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- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Cutting Edge
and bolts: exiting underperforming adjunct businesses (e.g., pickles and fresh poultry); shaking up the management team; improving the supply chain (thereby increasing plant productivity by 50 percent); and developing a sequenced regional...
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- 01 Oct 2002
- News
What's Cookin'
Castaldo attributes Pollo Tropical's success to a “high-value equation” that features freshly prepared food of restaurant quality at fast-food prices. “While the quick-service business has tried to take the labor out of food preparation,...
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Hanna, Julia
- 02 Mar 2015
- News
To Market, To Market
difference to the entire region. You can see the prosperity returning to the villages.” The impacts of this prosperity have been significant. A local credit union has replaced an abusive loan-shark system; farmers (mostly women) have learned how to buy View Details
- 05 Nov 2013
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Start-Ups Get a Start in New Orleans
Everyone had to open up shop again," he says. He soon became an entrepreneur-in-residence at Idea Village, a nonprofit organization dedicated to keeping entrepreneurs in New Orleans by supplying them with strategic consulting and...
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- 01 Dec 2013
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Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL
American leagues' revenues but also the exporting countries' infrastructures. By contrast, to establish solid franchises overseas, the NFL has to create a supply of foreign homegrown players and support systems in order to build the...
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- 01 Jun 2013
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Collective Wisdom
crowdsourcing, correct? Yes, you can post any sort of task—whether it's editing a document, providing website copy, or verifying directory entries—and people with the abilities and time available will bid on it. Companies like Elance and oDesk make it possible to find...
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- 01 Jan 2005
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Rahul Bajaj, MBA 1964
1968 at the age of 30. In this environment, the company, now the world's fourth-largest maker of motorized scooters, three-wheel vehicles, and motorcycles—India's most common forms of transportation—was limited to producing just 20,000 units a year. View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
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MBAs on a Mission
their supply chains in the developing world. I wanted to get involved in that.” During his year as a Leadership Fellow at the WWF, Murphy served as director of enterprise planning and got to know the organization well enough to make a...
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- 01 Dec 2011
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Li & Fung's Global Footprint
the changing global landscape for business leaders Look in any closet, toy chest, or family room in a typical Western home, and you’ll find a trove of goods supplied by a century-old Hong Kong–based export trading company— Li & Fung Ltd....
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- 19 Sep 2012
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On a Sound Track
the most? I’ve taken different skills from different places. I spent some time at a small entrepreneurial venture in Dallas, where I had hands-on experience in manufacturing, supply chain, and selling. I worked for a while as a hotel...
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- 01 Dec 2007
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Rediscovering America
a path to success in many schools. What business could survive if it didn’t have the resources to buy supplies and attract and retain quality employees? What retail store could motivate customers in a dingy, outmoded building where even...
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- 13 Jan 2021
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Silicon Valley’s “Detroit Moment”
where the ideas emanated from. Around the world, the best entrepreneurs are cross-pollinators. They are taking ideas and adopting them and that's kind of what I call the innovation supply chain. So ride-sharing obviously emanated in the...
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- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
recent past. Even when the supply faltered, the demand never went away. And in the year that was just ending, Sahlman had taught first-year Finance to some 180 students—two sections of 90—who had rated him highly as a teacher. This wasn’t...
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Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
she says. For a company the size of McDonald’s, it posed a massive operational challenge. Hurdles included everything from structure—McDonald’s kitchens were designed to operate in two separate “day parts,” breakfast and everything else—to securing global View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
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The New Space Race
engineers to work on exciting projects like designing rockets for satellite delivery. Besides, he held the “naive view that starting a space company might be fun and profitable.” Founded with two HBS classmates, Bruce Ferguson (MBA 1979, JD 1981) and Scott Webster (MBA...
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Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Mar 2011
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Making Their Way
medical industry; shelving units for retail consumer products; and high-tolerance firing pins for military applications. When it comes to per-piece cost for metal stampings, the United States is very competitive with China because labor...
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- 12 Jul 2021
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Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
Ganesh Natarajan (AMP 169, 2005), Chairman of 5F World, Lighthouse Communities Foundation, and Honeywell Automation India. Navaldi’s highlighted contributions include “delivering medicines, oxygen concentrators, and medical supplies to...
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- 01 Jun 2004
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Life Lessons
product, a small device that Staats had invented and patented, could remotely monitor high-voltage power transmission and generation. This breakthrough enabled electricity traders to get the real-time supply and distribution information...
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- 01 Jun 2017
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Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2017
exceptionally favorable factors in France such as its wealth of assets, human capital, and the French brand. And the disadvantages of the system (the burdens of administration, law, and the cost of labor and taxes) are comparatively much...
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- 01 Dec 1996
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An Entrepreneurial Journey
multibillion-dollar Capital Cities/ABC media empire of the 1990s. Not long after, laboring in similar obscurity in rural Ohio, Amos B. Hostetter, Jr. (MBA '61), and H. Irving Grousbeck (MBA '60), cofounders of Continental Cablevision,...
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