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- 26 Jun 2000
- Research & Ideas
What’s an Internet Business Model? Ask a Health Care Professional
by health insurance, such as laser eye surgery and infertility counseling. "For the exchange to work, there has to be a value proposition for both sides," Slavitt explained. "Providers today live in a world where people they have View Details
- 15 Aug 2024
- Op-Ed
Post-CrowdStrike, Six Questions to Test Your Company's Operational Resilience
When cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike distributed a faulty software update in July, it impacted a staggering 8.5 million devices. The crisis rippled through commercial airline operations, package delivery logistics, ecommerce, and health... View Details
Keywords: by Hise Gibson and Anita Lynch
- 22 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 22
marketing pitch made to study participants by our project staff. Publisher's link: http://www.people.hbs.edu/nashraf/aamy_SavingsinTransnationalHouseholds.pdf August 2013 Journal of Finance Incentivizing Calculated Risk-Taking: Evidence from an Experiment with View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018
forthcoming Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press The Academy of Fisticuffs: Political Economy and Commercial Society in Enlightenment Italy By: Reinert, Sophus A. Abstract—The terms “capitalism” and “socialism” continue to haunt our... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 16 Feb 2016
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February 16, 2016
coverage, and there were rising price pressures from commercial insurers, employers, and individual consumers. Dr. Jeffrey Balser, CEO of VUMC, had to address the shortfall while maintaining the quality of patient care, education, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jan 2010
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First Look: January 5
Founding Institutions in the U.S. Commercial Banking Industry Authors:Christopher Marquis and Zhi Huang Publication:Academy of Management Journal (forthcoming) Abstract This study focuses on the imprinting of institutional environments,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Aug 2009
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First Look: August 18
in large chunks or in smaller increments. Additional topics that can be covered include consideration of what happens to commercial activities formerly run from slum dwellings, whether the market-rate units will indeed sell for high... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
Product Disasters Can Be Fertile Ground for Innovation
spread the high fixed costs of development and commercialization over their high sales volumes.” Those larger companies also may have benefitted from brand reputation, which could see customers flock to trusted names in a time of... View Details
- 21 May 2018
- HBS Case
How Would You Price One of the World's Great Watches?
make some of the building tools themselves because commercial ones aren’t precise enough. Every watch is hand assembled, twice, in the German workshop. When the first assembly is complete (and working fine), the watch is taken apart,... View Details
- 13 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 13, 2016
closes in 2015. Yirendai sought to capture its customers and make virtually instantaneous credit decisions online. CreditEase’s commercial success makes funding Yirendai’s growth not an issue. P2P lending in China, after explosive growth... View Details
- 03 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Healthcare Conference Looks At Ailing Industry
lumped together because they have the same mechanism, although they may look different to us, he said. What this portends commercially is up to smart companies to figure out, he said. Companies will need the ability to integrate scale and... View Details
- 18 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 18, 2009
linking fat cells, inflammation, and diabetes. He now wants to form a company to commercialize these discoveries. At the same time, Isaac Kohlberg, the head of Harvard's Office of Technology Development (OTD), is eager to improve... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 28, 2007
uses an IT-driven strategy to introduce an "all-in-one" card, which integrates a suite of financial products to drive its personal banking business enabling CMB to be ranked 6th among China's commercial banks and 2nd among the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- September 2023 (Revised March 2024)
- Case
ReMo Energy: Sizing Up Investors
By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang and Tom Quinn
In 2023, executives with ReMo Energy (founded 2020) were deciding which size ammonia plant to build as their first project. Their innovative model produced ammonia—useful for making fertilizer and for energy storage—from renewable energy, and they had received funding... View Details
Keywords: Factories, Labs, and Plants; Business Startups; Cost vs Benefits; Design; Energy Conservation; Energy Generation; Renewable Energy; Venture Capital; Investment Return; Goods and Commodities; Size; Infrastructure; Risk and Uncertainty; Science-Based Business; Commercialization; Technological Innovation; Chemical Industry; Energy Industry; Green Technology Industry; United States; Boston
Bussgang, Jeffrey J., and Tom Quinn. "ReMo Energy: Sizing Up Investors." Harvard Business School Case 824-027, September 2023. (Revised March 2024.)
- 24 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 24
Marshall, James Quinn, and Reed MartinHarvard Business School Case 806-099 Hexcel's new CEO is faced with deciding how to "take out" $60 million in cash costs in fiscal 2002, as two of the company's end markets-electronics and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 May 2009
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First Look: May 5, 2009
of industries can't be managed as "silos," tucked away in corporate, university, or government research labs, in incubators, or within venture capital funded entrepreneurial start-ups. Access to the marketplace is needed to help speed View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Mar 2012
- Research & Ideas
Unplugged: What Happened to the Smart Grid?
different players in the smart grid market, she told them there are basically two ways companies can make money: by offering a product or service that is unique or by having tightly held complementary assets, capabilities that support the successful View Details
- 09 Mar 2009
- Research & Ideas
How to Revive Health-Care Innovation
which the leading experts work. Always, the technological enablers of disruption are successfully deployed against the industry's simplest problems first. They then build commercial and technological momentum upon that foothold and... View Details
- 10 Nov 2014
- HBS Case
How Restaurants in Lima and Copenhagen Became Best in the World
kiosks. The interesting question is, where do you fall on that continuum? Acurio is probably more on the commercial end, because he is trying to create a brand to launch in other countries—it's not that he's trying to make money,... View Details
- 04 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 4
(November-December 2011) Abstract Commercial open source software (COSS) products-privately developed software based on publicly available source code-represent a rapidly growing, multibillion-dollar market. A unique aspect of competition... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel