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- 01 Aug 1998
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High Honors
an entrepreneur. With several other HBS graduates, he undertook a decidedly low-tech startup: plastic phone book covers to carry local advertisements in Massachusetts. The company, the National Merchandising Corporation, was such a...
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- 01 Dec 2009
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One Man Crime Wave
plastic animals, roach tablets, eye shadow, ashtrays, toilet brushes, pottery crocodiles, and all the other items essential to a constantly growing GNP.” (The Dreadful Lemon Sky, 1974) “Who am I to keep from putting my shoulder to the...
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- 15 Apr 2020
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How Sarah Kauss Built S’well
on plastics and climate change—and educating people about the water crisis—it could be really interesting to do something good while doing something good.” Kauss also discussed her environmental motivations in this recent Bulletin, noting...
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- 15 Mar 2024
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Hungry for Change
with single-use plastic from food packaging clogging landfills. She envisioned her new company as the “Patagonia of the food industry.” Today, Sun & Swell—a team of 10 based in Santa Barbara, California—sells pantry staples and snacks....
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- 01 Dec 2019
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Making Eco Easy
microplastics per liter. “All the plastic our society is consuming is ending up in our oceans and waterways, where it is breaking down into tiny pieces and appearing in the water we drink, the food we eat, and the formula I was making for...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 24 Apr 2014
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Unlocking mobile money in emerging markets
in Zulu; the e stands for electronic.) “Ezuza is interested in disruption,” says Maddy, who is the company’s CEO. “In emerging markets, mobile money is designed to leapfrog plastic by going from cash directly to digital. Because the...
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- 03 Aug 2022
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Hungry for Change
damaged the health of the planet, with single-use plastic from food packaging clogging landfills. Flynn had never imagined herself as an entrepreneur, but she quickly recognized that the food system was not one she could change from...
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April White
- 03 Jan 2018
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Candy That Is Good for You
yet I wasn't able to find an all-natural gum out there. Our goal with Simply Gum is to create products that are healthier and better for both your body, as well as the environment. “Gum, for example, contributes to actually millions of pounds of View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
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Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?
of Consolidated Container Company (CCC). Headquartered in Atlanta, CCC has some 4,500 employees and manufactures its plastic containers at 68 different plants. Of these, 24 are on-site with customers and 5 are located in Canada, Mexico,...
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- 01 Jun 2018
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Digging Deep
Above: Pieper, shovel-ready in Moab, Utah (photo by Vance Jacobs) On a wintry day three years ago, Susan Pieper (MBA 1992) watched her son, a devoted snowboarder, build jumps in the backyard of their Jackson, Wyoming, home, trashing a series of View Details
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2008
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No Rain Delay for Graduation 2008
Class Day 2008 was, in a word, wet. Umbrellas and clear plastic ponchos kept students, families, and friends assembled June 4 on Baker Lawn tolerably dry. Even drier were the 300 or so onlookers who opted to watch the proceedings live on...
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- 22 Aug 2016
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The Future of GE
consumer businesses we were in. We’ve exited plastics and things like that. In the last 15 years, we’re one of the few leadership teams in history that’s sold $100 billion in businesses and bought $100 billion worth of businesses.” This...
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- 01 Jun 2017
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Turning Point: Addiction’s Impact
possibly could.” That was the proverbial “two-by-four whack upside the head” that made me realize we were dealing with a disease. Amy started treatment; soon after, on December 26, she died of an overdose at the facility. Going through the View Details
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Melissa Weiksnar (MBA 1982)
- 01 Mar 2024
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Turning Point: Eternal Returns
Louisa Wong (MBA 1981) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Louisa Wong (MBA 1981) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) I was born in the middle of Typhoon Gloria in 1957 and spent my early childhood in Kowloon’s Walled City, which at the time was an extremely poor and densely...
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- 01 Feb 2002
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New Porter Prize Awarded in Japan
refractive plastic lenses, received the prize because of its ability to achieve high profitability while stressing customization. The award is named for Michael E. Porter, the Bishop William Lawrence University Professor at Harvard and a...
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- 01 Sep 2005
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GE’s Immelt Urges MBAs to Dream Big, Work Hard
his 23 years at GE, where he began his career as a sales manager in the plastics division. When all is said and done, Immelt declared, “This degree you have, this thing called an MBA, is a little bit about the subject matter. But it’s...
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- 08 Jun 2021
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New Funding for Female Founders
cruelty-free; its operations are carbon and plastic neutral, according to Prima. Saigal is co-founder and CEO of Kudos, a startup that has reengineered the disposable diaper for greater sustainability. Kudos announced the close of a $2.4...
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- 02 Feb 2017
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Growing and Competing at the Local Level
on average reduce that by 44 percent. “I think what’s critical right now is understanding that 98 percent of the manufacturers in the United States are really small and medium sized. It’s that metal bender down the street, that plastic...
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- 06 Dec 2021
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In My Humble Opinion: Come Clean
manufacturing plant in Rochester, New York. (His grandfather and a partner invented the plastic watch crystal in the early 1900s.) What he discovered: “I learned what ‘real work’ is and that there are many noble ways to earn a living. I...
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- 01 Jan 2008
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Jeffrey R. Immelt, MBA 1982
to locomotives. “No matter what the product, for over 130 years GE has been about imagination at work,” says Immelt. “It’s always been a combination of the dreaming and the doing.” Immelt came to GE straight out of HBS, holding various positions in the company’s View Details