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- 27 Aug 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Learning From Japan’s Remarkable Disaster Recovery
earthquake killed thousands of area residents. "He talked about dozens of families walking from farmer to farmer, asking to find chrysanthemum flowers used for funerals," student Kazumasa Mukae (HBS MBA '14) recalls. "His...
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- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
Dutch flower industry has responded to increasingly stringent laws restricting the release of pesticides, herbicides, and fertilizers into the soil and groundwater. The Dutch, he reports, have created a closed-loop greenhouse system in...
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- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Rural Renewal
Manhattan, she found something special. “I lost my mind when we drove up to this place,” says Reade as she takes a visitor on a tour of the 1706 farmhouse, a large hay-filled barn, a sparse building where she packs the berries and vegetables, a vast View Details
- 04 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
RealNetworks, CNET, and Judo Strategy
Sure, the price of tulips in the Netherlands skyrocketed to such outlandish heights that one flower sold for the equivalent of several hundred dollars before the market crashed in 1637, taking the Dutch economy down with it for many years...
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by Jim Aisner
- 16 Sep 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #9: Shelly Xu (MBA 2021) Reducing Waste Through Beautiful Design
years old. She credits her interest in sustainable design to her early childhood. She explained: “We lived in a very small apartment and had to be creative rearranging the furniture to make do. I recall a beautiful grassy area between the buildings. The area was filled...
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- 03 Nov 2014
- Research & Ideas
Brand Lessons From the Nobel Prize
ceremony in which a Scandinavian monarch presents the medal; and the traditional flowers flown in from San Remo, Italy, where Alfred Nobel spent the last years of his life. But, well before all that there's the traditional early morning...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 18 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Unspoken Cues: Encouraging Morals Without Mandates
systemic view of how all these tasks fit together. The reason why mostly white flowers get planted on campus or an eleventh student section gets created (beyond the standard 10 sections first-year MBA students are divided into) might seem...
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- 07 Apr 2021
- News
Road Work
when you're on a motorcycle traveling, especially through these small remote areas. So I became very enamored of riding into small remote areas on a motorcycle, experiencing the local cuisines, smelling the difference in the terrain as you ride, whether it be the View Details
- 06 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success
Corporate-sponsored venture funds first appeared in the 1960s, about two decades after the first flowering of the venture capital industry. Ever since, they have mirrored the cyclic nature of the industry as a whole. But there are...
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by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner
- 09 Jun 2017
- News
Curating the Cuisine of Southwest China
climate. The weather-- it's sort of like Berkeley here. It's like California. It's spring year round. Flowers always bloom. And the mountain is always green. And that kind of bothered me because I felt perfect weather made people lazy....
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- 06 Jan 2017
- News
Mental Illness and the Workplace
workers with mental illness? Switz: I would like to see a person who's struggling with a mental health condition get flowers or a card. I would love to see that person get support in transitioning back to work. I'd love to see the mental...
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- 29 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Entrepreneurial Venture: A Conversation
Valentine's Day. For the first time, FedEx closed due to the storm and would not be able to deliver our flowers. In the flower business, you are given credit for making a marriage work, and you're also blamed for destroying a...
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by Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
How Business Schools Lost Their Way
managerialism, do business schools retain any genuine academic or societal mission? Having participated, inadvertently or not, in the wholesale discrediting of American management that flowered during the rise of investor capitalism in...
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- 26 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Yes, You Can Raise Prices in a Downturn
a product or service varies for different customers, different buying units at the same customer, or the same customer in different contexts. What's the value of flowers delivered on—versus the day after—Valentine's Day? Or of one-stop...
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- 01 Oct 2000
- News
The Entrepreneurial Venture
there was a horrible blizzard the weekend of Valentine's Day. For the first time, FedEx closed due to the storm and would not be able to deliver our flowers. In the flower business, you are given credit for making a marriage work, and...
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- 01 Dec 2019
- News
John McArthur
bowl, other years baskets of fruit and preserves. One time Charlotte and I were invited to a dinner at the Faculty Club, that would follow a meeting of the HBS Visiting Committee at which I was to make a presentation. When we accepted, he sent Charlotte a large bouquet...
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Dean
- 22 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 22
potential expansion opportunities against the growing risks in its production and export markets. With $121 million in 2012 revenues, VP Group has grown rapidly in recent years by expanding its vegetable and flower production beyond Kenya...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 12, 2007
vegetables and flowers to top supermarkets in the U.K. and Europe. In 2007, Vegpro's business is threatened by growing consumer concern about the environmental impact of food production and transport, including "food miles". The...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A Force for Good
of literally scores of trees and thousands of flowers where cars and trucks had once dominated. (Tom McCraw has speculated that this was McArthur’s way of doing penance for his years in the Koerners’ sawmill.) As in all of McArthur’s...
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- 25 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 25
511-059 Entrepreneurial produce packaging firm, which has developed a disruptive technology that keeps fresh produce and flowers fresh for significantly longer, faces strategic growth decisions. CEO Bob Wright must decide how best to...
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Sean Silverthorne