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- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Faculty Books
Transforming Your Go-to-Market Strategy by V. Kasturi Rangan with Marie Bell (HBS Press) Most distribution channels are outdated and unwieldy, serving neither customers nor channel partners adequately. This book shows how members of View Details
- 01 Aug 2013
- News
A Cure for Cold Storage
distribution a daunting process. That's the problem Vaxess seeks to address. The company is developing a way to store vaccines at room temperature using silk proteins, eliminating the need for refrigerated storage and allowing for wider... View Details
- 22 Jul 2014
- News
Hungry for Change
technical solution or a cure for something that isn't scientifically possible or known," says Zeaske. "We have a resource scarcity and distribution problem, not a production problem." That last point is... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Delivering the Power to Dream Big
technology will not only increase solar adoption in the United States, but help people in the developing world as well. In industrialized countries, "you can imagine the impact on portable electronics—it can give you freedom from the electric grid without changing the... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
intensified as well. "In the last fifteen years," Tufano says, "competition has centered on the most effective means of distributing products; on the quality, immediacy, and depth of information made available to consumers; and on the... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
2017 in Manufacturing: The Supply Chain Goes High Tech
must now be more cost competitive, in both domestic and foreign markets. Meanwhile, the explosion of digital technology has forced manufacturing to look at its competitive advantage not just in terms of cost competitiveness, but also in the way the sector defines View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
A Better World, One Idea at a Time
A dozen budding social entrepreneurs pitched their ideas for innovative products and services during the annual Social Enterprise Conference in February, and four came away with top honors. The sold-out event marked the 13th year of the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Case Study: Paper Chase
are positioning their products or services. Instead of selling 1 or 2 at a time, you’ll be selling 200-plus per order. It will raise visibility in your market—you can promote individual purchases of your cards on the back of each one, and... View Details
- 17 Nov 2016
- News
Wired for Innovation
ultimate goal of selling transmission capacity to generators of renewable-energy seeking to get their product to market; or to utilities looking to access the lowest-cost clean power in the country. To make that happen, Skelly spends much... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Grad’s “Claw” Goes to Market
Moeller and Forest competed last summer on the ABC reality show American Inventor; although they weren’t among the finalists, their product is the first from the show to be officially brought to market by a major corporation. (Gladiator... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
- 21 Nov 2017
- News
Alumni Peer into the Future of Energy
manage people will not. Study interpersonal relations, finance, and change management.” Joseph Santo (MBA 2017) Business Development, Distributed Energy, NextEra Energy Resources “I work in distributed... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Lighting It Up
interest in lights, especially since 2002, when he acquired American Lighting, a specialty lighting company in Denver, Colorado. The firm sells its products to lighting showrooms, restaurants, amusement parks, and casinos as well as to... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Case Study: Building the Base
initial step in his quest to help readers—particularly millennials and Gen Zers—better understand how the news is spun. The company’s launch product is a free daily newsletter that aggregates headlines from both the left and the right,... View Details
- 07 Mar 2019
- News
Smart Marketing Brings Rapid Growth to Latino Brands
accomplish that was to create their own distribution network. Therefore, we are able to control how the brand should look like, how the brand should be able to be established in the marketplace, and how that brand could revolutionize... View Details
- 28 Feb 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Omowale Casselle (MBA 2009)
Omowale Casselle What does your work involve? "My official title is director of product management, SAMPLEit, a new venture at redbox. In this role, I'm responsible for leveraging technology across our different View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Case Study: Power Nappy
Illustration by Alvaro Dominguez Before she had a baby of her own, Amrita Saigal (MBA 2014) kept hearing from friends that the “natural” diapers on the market didn’t hold up as well as the old standards, like Pampers. Trained as a mechanical engineer, Saigal knew her... View Details
- 24 Sep 2020
- News
The Race for a Vaccine
with vaccines in testing are already stockpiling doses for distribution. If the testing shows the product to be unsafe or ineffective, all those doses will be destroyed—but if the product is approved, View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Case Study: Ready for an Upgrade
that could cost a company several months of time, hundreds of millions of dollars, or both. Later, working as a product manager for a robotics and automation startup after HBS, McLemore realized that the problem wasn’t unique to the... View Details
- 13 Jan 2021
- News
Stress Test
inventory is really the tail that wags the logistics dog. This is why we see distribution centers encroaching on population centers, getting closer and closer to the point of consumption. The more time and money you spend on... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Case Study: Alumni Advice for a Health Care Startup
legal firms. Then I would consider the kind of bundled options one might find in “gold-plated” health care policies. —Kate Stohlman (MBA 1984) If customer results can differentiate your product(s) for the employer, your pricing should reflect it. Offering a premium... View Details