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- 30 Jan 2006
- HBS Case
The Case of the Mystery Writer’s Brand
Patterson, and book clubs. In nineteenth-century agricultural marketing, farmers transported their crops to market and waited for people to buy them, much as the publishing industry today ships books to...
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- October 2002 (Revised December 2003)
- Case
eShip-4U
By: Roy D. Shapiro and Timothy M. Laseter
eShip is a small Israeli start-up with a potentially exciting new concept for the residential package-delivery value chain--the Automatic Delivery Machine (ADM). Much like today's ubiquitous ATMs, ADMs would allow consumers to have parcels delivered to a nearby ADM...
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Business Startups;
Business Model;
Service Operations;
Logistics;
Corporate Strategy;
Information Technology;
Competitive Strategy;
Value Creation;
Saving;
Innovation and Invention;
Transportation Industry;
Transportation Industry;
Transportation Industry;
Israel;
United States
Shapiro, Roy D., and Timothy M. Laseter. "eShip-4U." Harvard Business School Case 603-076, October 2002. (Revised December 2003.)
- 12 Apr 2018
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: The Trouble with Tariffs
Stacks of shipping containers waiting to be filled with export goods. ralfgosch In March, when the Trump administration released its proposed tariffs list against China, I was eager to get a look. After all, these are the products from...
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- 22 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 22
http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/510055-PDF-ENG Stolt-Nielsen Transportation Group Lynn S. Paine and Lara AdamsonsHarvard Business School Case 310-043 Richard Wingfield considers whether to continue a cooperative agreement with...
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Martha Lagace
- 07 Jan 2008
- Research & Ideas
Pursuing a Deadly Opportunity
market for human eggs, sperm, and various infertility treatments, is another example, he adds. Anatomy Of A Study Anteby and Hyman compared 80 voluntary donations and 120 specimen shipping invoices from a pair of Maryland-based...
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- 27 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Coffee Economy That Bloomed Out of Nowhere
four of the years from 1876 to 1910. Indeed, he built roads and railroads, and he instituted liberal land, labor, and credit laws that favored agricultural commerce for large landowners. But the transportation infrastructure efforts...
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- 11 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 11, 2008
South Dakota Wheat Growers (SDWG) serves the needs of its 3,600 active farmer-members by supplying farm inputs and organizing the marketing and transportation of grain produced in the co-op's service territory. For almost 80 years, the...
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Martha Lagace
- 27 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
New Cluster Mapping Project Helps Companies Locate Facilities
sites, transfer new product lines, update technologies, etc. Another cost of outsourcing is the cost of inventory. A part might be manufactured cheaply in Mexico, but shipping the part involves inventory, not to mention delays and risks....
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Dec 2018
- Research & Ideas
Free Trade Needs Nurturing—and Other Lessons from History
Question: What patterns emerge from history that can help us better understand where we are today? Sophus Reinert: To many people, globalization is teleological, something that necessarily becomes stronger over time and leads to an ever-more economically interconnected...
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- 27 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 27, 2007
in the world. But now the end seemed close. Was there a way to save eDonkey? Was it time for Yagan to get out? He had little time to figure out his next move. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=707482 Restructuring...
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Martha Lagace
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS
enabled ships to sail the open sea rather than hug the coast. To solve that problem, governments responded by enacting laws of the sea. It then became clear to me that it was almost impossible to understand the Internet by thinking of it...
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by Jim Aisner
- March 2020
- Article
Synergistic Value in Vertically Integrated Power-to-Gas Energy Systems
By: Gunther Glenk and Stefan Reichelstein
In vertically integrated energy systems, integration frequently entails operational gains that must be traded off against the requisite cost of capacity investments. In the context of the model analyzed in this study, the operational gains are subject to inherent...
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Keywords:
Vertical Integration;
Volatility;
Capital Investment;
Capacity Management;
Renewable Energy;
Green Hydrogen;
Decarbonization;
Carbon Emissions;
Environment;
Energy;
Environmental Accounting;
Environmental Management;
Environmental Sustainability;
Investment;
Decision Making;
Operations;
Technological Innovation;
Green Technology;
Shipping Industry;
Shipping Industry;
Shipping Industry;
Shipping Industry;
Shipping Industry;
Shipping Industry;
Shipping Industry;
Shipping Industry;
Shipping Industry;
Shipping Industry;
Europe;
North America;
South America;
Africa;
Asia
Glenk, Gunther, and Stefan Reichelstein. "Synergistic Value in Vertically Integrated Power-to-Gas Energy Systems." Production and Operations Management 29, no. 3 (March 2020): 526–546.
- 19 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
disconnect between the shippers (demand) and truck owners (supply), had created a layer of intermediaries (brokers) for transporting goods. The founders saw an opportunity in creating an online marketplace for freight—and uniting the...
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Sean Silverthorne