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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
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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

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Retail Trade

26 Feb 2008
First Look

First Look: February 26, 2008

Kaiser mastered the management and execution of plans for several large-scale projects that contributed to the growth and improvement of contemporary America, including the Hoover Dam, one of the wonders of the modern world. During World War II, when the United States... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Sep 2024
News

The Exchange: Lessons from the Edge

Image by John Ritter Professors Geoff Jones and Tarun Khanna had been toiling away from their respective HBS offices for many years, each of them interested in emerging markets but expressed through different disciplines: Jones, a historian, was studying how the world... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

01 Jun 2020
News

Unleashed

FedEx for shipping some of their products, driving up demand from three packages a day to thirty. It was enough to save the company. FedEx’s strategy in these early years was simple: deliver time-sensitive packages with speed and... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

19 Sep 2012
News

On a Sound Track

of our manufacturing happens in China, so the basic manufacturing piece—assembling millions of parts at just the right time, building high-quality widgets, selecting the right colors, and so on—that’s one challenge. Then the product has to be View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; audio equipment; fashion; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

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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

Keywords: Hanna, Julia; Hospitality; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade

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

Keywords: Julia Hanna; comic books; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

28 May 2012
Research & Ideas

A Pragmatic Alternative for Creating a Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy

shipping systems, and felt driven by a moral obligation to remake every facet of the company's ecosystem. The initiative drastically changed how Interface manufactured, distributed, and sold its carpet--including the production of carpet... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

16 Nov 2017
News

The Business of Social Justice

communication, networking, and policy advocacy. As COO, Brooks is the steadying force who keeps the ship on course, by overseeing strategic planning, operations, and finances, as well as evaluating programs to determine what is working... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

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

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Biotechnology; Consumer Products; Food & Beverage; Health

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

Keywords: by Sara Grant; Computer; Consumer Products; Technology

18 Sep 2013
Research & Ideas

Excerpt: Manufacturing Morals

impression of quietude is partly due to the fact that all shipping and receiving takes place at a centralized location on the periphery of campus. From that location, all incoming and outgoing goods (including food and trash) are... View Details

Keywords: Education

16 May 2012
Research & Ideas

Can Decades of Military Overspending be Fixed?

these programs often have years of combat arms training and experience (for example, as pilots, ship captains, armor commanders). For decades, many have observed that government program managers and their staffs are intelligent and... View Details

Keywords: by J. Ronald Fox; Service

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

Keywords: by Jim Aisner; Journalism & News; Publishing

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

March 2020
Article

Synergistic Value in Vertically Integrated Power-to-Gas Energy Systems

By: Gunther Glenk and Stefan Reichelstein

In vertically integrated energy systems, integration frequently entails operational gains that must be traded off against the requisite cost of capacity investments. In the context of the model analyzed in this study, the operational gains are subject to inherent... View Details

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