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Speeding Up the Trade: Clippers and Steamships - A Chronicle of the China Trade

of the American clipper ships (the word “clipper” signified speed) with their narrow hulls and large sails enabled sea travel at speeds of up to 30 kilometers an hour, far faster than the average merchant ships. Now Western traders could... View Details

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National Competitiveness - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Korea Taiwan Thailand Vietnam Central & South America, Caribbean Argentina Brazil Chile Colombia Costa Rica Dominican Republic Ecuador Guatemala Honduras Nicaragua Panama Peru Trinidad and Tobago Europe & Central Asia Armenia Baltic Sea... View Details

• 26 May 2023
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Bringing Space Tech Back to Earth

helped me become a mini-expert in a lot of different subjects day to day, and on the SEAS side the opportunity to actually build and develop products has been such a cool exercise in the power of creativity and solving tough problems.”... View Details

• 03 Oct 2005
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The Truck Driver Who Reinvented Shipping

of its wheels. Free to be lifted unencumbered. And not just one trailer, or two of them, or five, or a dozen, but hundreds, on one ship." In many ways, McLean's vision was nothing new. As far back as 1929, Seatrain had carried railroad boxcars on its View Details

Keywords: by Anthony J. Mayo & Nitin Nohria; Manufacturing; Transportation; Aerospace

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Confronting Climate Change - Business & Environment

Cities Deploying resilient infrastructure The world is currently undergoing the largest wave of urban growth in human history. These population centers are especially at risk from sea level rise, hurricanes, and flooding. Transportation... View Details

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Curriculum - Business & Environment

references, corporate political action, social media, sea level rise, employment of people with disabilities, and the like. For example, instead of discussing general environmental challenges, we focus on how a small island community... View Details

• 27 Jan 2023
• Op-Ed

Have We Lost Sight of Integrity?

Jakarta, Indonesia, crashed into the Java Sea 13 minutes after takeoff. All 189 passengers and crew aboard were killed. Investigations revealed that a design flaw in the aircraft’s Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS)... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

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Social Enterprise - Faculty & Research

Environmental Sustainability Citation Read Now Related Villalonga, Belen, Peter Tufano, and Boya Wang. "Corporate Ownership and ESG Performance." Journal of Corporate Finance 91 (April 2025). Hurtigruten: Sea Zero By: Christian Kaps and... View Details

• 04 Aug 2023
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Aaron Sabin (MS/MBA 2023): Engineering a Climate Change Solution by Cutting the Cost of Carbon Capture

more than 1°C above where they were in the late 19th century. Levels of CO2 in the atmosphere are greater than at any time in the last 800,000 years. As a result, the climate scientists noted, global sea levels rose an average of three... View Details

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The Chao Center: The Heart of HBS Executive Education

(1930-2007) an immigrant from China who, with her husband James Si-Cheng Chao, built a life in the U.S. and raised six daughters. It is the first building on campus named for a Chinese family and its extraordinary matriarch. After working as a View Details

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Historical Data Visualization - Business History

Production by Country Trends Over Time Managing Distance Sea Cable Connections Historical Maps Managing Distance Shipping Routes (1942) Trends Over Time Corporations Singer Sewing Machines Sold by Country Historical Maps Managing Distance... View Details

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Events - Business History

5:00 p.m. This year's business seminar will be hosted in person at HBS. Please RSVP by email to bhi@hbs.edu to attend. Nov 25 25 Nov 2024 Business History Seminar Charles Fawell (Yale University), “Empire on the Line: Shipping Corporations, Sovereignty, and the View Details

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Tethys | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

tesserae. The Tethys mosaic originally was submerged in water, created for a pool in an Antioch bath building. Visitors surely admired its central image of the sea goddess Tethys, a fitting subject for a bath not far from the... View Details

• 07 Apr 2022
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Product Management at HBS: Roll Up Your Sleeves and Learn by Doing

Battalion. While at HBS and SEAS (the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences), Weston built his own video game, Regent, and honed his product management and entrepreneurial skillset. He is also Co-President of the HBS Show... View Details