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12 Jul 2021
News

Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis

production, donating $100,00 to the Frontline Responders Fund, and assembling and disseminating care packages for health care workers. "It has been an unprecedented time at FIGS. We are shipping scrubs 24/7 to ensure the health care... 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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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

01 Dec 2005
News

Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper

the emphasis has shifted from collection to analysis,” he explains. “And that’s a sea change. It allows a small firm like ours to compete equally from an information standpoint with a giant cargo ship of an organization. That’s a... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Real Estate

01 Dec 2004
News

Retirement's Changing Face

caused by hidden munitions on board, may have been the reason why the passenger ship sank in a deadly eighteen minutes, causing 1,198 deaths. As odd as it may sound, he also happens to hold title to the wreck, having purchased it for $1... View Details

Keywords: Personal Services

01 Dec 2010
News

This Is What I Do

luxury cruise ship designed especially for the South Pacific. Bailey, whose wife, Mireille, is Polynesian, has lived in Tahiti since 1985. “The breathtaking natural beauty of these islands and the astonishing authenticity of the local... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; time travel; Health, Social Assistance; Accommodation; Hospitality; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Apparel Manufacturing; Manufacturing

11 Dec 2012
First Look

First Look: Dec. 11

Whaling Ventures Nicholas, Tom, and Jonas Peter AkinsHarvard Business School Case 813-086 : Whaling was a prominent global industry in the nineteenth century and the United States was dominant. By 1850 there were about 900 whaling ships... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

24 Sep 2020
News

The Race for a Vaccine

a computer model of a potential mRNA-based vaccine. Twenty-five days after that, it produced the first dose of a treatment it hoped would protect against a disease that did not yet have a name. On February 24, after 17 days of analysis and sterility testing, Moderna... View Details

Keywords: April White; COVID-19; Scientific Research and Development Services

03 Sep 2018
News

Moving Pictures

leading and overseeing a group of creatives. You have to be brave and flexible enough to allow them to bring what they’re able to bring, while also keeping the ship on course. Knowing where to step in and where to let go is very... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Christina Gandolfo; Arts, Entertainment

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By: Geoffrey G. Jones

I currently teach the history of global entrepreneurship over the last 200 years. The 28-session course called Entrepreneurship and Global Capitalism has become one of the most popular second year electives in the MBA program at the Harvard Business School. The cases,... View Details

07 Nov 2017
First Look

New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017

Tianjin, China, factory, which can produce below the cost target but will incur extensive shipping costs and require a far greater amount of inventory holding. This case examines a core question facing managers who want to produce... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Sep 2022
News

Your Family, Your Work, Your Way

items that you circle that you think, hmm. I could have won myself back 30 minutes here or 30 minutes there. And more importantly as you go, you’ll see some themes. Maybe you tend to be a little bit of a perfectionist. You’re always kind of hovering on projects before... View Details

29 Apr 2020
Book

The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages

Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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