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- 31 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 31, 2018
total cost of care for this patient segment. Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/118053-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 518-089 Maersk: Betting on Blockchain In March 2018, international shipping giant Maersk is... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Rich Wilson
handle in good conditions, let alone for four months in the open ocean. Sometimes you’re a thousand miles from the nearest ship or point of land. Other times you risk getting run over by ships or crashing... View Details
- 24 Apr 2020
- News
Spreading the Love
cofounded the greeting card company in 2015—have backgrounds in engineering and manufacturing, and the company has a team in Vietnam that is well-versed in sourcing materials and shipping to the US. “At our core we’re a design and... View Details
- 07 Oct 2011
- News
Tea’s Time
job and give it a shot,” she says. Tea, the resulting company, made its first shipment in September 2002, just eight weeks after Rawdon left her job. “We shipped to 60 different boutiques and did about $60,000 in sales,” she says. “There... View Details
- 25 Sep 2017
- Blog Post
Michael Schrader (MBA 2012) on Finding Entrepreneurial Success with HBS Resources
world, was created based upon technology developed by Tufts University professors David Kaplan and Fiorenzo Omenetto. Kaplan and Omenetto's technique uses a protein found in silk to stabilize vaccines, making it possible to ship them... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
New Wave
large and relatively stationary concrete ring by flexible tendons. As the float interacts with ocean waves, the movement of the tendons drives the generators, converting mechanical energy into electricity. Smith in the RITE control room, located in a converted View Details
- 15 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
Amazon Prime Day: The Logic Behind a Retailer’s Made-up Holiday
Amazon's low costs and reduced shipping rates. In these cases, however, Gupta believes Amazon has and can exploit a distinct advantage. "Amazon offers a lot more benefits, like their streaming music and movie services," Gupta... View Details
- 02 Dec 2018
- News
An Investor’s Guide to Climate Change: Risks and Opportunities
renewables (wind and solar), nuclear power, battery storage, electric vehicles, and plant-based proteins (“fake meat”). Adaptation technologies, like flood defense and asset protection, also offer potential investment opportunities. Panelists also pointed to entire... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Robots to the Rescue
shipped cost-effectively,” he explains. Mountz moved on to another job, but found himself still pondering the challenge almost two years later in an brainstorming session with some former MIT classmates. “We decided products that could... View Details
- February 2014 (Revised December 2015)
- Case
Mara Group
By: Eugene Soltes and Sara Hess
Mara Group is a rapidly growing Pan-African conglomerate run by its entrepreneurial CEO Ashish Thakkar. The case explores Thakkar's decision on which African markets to expand operations into. View Details
Keywords: Telecommunications Manufacturing; Business Ventures; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Shipping Industry; Shipping Industry; Shipping Industry; Shipping Industry; Africa
Soltes, Eugene, and Sara Hess. "Mara Group." Harvard Business School Case 114-060, February 2014. (Revised December 2015.) (request a courtesy copy.)
- 28 Apr 2020
- Blog Post
A Crash Course in Saving a Family Business
(“coffee sommelier”) with her mother, cupping coffees to discern the tasting notes and quality that help them assign grades to the beans. The green coffee beans they select are shipped to Queens where, Han says, “Any coffee that you buy... View Details
- 31 Jan 2019
- News
A Global Mission
currently focused on recruiting students from Syria and northern Iraq. Elsewhere, DeFehr has developed an idea for an overland shipping route in southern Mexico to rival the Panama Canal. Business opportunities in that part of the world,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
HBS Business Plan Contestants Pin Their Hopes on the Internet
that has already garnered $16 million in funding to link shipping companies with suppliers via the Internet. More than one hundred teams involving over three hundred students initially entered the competition. Some 95 percent of the... View Details
- 13 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Grolsch Brewing Company: Drink Sustainably
recyclable cardboard “TopClip” to replace the conventional glue and plastic approach to hold a six-pack together. We learned that this innovation has resulted in significant savings in methane emissions. Grolsch is also investigating potential alternatives to plastics... View Details
- 09 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Stock Options Are Not All Created Equal
much comparable executives are paid and in what form. By adjusting an executive's pay package every year to keep it in line with the other executives' pay, companies hope to minimize what the consultants call "retention risk"—the possibility that executives... View Details
Keywords: by Brian Hall
- 06 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
Van den Ende Rozen: Greenhouse Rose Production
Incineration Maersk’s Journey to Decarbonize Shipping Circularity in Denmark BTG Bioliquids: Creating Fast Pyrolysis Bio-Oil from Biomass Residue Streams Grolsch Brewing Company: Drink Sustainably Van den Ende Rozen: Greenhouse Rose... View Details
- 11 Dec 2018
- Research & Ideas
Free Trade Needs Nurturing—and Other Lessons from History
Question: What patterns emerge from history that can help us better understand where we are today? Sophus Reinert: To many people, globalization is teleological, something that necessarily becomes stronger over time and leads to an ever-more economically interconnected... View Details
- May 2018
- Teaching Note
Mubadala and EBX: To X or to X It?
By: Nori Gerardo Lietz and Sayiddah Fatima McCree
On April 3, 2013, Hani Barhoush and Oscar Fahlgren of Mubadala Capital (“Mubadala”) considered how to salvage Mubadala’s $2 billion preferred equity investment of a 5.63% stake in the EBX Group. At the time, EBX was the holding company of a myriad of subsidiaries and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Action Plan: Rapids Growth
three kids. Mindful of his relative ignorance of the niche business, Holley immersed himself. He learned all about the thermoforming process (which uses heat-formed plastic instead of fiberglass) that Eddyline pioneered, and he occasionally helped out with View Details
Keywords: Ryan Jones
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
The Eyes Have It: Business Plan Winners Pursue Global Vision
hadn't really thought about this problem until he visited Peru and noticed that hardly anybody there wore glasses. Back at HBS, in Associate Professor Stefan Thomke's elective course Managing Product Development, Houghton started developing glasses that would be... View Details
Keywords: eyeglasses