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  • 16 Dec 2014
  • First Look

First Look: December 16

reputation concerns, but only if advertisers ultimately figure out when they're getting a bad deal. Legal, administrative, and logistical factors make it difficult to sue even the worst offenders. And sometimes an advertiser's own staff... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Mar 2023
  • News

Supporting Earthquake Victims in Turkey and Syria

recovery workforce across a large geographical region prone to high risks,” he notes. “This product is not available in our sales system, and it is marked with ‘not for sale.’ It is only provided by our logistics system, which is highly... View Details
  • 01 Jun 1996
  • News

Keepers of the Flame

35 competition venues, another 35 separate training facilities, and approximately 50 miscellaneous sites for use as office space, warehousing, transportation, and other logistical functions. "In all cases," Mosley explains, "these are... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
  • 09 Mar 2010
  • First Look

First Look: March 9

proposes the introduction of new technologies and management systems, while the leading logistics companies (e.g., FedEx) come to Mumbai to learn about the Dabbawala system. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 15, 2008

over 150 countries over the last 200 years. We use this comprehensive data set to explore the shape of the diffusion curves. Our main finding is that, once the intensive margin is measured, technologies do not diffuse in a logistic way.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Oct 2002
  • Research & Ideas

The Widening Rift Between Corporations and Society

and processes are likely to lead the merger of such activities as logistics and financial services. This can provide large-scale platforms with common protocols (the precursors of digital platforms and what we call infrastructure... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 01 Sep 2007
  • News

Riding It Out

last spring. But for Gisholt and Minard, the satisfaction of running a business continues to be worth it, despite the logistical complications that can arise around raising a family when long hours are more the norm than the exception.... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; dog food; pets; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade
  • 12 Jan 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 12

http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/809009-PDF-ENG Red Tomato: Keeping It Local Jose Alvarez, Mary Shelman, and Laura WinigHarvard Business School Case 510-023 This case describes the operating model and history of Red Tomato, a non-profit organization dedicated to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 30 Jul 2013
  • First Look

First Look: July 30

Conundrum Transport Corporation of India (TCI) was a logistics company that provided multi-modal transport solutions to its customers. Set up in 1958, TCI had grown from a "one man, one truck, one office" setup to a company with... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 07 Nov 2017
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017

context of a large nationwide general retailer. Technical topics include Logistic regression, Ridge & Lasso regression, ROC curve, and picking a cutoff value to optimize a preferred expected value. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • March 2020
  • Case

Voi Technology

By: Jeffrey F. Rayport and Olivia Hull
Voi Technology, a fast-growing start-up out of Sweden, is competing in the highly contested European e-scooter sharing market. With a presence in nearly 40 cities in Europe by February 2020, the firm is working hard to improve its unit economics to reach profitability.... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Business Strategy; Technology Adoption; Innovation Strategy; Technological Innovation; Marketing Strategy; Business Plan; Product Marketing; Product Launch; Product Positioning; Energy Conservation; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Global Strategy; Globalized Economies and Regions; Innovation Leadership; Human Capital; Laws and Statutes; Growth Management; Operations; Logistics; Service Operations; Supply Chain Management; Organizational Culture; Information Infrastructure; Transportation; Transportation Industry; Technology Industry; Europe
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This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details

  • 03 Oct 2017
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First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017

achieved much in this time: launching one of the first online retailers in the country, building a logistics network from scratch, acquiring customers at an astonishing pace, and signing up major brands to offer on Zalora.com.ph. But now... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 14

hypothetical delivery of a 23-week gestation infant and chose either IC or CC. Open-ended and structured questions elicited reasoning. Data were analyzed by chi-square and logistic regression analysis. Results: Neither degree of detail,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Feb 2002
  • News

Redefining Success: Women & Work.

workforce. These included expectations of how they would feel about leaving their newborns when returning to work, the difficulties of jobs requiring travel, and the logistical demands that kick in after the birth of a second child.... View Details
Keywords: Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 12 Sep 2006
  • First Look

First Look: September 12, 2006

spanning the careers of 3,884 academic life scientists. Using a combination of discrete time hazard rate models and fixed effects logistic models, we find that patenting events are preceded by a flurry of publications, even holding... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Oct 2015
  • First Look

October 13, 2015

to the customer over time. Customer relationships become continuous and open-ended, service becomes more efficient and proactive, and new business models are enabled. The rich data on location and environment that products provide take View Details
  • 16 Sep 2015
  • News

Built for Speed

first-place finish earned $2,000. Video Embed A 2006 in-flight conversation between Jones and Rogers that led to the formation of Local Motors. But after graduation, the reality of starting a car company from scratch—the actual process, the engineering, the electrical,... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; Machinery Manufacturing; Manufacturing
  • 22 Apr 2014
  • First Look

First Look: April 22

vertically integrating by bringing marketing and logistics operations in-house. The company's leadership is excited about future growth opportunities but also concerned about the impact of VP Group's growth on its entrepreneurial culture.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Dec 2008
  • First Look

First Look: December 9, 2008

Harvard professor Isenberg has found that global start-ups face three challenges. First are the logistical problems and psychic barriers created by distance and by differences in culture, language, education systems, religion, and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace