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- 01 Dec 2013
- News
A Safer, Smarter Future for Tech Trash
e-waste accounts for only 2 percent of the trash in American landfills, it is responsible for 70 percent of toxic waste and is the fastest-growing municipal waste stream in the United States. Currently, most e-recycling is done in a very... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Summing Up the New Students
been an investment banker for seven years, which was so intimidating.” Anja Anliker Brooklyn Park, Minnesota CV: Logistics officer, US Navy, San Diego (active duty) “I drove over 5,000 miles this summer. From San Diego, I detoured north... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
John T. Dorrance
In 1899, Dorrance invented the process for making condensed soup, reducing canning and shipping costs by two-thirds. As a result of Dorrance’s invention, Campbell Soup became the first soup company to... View Details
Keywords: Food & Tobacco
- 13 Feb 2020
- Blog Post
Know Your Audience – Recruiting HBS Students for Manufacturing
Club and Transportation, Infrastructure & Logistics Club to amplify your message through club newsletters. These club resume databases are also highly valuable tools for your recruiting team.... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
logistical coordination with city officials on issues such as parking and access to Dallas’s light rail system. Responding to constant demands for information and decisions can... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Q&A - Mark Fields
Japan’s fifth-largest automaker and employer of more than 38,000 people, Fields was named 2001 Asian Business Innovator of the Year (by CNBC Asia Pacific and TNT, a business View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?
panels. Instead, the panels would need to come from Asia — a considerable challenge for an eighty-employee company based in suburban Boston. Sharpe’s response was equally direct. ET partnered with a company based in Singapore and View Details
- 08 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 8, 2015
the former explanation: that the likelihood of Amazon's entry is positively correlated with the popularity and customer ratings of third-party sellers' products. We also find that Amazon's entry reduces the View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 09 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Matchmaker of the Modern Economy
Boston has always been fueled by an Enlightenment belief in scientific progress and human perfectibility. It is home to America's first public school, Boston Latin School (1635), and college, Harvard College... View Details
Keywords: by Spencer E. Ante
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Jerry Shafir: A Simmering Success Story
vegetables and to package, chill, and ship the finished product, there is constant motion in Kettle Cuisine's cramped but immaculate Somerville, Massachusetts, kitchen. The... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 21 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 21
with concerns about fashion misses, logistics failures, the departure of senior managers, and increased foreign competition. New fast-fashion competition in the form of Inditex, H&M, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Learning from Global Immersion Experiences
When ‘Business As Usual’ Is Anything But HBS students conduct field research at an optical store in Istanbul. “The logistical challenges are enormous. Everyone involved in FIELD is deeply invested in anticipating View Details
- 2008
- Case
Cycleon (A): Postal Networks for Reverse Logistics.
By: David F. Drake, Atalay Atasu and Luk N. Van Wassenhove
- 11 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
The Paradoxical Quest to Make Food Look 'Natural' With Artificial Dyes
million boxes of fresh oranges shipped out of state were colored with synthetic dyes.” By the 1930s, synthetic food dyes were used routinely in sausages, pastas, candies, ice cream, and a host of other... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 23 Sep 2019
- Blog Post
Distressed Employees? Try Resilience Training
fearing their careers could be negatively impacted. Plus, tech tools allow users to log in on their smartphones, laptops, or tablets at whatever time is convenient for them and for however long they want. “It’s a big commitment to take... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
In My Humble Opinion: A Timely Tension
as a ship engineer. In time, she moved into business to, as she puts it, “understand how the world worked,” even as her passion for the environment continued. After two decades in the for-profit sector, including consulting work View Details
Keywords: April White
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Paul Baier | Baker Library
and his partner bootstrapped for ten months but were unable to get funding. So they closed their doors and Paul joined AOL and then Open Market, where he saw an opportunity to... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Khoo Teng Chye: Technology Turnaround in Singapore
about fifty thousand a day — the island nation of Singapore is the biggest container port and transshipment hub in the world. “We can turn ships around faster than anybody else,” boasts Khoo, a civil... View Details
- 08 May 2015
- News
Continuing a family legacy
After gaining experience in a variety of industries, Angela A. Chao (AB 1995, MBA 2001) joined the family shipping business, where she is growing the business in new ways. (Published May 2015) View Details
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Recruiting Platform - Recruiting
Hire Talent Recruiting Platform Hire Talent Recruiting Platform 12twenty Recruiting Platform HBS’s recruiting platform 12twenty encourages the connection and communication between recruiters and HBS students... View Details