Anyone who decides to spend a few bricks on bee school will quickly become acquainted with the Harvard Business School (HBS) Case Method . It starts with a “case study,” a 10-20 page document written from the viewpoint of a real person leading a real organization. The aspiring leaders of tomorrow then use Google to try and find the answer before realizing there is no “right answer.
The case study approach comes in handy for investors as well when trying to determine which business models will become superior. Today, we’re going to talk about two business models for on-demand manufacturing ( also called distributed manufacturing ).
Marketplace Models Are Gaining Popularity As Retailers Grow Assortments With Third-Party Sellers
J. Crew is one of several retailers offering brands other than their own to keep customers engaged.
Forever 21 is testing a strategy that involves selling the products of other brands on its e-commerce site. The offer will begin in the first quarter of 2022, said Daniel Kulle, CEO of Forever 21.
Marketplaces allow retailers to expand their product offerings with less risk than a traditional wholesale model where retailers take possession of the inventory. Smaller marketplaces, such as Bulletin have sprung up in recent years with various formats, offering vendors a chance to showcase their products in exchange for a percentage of sales or monthly fee.
Transportation sustainability: Online marketplace aims to make trucking emissions more transparent
Buy now, pay later. What's the catch? - Marketplace
If you do any shopping online, you’ve no doubt seen offers to pay for that sweater or mattress in installments using services from Affirm, Afterpay, Klarna and other fintech companies.
These “buy now, pay later” startups got a boost from the growth in online shopping during the pandemic. The e-commerce platform Shopify just expanded its partnership with Affirm to nearly half a million merchants. And the model is moving beyond retail to include things like rent, travel, even medical bills .
With Supply-Chain Constraints In The Spotlight, An Atlanta-Based Marketplace For Industrial
The Reibus team (left to right): chief operating officer John Blount, CEO John Armstrong and chief ... [+] revenue officer Jon Haley at a customer's steel service center.
Consumer marketplaces get all the love. But B2B marketplaces are often attacking gigantic markets. Case in point: Reibus International. The Atlanta-based firm runs a marketplace for the industrial metals market. Boring? Sure. But industrial metals is a $300 billion market in North America, and supply chain constraints and price volatility have made it ripe for disruption.
A Sustainable Design Marketplace Where the Mission is Buy Less – SURFACE
We want to challenge the status quo of consumerism, which is about buying too many things with no consideration of their environmental and social impacts. Our vision is to help consumers make more informed choices so they buy less stuff and instead invest in durable, quality design that supports people's values. Our product curation process takes the anxiety out of a purchase decision—the marketplace is curated for sustainability, social justice, and transparency.
We are primarily looking for third-party certifications as well as our reviews of company materials and information on sustainability. A lot of the products are ones we've used as green architects in the past and vouch for through our own experience. For the past year of the pandemic, our vetting process has been based on 'way' too many hours spent with our vendors on Zoom. The time investment and deep conversations have been crucial in building solid relationships during our curation
WOM Protocol Launches NFT Marketplace for TikTokers and
The YAAAS marketplace, which is currently in MVP, launched today with a phased rollout of features, enabling the community to test and shape its future development.
Collaborations are also available to artists looking to monetize their music through collaboration with influencers, giving influencers a brand new channel for finding original music to feature in social videos.
Singapore launches new carbon marketplace for nature conservancy projects
SINGAPORE — Singapore is launching a carbon trading marketplace focused on nature conservancy projects, a move that could protect at-risk tropical forests in the region while unlocking a ready source of carbon credits for businesses.
The initiative, known as Climate Impact X (CIX), will have two main platforms: a marketplace of nature-based projects for firms to invest in, and an exchange where high-quality carbon credits are freely traded in larger quantities, catering mainly to multinationals and institutional investors.
U.S. housing market short 6.8 million homes, report says - Marketplace
A report out Wednesday from the National Association of Realtors says the country is short about 6.8 million housing units.
One big reason is that the construction of new housing — especially housing that's affordably priced, for buyers and renters — has slowed in the last 20 years.
“The short story is that we simply haven’t been producing enough housing,” said Daniel McCue , with the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard.
The hidden side of the prison labor economy - Marketplace
This interview is part of our series Econ Extra Credit with David Brancaccio: Documentary Studies , a conversation about the economics lessons we can learn from documentary films. We're watching and discussing a new documentary each month. To watch along with us, sign up for our newsletter.
There’s a striking scene in Brett Story's documentary “The Prison in 12 Landscapes” that captures the complicated and exploitative aspect of rehabilitative prison labor programs: An incarcerated firefighter, explaining how they're not allowed to talk to others on the job, adds that — because of their criminal record — they have a slim chance of becoming a firefighter upon leaving prison.
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