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February 2014 (Revised December 2015)
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Mara Group (B)

Mara Group is a rapidly growing Pan-African conglomerate run by its entrepreneurial CEO Ashish Thakkar. The case explores Thakkar's decision on which African markets to expand operations into. View Details

Keywords: Telecommunications Manufacturing; Business Ventures; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Shipping Industry; Shipping Industry; Shipping Industry; Shipping Industry; Africa

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18 Jun 2024
Blog Post

Alumni Career Journey: Ben Schutzman (MBA 2016) - Driving Positive Impact on Community and Climate

climate. I had done some shipping and logistics work during my career, and had also liked the tangible aspects of working in a manufacturing facility. In the back of my mind, I was always curious about the physical infrastructure of... View Details

01 Oct 1999
News

The Class of 1974: Timed for a Change

how it all happened. I have been a traveler and a student of a world that has become more complex and more diverse." Jack of Many Trades Since graduating from Harvard College in 1963, Chuck Mercer has worked as a textbook editor, encyclopedia salesman, View Details

Keywords: Charles B. ("Chuck") Mercer

01 Jan 2002
News

Marjorie M.T. Yang (MBA '76)

we could send machinery to the Chinese factories we managed. In return, we received shipments of apparel that we then sold to discount retailers in the United States." With an initial focus on high quantity and low prices, Esquel was just part of the pack of Asian... View Details

01 Mar 2011
News

Making Their Way

but these are also good times to be shipping physical cargo the way it was done when America first began to industrialize. Indeed, says Ward, it’s back to the future: The country is in the midst of a “rail renaissance.” One heartening... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Rail Transportation; Transportation

28 Oct 2019
Research & Ideas

Brick-and-Mortar Stores Are Making a Comeback

"Clicks and Mortar." [Image: iStock] Related Reading How to Use Free Shipping as a Competitive Weapon Should Retailers Match Their Own Prices Online and in Stores? Research Paper Where Should We Build a Mall? The Formation of... View Details

Keywords: by Jen McFarland Flint; Retail

23 Jan 2020
Research & Ideas

Businesses Need a 'Catalyst' to Make CSR Practices Stick

to ship it from overseas. And through the magic of capitalism, once you set it up, it’s self-sustaining.” Beyond that one community, the grain aggregator was able to upgrade its infrastructure, allowing other communities to improve as... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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Launching leaders: HBS's new initiative fuels first-generation and low-income student success - Recruiting

capital to navigate an environment and institution like HBS,” Bedford explained. “Low-income and first-gen students should be able to participate fully. We want to ensure that they can be the rocket ships for social mobility and potential... View Details

11 Dec 2018
Research & Ideas

Free Trade Needs Nurturing—and Other Lessons from History

Question: What patterns emerge from history that can help us better understand where we are today? Sophus Reinert: To many people, globalization is teleological, something that necessarily becomes stronger over time and leads to an ever-more economically interconnected... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Shipping; Shipping; Shipping; Shipping; Shipping; Shipping; Shipping; Shipping; Shipping; Shipping

May 2018
Teaching Note

Mubadala and EBX: To X or to X It?

By: Nori Gerardo Lietz and Sayiddah Fatima McCree

On April 3, 2013, Hani Barhoush and Oscar Fahlgren of Mubadala Capital (“Mubadala”) considered how to salvage Mubadala’s $2 billion preferred equity investment of a 5.63% stake in the EBX Group. At the time, EBX was the holding company of a myriad of subsidiaries and... View Details

Keywords: Bankruptcy; Cross Border; Negotiations; UAE; Oil And Gas; Finance; Strategy; Negotiation; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Private Equity; Restructuring; Shipping Industry; Shipping Industry; Shipping Industry; Shipping Industry; Shipping Industry; Brazil; Middle East

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28 May 2014
Research & Ideas

Building Histories of Emerging Economies One Interview at a Time

Professor Geoffrey Jones, faculty chair of the Business History Initiative, and Chilean shipping entrepreneur Sven von Appen (HBS AMP 76). "I was talking to Sven about the role of history at HBS," Jones says, adding that von Appen... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Rapid Response: Inside the Retailing Revolution

change in motion," explains Hammond, "by pulling suppliers closer to him, insisting that they implement the information technology necessary for exchanging sales data, adopt standards for product and shipping container labeling, and use... View Details

Keywords: by James E. Aisner; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion; Consumer Products; Manufacturing; Retail

21 Mar 2023
Blog Post

Grundfos: Innovation & Inspiration for Sustainable Product Design

Journey to Decarbonize Shipping Circularity in Denmark BTG Bioliquids: Creating Fast Pyrolysis Bio-Oil from Biomass Residue Streams Grolsch Brewing Company: Drink Sustainably Van den Ende Rozen: Greenhouse Rose Production Koppert Cress:... View Details

27 Jan 2003
Research & Ideas

New Cluster Mapping Project Helps Companies Locate Facilities

sites, transfer new product lines, update technologies, etc. Another cost of outsourcing is the cost of inventory. A part might be manufactured cheaply in Mexico, but shipping the part involves inventory, not to mention delays and risks.... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

09 May 2000
Research & Ideas

Stock Options Are Not All Created Equal

much comparable executives are paid and in what form. By adjusting an executive's pay package every year to keep it in line with the other executives' pay, companies hope to minimize what the consultants call "retention risk"—the possibility that executives... View Details

Keywords: by Brian Hall

06 Jun 2023
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Van den Ende Rozen: Greenhouse Rose Production

Incineration Maersk’s Journey to Decarbonize Shipping Circularity in Denmark BTG Bioliquids: Creating Fast Pyrolysis Bio-Oil from Biomass Residue Streams Grolsch Brewing Company: Drink Sustainably Van den Ende Rozen: Greenhouse Rose... View Details

22 Dec 2009
First Look

First Look: Dec. 22

http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/510055-PDF-ENG Stolt-Nielsen Transportation Group Lynn S. Paine and Lara AdamsonsHarvard Business School Case 310-043 Richard Wingfield considers whether to continue a cooperative agreement with industry peers in the deep-sea... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

21 Jul 2003
Research & Ideas

Don’t Get Buried in Customer Data—Use It

launches an initiative to solve this problem and identifies the number of spare power supply parts it sends out weekly as the measure it will use to track the progress. The transactional measure—the number of spare parts shipped... View Details

Keywords: by Jean Ayers

20 Nov 2007
First Look

First Look: November 20, 2007

low-cost PC options had emerged and OLPC had not started shipping yet, leading some observers to wonder if the non-profit should reconsider its strategy and options. Purchase this case:... View Details