Appert's 1809 sealed jars let food travel; Durand's tin can made it portable.
Appert found food stays good if heated and sealed; Durand's 1810 tin can made it shippable, and Donkin and Hall fed the British navy from it.
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3,236 PUBLISHED CASES · REGULARLY UPDATEDMatchLog matched an emptied container to a nearby load before it went back
MatchLog's STinder pairs an import's empty container with a nearby export, turning a 34-day empty repositioning into a 4-day productive turn.
Read the caseJ.P. Morgan gave away its risk measure and made it the industry standard.
J.P. Morgan published RiskMetrics and its VaR methodology free in 1994, so the same risk language became standard across finance.
Read the caseHeineken helped 26 villagers buy their dying pub instead of advertising to pubs.
Heineken backed 26 Kilteely residents to buy their last local pub and turned it into a replicable model for saving rural Irish pubs.
Read the caseField Museum's Blood Appétite turned local restaurants into its ticket funnel, up 42%.
For Chicago's winter attendance dip, the Field Museum had restaurants serve blood-themed dishes; diners earned discounted tickets, lifting attendance 42%.
Read the caseAlibaba built a simulator of Taobao so its AI could train without real users.
Taobao built Virtual Taobao, a learned replica of its marketplace, so reinforcement learning could experiment on customers who did not exist.
Read the caseALDI said 'shop ALDI first', not 'switch' — and won the cost-of-living basket.
In a cost-of-living crisis ALDI stopped asking households to switch and instead asked them to do their ALDI trip first, as 'supermarket polygamy'.
Read the caseAjinomoto faked a #CancelPizza conspiracy to spring MSG on Gen Z.
Ajinomoto fought the MSG myth by launching its own satirical #CancelPizza movement, pointing out pizza is loaded with MSG too.
Read the casewhat3words gave every 3m square on Earth a three-word address.
what3words divided the globe into 3x3m squares and assigned each a unique three-word code, turning a precision location into something sayable.
Read the caseRikers Island's social impact bond paid for prison education from savings.
Goldman lent $9.6M for a Rikers Island education program; the city repaid it only if recidivism fell enough to create real jail savings.
Read the caseThe GSM SIM made mobile identity portable and let roaming become normal.
The 1991 SIM card put the subscriber's identity on a removable smart card, so a number moved between phones and networks and roaming stopped being a swap.
Read the caseThe SeaFold container folds five-into-one so empty boxes stop shipping air
A foldable 40ft container lets five collapsed boxes occupy one slot, cutting empty-container repositioning costs by up to 56%.
Read the caseMisfits Market sold the produce stores throw away, bundled like a milkman
Misfits Market buys cosmetically imperfect produce cheaply, ships it in weekly, neighbourhood-bundled boxes, and has rescued 230M+ pounds of food.
Read the casePhilips' I2C won chip-to-chip wiring with just two wires and an address.
Philips' 1982 I2C bus ran many peripherals on one clock plus one data line, each chip addressed by the protocol, then made it license-free.
Read the caseGoogle's Spanner used atomic clocks and GPS to make a global database consistent.
Spanner added GPS receivers and atomic clocks so timestamps have a bounded uncertainty, giving globally-distributed transactions a real ordering.
Read the caseGermany switched renewables from feed-in tariffs to auctions in 2017.
The 2017 EEG reform moved large wind and solar from set feed-in tariffs to competitive auctions, letting competition decide the price and the build-out.
Read the caseAlibaba's Cainiao became a logistics giant by not owning trucks or warehouses
Cainiao coordinated 3,000 partner couriers with data instead of buying trucks, chasing 24-hour China delivery.
Read the caseMedicare ACOs let providers keep part of the savings they create.
Accountable care organizations make groups of providers responsible for a whole patient population and let them share the savings if they beat a cost benchmark.
Read the caseMedicare docks up to 3% from hospitals with too many readmissions.
The 2012 HRRP cuts up to 3% of Medicare inpatient pay from hospitals with excess 30-day readmissions, making hospitals own the whole episode.
Read the caseECB's three-year LTRO lent banks €489bn to avert a euro-zone squeeze.
In December 2011 the ECB offered banks essentially unlimited three-year funding at 1%, and 523 banks took €489bn to buy time during the euro crisis.
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