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01 Oct 2002
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John Batcha: Sowing the Seeds to Fight Hunger

vegetable and flower seed, which Batcha sources, packages, and labels in a dozen languages, working out of his home in Charlotte, North Carolina. In the past four years, SPI has shipped nearly six million packets of seed abroad. Batcha... View Details

15 Oct 2019
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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

01 Dec 2003
News

Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?

panels. Instead, the panels would need to come from Asia — a considerable challenge for an eighty-employee company based in suburban Boston. Sharpe’s response was equally direct. ET partnered with a company based in Singapore and shipped... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Manufacturing

18 Apr 2005
Research & Ideas

Prosper with Multi-Channel Retailing

condense buying, wrapping, and shipping into a few short keystrokes. The limitless capacity of the Internet also enables Gap Inc. to serve customers it can't serve out of the limited space in its stores. Customers can purchase extended... View Details

Keywords: by Julie Jette; Consumer Products; Retail

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

Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade

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

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24 Apr 2014
News

Mining precious metals through e-waste recycling

hazardous. Discarded electronics are usually shipped to China, Africa, and India, where workers—frequently children with no safety equipment—tear the electronics apart, exposing themselves to lethal doses of toxins. BlueOak is building... View Details

06 Apr 2023
Blog Post

Circularity in Denmark

proposing this tax on their own sector of ~$150 USD per ton of carbon emitted to incentivize the shipping industry to move forward. The role of culture Our week in Denmark opened our eyes to how integrated sustainability is in both... View Details

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South Asia - Global Activities 2020

the mechanics of international commerce, including ocean container shipping and air cargo, as they relate to BRI development strategies. “ Hambantota was a reminder to think critically about the public narratives that are peddled by... View Details

02 May 2021
News

They’re Banking on Him

stress-induced exhaustion and forced to take a short leave to recuperate. But he came back—and so did Lloyds, which ultimately reprivatized, repaying the taxpayer money it had borrowed. Now he’ll take on a task that many consider more difficult: Righting the View Details

Keywords: banking; leadership; turnarounds; Finance

26 Mar 2008
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Disaster!

Can leaders anticipate disaster? How Does Disaster Change Leadership Goals? Shackleton: An Entrepreneur of Survival On a trek across Antarctica, Sir Ernest Shackleton's ship Endurance became trapped in ice. How did Shackleton lead his... View Details

July 2001 (Revised October 2004)
Case

PSA: The World's Port of Call

By: Lynda M. Applegate, Nancy Bartlett, Dolly Chang-Leow and Neo Boon Siong

Details the evolution of an e-business strategy and capabilities over a 16-year period. What began in 1984 as an effort to automate the port of Singapore to achieve productivity savings, by 2000 had evolved into a global e-business called Portnet.com. Closes as senior... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development Strategy; Business Strategy; Technological Innovation; Internet and the Web; Business or Company Management; Shipping Industry; Shipping Industry

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01 Dec 2020
News

The Complete Package

Courtesy Susan Chong The typical wooden shipping pallet, constructed of mixed hardwood, ccan weigh 50 pounds, Susan Chong (OPM 48, 2016) explains. But a pallet made of pine weighs half that, and for businesses air View Details

Keywords: April White; entrepreneurship; sustainability; packaging; leadership; women; Manufacturing

01 Jun 2004
News

Baker’s Man of Steel

learned the trade as a Navy Seabee. “He looks like Robert Redford, doesn’t he?” razzes one worker passing by with a meatball sub. (It’s 9 a.m., but the shift began some two hours ago.) “If I had his money I wouldn’t be here,” Delaney laughs. “I’m still waiting for my... View Details

Keywords: Baker Library; Bobby Delaney; crane; operator; Construction of Buildings; Construction

20 Apr 2010
First Look

First Look: April 20

telegraphs. Telegraphs are usually analyzed in the context of railway expansion, and the literature has somewhat neglected the role of telegraphic communication for the development of steamship navigation. Telegraphs meant that the owners of a cargo View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

20 Jun 2008
News

Risk and Reward

Chimneys resident) sired foals to the ripe old age of 28. Big Brown is only 3 years old. So you do the math. So here’s a real-life business dilemma. If you owned Big Brown, would you ship the colt straight for the stud farm, or keep him... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Management

03 Mar 2014
News

A Life Transformed

Parija had already acquired decades of business acumen, HBS was a transformational experience for him. "It taught me how to set a goal and work toward it, and it gave me the courage to become an entrepreneur," he says. "A group of us founded Blue Lines View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; Finance; Transportation

13 Jul 2016
News

From Money to Ministry

LST (landing ship tank), where he shared a command over 150 sailors. “It was a great leadership experience,” Quainton says. “I had to learn how to make a team out of men who’d come from vastly different experiences and education.”... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Feb 2000
News

Jerry Shafir: A Simmering Success Story

vegetables and to package, chill, and ship the finished product, there is constant motion in Kettle Cuisine's cramped but immaculate Somerville, Massachusetts, kitchen. The 11,000-square-foot facility supplies more than two thousand... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

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Replacement Diploma | MBA

to registrar@hbs.edu . Please include: The reason for requesting a replacement diploma Your diploma name and year of graduation Your date of birth (MM-DD-YYYY) Your shipping address and contact phone number Your signature The original... View Details

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