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- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Deep Dive
ship to launch and recover the submersible. He found a decommissioned US Navy ship laid up in a river in Washington State. The USNS Indomitable was originally built to hunt Soviet submarines at the end of... View Details
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Contemporary Black Artists and Public Art | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Europe, and their respective economic and political histories. In 2004, he was nominated for the Turner Prize and in 2010, his first public art commission, Nelson’s Ship in a Bottle , was displayed on the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Q&A: Orin Smith
A native of rural Chehalis, Washington, Orin C. Smith (MBA '67) was an EVP for Danzas, an international freight shipping company, when Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz approached him in 1990 to join the fledgling company. Schultz, Smith... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
One-on-One with Peter Cuneo
to make the changes that are needed. I don’t have the same fears about making those changes that most people do. It may come from my experience as a Navy officer on a ship during the Vietnam War. Once you come through a war, your... View Details
- 31 Jan 2019
- News
A Global Mission
currently focused on recruiting students from Syria and northern Iraq. Elsewhere, DeFehr has developed an idea for an overland shipping route in southern Mexico to rival the Panama Canal. Business opportunities in that part of the world,... View Details
- 27 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Coffee Economy That Bloomed Out of Nowhere
set out to surmount the Soconusco's geographical isolation. He sent surveyors to assess the region, he negotiated the approval of an international port, and he arranged for an international shipping company to stop there once a month.... View Details
- 30 Jun 2008
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking Retirement Planning
risks of changing life expectancy, inflation, and interest rates. Course Corrections Merton uses the analogy of an ocean liner sailing from England to New York. When just out of port, there are many unforeseen things to correct for along the way so a precise course is... View Details
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Timeline - Race, Gender & Equity
Data: The Ever-Expanding Frontier Timeline 1607 Jamestown A Short History of Jamestown Jamestown Colony 1619 Enslaved Africans brought to Point Comfort, Virginia The 1619 Landing — Report & FAQs First African Slave Ship Arrives at... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
One-on-One with Tom Oreck
shipping month in our history. In New Orleans, a big issue for us is recruiting. It’s very difficult right now to recruit white-collar talent to New Orleans. That may change, but for now that’s an issue. In the aftermath of Katrina, have... View Details
- 09 Aug 2013
- Research & Ideas
Read All About It: Digital CEO Buys Traditional Media!
third-party retail sales might cannibalize some of Amazon's own revenues in certain product categories. Then Amazon went a step further with its Prime membership announcement, offering participants free shipping for all transactions for... View Details
- 06 May 2002
- Research & Ideas
A Toolkit for Customer Innovation
development project at BBA might progress in the following way: A customer requests a meaty flavor for a soy product, and the sample must be delivered within a week. BBA marketing professionals and flavorists jump into action, and the sample is View Details
Keywords: by Stefan Thomke & Eric Von Hippel
- 12 Sep 2019
- News
Skydeck Voices: Finding My Muse
think about can I create some kind of quirky farm-to-table, like, shipping containers and restaurant incubator and something that's really unusual and very different there and so those areas of conflict help me start seeing, “Well there's... View Details
- 07 Jan 2008
- Research & Ideas
Pursuing a Deadly Opportunity
market for human eggs, sperm, and various infertility treatments, is another example, he adds. Anatomy Of A Study Anteby and Hyman compared 80 voluntary donations and 120 specimen shipping invoices from a pair of Maryland-based... View Details
- 16 Jul 2024
- Blog Post
Driving Positive Impact on Community and Climate with Ben Schutzman (MBA 2016)
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 cities. I had... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
New Horizons for Iraq
supplies, and services required for the ship’s ten-month deployment, the longest for any Navy vessel since the Vietnam War. On May 1, 2003, when President Bush visited the ship and declared an end to major hostilities in Iraq, Fabry... View Details
- 03 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 3
this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/815070-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 715-432 Group Functions at the Maersk Group In 2014, seven years after he was appointed CEO of the Danish shipping and oil conglomerate A.P.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
The FDA: What Will the Next 100 Years Bring?
stars. Announced actions against an Iowa dairy after illegal drug residues were found in the dairy's cows; a Tennessee company for selling a substance billed as both a preventative against skin cancer and a tanning agent; and a medical device firm suspected of View Details
- 21 May 2007
- Research & Ideas
Fixing the Marketing-CEO Disconnect
competitors' scores are increasing faster it should be a cause for alarm. Acquisition rates may be robust, but if old customers are abandoning ship as fast as new ones are coming on board, strong acquisition can give a deceptive picture... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
Lessons from the Browser Wars
on every PC shipped in the late 1990s? Researchers line up on both sides of the argument. A recent working paper by Harvard Business School professor Pai-Ling Yin and Stanford professor Timothy F. Bresnahan offers an answer. Looking at... View Details
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
shipping containers—necessitates a white cap and a lab coat. The units feature a double-door protocol that requires the exterior door to be closed before a second internal door can be opened. In the far corner of the building, a... View Details