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01 Mar 2017
News

A Healthy Profit

crew is offered medical checkups, and more than 90 percent of employees participate in yearly health fairs that provide free screenings and educational resources. ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH “All of their cruise ships have an internal water... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

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Influence of the China Trade and the Heard Legacy - A Chronicle of the China Trade

records Augustine Heard & Co. preserved for posterity. The company kept shipping receipts, custom documents, export lists, telegrams, insurance vouchers, accounting books, ship designs, factory plans, and... View Details

10 Jun 2022
Blog Post

New Venture Competition 2022: Business and Environment Ventures

Vacuum is commercializing technology developed at Harvard that mimics the ocean's natural process of absorbing C02 using renewable electricity. Click Here to Watch Alumni Track Winner: FleetZeroSteven Henderson, MBA 2016Fleetzero is building a fleet of electric View Details

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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

05 Oct 2010
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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

December 2013 (Revised July 2015)
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VP Group: Vegpro Grows Beyond Kenya

By: Jose Alvarez and Natalie Kindred

In 2013, Kenyan horticulture producer and exporter VP Group is weighing potential expansion opportunities against the growing risks in its production and export markets. With $121 million in 2012 revenues, VP Group has grown rapidly in recent years by expanding its... View Details

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01 Dec 2018
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INK: The Bookshelf

of this book is that the volatility through the messy middle of any project is about achieving a positive slope. Your job is to manage the lows and maintain a focus on optimizing the highs.” CLASSIC Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing “There’s a... View Details

01 Apr 1998
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Booting Up

presenting informative photo displays of the latest large-size footwear, the Web site (www.designershoes.com) offers a special service to locate and ship hard-to-find items. "We get e-mails from people searching, say, for size 13AAA boots... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

25 Aug 2022
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Clean Slate

says. To get there, Massport is reducing the carbons tied to the operation of its airports, container ship and cruise terminals, and all related equipment and vehicles. Logan’s central heating system represents the biggest opportunity:... View Details

01 Feb 2002
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Thumbs Up Down Under

thoughts returned to beating the record of 69 days, 14 hours for the New York-Melbourne trip, set in 1855-56 by the clipper ship Mandarin, which was carrying American prospectors to the Australian Gold Rush. The entire effort was also an... View Details

Keywords: Water Transportation; Transportation

13 May 2013
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"I never thought I would be a business person until…”

financing project. However, during my 2.5 years of work, I witnessed the whole shipping and shipbuilding industries suffer through one of the lowest downturns in the industry. This led me to acknowledge the dire need for in-time financing... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing

11 Apr 2017
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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
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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

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; National Security and International Affairs; Government

01 Oct 2002
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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

October 2002 (Revised December 2003)
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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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31 Mar 2011
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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

Keywords: Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Retail Trade

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
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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

28 Nov 2016
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Why We Recruit: Wayfair

rocket ship with constant new challenges and opportunities to make an impact as our business scales. We’re data-driven and transparent, and we move quickly to empower smart people to take ownership to drive action. There really is no cap... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail

01 Sep 2014
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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

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