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- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Delivering the Goods
public-private partnership in the world. The core mission is universal service: going everywhere six days a week, and a seventh day for package delivery. Some people believe that only a public agency can be trusted to provide this kind of... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
A Random Sampling of HBS Graduates in the News
they prayed." HBS's answer to Leno and Letterman, Larry Klein (MBA '80), who fully intends to keep his day job as an investment advisor, has recently packaged that and some two hundred other jokes to help financial professionals add a... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
it resists bruising. For consumers, that means increased convenience—potatoes can be prepped in advance—and reduced food waste. The White Russet marketing campaign is unique, too. When the company introduced the potatoes into supermarkets last summer, the View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Case Study: Growing the Family Business
commitment from local employers whose staff would use our center. We would locate in the same building or very near a large employer to facilitate ease of use by their employees. The benefit to the employer was staff retention and recruiting. We would also solicit a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
our reaction to the human problems that this crisis causes.” Breton noted that many in France were angry about rescue packages for banks when ordinary people received no help and were losing their businesses. Summers acknowledged the... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
New Releases
chosen." In Down to Earth, Reinhardt draws on studies of companies in industries as diverse as energy and packaged consumer goods to illustrate approaches for reconciling shareholder value with environmental performance. One such company,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Do Good: Eat Chocolate
investing ahead of its growth, the company has become more focused on breaking even in the current economic climate. From the start, Endline knew that her approach to chocolate would be “colorful, whimsical, and playful.” The reusable, recyclable tins that serve as... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; candy; chocolate; Crop Production; Agriculture; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Going Public: Shari P. Hubert
afford." During Hubert's sophomore year at Dartmouth, her mother took a severance package from General Motors and accepted a job as a live-in nanny in upstate New York to cut down on her living expenses. "I was working more than twenty... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 03 Apr 2012
- News
Just Compensation
rather than inspirational leadership.” Of one CEO’s recent exit package ($26.4 million in stock, plus $100 million in cash), Ferracone, noting that the individual’s compensation history was already excessive, told USA Today (November 11,... View Details
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
speak the same language. In some ways, he’s helping me translate my experience from PepsiCo and from packaged goods to this reality, which has been really helpful.” And it feels like the three have a shared mission, says Cunningham.... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Manager's Notebook
information while packaging that information for vendors who need it. "A sea change is upon us," say the authors. "Those managers who ignore the potential may find themselves managing without access to customer information." A byproduct... View Details
Keywords: Judith Ross
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
HBS Alumni On Leading Their Alma Mater
decades? SG: Cost is absolutely a challenge. We’re very fortunate at HBS to have the capability to provide robust financial aid packages and to be able to support our students while also furthering our research and our goals. We’re always... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
The Protagonist Goes Prime Time
managing a Beijing sock factory, came packaged with a CD-ROM of short video clips. The case laid the foundation for a new type of storytelling within the confines of the tested HBS case method, but the fledgling online video technology... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 15 May 2020
- News
New Menu
second, larger fund to support companies developing ecologically efficient food production technologies—innovations that can reduce carbon emissions, plastics, and packaging in the supply chain and improve land and water use. "Many large... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Marketable Skill
assertive." As an undergraduate at Northwestern, she discovered an aptitude for design while working in the college print shop. Following that path to New York's Pratt Institute, she earned a master's degree in package design. "At Pratt... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
always-open Store 24 convenience stores. T.J. Dermot Dunphy (MBA '56) focused on perfecting the packaging elements that would make Sealed Air padded mailers as ubiquitous as the mail itself. Putting in place his environmentally friendly... View Details
- 30 May 2024
- News
Women’s Association Goes Nationwide; Connecticut Club Hosts Beshears
not 80 or 90 percent. If you’re in, say, the consumer packaged goods industry, you want to get to 80 percent, but in health care, getting to 40 percent is an extremely high impact. I think people were interested in how much health care... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 06 Jul 2015
- News
Lights! Camera... Market!
snack his company produces from the potatoes grown on the very farm featured in the movie. While not a single package of Terra Chips graced the screen, the company’s behind-the-scenes financial, marketing, and distribution support of the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
packaging the fertilizer in 1- and 10-kilogram sizes, and reinforced the stitching to prevent middlemen from breaking into them. To reach farmers outside the trading areas, Notore trained more than a thousand "Village Promoters," who sold... View Details
- 26 Jan 2016
- News
The First Five Years: Jill Applebaum (MBA 2015)
retailers). Another day, we will be testing formulas for a new product, sending pitch emails to editors for PR coverage, and meeting with our designers on packaging updates.” What do you know now about startup life that you didn't know... View Details