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- 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
- 13 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Making Biotech Work as a Business
low return. He also offered strategic pointers for companies immersed in the field. Suddenly, with the ability to monetize IP, there was a new freedom.— Gary P. Pisano At moments during Pisano's talk, titled "The Biomedical Revolution: From Scientific Promise to... View Details
- 09 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Are Management Consulting Firms Failing to Manage Themselves?
top-management counsel, hiring the most qualified staff, and an apprenticeship process that built excellence. For example, Marvin Bower, founder of McKinsey, preached that partners had to focus on serving the right senior clients on their most critical issues with the... View Details
- 11 Aug 2014
- HBS Case
The Business of Behavioral Economics
effort into a commercial website and app. "They realized that some of the interventions they identified were useful to people, but there was no real mechanism to have them be utilized," says Norton, who along with John wrote a recent HBS... View Details
- 18 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 18, 2007
microstructure level; and third, evolution is a temporal phenomenon, in that the conditions at time t affect the nature of the design at time t+1, hence exploring this phenomenon requires longitudinal data. In this paper, we tackle these challenges by analyzing the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 12, 2017
restaurants in the LA area and sold frozen dumplings and other Korean foods in Costco across the U.S., and KCON.tv, a digital media channel, were experiencing commercial success in the U.S. market. But at the same time, there was some... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 04 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 4, 2016
Using a sample of commercial logo design competitions, and a novel, content-based measure of originality, I find that intensifying competition induces agents to explore novel, untested ideas over tweaking their earlier work, but heavy... View Details
- 17 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Brazil Teaches About Investor Protection
happened in Brazil; the credit system is still dominated by government-owned banks. I don't think the U.S. government will want to keep its shares in the largest mortgage and commercial banks for long. Q: What are you working on now? A:... View Details
- 07 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Biotech
will give way to $200 to $300 million drugs. That will be a very different world for big drug companies, with different cost structures and resource-allocation processes." And the drug industry won't be the only field affected, according to Alan L. Crane (MBA... View Details
- 20 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 20, 2016
Benjamin, and Damien Geradin Abstract—Since its launch in 2007, Android has become the dominant mobile device operating system worldwide. In light of this commercial success and certain disputed business practices, Android has come under... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 9
performance of hybrid organizations that pursue a social mission, and sustain their operations through commercial activities, by studying work integration social enterprises (WISEs). We argue that social imprinting and economic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 18
commercialization of technologies. This evidence also points to an important mechanism relating financial market development to technology diffusion and economic growth. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Numbers on Social Investments
commercial solutions to social and environmental problems." The goal of the study was to help IC, whose members collectively invested $80 million from 1992 to 2001, the time horizon of the study, develop a fact-based understanding of... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 16 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 16
measurement and analytics in translating TD-Canada Trust's service model of "comfortable banking" into operational terms. In 2000, in a banking market where consumers and regulators were typically hostile to mergers and acquisitions, Canada's fifth largest... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 3, 2006
Harvard Business School Case 606-090 Brandon Fogg must solve two seemingly unrelated problems in his management of creative R&D professionals. First, despite having hired brilliant research professionals, his firm is having problems View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- December 2022 (Revised February 2023)
- Case
Marfrig's Quest for Sustainable Beef
By: Jose B. Alvarez, Pedro Levindo and Ruth Costas
Marfrig, one of the world’s leading meatpackers, strived to comply with its commitment to have a deforestation-free value chain in Brazil by 2030. The company also pledged to reduce its emissions of greenhouse gases in accordance with the guidelines set by the... View Details
Keywords: Agribusiness; Animal-Based Agribusiness; Plant-Based Agribusiness; Acquisition; Family Business; Communication Strategy; Environmental Management; Climate Change; Environmental Regulation; Environmental Sustainability; Bonds; Food; Global Strategy; Goods and Commodities; Government and Politics; Political Elections; Leading Change; Marketing; Product Marketing; Product Positioning; Supply Chain; Supply Chain Management; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business and Government Relations; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Partners and Partnerships; Strategy; Adaptation; Business Strategy; Commercialization; Competitive Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Diversification; Expansion; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Brazil; Latin America; Argentina; Uruguay; North America; United States; Europe; Asia; China
Alvarez, Jose B., Pedro Levindo, and Ruth Costas. "Marfrig's Quest for Sustainable Beef." Harvard Business School Case 523-073, December 2022. (Revised February 2023.)
- 15 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019
financing a risky venture. Structured experimentation, popularized by Eric Ries’ The Lean Startup, has been widely embraced as the gold standard for how to approach the commercialization of radical new ideas. From Boston to Beijing to... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 8
Almandoz Abstract—A case study is presented on business ethics and bank management. The situation facing the president of a community bank established to operate as a green business and to consider ethical issues of bank loans when it is considering an application for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Aug 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs
Competition. DFA's six-person team came together in the interdisciplinary MBA course Inventing Breakthroughs and Commercializing Science and included members with medical, science, public health, and business backgrounds from HBS, MIT,... View Details