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- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Jerry Shafir: A Simmering Success Story
Boston's Legal Sea Foods restaurant chain, where he met his future partner, Christopher Nessen. A production chef at the company, Nessen provided the culinary and technical expertise for Kettle Cuisine. He was well acquainted with the process of preparing foods,...
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Where Conservation Means Business
sequestered in subzero conditions. Next to the freezer sits a vacuum seal machine used to rid books and documents of bug infestations. The airless environment inside a sealed plastic bag asphyxiates the paper-munching invaders without...
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Roger thompson
- 17 Jun 2020
- News
Toronto Copes with COVID-19 Via Webinars; Alumni Respond to Pandemic in Philippines
store personnel.” Vicente Co (OPM 26) President, Philippine Plastic Industry Association “We converted our plastics plant into a manufacturing facility for Personal Protective Equipment (PPEs) and partnered...
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Margie Kelley
- Web
Past Projects | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
quality of life mostly for the poor, and draining natural resources. This project explored ways to grow Wecyclers (a Nigerian plastics recyclable collection company) by analyzing the economic viability of a Collections Agent Network, a...
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- 05 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 5
grocery bags has been strongly promoted as environmentally and socially conscious. In parallel, firms have joined policy makers in using a variety of initiatives to reduce the use of plastic bags. However, little is known about how these...
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Carmen Nobel
- 24 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
How Kayak Users Built a New Industry
database of innovations in both technique and equipment. From the data, we knew that—at least until recently—users (including user-manufacturers) were the primary source of innovation. Third, the underlying technologies—fiberglass hand lay-up and View Details
- 03 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 3
Global Growing Challenges Juan Alcácer and John LeitaoHarvard Business School Case 711-411 In 2010, Logoplaste, a top 10 manufacturer of rigid plastic containers, was debating a more dramatic expansion strategy as a means to guarantee the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Feb 2014
- News
Managing the World’s Trouble Spots
program started in Haiti two years ago to fight water-borne disease. Partnering with a local recycling center, Goodwin and his team helped create 26 centers, each one run by Haitian entrepreneur. The program, which washes and grinds View Details
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Jill Radsken
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Deep Dive
trash. It appeared to be a piece of plastic embossed with a stylized S. “I thought, is nothing completely safe from us?” He snapped a picture on his phone—evidence to show the world the need for better stewardship of the oceans—and...
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- 19 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 18
within the organization, and Fahey is torn about how to proceed. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/311002-PDF-ENG Formosa Plastics Group: Business Continuity Forever Li Jin, Joseph P. H. Fan, and Winnie S. C....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 28
After an overview of Boston Children's Hospital and its local health care market environment, the case presents process maps and financial data relating to patients making office visits to a plastic surgeon for three different diagnoses....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 11
bags has been strongly promoted as an environmentally and socially conscious virtue. In parallel, firms have joined policy makers in using a variety of initiatives to reduce the use of plastic bags. However, little is known about how...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 8, 2007
rationally for a strategy become more available. This generates a fundamental tension in the origin of strategy: managers struggle to understand their environment well enough to search rationally for an effective strategy before their firms lose the View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 07 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 7
join Julia's family plastics business. After the business was sold, they struck out on their own to search for a similar business. They purchased Elasto Therm, with $8 million in revenue from manufactured rubber and urethane components,...
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Carmen Nobel
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
everything from mangoes to light bulbs to plastic flowers. Just across the road is Fort Railway Station, a major transportation hub used by over 200,000 people every day. For now, this spot at the water’s edge is no more than an ad hoc...
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- 15 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: January 15
maps and financial data relating to the processes used during (1) an office visit to a plastic surgeon for three different diagnoses and (2) application and removal of three different casts in the orthopedic cast room. Students calculate...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2007
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First Look: July 24, 2007
medical tourism and attracted more than one million patients a year, most of them undergoing plastic surgery. Another option Apollo considered was to build and manage hospitals abroad. Purchase this case:...
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Martha Lagace
- 29 Apr 2020
- Book
The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages
Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 30 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Market Makers Bid for Success
efficient and higher quality. After I left McKinsey, I went to GE, where those two ideas came together. I saw the way that GE was doing high stakes face-to-face negotiations for materials, things like metal components, plastic components,...
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- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
treatment centers for each type of cancer. For example, a breast cancer patient at MD Anderson's Breast Center will have diagnostic imaging and pathology; see specialized surgical, medical, and radiological oncologists; and consult with a View Details