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  • 07 May 2013
  • News

Innkeeper to the World

Keywords: Accommodation; Hospitality
  • 05 Sep 2024
  • Blog Post

District Heating in Denmark: How Fjernvarme Fyn fuels an integrated and sustainable future

we have been impressed with all the thoughtful planning, foresight, and innovation we have seen on our field trip through Denmark and the Netherlands and have learned a lot about the applications of district heating. We are optimistic and... View Details
  • 21 Jan 2015
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Managing the Family Business: Market Basket’s Lessons About Buyouts

unity in the family and ownership group are fundamental to long-term success for the family business. And while we can try to maintain accord in other ways, long-lived family companies, like Riedel in Austria (11 generations), DeKuyper in the View Details
Keywords: Retail
  • 19 Sep 2024
  • Blog Post

A Day at Royal FloraHolland: The Epicenter of the Global Flower Market

the Netherlands and about 60% globally, which makes it the largest flower auction in the world. The diversity of its offerings, with imports from countries like Ethiopia, Kenya, Israel, Ecuador, and Colombia, mirrors the international... View Details
  • February 1992 (Revised December 1992)
  • Case

European Retail Alliance: (Ahold--The Netherlands, Argyll--United Kingdom, Casino--France)

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter
Keywords: Alliances; Retail Industry; Netherlands; United Kingdom; France
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  • 01 Sep 2011
  • News

Letters to the Editor

six years, 369 academics in entrepreneurship from 169 universities in 41 European countries have attended our program. Bert Twaalfhoven (MBA '54) Hilversum, Netherlands HBS Grads Spread the Word Regarding Howard Stevenson's role in... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 06 Jun 2023
  • Blog Post

Van den Ende Rozen: Greenhouse Rose Production

quality Red Naomi roses per year. Franco Muzzio, Blake Li, & Sonal Chaudhry, excited to see the roses! Image source: The authors. Our day started in Rotterdam, the base camp for all our visits in the Netherlands during the IFC’s... View Details
  • 06 Apr 2023
  • Blog Post

Circularity in Denmark

to break ground on a massive district cooling system that may pave the way for the complete replacement of natural gas usage with industrial waste heat for the city of Holbæk. Making sustainability accessible and breaking the “chicken and egg” problem Denmark and the... View Details
  • 16 Mar 2023
  • Blog Post

HySynergy and Crossbridge Energy

Production immersive field course, we met with the HySynergy-Crossbridge Energy partnership that was created to produce liquid e-fuels in Fredericia, Denmark. Many of the companies we visited in Denmark and the Netherlands emphasized... View Details
  • 25 Feb 2025
  • Blog Post

Alumni Career Journey: Lee Scott (MBA 2023) - Scaling Climate Tech Innovation

and the school’s social impact coursework—including an amazing IFC to Denmark and the Netherlands focused on decarbonization. Tell us about your career journey since graduating. Were your roles always related to climate and, if not, how... View Details
  • 04 Jun 2001
  • Research & Ideas

RealNetworks, CNET, and Judo Strategy

Sure, the price of tulips in the Netherlands skyrocketed to such outlandish heights that one flower sold for the equivalent of several hundred dollars before the market crashed in 1637, taking the Dutch economy down with it for many years... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
  • February 2019 (Revised October 2022)
  • Case

Scandal at Steinhoff

By: Kristin Mugford and Phil Caruso
Keywords: Volatility; Borrowing and Debt; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Financial Liquidity; Bonds; Corporate Accountability; Failure; International Finance; Restructuring; Business Conglomerates; Crime and Corruption; Retail Industry; South Africa; Austria; Netherlands
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  • September 2002 (Revised February 2012)
  • Background Note

Europe: Data Supplement, 1950-2011

By: Huw Pill, Lakshmi Iyer, Marie-Laure Goepfer and Ingrid Vogel
Supplements The Blair Wealth Project: Antecedents and Prospects, Renewing Germany: Kohl's Legacy and Schroder's Dilemma, Italy: A New Commitment to Growth, and The Netherlands: Is the Polder Model Sinking? View Details
Keywords: Data and Data Sets; United Kingdom; Germany; Italy; Netherlands
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  • 08 Jun 2023
  • Blog Post

Koppert Cress: Macro Greenhouses, Microgreens

Harvard Business School students darted between raindrops in the western Netherlands into the verdant lobby of Koppert Cress, an agricultural producer of microgreens. It was the last site visit of our Immersive Field Course (IFC) on... View Details
  • 02 Jul 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Ray A. Goldberg

subcommittee planning the direction of future research efforts of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. He has also been asked to head task forces determining future food policy for the Netherlands and the state of Kentucky. "I can't... View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Agriculture & Agribusiness
  • January 2018 (Revised June 2018)
  • Case

Medtronic: Navigating a Shifting Healthcare Landscape

By: Robert S. Kaplan, Michael E. Porter, Thomas W. Feeley and Alee Hernandez
Medtronic is adapting its strategy to changes in healthcare competition and payments. It has decided to develop new relationships with payers, hospitals, and physicians to become more accountable for patient outcomes and total costs. The case describes new forms of... View Details
Keywords: Value Based Health Care; Bundled Payments; Health Care and Treatment; Cost Management; Value Creation; Supply Chain Management; Customer Value and Value Chain; Health Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; United States; Netherlands
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  • September 2023
  • Background Note

Amager Bakke: Municipal Waste to Energy

By: Willy Shih, Michael W. Toffel and Kelsey Carter
This background note describes the Amager Bakke waste-to-energy (WtE) plant in Copenhagen, which merges traditional waste incineration with a combined heat and power (CHP) plant and air pollution control (scrubbing) technology, and had plans to add carbon dioxide (CO2)... View Details
Keywords: Decarbonization; Innovation; Innovation Focused Strategy; Environmental Operations; Circular; Waste Heat Recovery; Waste Management; Carbon Regulation; Buildings and Facilities; Energy Generation; Environmental Sustainability; Pollution; Climate Change; Wastes and Waste Processing; Innovation Leadership; Innovation Strategy; Energy Industry; Denmark; Netherlands; Europe; European Union
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  • Article

Europe's Alternative to Medicare for All: Swiss and Dutch Private Insurance Provide Better Coverage Than Canada's Single-Payer System

By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Bacchus Barua
An analysis of Canada’s single-payer healthcare system shows the dangers of the proposed Medicare for All model. In fact, the Canadian healthcare system is costly and drives poor outcomes when compared to objective performance measures. Alternatively, the Swiss and... View Details
Keywords: Healthcare Systems; Universal Health Coverage; Health Care and Treatment; Insurance; Canada; Switzerland; Netherlands
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  • 11 Oct 2024
  • Research & Ideas

How AI Could Ease the Refugee Crisis and Bring New Talent to Businesses

Policy Lab colleagues are looking to apply what they have learned toward developing solutions in other countries, such as Netherlands and Canada. “There are always differences in country contexts. It’s not like it’s a one-size-fits-all... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand; Technology; Information Technology
  • Web

What Others Are Saying - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

this.” — Hans Hoogervorst, Minister of Health, Welfare and Sport of the Netherlands “Redefining Health Care presents a fresh, clear-eyed view of the problems of the American health care system, and shows how value-based competition is the... View Details