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- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Robots to the Rescue
approach to order fulfillment is based on the disarming efficiency of small, battery-powered, orange mobile robots. When orders are received, the robots are directed by a complex software application to find and retrieve the desired items, which are stored on mobile... View Details
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Barboza Guzman, Laurence D. Higgins, John G. Meara, Erin Padden, Apurva S. Shah, Peter Waters, Marco Weidemeier, Sam Wertheimer, and Thomas W. Feeley This article describes early time-driven activity-based costing work at several leading healthcare organizations in the... View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Sir Martin S. Sorrell, MBA 1968
United States specializing in sales promotion, design, and direct marketing. But WPP wasn't small for long. In 1987 Sorrell made an astonishing move. Using both debt and equity, he bought one of the most... View Details
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Alice Yang
Alice Yang was born in Taiwan, then lived in the Netherlands before immigrating to the United States. “The experience of attending public schools on three continents gave me a deep sense of gratitude for the opportunities I’ve been... View Details
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Carol Lauson
then into more corporate development. She also was involved in a mergers-and-acquisition project with lead responsibilities for United Agri Products and Trimble Navigation, a high-tech company that created location-based technologies... View Details
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Anja Anliker
On September 11, 2001, Anja Anliker was a senior in high school. “Even though I had no direct relationship to any of the victims, the events of that day shook me to my core,” she says. “It made me think of the state of the world and our... View Details
- 12 Nov 2024
- HBS Case
Inside One Startup's Journey to Break Down Hiring (and Funding) Barriers
and obtaining his high school equivalency diploma. Blakeman went on to earn a business degree at Ohio State University, graduating with honors. However, he was rejected for the more than 80 positions he interviewed for after background... View Details
- 18 Oct 2016
- Op-Ed
Why Business Should Invest in Community Health
Children in the United States today are at risk to live shorter lives than their parents. This sobering assessment is one reason big box retailer Target is investing $40 million this year to improve the... View Details
- 06 Apr 2016
- What Do You Think?
As Tim Cook, How Would You Tackle Apple's Next Challenge?
Summing Up--Is Product Security A Potential Distraction for Apple’s Leadership? The saga of Apple’s stand-off with the United States government over the Company’s refusal to assist the FBI in hacking its own... View Details
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Ryu Kawano
As a Japanese citizen who grew up in Indonesia, Ryu Kawano is certainly no stranger to multicultural diversity. But when it was time to get a college education, he came to the United States to experience... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Ruling from the Bench
nation’s first sex-crimes unit and helped change New York’s rape statutes. Until early 1974, corroboration (additional evidence from something or someone other than the victim) was required in three areas to prove rape: the identity of... View Details
- 17 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
America Needs a Manufacturing Renaissance
moved its chief technical officer from the United States to China. Because most of its large customers are now in China, Taiwan, and South Korea, it makes sense for the company to do its research close to... View Details
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Photograph Albums - Photography Collections - Historical Collections
Collections Site Credits Photograph Albums Tipple and Washer, Central Iron and Coal Company. Alabama Mining Institute, Birmingham, Alabama Mss: 351 1922-1923 A316 2 albums, 153 photographs These photographic albums were created at the behest of the View Details
- 21 Nov 2008
- News
No More Squawking about the Campus Turkey
Turk definitely staked a claim to the HBS campus. But a little aggression wasn’t enough to run afoul of state law that protects wild creatures from relocation just to soothe jangled human nerves. Alas, perhaps the celebrity status Turk... View Details
- 17 Mar 2011
- News
Make or Break for the USA?
Germany, despite having the highest labor costs in the world, also enjoys the world’s largest export surplus, at 7 percent of GDP. The United States, by contrast, ranks lowest among the world’s largest manufacturing nations in “export... View Details
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Andrew Kletzing
for general management — for making decisions and owning the consequences." In addition, Andrew participated in the Korea-United States Friendship Council, a joint group of Army officers and South Korean businessmen who, Andrew says,... View Details
- 03 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Lehman Brothers Plus Five: Have We Learned from Our Mistakes?
percent—the lowest in over 30 years. Home prices are perking up, and the number of home mortgages with negative equity is down. Balance sheets have recovered to their 2007 highs. While the United States... View Details
- 02 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Dubious Logic of Global Megamergers
Think of Maytag and Lloyd's Bank; both companies have prospered by focusing on their home markets of the United States and Great Britain, respectively. Telefónica de España, a midsize telecommunications... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat & Fariborz Ghadar
- 21 Mar 2019
- News
Helping Veterans Build Careers
designated more than $28 million to high-performing, nonprofit grantee partners across the United States and the United Kingdom, helping to place more than 50,000 vets in... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
What You Know Depends on Where You Go
existing emerging market firms like Jollibee, a Filipino fast-food chain that has entered the United States successfully in California. “This is the point of international trade and globalization — that it... View Details