Cash On Delivery - Publications - Faculty & Research

James E. Casey

Starting with two bicycles and $100 in capital in 1907, Casey went on to build one of the most respected and recognized companies of the 20th century – United Parcel Service. UPS’s trademark brown View Details

Keywords: Transportation

Thomas S. Monaghan

Monaghan founded the second largest pizza retailer in the United States. He discovered an effective new formula for Domino’s pizza, simplified the menu, limited toppings and pizza sizes, and concentrated on making View Details

Keywords: Food & Tobacco

06 Feb 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018

it is urgent. What does it mean to make capitalism a subject of historical inquiry? What is its potential across multiple disciplines, alongside different methodologies, and in a range of geographic and chronological settings? And how does a focus View Details

28 Apr 2016
News

New Venture Competition Winners Announced

Video Embed At the 2016 New Venture Competition finale 12 teams competed from 3 tracks for more $225,000 in cash prizes. The opening video portrays inspiring companies founded by HBS graduates and students to show that View Details

16 Oct 2012
First Look

First Look: October 16

experiment finds that self-help peer groups are a powerful tool to increase savings (number of deposits grows 3.5-fold and average savings balance almost doubles). Conversely, a substantially higher interest rate has no effect on most... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 Nov 2012
First Look

First Look: November 6

mark-plans backfire, consumer preferences shift, or tried-and-true practices fail to work in a new context. So is innovation just a low-odds crapshoot? In The Architecture of Innovation, Harvard Business School professor Josh Lerner-one of the foremost experts View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Samuel Insull

Insull centralized utility delivery and created a new business model called customer ownership, or people’s capitalism. This utility delivery approach rapidly spread throughout the country during the 1920s... View Details

Keywords: Utilities & Energy

27 Apr 2017
News

Going with the Flow

“Where’s your cash register? I don’t hear the cash register ringing.” Cynthia Fisher (MBA 1990) still recalls the first words her father, a small-town accountant, uttered when he visited ViaCord’s startup... View Details

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Session Types | Information Technology

Cumnock Hall on the Harvard Business School campus, HBS Live Online Classrooms bring cutting-edge program design and delivery together to create a truly immersive online experience. The Classrooms are also... View Details

09 Apr 2016
News

Introducing Panera 2.0

As Panera Bread opens its 2,000 location, founder and CEO Ron Shaich (MBA 1978) is preparing to launch Panera 2.0, the company’s ambitious plan to use technology to speed up the ordering process and enhance delivery options. Shaich tells... View Details

10 AM – 11 AM EDT, 22 Oct 2015
Webinars: Trending@HBS

Collective Impact: An Innovative Approach to Improving Public Education

In this webinar, Professor Grossman will describe an innovative approach to improving public education Collective Impact and how you can get involved to help transform public education in the communities you care about. View Details

09 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Around the World of Entrepreneurial Ventures

What do pizza delivery, unarmed guards, and metallization on compact discs have in common? They all represent businesses founded outside the U.S. that illustrate some of the enduring realities each international entrepreneur grapples with... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Dec 2020
News

The Camel and the Unicorn

instance, ecommerce companies have had to develop systems that allow buyers to pay cash on delivery so they can address trust issues and serve unbanked populations. But more... View Details

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Getting Involved - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

implementation materials upon request. Collaboration with HBS The Value-Driven Health Care Delivery Team at HBS takes on a limited number of partnerships with organizations committed to transforming care to... View Details

25 Aug 2022
News

Vision: To Go-Go

conventional restos by dealing strictly in virtual brands that rely on “ghost” or “cloud” kitchens, that is, standalone cooking facilities that lack physical dining spaces and serve customers exclusively through View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; entrepreneurship; foodtech; startup; Latin America

01 Sep 2014
News

Research Brief: A $1.6 Trillion Rainy-Day Fund?

No wonder the economy is slow to recover. At the end of 2013, industrial firms listed on the US stock markets held an astounding $1.6 trillion in cash reserves—that’s 12 percent more than a year earlier. And... View Details

Keywords: Francis Storrs

08 Nov 2024
Op-Ed

How Private Investors Can Help Solve Africa's Climate Crisis

non-viable project into the viable camp. An example might be a community solar project that would not generate enough cash flow on its own to attract bank debt and thus would not get built—unless the... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber; Green Technology; Energy

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Residents & Fellows Course - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

and the institute have developed a two and one half day seminar focused on frameworks, application tools, and case studies highlighting real-life examples of organizations moving toward value-based care... View Details

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VBHCD Initiative - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Health Delivery Project The Institute for Cancer Care Innovation MOC Network ICIC U.S. Cluster Mapping Project U.S. Competitiveness Project FSG Shared Value Initiative Social Progress Imperative AllWorld Network VBHCD Initiative VBHCD... View Details

24 Sep 2024
Blog Post

Climate Finance in Africa: Health, Self-Interest, Avoided Future Cost

But, in contrast, it appears that bad events like droughts or floods may turn the curve very far down bad cost events. What if one invests ahead in defenses like raising bridges, expanding drainage systems, planting different crops?... View Details

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