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- 01 Oct 1997
- News
W. Hall Wendel, Jr.
guide Rob Hall, who would perish on Everest two years later) to summit Everest that day. His triumph followed a two-mile vertical ascent from a final staging camp, a climb begun shortly after midnight in below-zero temperatures and... View Details
- 17 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
Amazon, Whole Foods Deal a Big Win for Consumers
Source: 400tmax Editor's Note. Online retailing behemoth Amazon announced June 16 that it would acquire upscale grocery chain Whole Foods Market in a deal valued at more than $13 billion. Though the company has dabbled with the idea of a brick-and-mortar footprint in... View Details
- 16 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business
industry at large, are losing revenue and cash flow that will be difficult to replace. Manufacturers can run overtime and make up for lost production and fill pent-up demand, but services demand is perishable and hard to replace. This... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 26 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
How Cellophane Changed the Way We Shop for Food
‘bloom,’ which consumers generally considered as a sign of good, fresh meat. But this ‘fresh’ red color did not actually indicate that the meat was the ‘freshest’ in terms of the time it was exposed to the air. Since meats were perishable... View Details
Henry B. Spencer
After serving as vice president of the Southern Railway System until 1917, Spencer formed the Fruit Growers Express to transport perishable goods and provide ventilated and refrigerated car services. With Fruit Growers owning its own cars... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture & Mining
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Deep Discovery
The British luxury liner RMS Lusitania was torpedoed by a German submarine on its New York-to-Liverpool run in 1915. The ship sank in 300 feet of water off the coast of Ireland; 1,198 (including 128 Americans) of 1,959 passengers and crew View Details
- 26 Mar 2008
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Disaster!
must be prepared to act when the stakes are much greater than expected. What Signals Should Leaders Send During A Crisis? High-Stakes Decision Making: The Lessons of Mount Everest On May 10, 1996, five mountaineers from two teams perished... View Details
- Portrait Project
Zubby Achara
a high, while the family is still proud of you?” Hours pass and the tools before me remain untouched. I can’t bring myself to lift a finger. I quiver in shame at my apparent weakness. I reluctantly abandon the idea of suicide as I realize that something else must View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Agenda: Frank Lorenzo (MBA 1963)
In the early 1970s, Frank Lorenzo (MBA 1963) was CEO of Texas International Airlines, a struggling regional operation. There were whispers of change coming for the airline industry as Washington considered the pros and cons of ending regulation. “If there was a list of... View Details
Keywords: April White
- Portrait Project
Michael Worosz
It took a moment of profound despair for me to grasp what Oliver Wendell Holmes said, "in our youth our hearts were touched with fire... given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing." Knowing that my friends had View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Lessons from Everest
scores of hopeful climbers were trying to duplicate their feat, Assistant Professor Michael Roberto discussed his research into the tragic Everest events of 1996. In May of that year, eight individuals perished in a single day while... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Rob Price (MBA 1997)
soul of which was a song inspired by the story of a girl who perished in the earthquake in Haiti. Seeing how the music affected my whole family, it revealed to me how important it is for music to be a language everyone speaks. So when I... View Details
- Web
Latin America - Global Activities 2021
want to continue to develop to best support my team and my company,” she says. Pictured: Karen Bruck, a vice president at MercadoLibre, is the protagonist of a case highlighting the challenges of helping employees to succeed. But through her nearly 20 years in the... View Details
- 10 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Is Groupon Good for Retailers?
single day. Based on what you've learned, do you think discount vouchers make sense for large retailers? A: Discount vouchers seem to be most compelling for merchants with a low cost of goods sold and with a highly perishable product.... View Details
- 22 Jul 2014
- News
Hungry for Change
first to handle perishable goods in supermarkets that are approaching their expiration dates, and now to work even further upstream with growers," explains Zeaske, who never suspected how much his first-year TOM course would come in... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
- Web
The Founder Mindset - Course Catalog
financing and how the organization should be structured so that it can deliver a product or service reliably. DIFFICULT DECISIONS addresses many of the perennial questions of entrepreneurship: “Should I persist, pivot, or perish (close... View Details
- 21 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
7 Successful Battle Strategies to Beat COVID-19
Stockdale, former vice presidential candidate, naval officer, and prisoner of war, said leaders must balance both realism and optimism in their messaging. In a POW camp, Stockdale said, it was the optimists who perished first—those who... View Details
Keywords: by Euvin Naidoo
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
The Class of 1977
to 9/11/01. More than three thousand people from eighty countries perish on a single day in New York, Washington, D.C., and Pennsylvania. On the heels of that horrific tragedy, this year's subsequent business headlines have been dominated... View Details
Keywords: Desmond Wong
- 10 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Winners and Losers in the Retail Revolution
the winners of the past two decades, supercenters, will fail. This trend will continue to shrink the freedom supermarkets have to manage pricing, service, and product assortment. While beautiful perishables departments have been a... View Details
- 17 Oct 2016
- HBS Case
Business Solutions That Help Cut Food Waste
As much as 40 percent of food grown in the United States for human consumption is wasted. Source: Eivaisla After decades of wasteful food practices, where perfectly good food is discarded even as poverty keeps many families hungry, solutions are starting to come... View Details