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- 01 Dec 2022
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My First Job
Edited by Jen McFarland Flint; illustrations by Ross MacDonald Here’s the humbling truth: no matter how high your career soars, how many awards you win or companies you sell or differences you make in this world, everyone has to start somewhere. And in those first...
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- 01 Jun 2022
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A Sustainable Solution for Fashion
plan for rapid growth. Syrup raised $1 million in a preseed round and enrolled seven brands, retailers, and manufacturers that use the tool on a weekly basis and implement the inventory suggestions it offers. To date, Theuerkauf says,...
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April White
- 01 Jun 2022
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The Exchange: Same Great Price, Now with Fewer Chips
when firms are doing market testing and thinking about how price decisions will affect different types of consumers, including those who actually show up in the store. Gourville: I also understand why manufacturers do it. Their View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
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New Urban Order
manufacturers ready to build the electric trucks to incorporate that tech, as well as a scalable market strategy. That strategy depends on TuSimple’s Autonomous Freight Network, the world’s first, which Lu likens to a railroad network of...
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energy;
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sustainability;
entrepreneurship;
Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation;
Transportation;
Water, Sewage and Supply Systems;
Utilities;
Construction of Buildings;
Construction;
Waste Management and Remediation Services;
Corporate Services
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Good Odds
industry, Behn says. “We know that nature doesn’t produce perfectly homogenous output,” he says. “The variability is normal, and it’s actually endearing.” It’s also less costly. Imperfect fruit and vegetables cost about 30 percent less...
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- 17 Mar 2011
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Make or Break for the USA?
Germany, despite having the highest labor costs in the world, also enjoys the world’s largest export surplus, at 7 percent of GDP. The United States, by contrast, ranks lowest among the world’s largest View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
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Bringing ‘Global’ Back Home
Explains Fields, “Especially since the recession, to be more competitive, we’ve looked beyond things like labor costs when deciding where to locate new business.” He believes that the United States can often claim competitive advantage in...
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- 01 Mar 2023
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Case Study: Power Nappy
Illustration by Alvaro Dominguez Before she had a baby of her own, Amrita Saigal (MBA 2014) kept hearing from friends that the “natural” diapers on the market didn’t hold up as well as the old standards, like Pampers. Trained as a mechanical engineer, Saigal knew her...
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- 01 Sep 2011
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Charged Up
however, the low cost of natural gas is currently making gas-fueled turbines more competitive than those run by batteries. Even so, history has shown that energy prices can shift quickly. However it chooses to focus its resources, A123...
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- 01 Mar 2011
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Two Kinds of Green
while effective, are the “low hanging fruit” in meeting sustainability goals. “Going those last few yards to become 100 percent waste-free costs much more than the earlier steps,” agrees HBS’s Marquis. “The marginal economic benefit can...
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- 01 Sep 2012
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Muhammad Yunus Visits HBS
more than 1 million homes. He has also arranged partnerships with multinationals to combat illness. For example, he persuaded Adidas to build a shoe that conformed to the company’s quality standards but still would cost only one euro....
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- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
it hit me right there.” That moment, the moment Wilcox fell in love, was the starting point for a wild ride called E Ink, which manufactures the electronic “paper” used in e-readers like Amazon’s Kindle, cell phones, and graphic displays...
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- 06 Jan 2012
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Where Are They Now?
designer. Manufacturing the beds in India keeps costs down, and making them both upgradable and compact gives buyers—Indian health care institutions—the opportunity to increase capacity [more beds in less...
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- 01 Dec 2018
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Competencies and Credentials
degree inflation: Over the last decade, changes in employment expectations have created a powerful combination of underachievement and misalignment that is costing both US competitiveness and working-class Americans aspiring to a decent...
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- 06 Dec 2021
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Tipping Point
Kenyan coffee farm. The price of coffee beans on the global market is under $1 a pound, while the actual cost to produce that pound is between $1.62 and $2. The coffee farms are profitable only when they rely on free labor, typically from...
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- 01 Sep 2007
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Riding It Out
to reduce our costs through lean manufacturing and automation so we could get investors to buy into the business. It also required salesmanship to get people interested in the equine business, which is not...
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- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Green Day
system, it also shaves about $1 million off the cost of HVAC installation. That savings, says Mulpuri, cancels out any price premium on Soladigm’s product over “ordinary” glass. But the numbers don’t tell the whole story, he continues....
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- 30 Jan 2021
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Finding a Fresh Approach to Dry Cleaning
or to spot- and hand-clean garments before they go into the dry-cleaning process. “Most cleaners don’t do that,” he says. “That kind of detail isn’t cheap. A laundered shirt that might cost 99 cents to clean at a competitor starts around...
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- 01 Jun 2012
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Made in the USA
competition better than most. When asked how his $20 million, 100-employee operation has maintained its foothold when other small US manufacturers have faltered, Knott responds pointedly, “We keep our costs...
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- 01 Oct 1998
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Short Takes
bathroom tissue manufacturer offers you a discount on its product. How much should you buy? If you stock up now, will the manufacturer have any incentive to give you a good deal later? Will your decision...
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Eileen K. McCluskey