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- 03 Oct 2017
- News
Can Bezos’s Ties to Boston—and HBS—Seal the Deal?
North Reading’s Kiva Systems, founded by Mick Mountz (MBA 1996). Regarding the headquarters decision, Russ Wilcox (MBA 1995), who cofounded E Ink–which would become a key supplier for the Amazon Kindle—says the Bezos might be employing a...
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Retail Trade
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
HBS Business Plan Contestants Pin Their Hopes on the Internet
that has already garnered $16 million in funding to link shipping companies with suppliers via the Internet. More than one hundred teams involving over three hundred students initially entered the competition. Some 95 percent of the...
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- 01 Mar 2009
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Gazprom Goes Global
disputed pipeline fees, unsigned contracts, bad faith, and, ultimately, failed negotiations. Although other neighboring countries had had similar problems with Ukraine, the shutoff was a PR disaster for Gazprom, which had enjoyed a long-standing reputation as a...
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- 01 Dec 2017
- News
2017 in Energy: A Future of Lower Energy Prices
States will continue to play the role of swing supplier for years to come. And because improving technology will allow the North American oil and natural gas production sector to respond ever more quickly to global demand spikes, this...
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- 01 Apr 1998
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Emerging Information
"a huge chicken-and-egg game" between signing up data suppliers and finding customers willing to pay for the data. But Mueller's perseverance has paid off. Mueller attributes much of Internet Securities' success to learning what customers...
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Paul Michelman
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
What’s the Big Idea?
value (with principles that also apply to governments and nonprofits). For example, rather than merely paying a higher, “fair-trade” price to coffee farmers for their beans, a shared-value approach would dig deeper and focus on improving growing techniques,...
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- 19 Oct 2011
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A Good Look
Kemin Personal Care, a division of Kemin Industries, Levy launched her business-within-a-business in January this year. “We have the opportunity to be the No. 1 supplier of natural ingredients to the personal care industry,” she told the...
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- 21 May 2019
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Confronting the Future of Climate Change in the Midwest
supplier of food to the world's biggest foodservice brands, supply restaurants, and other customers in over 50 countries. While the company is not moving away from beef products, the focus is on reducing their impact on the environment by...
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Agriculture
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Case Study: Something New
creating the best cost structure in the market. But the company wanted to compete primarily on quality not price. To that end, it struck exclusive deals with suppliers and marketing partners. Where they are today: The company continues to...
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April White
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Losing Our Competitive Edge
not just suppliers of advanced materials, production equipment, and components, but also R&D know-how, advanced process development and engineering skills, and manufacturing competencies. Making matters even worse is something that has...
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- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Green Day
says. To that end, Clean Line has committed to buying from suppliers located near the lines and to building converter stations, the pickup points for the energy, in order to create jobs locally. — SA Window on a Greener World SOLADIGM A...
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- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Digital Health Care: Empowering Consumers
that idea with help from successful entrepreneurs in a variety of fields. What do you see for the future of the health care sector? Lately, I’ve become optimistic. It’s a big struggle to turn from an industry in which the suppliers are...
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April White
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Culture Clash: Exploring Cross Cultural Conflicts in Business
primacy of personal relationships and interpersonal reciprocity has been paramount in China. This poses a problem for those who want to use strictly commercial merit when choosing suppliers and employees and entering into contracts."...
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Judith A. Ross
- 19 Jul 2011
- News
Brightening the Future
that inner voice led Ayala to launch Hybrid Social Solutions, Inc. (HSSI), a Philippine social business that distributes solar lanterns and water filtration devices specifically designed for the needs of poor communities. HSSI’s solar View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
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Model Patient
care, access will become more difficult, and existing suppliers will raise their prices.” With her years of work on consumer-driven health care, Herzlinger argues that no reform can succeed unless it centers on the consumer’s needs and...
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- 13 Sep 2019
- News
Hollywood Ending
before launch.) “If we have great content but we don’t have a differentiated experience, we fail. And the reverse is true too.” “If we have great content but we don’t have a differentiated experience, we fail. And the reverse is true too.” Many of those studios are now...
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- 01 Jun 2018
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Disrupting India’s Dental Market
all confined to India, although some of the auxiliary services Clove has developed could be marketed beyond. For example, Singh created an online marketplace for dental instruments and equipment, called OneIvory, as a supplier to...
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Sasha Issenberg
- 01 Mar 2014
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The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
factories that produce fertilizer, to investors like Masha working directly with farmers, to retail-focused suppliers rebuilding local appetite for food grown in their country. Universal among these agribusiness entrepreneurs is a core...
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- 01 Sep 2005
- News
London Forum Highlights the Best of HBS
next decade. As chairman of one of the world’s leading suppliers of food, household, and personal-care products, Burgmans addressed issues of corporate governance. If transparency is good for multinationals, why isn’t the same thinking...
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- 01 Jan 2003
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Lillian Lincoln Lambert, MBA 1969
investing $4,000 in savings and a $12,000 loan to found Centennial One. A supplier gave her ninety days of credit on vacuum cleaners, buffers, and chemicals. With a secretary and twenty part-time employees, Lambert focused at first on...
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