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  • 01 Jul 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Crowdfunding a Poor Investment?

push the bottleneck to the second phase, similar to the "Series A crunch" occurring in the early stage financing of startups today. After all, even with traditional VC financing, investors in startups lose their shirt up to 75... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services
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Online AI Course | HBS Online

Harvard Business School Stéphane Bancel, CEO, Moderna Dr. Melissa Moore, Chief Scientific Officer of Platform Research, Moderna Show Hide Details Concepts The Rise of Generative AI Collision and the AI-First Company Featured Exercises Consider how generative AI can... View Details
  • 23 Mar 2015
  • Research & Ideas

It’s Called ‘Price Coherence,’ and It’s Surprisingly Bad for Consumers

customers. But in markets with price coherence, competition can actually make things worse for buyers, according to the researchers. Their paper describes a competitive bottleneck that happens when sellers turn to multiple intermediaries... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail; Air Transportation; Food & Beverage; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 23 Feb 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 23

knowledge of a technical system to gain strategic advantage. The strategy involves, first, identifying "bottlenecks" in the existing system, and then creating a new architecture that isolates the bottlenecks in modules. An... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Mar 2011
  • First Look

First Look: March 15

conservative monetary policies would reduce bottlenecks to growth and further temper Brazil's high inequality. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/711024-PDF-ENG Rebranding Gallagher Rohit Deshpande and Keith Chi-ho... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2003
  • News

Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?

be unpacked, loaded, and repacked was reduced by simply delivering the parts to the cleaner in baskets that could be hand-dipped in the solution. As a result, cleaning costs dropped by 75 percent. “We looked at every step of our process to see where the View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Manufacturing
  • 11 Sep 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, September 11, 2018

especially on key bottleneck links, in the face of unbalanced traffic. To address the issue Ekol developed a consolidation center in Turkey and a cross-dock deconsolidation center in Germany, its largest market. As Chairman Ahmet Musul... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 05 Feb 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019

7, I argued that sponsors of large technical systems (including platform systems) must manage the modular structure of the system and property rights in a way that solves four inter-related problems: provide all essential functional components, solve system-wide... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 01 Dec 2020
  • News

New News

chief, so I see final copy, but I don’t want to be a bottleneck for my team anymore. So how do we hire really great people who will fit with our culture? You could bring an all-star reporter from the New York Times and they might fail at... View Details
Keywords: entrepreneuship; digital media; startups; news; business models; young alumni; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information
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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 ships View Details
  • 01 Mar 2023
  • News

Clearing the Air

believe that we can just take existing processes for capturing carbon dioxide directly from the air and improve them through optimizing the chemical engineering process. The fundamental bottleneck that controls the economics of direct-air... View Details
Keywords: April White and Dan Morrell; Illustrations by Richard Borge
  • 04 Apr 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, April 4

model the technology of step processes with bottlenecks and show how this technology rewards vertical integration, a hierarchical organization, and the use of direct authority. These properties in turn became the organizational hallmarks... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Sep 2009
  • First Look

First Look: September 15

As bottlenecks shift, students can explore several alternatives, each with different costs and trade-offs. Students may also reflect on the true cost of providing the extraordinary service, and whether management properly takes the impact... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Sep 2006
  • First Look

First Look: September 12, 2006

dynamic strategy that can be employed by firms capable of architectural innovation. The strategy involves using knowledge of the bottlenecks in an architecture together with the modular operator "splitting" to shrink the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jun 2006
  • News

India Arrives

downturn, if and when it does come, will be cyclical. “The growth we’ve seen is a self-sustaining proposition based on a global competitive advantage in particular industries,” says Ramnath of ICICI, while citing the ever-present challenges of infrastructure View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
  • 20 Jul 2010
  • First Look

First Look: July 20

the role of bottlenecks and constraints in sparking innovations in business models by the creative entrepreneur. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/810075-PDF-ENG Purchase this supplement... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace