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Making Strategic Trade-offs - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

HBS ISC Strategy Strategy Strategy Explained Business Strategy Creating a Successful Strategy Corporate Strategy The Role of Leaders Related Topics Creating a Successful St... Creating a Successful Strategy Unique Value Proposition Distinctive Value View Details
  • February 2013 (Revised December 2015)
  • Case

Groom Energy Solutions: Selling Efficiency

By: Michael W. Toffel, Kira R. Fabrizio and Stephanie van Sice
Groom Energy Solutions helps organizations reduce their energy use and costs through the implementation of energy efficiency measures, which create long-term financial and environmental benefits. With early success serving customers in the cold storage and industrial... View Details
Keywords: Groom Energy Solutions; Jon Guerster; Salem, MA; Energy Management; Energy Efficiency Paradox; Sustainability Management; Manufacturing; Cold Storage; Commercial Real Estate; Enterprise Smart Grid; Carbon Accounting; LED Lighting; Sustainability Research; Entrepreneurship; Environmental Entrepreneurship; Energy Entrepreneurship; Energy Services; Electricity; Startup; Expansion; Growth; Sustainability; Business Startups; Forecasting and Prediction; Energy Conservation; Revenue; Geographic Location; Human Resources; Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Market Entry and Exit; Operations; Service Delivery; Strategic Planning; Science; Environmental Sustainability; Climate Change; Society; Social Issues; Technology Adoption; Energy Industry; Green Technology Industry; Technology Industry; Utilities Industry; United States; Boston
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Business, Government & the International Economy - Faculty & Research

Business School Case 725-006, September 2024. Markups and Cost Pass-through Along the Supply Chain By: Santiago E. Alvarez, Alberto Cavallo , Alexander MacKay and Paolo Mengano 2024 | Working Paper | Faculty Research We study markups and... View Details
  • 01 Apr 2024
  • In Practice

Navigating the Mood of Customers Weary of Price Hikes

consumers can more flexibly adjust habits. More sophisticated firms take this into account when formulating their strategies and making long-run forecasts. Attention of regulators. The Federal Trade Commission recently released a report about the impacts of supply... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Retail; Retail
  • 19 Oct 2010
  • Working Paper Summaries

The Impact of Supply Learning on Customer Demand: Model and Estimation Methodology

Keywords: by Nathan Craig, Nicole DeHoratius & Ananth Raman; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion

    Frances X. Frei

    Frances Frei is a Professor of Technology and Operations Management at Harvard Business School. Her research investigates how leaders create the conditions for organizations and individuals to thrive by designing for excellence in operations, strategy, and culture.... View Details

    Keywords: retail financial services; retail financial services; retail financial services; retail financial services; retail financial services; retail financial services; retail financial services; retail financial services; retail financial services; retail financial services; retail financial services; retail financial services; retail financial services; retail financial services; retail financial services; retail financial services
    • 18 Jun 2024
    • Research & Ideas

    Central Banks Missed Inflation Red Flags. This Pricing Model Could Help.

    It’s no secret the Federal Reserve and other central banks weren’t prepared for the swift, steep curve of inflation’s climb after COVID-19 snarled supply chains in 2021 and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine sent energy prices soaring in 2022.... View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services; Banking
    • 17 Jun 2017
    • Research & Ideas

    Amazon, Whole Foods Deal a Big Win for Consumers

    Source: 400tmax Editor's Note. Online retailing behemoth Amazon announced June 16 that it would acquire upscale grocery chain Whole Foods Market in a deal valued at more than $13 billion. Though the company has dabbled with the idea of a brick-and-mortar footprint in... View Details
    Keywords: by Jose Alvarez and Len Schlesinger; Retail
    • June 2017
    • Teaching Note

    The De Beers Group: Exploring the Diamond Reselling Opportunity

    By: Benjamin C. Esty, Daniel P. Gross and Lauren G. Pickle
    In September 2014, Tom Montgomery (SVP of strategic initiatives at the De Beers Group) and his team launched a pilot program in the United States to explore $1 billion diamond market for pre-owned (recycled) diamonds. According to Montgomery, the motivation for the... View Details
    Keywords: Diamonds; Go-to-market Strategy; Secondary Market; Willingness To Pay; Pilot Program; Strategy Development; Strategy Execution; Scope; Marketing; Advertising; Branding; Customer Value; Pawn Shops; Jewelry; Supply And Demand; Corporate Strategy; Business Strategy; Vertical Integration; Advertising Campaigns; Value Creation; Retail Industry; Retail Industry; Retail Industry; Retail Industry; United States; United Kingdom; Africa; Botswana; South Africa; Namibia
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    • September – October 2011
    • Article

    The Manufacturer's Incentive to Reduce Lead Times

    By: Santiago Kraiselburd, Richard Pibernik and Ananth Raman
    It is generally a well acknowledged fact that, ceteris paribus, reducing the lead times between downstream and upstream parties in a supply chain is desirable from an overall system perspective. However, an upstream party (e.g., a manufacturer) may have strong... View Details
    Keywords: Cost; Demand and Consumers; Order Taking and Fulfillment; Production; Supply Chain Management; Sales; Retail Industry; Retail Industry
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    • November 2011
    • Case

    WrapItUp: Developing a New Compensation Plan

    By: W. Earl Sasser Jr. and Rachel Shelton
    A restaurant chain based in California offers made-to-order sandwich wraps using fresh, healthy ingredients. The founders of the company take a very active role in day-to-day business and tightly control every aspect of the restaurant operation from hiring store... View Details
    Keywords: Empowerment; Middle Management; Human Resource Management; Compensation; Incentives; Motivation; Motivation and Incentives; Change Management; Business Growth and Maturation; Service Delivery; Entrepreneurship; Employees; Compensation and Benefits; Retail Industry; Retail Industry; Retail Industry; California
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    Management Control Systems in Multiunit Companies

    By: Tatiana Sandino

    Professor Sandino conducts research on early-stage multiunit companies that introduce management control systems to help maintain operations, as well as company culture, as they grow, but also to enable adaptation to the different markets that they serve. Building... View Details

    • 03 Mar 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    When Showing Know-How Backfires for Women Managers

    Most of us would like to impress the people we work with. But new research from Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Alexandra Feldberg finds that, for women managers, this aspiration can undermine performance. Feldberg discovered that women managers in a... View Details
    Keywords: by Kara Baskin; Retail; Retail

      V.G. Narayanan

      Professor Narayanan is the Thomas D. Casserly, Jr. Professor of Business Administration, and Senior Associate Dean of Executive Education and HBS Online. His research focuses on management accounting with an interest in performance evaluation and incentives. He uses... View Details

      Keywords: retailing; retailing; retailing; retailing; retailing; retailing
      • 07 Jul 2022
      • HBS Case

      How a Multimillion-Dollar Ice Cream Startup Melted Down (and Bounced Back)

      and in retail chains with lots and lots of stores, they use what are called co-packers, third-party factories, that will make ice cream to your specifications. That was always an option for Ample Hills.”... View Details
      Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
      • Web

      Named Fellowship Funds - Alumni

      operations, real estate, finance, supply chain operations, and information technology. Prior to Nike, Smith Shi spent 24 years with McKinsey & Company. She also founded Lovejoy Advisors LLC, an advisory services firm for digitally... View Details
      • 20 May 2014
      • First Look

      First Look: May 20

      stores. Instead of simply reducing the number of new large stores entering a market, the entry barriers created the incentive for large retail chains to invest in smaller and more centrally located formats,... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 12 Nov 2013
      • First Look

      First Look: November 12

      development of Kvadrat's retail sales operations, the implementation of new Human Resources practices, and the execution of a new organizational design. Was such an extensive growth, turnaround, and internal development agenda feasible?... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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      Corporate Strategy - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

      of business units . More about business unit strategy Creating Corporate Value Added In diversified companies, corporate leaders can enhance competitive advantage by capturing synergies and harnessing fit across the value chains of... View Details
      • 21 Aug 2013
      • Research & Ideas

      What Went Wrong at J.C. Penney?

      After successful stints at Target (vice president of merchandising) and Apple (senior vice president of retail operations), it seemed Ron Johnson could do no wrong. But the winning streak came to a well-publicized end during his two-year... View Details
      Keywords: by Jim Aisner; Retail