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- 06 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
Van den Ende Rozen: Greenhouse Rose Production
Van den Ende Rozen currently cultivates only one kind of rose: the Red Naomi. With 60 petals per bloom, it is the top-selling rose in Europe, famous for its intense color, large flower head, subtle fragrance, elegant long stem,...
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- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Up on the Green Roof
“dirt” spread to a depth of three and a half inches. Planted at eight-inch intervals are 9,000 tiny perennials, including eight varieties of drought-tolerant sedum, a low-growing, flowering plant with water-storing leaves. Rather than...
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- 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
- 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
- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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 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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- 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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- 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
- 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
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Yoga Inc.
Woodstock in 1969. “Let all our actions, and all our arts, express Yoga,” he told the crowd of some 400,000 people, before leading them in a resounding “om,” a resonant sound considered sacred in yoga texts. In later decades, as the View Details
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Deborah Halber
- 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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- 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
- 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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- 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 Jun 1996
- News
Keepers of the Flame
replies, "When I see the film clip of gymnast Mary Lou Retton at the 1984 Games receiving her gold medal, I think: 'The flowers left the refrigerator 20 minutes before she got them; the medal left the vault 45 minutes ago and was carried...
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Garry Emmons
- 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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