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- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Reinventing Radio Days
listening is done in the car. “Distribution ubiquity and that ease of use—what radio has always been—is what we’re after,” says Kennedy, who has inked deals with major automakers to integrate Pandora into their vehicles. To date, 125 million users—who listen an average... View Details
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The MOC Affiliate Network Impact - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Nicaragua and Stockholm School of Economics in Riga, Latvia. Since then, the network has grown by roughly ten affiliate institutions per year and currently records over 100 institutions from 67 countries. Over the last decade MOC... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Plan B: The Brick Bank
the target household’s average savings capacity was $1 per month, that local annual inflation was nearly 20 percent, and that home repairs usually cost about $300.” While that environment was not conducive to the savings program, the team... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 06 Oct 2016
- News
Drone Racing League Signs ESPN Deal
navigate quadcopters through obstacle courses at speeds reaching 80 miles per hour. The league launched earlier this year with an event at Miami Dolphins’ stadium—an experience that convinced Horbaczewski of DRL’s promise. “At that point,... View Details
- 14 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 14
fiscal and risk premium data for Brazil states between 1891 and 1930 to show that Brazilian states with natural endowments that were allowed to export commodities high in demand (e.g., rubber and coffee) ended up having higher revenues View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
How Mercadona Fixes Retail’s ’Last 10 Yards’ Problem
logistics and profitability while making life much better for workers. Mercadona offers the lowest prices in Spain, and its operational performance exceeds that of comparable Spanish and foreign chains. In 2008, Mercadona's sales per... View Details
- 17 Jan 2008
- Research & Ideas
If Marketing Experts Ran Elections
effectiveness of commercial marketing. Most consumers have stronger relationships with brands like Starbucks (the "third place" after home and work) than with their elected representatives or the umbrella political brands, Democrat or Republican. Around $20... View Details
Keywords: by John A. Quelch
- 05 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
Five questions for Regina E. Herzlinger
the sick. The resulting competition for consumers with differentiated products will control costs by increasing quality of care—e.g., integrated teams for congestive heart failure have reduced costs by $8,000 per year View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 17 Jul 2023
- Blog Post
From the Panelists: Toward a Decarbonized Future: Who Pays? Who Profits?
is the vast majority of the $9 trillion per year needed to meet Net Zero commitments.” Current McKinsey Senior Partner Daniel Stephens agreed that the price tag is huge, but wrote: “The big challenge is allocation and delivery, not the... View Details
- 07 Mar 2018
- Research & Ideas
Electronic Health Records Were Supposed to Cut Medical Costs. They Haven't.
billing amounted to 3 minutes and about $6 for a primary care visit, up to 15 minutes and $51 for surgery. Physicians, who cost between $3 and $8 per minute, are doing administrative tasks that a scribe costing 50 cents a minute could do... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Case Study: Sweat the Technique
including NFL and NHL teams. Use cases also include military and elder care markets. All told, Unger estimates peak revenues to reach about $375 million. Nix is still in the midst of product development, but it expects to set the market with its low-cost offering—less... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 02 Dec 2017
- News
A Leveraged Investment
revenues at $20 million per year, a friend encouraged him to apply to HBS’s Owner/President Management (OPM) program. “I didn’t even know where Harvard Business School was,” says Hesham with a laugh. The experience changed his life.... View Details
- 06 Nov 2014
- News
Building a Startup Community Beyond Commencement
The rent is relatively cheap ($200/month per person) compared to start-up sites in Kendall Square and South Boston’s Innovation District, its dedicated desks offer more permanence than most co-working spaces, and the access to the i-lab’s... View Details
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Pitchbook | Baker Library
data downloads. Profile views are limited to 250 per day. Faculty and staff with Harvard University account codes can purchase additional data download capabilities of 1000 daily/2000 monthly rows of company, deal or fund data and 500... View Details
- 16 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Private Meetings of Public Companies Thwart Disclosure Rules
senior management at public firms still spends a lot of time in private powwows with hedge fund managers at corporate headquarters, road shows, or conferences—an average of 17 to 26 days per year for each executive, according to a 2010... View Details
- 11 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
Supporting Independent Workers During COVID-19: One Phone Call at a Time
people visiting our website per day (and that may have just been our parents checking out our website!), but once word began to spread about our services, we were quickly up to several hundred hits per day... View Details
- Profile
Anthony Martore
In my Technology and Operations Management (TOM) course during the first semester, we stepped outside of the classroom and completed a two-day live simulation resembling a factory assembly line. We organized production groups of eight classmates View Details
- 06 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
Who Will Give You the Best Professional Guidance?
experience and the time they commit to the company. Some advisers work ad hoc as needed while others are more prescriptive with a set number of hours per week or month that they are available for consultation. In some cases, advisers are... View Details
Keywords: by Julia B. Austin
- Portrait Project
Nick Shurgot
mean that I will work 100 hours per week, it means that I will try not to be complacent or intellectually lazy or feel that I have "done my fair share." It means that I will take every opportunity to teach my children little... View Details
- 26 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
Syngenta Tomato Vision
eight plants in a row, a new variety begins and each week a new ripe cluster of tomatoes is harvested. Research teams collect data throughout this process via sensors and measurements, such as the volume of tomatoes grown per plant View Details