibillion-dollar mineral reserves — copper, zinc, gold, diamonds, lead — as well. Most people don’t know that FedEx and UPS have very large hubs in Alaska and that most of the world’s international air cargo now traverses the Arctic. As for the... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Khoo Teng Chye: Technology Turnaround in Singapore
about fifty thousand a day — the island nation of Singapore is the biggest container port and transshipment hub in the world. “We can turn ships around faster than anybody else,” boasts Khoo, a civil engineering graduate of Australia’s... View Details
Daniel K. Ludwig
Ludwig created the largest shipping company in the United States (the world’s third largest) and one of the world’s biggest private multinational corporations. His operations spanned 23 countries, employed more than 2,000 people, and... View Details
Keywords: Transportation
Adolph Coors
Orphaned at age fifteen, Coors worked as an apprentice in a brewery in his native Prussia. Six years later, he began his westward journey as a stowaway aboard a ship headed for Maryland. Gradually moving west, Coors eventually landed in... View Details
Keywords: Food & Tobacco
- 2010
- Book
The Big Ditch: How America Took, Built, Ran, and Ultimately Gave Away the Panama Canal
By: Noel Maurer and Carlos Yu
On August 15, 1914, the Panama Canal was officially opened for business, thus changing the face of both world trade and military power and playing a pivotal role in the rise of the United States on the world stage. Today we view the creation of the Panama Canal as a... View Details
Keywords: Political History; For-Profit Firms; Development Economics; Infrastructure; State Ownership; Ship Transportation; Panama; United States
Maurer, Noel, and Carlos Yu. The Big Ditch: How America Took, Built, Ran, and Ultimately Gave Away the Panama Canal. Princeton University Press, 2010.
John T. Dorrance
In 1899, Dorrance invented the process for making condensed soup, reducing canning and shipping costs by two-thirds. As a result of Dorrance’s invention, Campbell Soup became the first soup company to achieve national distribution. Within... View Details
Keywords: Food & Tobacco
Edgar F. Luckenbach, Jr.
During his tenure, Luckenbach reorganized the company by withdrawing ships from the unprofitable intercoastal trade and re-deploying them on the international charter market. At the same time, he broadened the shore side activities of the... View Details
Keywords: Transportation
- 19 Nov 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
E-Santa: Is Retail Ready for Digital Christmas?
Is Amazon's growing retail power capable of breaking the "wheel of retailing" theory? Retail Reaches a Tipping Point—Which Stores Will Survive? E-commerce is about to deal severe blows to many familiar store-based brands. How to Use Free View Details
- 10 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 10
strategy—made by Cake's team in response to market feedback. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/811041-PDF-ENG Vereinigung Hamburger Schiffsmakler und Schiffsagenten e.V. (VHSS): Valuing Ships Benjamin C. Esty and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Deals For Sale
department and we agree to move them." In an arrangement with Federal Express, the modems are shipped to a warehouse in Memphis, Tennessee, and inspected. FairMarket then posts a description of the merchandise online for the next... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
Clarence Francis
Francis oversaw General Foods with a product line that included the successful Post cereals, Maxwell House and Sanka Coffee, Log Cabin Syrup and Jell-O. After absorbing an initial $17 million loss in the frozen foods sector, Francis was able to turn a profit in this... View Details
Keywords: Food & Tobacco
- Web
Manuscript Collections - A Chronicle of the China Trade
generations of the Heard Family of Ipswich, Massachusetts, constitute the most comprehensive and detailed collection held by Baker Library on the China trade. Engaged in the China trade principally from 1840 to 1877, Heard & Co. records include business correspondence,... View Details
- 20 Oct 2016
- News
Uncharted Territory
things didn’t go according to plan. There were issues with manufacturing and shipping the balls. As CEO Matthews knew she needed to make a change: “We’re never going to make the best soccer ball," Matthews recounts to Business Insider.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
steadily improved. Railroads were the big breakthrough, but by 1939, 10 percent of all intercity freight was shipped by motor vehicles. Getty Images For nineteenth-century passengers, riding the rails was a heady experience marked by the... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
In My Humble Opinion: A Timely Tension
as a ship engineer. In time, she moved into business to, as she puts it, “understand how the world worked,” even as her passion for the environment continued. After two decades in the for-profit sector, including consulting work and... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 26 Mar 2008
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Disaster!
Can leaders anticipate disaster? How Does Disaster Change Leadership Goals? Shackleton: An Entrepreneur of Survival On a trek across Antarctica, Sir Ernest Shackleton's ship Endurance became trapped in ice. How did Shackleton lead his... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?
panels. Instead, the panels would need to come from Asia — a considerable challenge for an eighty-employee company based in suburban Boston. Sharpe’s response was equally direct. ET partnered with a company based in Singapore and shipped... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Comeback Trail
Koehn, and Debora Spar—to weigh in on what advice history can offer as we navigate the current economic crisis. The Devil You Don’t Know Professor David Moss on the danger of treating this economic crisis like its predecessors Righting the View Details