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- 19 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19
implications of these effects for inventory management. To do that, we analyze data from a leading U.S. retailer who introduced a “ship-to-store” (STS) functionality that allows customers to ship products to their local store free of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 8
2005, China Ocean Shipping (Group) Company (COSCO) announced it would join the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC). At that time, COSCO initiated sustainability reporting practices in line with the UNGC, and over the next six years these...
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Carmen Nobel
- 27 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Coffee Economy That Bloomed Out of Nowhere
set out to surmount the Soconusco's geographical isolation. He sent surveyors to assess the region, he negotiated the approval of an international port, and he arranged for an international shipping company to stop there once a month....
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- 30 Jun 2008
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking Retirement Planning
risks of changing life expectancy, inflation, and interest rates. Course Corrections Merton uses the analogy of an ocean liner sailing from England to New York. When just out of port, there are many unforeseen things to correct for along the way so a precise course is...
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- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS
enabled ships to sail the open sea rather than hug the coast. To solve that problem, governments responded by enacting laws of the sea. It then became clear to me that it was almost impossible to understand the Internet by thinking of it...
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by Jim Aisner
- 06 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 6
Business School Case 113-018 In autumn 2011, Netflix was working to right the ship after publicly stumbling through a price hike and strategic shift and then retreat. The company was changing its business model to focus on streaming video...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018
easy to compare online, discount coupons and codes have high uptake, and sellers often bear the cost of shipping products to buyers. In addition to these factors, online selling precludes many methods of price discrimination exercised in...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 14
View, California-based medical device company had been cash flow positive for seven consecutive quarters with annual revenues over $70 million. Since 2007, it had shipped well over 1.5 million of its vascular closure device (VCD), the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
US Competitiveness at Risk
unnecessary costs of shipping goods to distant markets, or allows better adaptation of products to local circumstances. So globalization at one level has enhanced the competitiveness of US-based companies and will support their growth in...
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- 22 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity
at speeds reaching more than 2,000 miles per hour. By the time it glided to a landing two hours later the ship had won the coveted Ansari X PRIZE, a $10 million award for the first privately funded manned spacecraft to break through the...
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by Michael Blanding
- 24 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
The FDA: What Will the Next 100 Years Bring?
stars. Announced actions against an Iowa dairy after illegal drug residues were found in the dairy's cows; a Tennessee company for selling a substance billed as both a preventative against skin cancer and a tanning agent; and a medical device firm suspected of View Details
- 21 May 2007
- Research & Ideas
Fixing the Marketing-CEO Disconnect
competitors' scores are increasing faster it should be a cause for alarm. Acquisition rates may be robust, but if old customers are abandoning ship as fast as new ones are coming on board, strong acquisition can give a deceptive picture...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
Lessons from the Browser Wars
on every PC shipped in the late 1990s? Researchers line up on both sides of the argument. A recent working paper by Harvard Business School professor Pai-Ling Yin and Stanford professor Timothy F. Bresnahan offers an answer. Looking at...
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- 11 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 11
Whaling Ventures Nicholas, Tom, and Jonas Peter AkinsHarvard Business School Case 813-086 : Whaling was a prominent global industry in the nineteenth century and the United States was dominant. By 1850 there were about 900 whaling ships...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 31
Maersk was a global conglomerate with large shipping and oil & gas businesses. Among the talent management issues being discussed: an increase in employee turnover, internal training and development programs, hiring experienced talent...
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Carmen Nobel
- 08 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 8, 2015
could fit in two 40-foot intermodal shipping containers. The UPower reactor was designed to serve the need for "off-grid" electric power. These off-grid customers were in remote locations such as mining operations, military...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017
Tianjin, China, factory, which can produce below the cost target but will incur extensive shipping costs and require a far greater amount of inventory holding. This case examines a core question facing managers who want to produce...
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Carmen Nobel
- 07 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 7, 2009
between domestic employment conditions and the growth of foreign operations by American firms have led to calls for increased taxation on foreign operations—the so-called "end to tax breaks for companies that ship our jobs...
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Martha Lagace
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I currently teach the history of global entrepreneurship over the last 200 years. The 28-session course called Entrepreneurship and Global Capitalism has become one of the most popular second year electives in the MBA program at the Harvard Business School. The cases,...
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- 11 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 11, 2008
South Dakota Wheat Growers (SDWG) serves the needs of its 3,600 active farmer-members by supplying farm inputs and organizing the marketing and transportation of grain produced in the co-op's service territory. For almost 80 years, the majority of grain was View Details
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Martha Lagace