Shipping and Logistics - Publications - Faculty & Research

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

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

Keywords: Alejandro Reyes; Transportation

August 1983 (Revised June 1984)
Case

Rise of the New York Port

By: Richard S. Tedlow

Keywords: Business History; Urban Development; Shipping Industry; New York (city, NY)

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24 Apr 2014
News

Saving lives through new vaccine technology

negligible, the problem is that shipping vaccines requires expensive cold storage and distribution. The solution that Vaxess provides is a room-temperature-storage technology using silk proteins, which... View Details

August 2011 (Revised August 2012)
Case

JetBlue Airways: Deicing at Logan Airport

By: Douglas Fearing and Robert S. Huckman

The case explores a deicing capacity expansion decision made by JetBlue at Boston Logan International Airport in the summer of 2010. The need for capacity expansion was driven by significant challenges faced during the previous winter combined with substantial... View Details

Keywords: Operational Disruptions; Strategic Planning; Disruption; Cost vs Benefits; Air Transportation; Service Operations; Logistics; Operations; Air Transportation Industry; Boston

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14 Jul 2021
News

The First Five Years: Nicolas Manes (MBA 2020)

from small- and medium-sized farms and ship it to our warehouses, where we prepare the orders. After the order is prepared, we ship the orders... View Details

Oscar Gottfried Mayer

During his presidency, Mayer sought ways to improve operating efficiency through techniques of industrial engineering. He introduced cardboard cartons for sausages and vacuum-sealed, twin packs for hot dogs, which were then advances in... View Details

Keywords: Food & Tobacco

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 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 View Details

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IFC: Silicon Valley; Disrupting Silicon Valley with AI - Course Catalog

of this course. HBS will provide logistical support for the immersion (including accommodations, select meals, and local travel arrangements). Students will be charged a course fee towards defraying a... View Details

01 Apr 1996
News

"Foundations" Paves the Way for Entering MBAs

- virtually an HBS case study itself in logistics management. According to one planner, Foundations core design team member Stever Robbins (MBA '91), coordinating 253 individual schedules and the needs of... View Details

26 Jul 2006
Research & Ideas

The Strategic Way to Go to Market

could not be economically reached before. Customers need more than just information. They need the logistics to get the physical product, and they pay a considerable cost too, such as, for example, waiting... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

Walter H. Annenberg

Annenberg built a fledgling, debt-burdened newspaper business into a publishing empire. He introduced Seventeen in 1944 – sparking a new trend in targeted publications to America’s youth. In 1953, he overcame numerous logistical... View Details

Keywords: Publishing & Print Media

09 Jan 2006
Research & Ideas

Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate

Students of recent United States real estate history can't help but notice unsettling parallels between the red-hot commercial market of the late 1980s and today. Then, as now, money gushed into the market, driving office View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Construction; Real Estate

28 Apr 2020
Blog Post

A Crash Course in Saving a Family Business

(“coffee sommelier”) with her mother, cupping coffees to discern the tasting notes and quality that help them assign grades to the beans. The green coffee beans they select are shipped to Queens where, Han... View Details

11 Mar 2008
First Look

First Look: March 11, 2008

South Dakota Wheat Growers (SDWG) serves the needs of its 3,600 active farmer-members by supplying farm inputs and organizing the marketing and transportation of grain produced in the co-op's service... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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... View Details

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

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... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

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