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- 04 Sep 2013
- News
From HBO to HBS
affiliate in Hawaii couldn't pick it up," he recalls. "We shipped them tapes of the programming. "Fast-forward to today, HBO has multiple networks with over 100 million subscribers worldwide, only 40 million of whom are in the United... View Details
- 05 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Wall Street Doesn’t Understand About International Trade
which collects and parses shipping information from US Customs and Border Protection. "From there we simply tested: If you have a lot of one country's ethnic makeup around you,... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
Daniel K. Ludwig
Ludwig created the largest shipping company in the United States (the world’s third largest) and one of the world’s biggest private multinational corporations. His operations spanned 23 countries, employed... View Details
Keywords: Transportation
- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
putt and the remaining distance to the pin conditioned on missing. The first is modeled through a logistic regression, the second through a gamma regression. Both models fit the data well View Details
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CORe Final Exam Preparation | HBS Online
Exam Logistics The CORe final exam is a three-hour, multiple-choice, closed book assessment created by HBS faculty and delivered via the HBS Online course platform. The exam is offered to participants after... View Details
- Profile
Dan Lennox-Choate
glorious light. "I went in blind," Daniel says, about his transition from platoon leadership in Afghanistan, to becoming the executive officer of a headquarters company responsible for logistics View Details
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IFC: India; Development While Decarbonizing - India’s Path to Net Zero - Course Catalog
Students will receive 3 credits upon successful completion of this course. HBS will provide logistical support for the immersion (including accommodations, select meals, and local travel arrangements).... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Mining precious metals through e-waste recycling
hazardous. Discarded electronics are usually shipped to China, Africa, and India, where workers—frequently children with no safety equipment—tear the electronics apart, exposing themselves to lethal doses of... View Details
- 13 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Grolsch Brewing Company: Drink Sustainably
recyclable cardboard “TopClip” to replace the conventional glue and plastic approach to hold a six-pack together. We learned that this innovation has resulted in significant savings in methane emissions. Grolsch is also investigating... View Details
- Profile
Nabihah Sachedina
rebounds and readmissions. Patients experienced unnecessarily long stays and treatment delays.” Driven to find a better way, Nabihah left clinical practice to spend a year with the World Health Organization... View Details
Edgar F. Luckenbach, Jr.
During his tenure, Luckenbach reorganized the company by withdrawing ships from the unprofitable intercoastal trade and re-deploying them on the international charter market. At the same time, he broadened... View Details
Keywords: Transportation
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Faculty Q&A: The Cup Runneth Over
and so forth. The ever-intensifying social media buzz around the Cup can heighten interest and exposure, but it also can create a lot of distracting "noise" that marketers can't control. What's in it for... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
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Erling Lorentzen | Baker Library
to HBS as a student. After graduating he joined the family business in Norway, but decided to strike out on his own to Brazil, where his family had shipping lines. Soon he saw an opportunity for a new business. His idea was to create... View Details
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Juliane Schwetz
Logistics Corps officer. “At my level,” Juliane explains, “it was about getting all the soldiers I led the resources they needed to do their jobs as easily and efficiently as possible.” While getting an MBA... View Details
- 16 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 16, 2016
process within apps with a single touch and without needing to repeatedly enter credit card information, the billing address, or shipping address. On October 20, 2014, U.S. consumers could start using Apple... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
Clifford D. Mallory
Mallory built one of the largest and most successful independent American shipping firms. Originally specializing in the operation of government-owned tonnage from American ports to the Mediterranean,... View Details
Keywords: Transportation
- 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... View Details
Keywords: Retail Trade
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
The Eyes Have It: Business Plan Winners Pursue Global Vision
hadn't really thought about this problem until he visited Peru and noticed that hardly anybody there wore glasses. Back at HBS, in Associate Professor Stefan Thomke's elective course Managing Product Development, Houghton started... View Details
Keywords: eyeglasses
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Lessons in Leadership
to be able to discern both of these aspects of people and of organizations. One thing Shackleton did very well was to revise, and reset, his objectives as the context changed. As soon as his View Details
Keywords: Antarctica
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Complete Package
Courtesy Susan Chong The typical wooden shipping pallet, constructed of mixed hardwood, ccan weigh 50 pounds, Susan Chong (OPM 48, 2016) explains. But a pallet made of pine weighs half that, and for... View Details
Keywords: April White; entrepreneurship; sustainability; packaging; leadership; women; Manufacturing