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01 Dec 2006
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The Hard Way

market the grapes, Russo negotiated the transactions. At age 17, she left high school after failing to pass a requisite Grade 10 English exam and quickly parlayed her one marketable skill — typing sixty words a minute without error — into a clerical position at a View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

March 2020
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Synergistic Value in Vertically Integrated Power-to-Gas Energy Systems

By: Gunther Glenk and Stefan Reichelstein

In vertically integrated energy systems, integration frequently entails operational gains that must be traded off against the requisite cost of capacity investments. In the context of the model analyzed in this study, the operational gains are subject to inherent... View Details

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19 Sep 2017
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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... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

08 May 2012
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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... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

19 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019

young startup’s success in the five years since its founding. The Silicon Valley–based company had recently shipped its two millionth smartwatch; held the record for three of the four highest Kickstarter campaigns ever (raising... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

12 Dec 2018
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Lesson Plan

those pie charts, that every aspect of the budget is facing cuts—and that every effort is being made to right the ship for the future. After the public comment, the nine-member board turns to an agenda of items that runs from the renewal... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Chris Sorensen

30 Nov 2017
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Happy Meals (Are Here Again)

would be a ways off. “This is a really big ship to turn,” he says. “But when I started hearing real, actual time lines—that was music to my ears.” It wasn’t just a vision but a plan. And just as importantly, that plan wasn’t a short-term... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Saverio Truglia

16 Feb 2016
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February 16, 2016

process within apps with a single touch and without needing to repeatedly enter credit card information, the billing address, or shipping address. On October 20, 2014, U.S. consumers could start using Apple Pay in stores with their iPhone... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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HBS - Financials | From the CFO

informing their teaching in all the School's educational programs, their knowledge educates the next generation of leaders and influences the practice of management on a global scale. As I write, the world continues to face uncertainty. Container View Details

12 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019

shipping from vendors. Purchase this case:https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/819010-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 519-021 Zalora: Data-Driven Pricing No abstract available. Purchase this... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

14 Mar 2017
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First Look at New Research, March 14

in Somerville, Massachusetts, Formlabs manufactures 3D printers used to print everything from prototypes and models to jewelry, dental, and sculpture molds. As Formlabs prepares to ship its latest model, the Form 2, Head of Customer... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Sep 2017
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City of Dreams

brokerage and advisory firm that he hopes to build into, in his words, “the Goldman Sachs of Sri Lanka.” Taking a broad view of the country’s assets, Fernando highlights areas that keep popping up in discussions of Sri Lanka’s economic prospects. Its location just off... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Alice Carfrae; Sri Lanka; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Government

10 Jul 2018
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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... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

14 Jan 2014
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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... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Sep 2012
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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... View Details

Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin

22 Aug 2011
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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... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

13 Sep 2019
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Hollywood Ending

unflappable? “I don’t think I feel risk the way most people do,” she says with a shrug. “I think it’s because of my mom.” Margaret Whitman was the sort of bold character who volunteered for the Red Cross during World War II and hopped on a View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photo by Christina Gandolfo

02 Mar 2016
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The New Space Race

direct them to specific orbital locations where, as a group, they will provide total global coverage 24/7, rather than viewing some of Earth some of the time. Spire wants to put up 100 of them to provide worldwide weather and shipping... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley

March 2019
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Economics of Converting Renewable Power to Hydrogen

By: Gunther Glenk and Stefan Reichelstein

The recent sharp decline in the cost of renewable energy suggests that the production of hydrogen from renewable power through a power-to-gas process might become more economical. Here we examine this alternative from the perspective of an investor who considers a... View Details

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01 Dec 2005
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Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper

the emphasis has shifted from collection to analysis,” he explains. “And that’s a sea change. It allows a small firm like ours to compete equally from an information standpoint with a giant cargo ship of an organization. That’s a... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Real Estate

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Synergistic Value in Vertically Integrated Power-to-Gas Energy Systems

First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19

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New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019

Lesson Plan

Happy Meals (Are Here Again)

February 16, 2016

HBS - Financials | From the CFO

New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019

First Look at New Research, March 14

City of Dreams

New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018

First Look: January 14

US Competitiveness at Risk

Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity

Hollywood Ending

The New Space Race

Economics of Converting Renewable Power to Hydrogen

Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper