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  • 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
  • 10 Mar 2021
  • Blog Post

COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace

school or airplane or cruise ship is “healthy.” Based on research in Healthy Buildings (my recent book with Professor Joseph Allen of the Harvard School of Public Health), we expect landlords, cruise operators, universities, View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • 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
  • June 2022
  • Case

Worten Portugal: Becoming a Digital Marketplace

By: Antonio Moreno, Pedro Amorim and Tonia Labruyere
With Amazon's entry into Portugal, Miguel Mota Freitas, CEO of Portuguese electronics chain Worten, is reflecting on their strategy of building a competitive marketplace. View Details
Keywords: Digital Transformation; Digital Strategy; Digital Platforms; Brands and Branding; E-commerce; Logistics; Service Delivery; Supply Chain; Competitive Strategy; Diversification; Consumer Products Industry; Electronics Industry; Retail Industry; Portugal; Spain
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This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details

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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
  • 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
  • 01 Jun 2000
  • News

HBS Business Plan Contestants Pin Their Hopes on the Internet

The HBS entrepreneurial spirit was evident on May 1, when nearly nine hundred students and guests jammed into Burden Auditorium for the finals of the School's fourth annual Business Plan Contest. The winning entry, Bang Networks, provides... View Details
  • 12 Jan 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 12

http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/809009-PDF-ENG Red Tomato: Keeping It Local Jose Alvarez, Mary Shelman, and Laura WinigHarvard Business School Case 510-023 This case describes the operating model and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Profile

Kimball Thomas

In the third grade, Kimball Thomas sold chocolate-chip cookies door-to-door to save money for the bicycle he wanted. In college, his logistical and travel-arrangement skills were put to a higher test: as a... View Details
  • 14 Nov 2007
  • First Look

First Look: November 14, 2007

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=708428 Will RacingThePlanet Ltd. Reach the Finish Line? Harvard Business School Case 807-148 Mary Gadams, founder and CEO of RacingThePlanet is facing one of the many View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Apr 2024
  • Blog Post

IFC India: A Circular Journey Through JSW Cement - From Steel Slag to Stronger Shores

production, JSW Cement is incorporating green technology into their entire supply chain and production processes. In September 2023, they embarked on a pioneering initiative: piloting electric vehicles (EV trucks) in their View Details
  • 04 May 2017
  • News

Going the Distance

then bigger. Frey encourages would-be adventurers to think of themselves “as capable of much more than you currently envision” and to recognize that “real learning and personal growth come from stepping... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
  • Web

South Asia - Global Activities 2020

the mechanics of international commerce, including ocean container shipping and air cargo, as they relate to BRI development strategies. “ Hambantota was a reminder to think critically about the public... View Details
  • 30 Jun 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Rethinking Retirement Planning

risks of changing life expectancy, inflation, and interest rates. Course Corrections Merton uses the analogy of an ocean liner sailing from England to New York. When just out of port, there are many unforeseen things to correct for along... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Banking; Financial Services
  • 01 Sep 2020
  • News

Good Odds

Illustration by Chris Gash Last spring, as the number of air travelers plummeted, airlines and their meal suppliers were left holding the bag—an enormous snack bag filled with individually wrapped cookies, salted pretzels, View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; food industry; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing
  • Web

Manuscript Collections - A Chronicle of the China Trade

generations of the Heard Family of Ipswich, Massachusetts, constitute the most comprehensive and detailed collection held by Baker Library on the China trade. Engaged in the China trade principally from 1840 to 1877, Heard & Co. records... View Details
  • 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
  • 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 Mar 2014
  • News

Social Enterprise Initiative Marks 20th Anniversary

through class reunion and individual gifts are among a growing portfolio of offerings that further extend the SEI's impact. The MBA Class of 1973, for instance, supports activities ranging from summer fellow- View Details
Keywords: SEI