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- 26 Mar 2015
- News
Improving the environment through green spaces and commercial buildings
environment have on where and how you live.” Gilbane is on the board of the Buffalo Bayou Partnership, which has helped transform 160 acres of land around the Houston Ship Channel into a stunning green space with hiking and biking trails,... View Details
- 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.
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Skydeck: Reddit’s Rise
Jen Wong (MBA 2004), COO of Reddit (Illustration by John S. Dykes) “I met Steve [Huffman] at SFO, I think at like 6:00 AM. We were sort of ships passing and had a great meeting and I got really excited because it’s really rare that you get to work on an asset that is,... 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 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
- Web
A Chronicle of the China Trade. The Papers of Augustine Heard & Co., 1840-1877
voluminous collection of extraordinarily descriptive letters and diaries, they took care to meticulously preserve the company’s documents and journals—from partnership agreements and export lists to custom regulations and ship designs.... View Details
- 13 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Grolsch Brewing Company: Drink Sustainably
recyclable cardboard “TopClip” to replace the conventional glue and plastic approach to hold a six-pack together. We learned that this innovation has resulted in significant savings in methane emissions. Grolsch is also investigating potential alternatives to plastics... View Details
- 05 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 5, 2010
supplement (B):http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/110030-PDF-ENG Compass Maritime Services, LLC: Valuing Ships Benjamin C. Esty and Albert SheenHarvard Business School Case 211-014 Tom Roberts, a founding partner of Compass Maritime... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Action Plan: Rapids Growth
three kids. Mindful of his relative ignorance of the niche business, Holley immersed himself. He learned all about the thermoforming process (which uses heat-formed plastic instead of fiberglass) that Eddyline pioneered, and he occasionally helped out with View Details
Keywords: Ryan Jones
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
The Eyes Have It: Business Plan Winners Pursue Global Vision
hadn't really thought about this problem until he visited Peru and noticed that hardly anybody there wore glasses. Back at HBS, in Associate Professor Stefan Thomke's elective course Managing Product Development, Houghton started developing glasses that would be... View Details
Keywords: eyeglasses
- 11 Apr 2017
- Blog Post
Why I Love My Job: Andrew Grochal on His Path to CarGurus
was our speaker and I vividly remember her advice to us: "find a rocket ship and hop aboard." That stuck with me. And then a few years later, my HBS section mate Ashley Karr joined CarGurus and a few months into the job was... View Details
Keywords: Technology
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Charlie Williams (MBA 1939, DCS 1952)
aboard the cruiser USS Topeka in 1945 when the ship received President Truman’s announcement of the dropping of the atom bomb. As the ship’s announcer, I read Truman’s words over the PA system to the entire crew. When I finished, there... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Lessons in Leadership
to be able to discern both of these aspects of people and of organizations. One thing Shackleton did very well was to revise, and reset, his objectives as the context changed. As soon as his ship was trapped in ice, he figured out that... View Details
Keywords: Antarctica
- 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
- 28 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 28
Shippo, prepares her pitch for a Series A funding round following a successful seed round. Customer adoption of Shippo’s e-commerce dashboard application, which allows small and medium retailers to compare delivery rates between shipping... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Dec 2006
- Research & Ideas
Fixing Price Tag Confusion
(main price + other charges) stimulate people to look into the details of what they get for their money. Thus, price framing can be used as a tool to induce consumers to acknowledge additional points of differentiation: a convenient View Details
- October 2002 (Revised December 2003)
- Case
eShip-4U
By: Roy D. Shapiro and Timothy M. Laseter
eShip is a small Israeli start-up with a potentially exciting new concept for the residential package-delivery value chain--the Automatic Delivery Machine (ADM). Much like today's ubiquitous ATMs, ADMs would allow consumers to have parcels delivered to a nearby ADM... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Business Model; Service Operations; Logistics; Corporate Strategy; Information Technology; Competitive Strategy; Value Creation; Saving; Innovation and Invention; Shipping Industry; Shipping Industry; Shipping Industry; Israel; United States
Shapiro, Roy D., and Timothy M. Laseter. "eShip-4U." Harvard Business School Case 603-076, October 2002. (Revised December 2003.)
- 31 Mar 2011
- News
Building an Online Swap Shop
reported (December 18, 2010), prompting thredUP to launch the new exchange. thredUP’s 50,000 registered users swap more than 1,000 boxes of clothes a week. Buyers pay $5 plus shipping per box. Since it’s a swap service, users must send as... View Details
- December 2023 (Revised April 2025)
- Case
Yellow Corporation: On the Verge of Bankruptcy
By: Benjamin C. Esty and Edward A. Meyer
Yellow Corporation, one of the country’s oldest and largest less-than-truckload (LTL) carriers, was nearing its 100th anniversary in 2024. Whether it would reach that milestone, however, was uncertain as the company was attempting to restructure its operations to... View Details
Keywords: Labor Unions; Labor and Management Relations; Capital Structure; Restructuring; Financial Management; Ethics; Borrowing and Debt; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Financial Strategy; Truck Transportation; Change Management; Shipping Industry; Shipping Industry; United States
Esty, Benjamin C., and Edward A. Meyer. "Yellow Corporation: On the Verge of Bankruptcy." Harvard Business School Case 224-028, December 2023. (Revised April 2025.)