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- 01 Jun 2013
- News
It's Show Time, Folks
For the School's newest alumni, Commencement marks the culmination of hours of hard work and the promise of new beginnings. For staff working behind the scenes to welcome thousands of visitors from all over the world, it's a logistical... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Putting the Game Within Reach
experience with the app. Or you can have a single-screen experience on a touchpad.” All the teams’ games will be played in a Las Vegas production studio with stands and a 50-yard arena field, eliminating numerous startup costs—from travel View Details
- 01 Apr 2020
- News
What My Time in Vietnam Taught Me About Dealing with Shortages
Paul Ignatius (MBA 1947) Paul Ignatius (MBA 1947) Paul Ignatius (MBA 1947) was a government official in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations. He served as assistant secretary of defense for installations and logistics and, from 1967 to... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Marketable Skill
mix of vendors, smoothed neighborhood relations, and hired logistical help on weekends. Greenflea will contribute nearly $500,000 this year to fund educational enrichment programs, and Gehrke says she could expand the operation to include... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 22 Sep 2016
- News
The Competitiveness of Lost Causes
directly to dealers in Seattle and mangoes to buyers in Europe.” Lack of infrastructure is a major challenge, notes Duch. “We’re helping them to establish logistics platforms, sales forces, and phone-based payment services, using power... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Shop Talk, Different Avenues
The challenge we’ll have to address is how to set up logistics so that we can service a luxury shopping experience in any location without losing that sense of excitement that comes with having what you ordered arrive quickly. MT:... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
The Road Taken: One Family's Worldly Adventure
simple advice for interested peers. With a little effort, he says, it was possible to extricate himself gradually from direct responsibility on projects at work. Simon explains that it's a matter of logistics — of planning ahead. "If you... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Delivering the Goods
expectations with promises of same-day delivery, the logistics industry is looking to completely new models, like crowdsourcing, autonomous technology, and on-demand delivery. Robert Reisner (MBA 1971), who led the Postal Service’s... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 03 Oct 2017
- News
Can Bezos’s Ties to Boston—and HBS—Seal the Deal?
separate from Amazon’s logistics operations and distribution centers in the state. Those early HBS visits, the article notes, were to drop in at a class taught by current Senior Lecturer Jeffrey Rayport, who wrote an early case study on... View Details
Keywords: Retail Trade
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Batteries Included
person, on the senior leadership team. No one had stepped back and asked, How would you make this work? What would it take?” Enter Henderson and Carter and the Leviathan. Henderson says he figured out the logistics of battery-swapping by... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Alumni Take Action to Improve US Competitiveness
alumni club to demonstrate the nuts-and-bolts logistics of accomplishing major competitiveness goals in order to inspire other clubs across the country. “This isn’t just an intellectual exercise,” Raman says. “We want people to see how... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Creating the Shopping Experience of the Future
product developer and marketer, and self-proclaimed “child of curiosity”—has to sell Glass itself to a public that still seems uncertain about both its logistics and its usefulness. Google Glass has the lofty goal of “enhancing humanity... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
An Eye to the East
as a base of operations for work in the twelve countries in the region. Yeh and her small staff are set up to provide a significant part of the intellectual and logistical support needed by visiting HBS scholars. Yet View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 03 Oct 2020
- News
Managing Stakeholder Trust During Supply Chain Disruptions
- 25 Jul 2024
- News
Mentorship Program in Singapore is Still Lighting the Way to Success
Clubs News Clubs News It’s been a decade since the HBS Club of Singapore (HBSCS) launched its signature Mentorship Program, aimed at helping local university and trade school students to prepare for life after graduation, both personally and professionally. The program... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 15 Feb 2022
- News
Charlotte Club Hosts Webinar to Mark 100 Years of the Case Method
excitement for what the next 100 years of the case may hold for HBS. Vera says the club is planning to repeat the event for alumni clubs overseas to accommodate various time zones. The technical logistics for the event were handled by the... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Nov 2018
- News
The Power of Civility
lot about logistics and moving dignitaries around. And that grew into a private sector company that I launched that took it to the next step. Not only did I handle dignitaries, but I also trained other people how to do that work. What I... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Fast Casual
electrical engineering, who designs the procedures and logistics that ensure smooth, efficient operations. Of PRG and its husband-wife leadership team, Peggy said, “We had to standardize everything from recipes to kitchens.... I think... View Details
- 04 Nov 2016
- News
The Competitiveness of Lost Causes
international markets, they’re developing ambitious plans for their producers.” Lack of infrastructure makes follow-through on those plans challenging in Haiti, the third-poorest country in the world and the site of a catastrophic earthquake in 2010. “We’re helping... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Nagisa Manabe (MBA 1991)
you’re the head of marketing for a logistics company. My parents emigrated here from Japan. There were very few Japanese restaurants in Washington, D.C. when I was growing up, so my grandmother would pack sea-mail packages to us every... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna