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- 02 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Retail Reaches a Tipping Point—Which Stores Will Survive?
improved significantly in respect to speed, convenience, and cost. For example, I get Sunday delivery of Amazon through the post office as part of my Prime membership while Amazon, Instacart, and Google Express are currently experimenting... View Details
- 05 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 5, 2007
provider, health plan, and reimbursement structure. Following new legislation in 2004, which allowed health plans and selected providers to contract outside of the regular group purchasing scheme, KKH and Dr. Deiner of Essen University... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 24, 2009
for Implementing Planned Organizational Change Authors:Julie Battilana, M.J. Gilmartin, A.-C., Pache, M. Sengul, and J. Alexander Periodical:Leadership Quarterly (forthcoming) Abstract This paper bridges the leadership and organizational... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Feb 2017
- Op-Ed
What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects
President Trump’s infrastructure plan and a counterproposal by Senate Democrats are rising toward the top of the national agenda. All agree that there is a pressing need to fix the collapsing bridges, potholed roads, crashing trains, and... View Details
- 07 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 7, 2008
online grocer to address this question. In general, we find that as the delay between order completion and delivery increases, grocery customers spend less, order a higher percentage of "should" items (e.g., vegetables), and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 21
sustainability solutions to a range of client organizations. Megaprojects are finite-duration initiatives involving multiple diverse entities in the design and delivery of a large-scale development, such as a brand new ecologically... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- February 2022 (Revised September 2022)
- Case
Lilium: Preparing for Takeoff
By: Navid Mojir, Vincent Dessain, Mette Fuglsang Hjortshoej and Emer Moloney
Lilium is a German company focused on developing electric vertical takeoff and landing vehicles (eVTOLs) that can be used to offer air taxi services. The company went public in September 2021 through a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) deal, raising more than... View Details
Keywords: SPACs; Business Model; Forecasting and Prediction; Green Technology; Capital Markets; Venture Capital; Initial Public Offering; Rural Scope; Urban Scope; City; Disruptive Innovation; Growth and Development Strategy; Technological Innovation; Demand and Consumers; Market Timing; Industry Growth; Infrastructure; Logistics; Product Design; Product Development; Production; Service Delivery; Service Operations; Strategic Planning; Partners and Partnerships; Risk and Uncertainty; Urban Development; Sustainable Cities; Business Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Air Transportation; Aerospace Industry; Air Transportation Industry; Green Technology Industry; Transportation Industry; Travel Industry; Germany; Munich; Brazil; United States; Florida
Mojir, Navid, Vincent Dessain, Mette Fuglsang Hjortshoej, and Emer Moloney. "Lilium: Preparing for Takeoff." Harvard Business School Case 522-084, February 2022. (Revised September 2022.)
- 14 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2006
possibilities for expanding by building on the Clinic's platform of service delivery are investigated. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=607013 Cluster Mobilization in Mitteldeutschland... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 17
interviews of over 80 individuals from 6 service delivery units and 8 support departments that provide them with equipment and supplies, we find that a lack of interconnectedness among interdependent departments-rather than errors or... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 07 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 7
lines to meet ambitious delivery targets. Meanwhile, Musk was also CEO of SpaceX, which was, while growing its business of launching satellites and cargo into space for commercial and governmental clients, preparing to take astronauts... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 15
the compact arrangement of buildings, efficient use of water and power, and deployment of transit that reduces congestion. Investment and urban planning in three Asian cities are profiled as illustrations. Two sample proformas featuring... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 17, 2009
planned to pursue an aggressive schedule, moving the firm's Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease imaging compounds through clinical trials and into the market. This involved expanding the firm's facilities and headcount, and he View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Dec 2008
- Research & Ideas
Thinking Twice About Supply-Chain Layoffs
centers can seriously affect an organization's bottom line and undermine its strategy. "My research reveals that what happens in the last 10 yards of retail supply chains is really important. Customers often experience stockouts not because the supply-chain View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- Lessons from the Classroom
Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science
substantially, NASA would have to place much greater emphasis on technology re-use, developing designs that were expected to fulfill multiple missions. In this respect, borrowing some ideas from business could help. For example, NASA might separate projects to design... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
The FDA: What Will the Next 100 Years Bring?
and business. My plan is to compare internationally the legal and regulatory limits countries put on the ability to commercialize health information and what this tells us about the prospects for global health-care businesses. I have been... View Details
- 21 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
Faculty Research Looks to Latin America
conducted now is extremely broad. "There was a lot more than we had first realized," she reported. Nine HBS professors described the research they are conducting on Latin America as well as work they plan to do in the future.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 23 Jul 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Innovation Is Magic. Really
Magicians have to do a lot of rehearsing and testing, not just so their technique gets better, but also to get a sense for all the contingencies, all the things that could go wrong, so they have a plan for everything." The same goes for... View Details
- 06 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 6
the macroeconomic potential-for incomes, productivity, and delivery of critically needed services-is huge. A call for "better management" may sound prosaic, but given the global payoffs, it's actually quite radical. Read the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 9, 2008
Public Authorities Control Board rejects a $1.4 billion plan to build the New York Sports and Convention Center (NYSCC) on the West Side of Manhattan. If built, the NYSCC would have served as the home for the Jets and possibly the opening... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Nov 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017
(2) reason carefully from the ask, through metrics and models and outputs; and (3) evaluate outputs from models to (4) develop a plan for action. In this case students explore data through k-means clustering, evaluate the relevance of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne