shipping - Publications - Faculty & Research

Clifford D. Mallory

Mallory built one of the largest and most successful independent American shipping firms. Originally specializing in the operation of government-owned tonnage from American ports to the Mediterranean, Mallory later developed his famous... View Details

Keywords: Transportation

Henry R. Mallory

Under Mallory's presidency, the company became the second largest shipping company and 59th largest corporation in the United States. He was owner-operator of 70 American flag steamships, and his assets amounted to $47 million. View Details

Keywords: Transportation

09 Dec 2015
Research Event

When Hosts Attack: The Competitive Threat of Online Platforms

categories, they found that, on average, the products Amazon chose tended to have higher retail prices and lower shipping costs than those it didn’t choose, which makes sense because Amazon offers free View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail; Technology; Web Services

01 Mar 2012
News

Shop Talk, Different Avenues

launched in Japan in 2009, and last November we started shipping from the United States to over 90 different countries. MT: So your site translates into the local currency? AM: Yes. There are also duties, taxes, and a flat rate for... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; shopping; e-commerce; Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Retail Trade

Elmer A. Sperry

A prolific inventor, Sperry was instrumental in creating technological advances in navigation. He invented gyroscopic compasses and stabilizers that became fundamental components for both ships and airplanes. His inventions were adopted... View Details

Keywords: Fabricated Goods

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Cynthia Chen | MBA

enables enterprises to build LLM applications on their own data. Over the course of a summer, I shipped end-to-end APIs for data integration, drove efforts to improve observability in our backend processes, and led the creation of our API... View Details

01 Jan 2010
News

Susan L. Decker, MBA 1986

financial ship as CFO, built the company’s advertiser and publisher group as EVP, and oversaw global business operations as president. Since leaving Yahoo! in 2009, Decker has taken time out from the corporate world to focus on what... View Details

15 Oct 2019
News

Engaging More Deeply with Business in Africa

While meeting with representatives of the Kenya Ports Authority at the Port of Mombasa, faculty members toured a bulk carrier ship off-loading grain commodities to Grain Bulk Handlers, one of the companies HBS faculty visited during the... View Details

June 2002
Teaching Note

PSA: The World's Port of Call, TN

By: Lynda M. Applegate and Maddy Kadish

Teaching Note for (9-802-003). View Details

Keywords: Shipping Industry; Shipping Industry

Citation

Purchase

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

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General File - Photography Collections - Historical Collections

Collections Site Credits General File Photograph Collection, ca. 1860–1975 Drilling, photograph by Dick Whittington , Los Angeles, California. Mss: 1415 1860–1975 G326 19 boxes, approx. 1,250 photographs Collection Guide From whaling View Details

31 Jul 2019
News

Honoring the Code

and myself only, it is my personal belief that allowing gays and lesbians to serve openly would be the right thing to do.” “Don't Ask, Don't Tell” went into effect when President Clinton came in, 1993. I'm commanding a ship in Norfolk,... View Details

01 Mar 2017
News

A Healthy Profit

crew is offered medical checkups, and more than 90 percent of employees participate in yearly health fairs that provide free screenings and educational resources. ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH “All of their cruise ships have an internal water... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

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

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services; Transportation

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

Keywords: Alejandro Reyes; 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

Fadi Ghandour

Keywords: Shipping & Logistics

Guillermo Murchison

Keywords: Shipping and Logistics

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