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- April 2025
- Supplement
ZEISS: Commercializing Science
By: Maria P. Roche and Richie Zitomer
Spreadsheet Supplement for HBS Case No. 725-359. View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Business Organization; Decisions; Business Strategy; Competition; Business History; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Independent Innovation and Invention; Disruptive Innovation; Innovation and Management; Innovation Strategy; Technological Innovation; Growth and Development Strategy; Knowledge Sharing; Industry Growth; Monopoly; Organizational Culture; Supply Chain Management; Partners and Partnerships; Risk and Uncertainty; Adaptation; Commercialization; Resource Allocation; Corporate Strategy; Semiconductor Industry; Technology Industry; Germany; Europe
- 09 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 9
organization's operations and supply chain and a product or service. Illustrates concepts with examples of calculating the carbon footprint of an organization (Harvard Business School) and a product (a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Oct 2004
- What Do You Think?
Does Speed Trump Intellectual Property?
decision-empowered, and experienced teams with limited senior management review and oversight. Fast competitors were often "leaders" of supply chains in which speed was emphasized over cost,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Alumni Take Action to Improve US Competitiveness
middle skills jobs,” Worrell says. “We focused our research on that gap and the failure in the talent supply chain that’s leading to that gap.” HBS alumnus Matt Sigelman (MBA 1999) also stepped up to help... View Details
- October 2010
- Teaching Note
Whole Foods: Balancing Social Mission and Growth (TN)
By: Christopher Marquis and Bobbi Thomason
Teaching Note for 410023. View Details
- March 2021 (Revised February 2025)
- Teaching Note
Afterpay U.S.: The Omnichannel Dilemma
By: Antonio Moreno and Anibha Singh
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 519-086. In 2018, Nick Molnar, the founder of the Australia-based online payment service Afterpay began its expansion to the U.S. market. The service had gained a loyal following in Australia by enabling customers to pay for online... View Details
Keywords: Omnichannel Retail; Digital Marketing; Business Startups; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; Business Organization; For-Profit Firms; Change Management; Customer Value and Value Chain; Customer Relationship Management; Customer Satisfaction; Financing and Loans; Microfinance; Global Strategy; Marketing Strategy; Market Entry and Exit; Digital Platforms; Product Development; Supply Chain Management; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Networks; Network Effects; Internet and the Web; Financial Services Industry; Technology Industry; United States; Australia
- Profile
Jeremy Andrus
are lots of different markets that require different strategies and investments. Our supply chain is complex. Most of our manufacturing happens in China, so the basic manufacturing piece—assembling millions... View Details
- 21 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 21
databases, search tools, and other programs-that would help the company reach scale. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/product/claritas-genomics/an/814032-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 514-018 Olam: Building a Sustainable Supply... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Aug 2017
- Research & Ideas
Should Industry Competitors Cooperate More to Solve World Problems?
Source: Cecilie_Arcurs George Serafeim has a startling suggestion to fix the world’s biggest environmental, social, and governance (ESG) problems such as water pollution, deforestation, and wealth inequality: encourage companies within industries to do less competing... View Details
- February 2000 (Revised November 2002)
- Case
QuickenInsurance: The Race to Click and Close (A)
ES Technologies started in 1976 as a storefront in Tempe, Arizona selling personal computer kits to hobbyists. Twenty years later, revenues exceeded $3.5 billion, and the business had evolved from a computer store to a master reseller and full-line integrator of... View Details
Keywords: Customer Value and Value Chain; Entrepreneurship; Technological Innovation; Growth and Development Strategy; Industry Structures; Business Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Information Technology; Information Technology Industry; Arizona
Applegate, Lynda M. "QuickenInsurance: The Race to Click and Close (A)." Harvard Business School Case 800-295, February 2000. (Revised November 2002.)
- 20 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
What’s Next for Japan
production techniques. Yasunobe, meanwhile, predicted that some type of keiretsu system would survive and be valuable. "Even in the U.S.," he added, "there are supply chain systems very much... View Details
Keywords: by Hilah Geer
- 21 Dec 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #12: Vehicle to Everything - Claire Broido Johnson (MBA 2002), Chief Operating Officer of Fermata Energy
Co-op is experimenting with a transactive energy rate that will enable members to partner with the co-op, supplying energy from their EV batteries when it is most needed, and charging up when demand — and prices — are low. The technology... View Details
- Web
Climate Symposium 2024: Confronting Reality, Celebrating Innovation - Blog - Business & Environment
Adapting to the Future”, the conversation flowed through the supply chain where panelist Daniel Betts , Co-Founder and CEO of Blue Frontier , emphasized that we’re “working with technology that is ripe for... View Details
- 20 Nov 2015
- News
Room to Grow
and focus it up the supply chain and let the market forces determine which of the growers, processors, and distributors are going to succeed and be responsive to these market opportunities,” says Kendall.... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 06 Aug 2014
- Research & Ideas
Climbing Down from the Ivory Tower
to apply it and disseminate it," she says. "That seems kind of wrong." Recognizing the importance of knowledge co-production can lead not only to successful products and services, but also to improved supply View Details
- 14 Oct 2008
- Research & Ideas
Should You Bring Advertising Expertise In-House?
services to "make" internally as opposed to what it buys in the marketplace. A firm may integrate "forward" into the channels used to distribute its output to customers, or "backward" into the supply View Details
- 04 Oct 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #10: Amanda Li (MBA 2018): Speeding Climate Change Solutions Through Project Finance Efficiencies
which leads to a lot of overhead in terms of origination costs. It involves copying and pasting from hundreds of models and contracts. Issues involving permitting, manufacturing and supply chain as well as... View Details
- 08 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile
between 1998 and 2002. Chile did better in this era of globalization, and boomed supplying copper to China. Chile produced one-tenth of the world’s copper, but once more was badly affected when Chinese and world demand declined in the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 17
products survive in equilibrium, even with competition. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-055.pdf Got Local Food? Authors:Baris Ata, Deishin Lee, and Mustafa H. Tongarlak Abstract We study the operational tradeoffs of a retailer and farmers in a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Nov 2008
- What Do You Think?
How Much Can You Ask of Your Customers?
And Gerald Nanninga posed the interesting question: "Have we limited our potential by not only mislabeling potential partners as 'customers' but in mislabeling everyone in the entire supply chain?" What do you think? Original... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett