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- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
huge inefficiency.” It was while attending HBS that Makarim formed Go-Jek, a more efficient ojek service that organized 20 or so drivers through a call center; he relied on word of mouth to market the idea to friends and relatives in a city that was riding high on the...
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- 01 Oct 1999
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The Class of 1974: Timed for a Change
would take a German commodity chemical business to a major position in detergents and perfumes, that Eileen Friars would trade in her jeans and long tresses and take charge of a $20-billion credit-card operation, or that Jeff Seder would,...
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Charles B. ("Chuck") Mercer
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
Exchange. "The role of intellectual capital is more important in this business than any other, except perhaps the pharmaceutical and computer science industries. Oil is a hugely volatile commodity that very few people want to play in, so...
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- 23 Mar 2016
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Building a Biotech Business from Farmed Fish
plasma. “Now, what could you create out of that? So many medical products, which really could make a difference. “The thing that we’re trying to do is, on the margins, take a commodity business—growing salmon—and interact with...
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- 01 Sep 2016
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Code name: Miesiąc
its ties to the Soviet Union. Later that summer, a government plan to again dramatically increase the price of food and other basic commodities sparked large, violent protests in Warsaw and its suburbs. The unrest led to the formation of...
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- 01 Mar 2008
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Faculty Research Online
globalization of medical services? Q&A with Professor Tarun Khanna. Visit http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5814.html. When Your Product Becomes a Commodity Like death and taxes, commoditization of your products is a given. Professor John Quelch...
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- 02 Mar 2016
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The New Space Race
which can be broken down, processed into rocket fuel, and used to refuel these satellites—all without ever returning to Earth. The technology exists, Landon says; companies are just waiting for the first galactic oil well to be dug, so to speak. Asteroids could be a...
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Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Farming for Fuel
2003, the group fans out to test the idea with some 2,500 farmers in the area; after this outreach, MME has 729 members willing to make the minimum investment of $20,000 and 10,000 bushels of corn annually. For the farmers, MME offers a potential hedge against the...
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- 15 Oct 2019
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Engaging More Deeply with Business in Africa
While meeting with representatives of the Kenya Ports Authority at the Port of Mombasa, faculty members toured a bulk carrier ship off-loading grain commodities to Grain Bulk Handlers, one of the companies HBS faculty visited during the...
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- 01 Jun 2009
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Cynthia Carroll
mainly in automobile catalytic converters), iron ore, coal, copper, nickel, zinc, and diamonds. Revenues in 2008 were $26 billion. At Anglo, despite a dividend cut and substantial layoffs prompted by the economic downturn and a collapse in View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
WATER Ltd.
In an age of global scarcity, water has become a valuable commodity in both the industrialized and developing worlds. With governments and communities increasingly unable to manage the complexities and expense of water treatment and...
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- 01 Jun 2000
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The Business of Biotech
"little-noticed commodities to hot products" due to their ability to sprout disease-resistant crops with higher nutritional values. The next step? "Agriceuticals," or crops that have been engineered to have higher medicinal value. An...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Ready for Takeoff
better public management," Domínguez says, "but you also begin to get more farsighted economic policies that allow business enterprises to invest and ordinary Brazilians to save." Then came what Domínguez calls the "happy accident" of China. Some of Brazil's prime...
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- 08 Oct 2013
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The Green Giant
including director of scientific and international programs, prior to taking over the World Wildlife Fund. At WWF, Roberts's strategy has been to forge partnerships with major business players and governments in key regions and resource areas. The organization has also...
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- 01 Jun 2020
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Prognosis
factor into governments’ decisions about what to open up. RH: Absolutely. The stress on so many resources that we might consider to be commodity products—surgical masks, hand sanitizer, gowns, and other forms of PPE—exposed a broader...
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- 06 Dec 2021
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Tipping Point
drivers. It is a model customers are familiar with.” And it’s a model she believes could also transform the coffee industry and other commodity supply chains. Courtesy Margaret Nyamumbo “The economics of coffee are some of the most...
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- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Additional alumni books for your consideration.
tracking global market trends and finding investment opportunities — such as gold, interest rates, currency, and commodities — that match those trends. Balance Is a Crock, Sleep Is for the Weak: An Indispensable Guide to Surviving Working...
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- 28 Mar 2016
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Drawing Connections Between Business and Art
as a commodity and an investment. Japanese culture has always valued art and incorporated it into nearly everything, Shibayama notes. Something as minor as the gift wrapping on a box is usually carefully considered and meticulously...
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Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Covering the Issues
future." Two years later, an article charting the history of computerization and noting that the School had recently purchased its own data-processing equipment concluded with a prophetic question, "Is individual privacy to become the world's rarest View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
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Making Sense of the Modern Startup
to get a handle on why getting financing through software-industry guru Ben Rosen (Lotus) led to a different and more effective execution than getting end-of-tax-year money from Chicago-based commodity brokers (Ovation). He also wrote...
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Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)