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- 01 Jun 2023
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Very Continental
extremely clean. It’s lovely here. It’s healing.” Second home: Lille, France. “The church where Charles de Gaulle was baptized is right across the street from my apartment. It’s beautiful there.” Congolese cuisine: “My favorite dish is maboké, fresh View Details
- 12 Feb 2021
- News
How Dunkin’ Donuts Took Over the World
for. And that’s when the trouble began. Basically I changed the mission of the business from being a focused coffee and donut shop company to becoming a franchise business. Feeling that a 60-time multiple was extraordinarily intoxicating, focused on the wrong thing,... View Details
Keywords: brands; leadership; management; strategy; operations; career; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Innovation: The Fish-Farming Fix
Video Embed Cryoocyte’s home lab in action With ocean fisheries increasingly failing to meet global demands—about 85 percent of them are classified as depleted or worse, according to the World Bank—the future of the food supply will depend on View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Sorry, We’re All Out of Chilean Sea Bass
KNECHT: Save our dwindling fish stocks. PHOTO COURTESY MARION ETTLINGER May I take your order? One Patagonian toothfish, please. If that doesn’t sound appetizing, how about Chilean sea bass — what the fish... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
A lifelong mission to save the oceans
a big toe in the water because the river was, at that time, a chemical and organic cesspool,” he remembers. Today, Merkl is helping to shift environmental thinking with initiatives that balance conservation with business acumen: “We know that the most economically... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Jerry Shafir: A Simmering Success Story
the two set about the tasks of renting suitable manufacturing space, scrounging defunct factories for affordable machinery, developing recipes, and building a business from the ground up. It was a slow process, marked by sixteen-hour workdays that began on local View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Running faster to compete
number of lobsters caught and has improved the lobster trap-making industry. It is used in about 99 percent of the traps fished in New England. Knott also manufactured WireWall, a leading security fencing that rings many American prisons... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Action Plan: Casting Call
arcing gracefully back and forth until it is released and the fly alights (temptingly, one hopes). “Fish have a brain the size of a pea, and therefore it ought to be pretty easy for me to outsmart them,” Berkley notes. “But the fish... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; hobbies; balance; meaning; longevity; aging; Paper Manufacturing; Manufacturing
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Whale Wars
and the sea was a lovely cacophony of light and sound. Seals barked and penguins chattered. As for the whales, they were awesome not because of their size but because they seemed so aware — so human. Sea life is in great peril. The United Nations forecasts that in 10... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Screen Tested
“My first entrepreneurial venture was around age 10, catching fish off a jetty near my house and selling them to fishermen as live bait. They paid 20 cents per fish, and for a dollar I could buy my own game of mini golf.” First order:... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Lessons from the Tsunami Disaster
villagers to clear debris or move fishing boats from their inland resting places. “We started with 80 workers in one village and ended with more than 4,000 in twenty villages,” he recalls. “This program returned over seventy boats to the... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
A passion for the sea doubles the percent of ocean set aside for conservation
Ocean, the largest reserve of its kind on earth. Bertarelli, among a small group of philanthropists who have chosen to support sustainability, has had a big impact on the environment—increasing the area of marine conservation from 0.5 percent to 1 percent. Within a few... View Details
- 17 Nov 2016
- News
Wired for Innovation
Working in a small fishing village on the Panama-Costa Rica border, Skelly helped to make decisions about micro lending in order to generate small-business growth. “I didn’t know much about business, but when you’re trying to figure out... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Doing Something Real
BowlÐsized audience for $1,000 - instead of $1 million - per spot." Such bargain hunting has always appealed to Tobias, who buys just about everything in bulk and is rumored to stockpile toothpaste and tuna fish by the case lot.... View Details
Keywords: Andrew Tobias (MBA '72)
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Rich Wilson
of that, in French! Flying fish are amazing to see, though I wore a helmet with a clear Lexan visor to protect myself: They glide at 25 knots, so you don’t want to get hit in the eye. In the Southern Ocean, the albatross are beautiful... View Details
- 28 May 2021
- News
Unspent Love
of paper origami fish to swim across the ceiling of the family dining room, Kingston writes. “My mother, who put her business degree to use running a small nutritional beverage company with my father in Santa Rosa, Calif., while raising... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Gardella Joins Alumni Career Services
ACS provides, Gardella (email: rgardella@hbs.edu) hopes to "add value to every alumni interaction" through services that help job-seekers sharpen résumés, improve interview skills, and conduct research on firms and careers. "My goal," he says, "is not to View Details
Keywords: Caroline Chauncey
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
A Better World, One Idea at a Time
Pacific, which plans to use modern agricultural technology and management to enable people living on remote Pacific islands to grow fresh vegetables and fish to replace unhealthful diets high in calories and low in nutrition. Second place... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Water, Water Everywhere
privatize water services." A big fish in the industry is Rebecca Mark (MBA '90), chairman and CEO of Azurix, an affiliate of energy giant Enron that she helped create and which recently went public. (See first item, preceding page.) "We... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Alumni Books
Saturday Evening Post, Sports Illustrated, and other publications to his realistic paintings of all the major game fish in their natural habitats. Rules Are Not Enough: The Art of Good Governance in the Real World by Rupert Merson (PMD... View Details