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- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Two Kinds of Green
when single mom Roxanne Quimby met Burt Shavitz, a bearded beekeeper living in a renovated turkey coop in rural Maine. The pair teamed up to sell beeswax candles at craft fairs before branching out into a few personal care products, including its (still) best-selling...
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- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Negotiating with Wal-Mart
pioneers a new supplier-retailer partnership between P&G and Wal-Mart. Built on proximity (Muccio relocated to Wal-Mart’s turf in Arkansas) and growing trust (both sides eventually eliminated elaborate legal contracts in favor of Letters...
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- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Transforming Baker Library
relocated so that library patrons will sacrifice nothing. In some cases, such as the book-delivery program, the service levels will actually increase during the renovation.” — Margie Kelley
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- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Cultural Revolution at GE
hiring outsiders for its top management ranks and stopped the merry-go-round of promotions and relocations for top managers. Immelt now wants managers to stay put and become experts in their industries, not just experts in management. The...
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- 01 Dec 2017
- News
@Soldiers Field
entrepreneur Diane Hessan (MBA 1977) concerning her qualitative research on the American electorate. In late September, the HBS Association of Boston hosted a fireside chat with General Electric’s Jeff Immelt (MBA 1982) and HBS professor emeritus Ben Shapiro. Immelt,...
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- 28 Apr 2022
- News
Finding Her Place
about 800 beds—offering access to housing and medical, educational, and other social services. Hudson had recently relocated to Miami when the recruiter’s call came. While she was broadly supportive of Chapman’s mission, Hudson recalls...
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- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Do Good: Eat Chocolate
traveling as far as China to investigate candy factories. She saw plenty of sugary goodies being made but came back to chocolate. (“There’s no origin story to a lollipop,” she comments.) Endline relocated from California to Manhattan and...
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candy;
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Crop Production;
Agriculture;
Food Manufacturing;
Manufacturing
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Case Study: Let’s Dance
partnerships such as with dance studios to jump-start her user base in the new markets. Second, she may want to recruit full- or part-time individuals with relevant networks in the new markets to support the expansions. Third, she could have one of her team members (or...
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- 01 Jun 2012
- News
They Call Him Mr. China
management gap he both anticipated and greatly underestimated. Against all odds, and the advice of many, Perkowski ditched his high-flying investment career and relocated to China in 1992 to chase his entrepreneurial dreams. A...
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- 01 Feb 1997
- News
HBS Introduces Global Networking through Technology
You've just been asked to relocate from New York City to work on your firm's new operation in Singapore. You have less than a month before the assignment starts, and part of your job will be to acquire suitable permanent office space. In...
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- 01 Jan 2008
- News
John Doerr, MBA 1976
Menlo Park, where the firm relocated in 1992. Reflecting on the early days, he recalls with a smile, “Back then they would sit around a small table and make decisions to invest $200,000 to start Genentech or $500,000 to start Tandem...
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- 01 Jun 2003
- News
John Read
first nine months of his tenure commuting from Minneapolis to Outward Bound’s Garrison, New York, headquarters, Read and his wife finally relocated to that scenic community in January. He now spends about half of his time fundraising,...
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- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Road Work
restaurants in the Los Angeles area. But after 25 years, the business went bust, and she relocated the family to her native Mexico when the Salas brothers were 12 years old. It’s a fitting origin story for Camino Financial, an online...
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- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Q&A: William Kerr and Joseph Fuller
revisit the paradigm of what work is about, as well as expectations in terms of hours, offsite work, career paths, and the ability to relocate geographically. Speaking of demographics, why is global talent access and utilization a key...
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- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Baker’s back
trickiest aspects of the project, allowed workers to relocate the stacks underground. This move made it possible to open up the main floor, add a new entrance, and increase capacity by about 41,000 square feet for office and gathering...
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- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
dual-career families face when one spouse relocates and the other also has to find a new job.” Temporary work visa programs, with relatively low barriers to entry—in countries ranging from Estonia to Indonesia to Portugal, for example—are...
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- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Ask the Expert: Taxing Questions
"Tobin tax" on financial transactions? Claire Martin (AMP 175, 2008), VP, Renault, France I'm skeptical for three reasons. First, empirical evidence indicates such taxes have raised little revenue and have simply relocated trading rather...
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- 03 Apr 2019
- News
Finding Common Ground
then joined Answerthink, a West Coast consulting firm, where he continued as EVP and managing director while he earned his MBA as a Baker Scholar at HBS. Answerthink wanted Shumway to relocate to New York when he finished his MBA, but...
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Deborah Blagg
- 18 May 2011
- News
U.S. Manufacturing Comeback?
going to scale back in the U.S. to keep their options open by continuing to operate a plant in America,” he noted. But the damage done by offshoring high-tech manufacturing may be irreversible, he warned. Once factories relocate abroad,...
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- 28 May 2019
- News
Tech for the People
disasters. Floods the previous February had displaced 14,000 city residents and caused $100 million in damages. Because his own family’s home in Texas had been damaged during Hurricane Harvey, Tsai understood firsthand the importance of quickly View Details
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Deborah Blagg