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- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Batteries Included
modern container shipping, the ship is really a relatively small part of costs,” observes McCown. “Everything ship-related might only be 30 percent of the carrier’s total cost. The biggest cost is fuel.” Both economics and environmental... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
New Horizons for Iraq
supplies, and services required for the ship’s ten-month deployment, the longest for any Navy vessel since the Vietnam War. On May 1, 2003, when President Bush visited the ship and declared an end to major hostilities in Iraq, Fabry... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Sail Away
ROBB: A luxury home in every glamorous port. Glenn Koenig/Los Angeles Times Set to launch in 2013, the $1.1 billion Utopia will be a cruise ship with a difference: About half its cabins will be sold as private residences, ranging in price... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
with Urban Water Partners RelayRides explanatory video FashionStake-Reuters story An online shipping platform that uses social networks and smartphones. Low-cost medical care and monitoring that helps seniors to live at home. The “Skype”... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Starting Up and Starting Over
the world. Handholding and Strong Medicine: HBS and the Consulting Industry As a young lawyer with degrees from both Harvard Law School and Harvard Business School, Marvin Bower (MBA '30) believed that a new kind of professional... View Details
- 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
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Vive la Madeleine!
he made in the food industry were equally discouraging. “They told me I was crazy, that Jeannette was dead, that near the end they had been producing the worst madeleines in France. To restart production and change its image at the same... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Capitalist Revolutions Analyzed in MBA "Foundations" Course
Britain, Germany, the United States, and Japan), three cases per country, and a time span of three industrial revolutions - ultimately became a two-year, all-or-nothing process. The draft of the first case, a one-hundred-page treatise on... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
HBS Business Plan Contestants Pin Their Hopes on the Internet
that has already garnered $16 million in funding to link shipping companies with suppliers via the Internet. More than one hundred teams involving over three hundred students initially entered the competition. Some 95 percent of the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
HBS Faculty Explore Ideas Around the World
conceived the ambitious online oral history archive together with Chilean shipping entrepreneur Sven von Appen (AMP 76, 1977). The project is building an evidence base for emerging markets by documenting the personal experience of top... View Details
Keywords: faculty research
- 04 Sep 2013
- News
From HBO to HBS
affiliate in Hawaii couldn't pick it up," he recalls. "We shipped them tapes of the programming. "Fast-forward to today, HBO has multiple networks with over 100 million subscribers worldwide, only 40 million of whom are in the United... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
The Military and the MBA: Lance Batchelor (MBA 1993)
talked for 10 minutes with the benefit of real, personal experience about what it feels like to be on a ship at sea, operating a complex weapons system. The ex-military guys and girls brought something interesting and unique to the... View Details
- 28 Jun 2011
- News
Bold Ascent
expand into other offerings, such as clothing and sleeping bags, in the months ahead. Before launching SlingFin, Baka started Mountain Hardwear with fellow SlingFin founder and 33-year industry veteran/gear guru Martin Zemitis. (Columbia... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Breaking Down Barriers: The Electronic Wallet
As people get more accustomed to using the Internet to conduct business transactions, their demands will become more sophisticated. Cyberspace is jam-packed with startups trying to second-guess what consumers of the future will want. "Whole new View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Giving Amazon the Boot
would ship it for us,” she says. “And you didn’t have to sell anything on Amazon. So they would store it and ship it, and it was really cost effective.” Ultimately, realizing that Amazon “is like the world’s... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Buy the Book
publishing industry today ships books to stores and waits for customers to purchase them. James Patterson represents the age of brands, in which a supplier builds a persistent demand and designs production... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Camel and the Unicorn
whaling industry. Morrell: In the early nineteenth century, it was the whaling ships of New England that offered the kinds of high-risk, high-reward stakes that attracted investors. Lazarow: At the time, 70% of the whaling View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Can a Digital Platform Open Up the Opaque Metals Industry?
makes it much more efficient. By moving negotiations online, the process happens much faster; what used to take months, can now take weeks. Due to the complexity of shipping large quantities of materials worth millions of dollars between... View Details
Keywords: Nicole Torres
- 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 McNerney Jr. After decades of... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Tech Trekker
Symbolics, the supermom helped lift the firm's revenues from $1 million to $120 million. From there, Lang led a string of turnarounds and product launches with software companies. In 1993 she signed on with Lotus Development Corporation. The company gave her free rein... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso