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  • 02 Apr 2013
  • First Look

First Look: April 2

Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=44534   Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 513-065 Agriculture in Mexico No abstract available. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/513065-PDF-ENG... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Nov 2014
  • First Look

First Look: November 11

efficiency of the response be characterized? He wondered if they could overcome some of the hurdles to applying concepts from commercial supply chains. The case explores some of the lessons learned from the Haiti disaster and offers an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Oct 2017
  • First Look

First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017

have higher management quality, more MBA trained managers, and lower mortality rates. This is true compared to the distance to universities that offer only business or medical education (or neither). We argue that supplying joint... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Sep 2014
  • First Look

First Look: September 2

embedding environmental and social factors in their supply chain management and by signing on the United Nations Global Compact, while Malaysian firms adopted reporting guidelines. We do not find any... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Nov 2013
  • First Look

First Look: November 26

Supply Chain for PepsiCo South America Foods, and his team had worked for 10 years to realize their dream of creating an agro research center in Peru that could provide more productive and healthier... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • October 1996
  • Teaching Note

International Sourcing at Intercon TN

By: Roy D. Shapiro and Marie-Therese M. Flaherty
Teaching Note for (9-688-055). View Details
Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Supply Chain; Selection and Staffing; Business Subsidiaries; Production; Manufacturing Industry; Japan
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  • 30 Jun 2015
  • First Look

First Look: June 30, 2015

Management Journal Monitoring Global Supply Chains By: Short, Jodi L., Michael W. Toffel, and Andrea R. Hugill Abstract—Firms reliant on supply View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 09 Apr 2014
  • Research & Ideas

A Playbook for Small-Business Job Creation

currently exists for the nation's smaller manufacturers must be a priority, Mills says. "Manufacturing is critical to our nation's competitiveness. In particular, small manufacturers who make up the nation's supply View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Banking; Financial Services
  • November 2023
  • Case

From Imitation to Innovation: Zongshen Industrial Group (Abridged)

By: Willy Shih and Nancy Dai
Like other small shops based in Chongqing, China, Zongshen Industrial Group started by assembling motorcycles from "standard" parts. The quality of its early products was good enough for rural Chinese buyers, though wealthier consumers usually purchased premium... View Details
Keywords: Disruptive Innovation; Growth and Development Strategy; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Competitive Strategy; Supply Chain; Product Positioning; Manufacturing Industry; Motorcycle Industry; China
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  • 15 Jul 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Amazon Prime Day: The Logic Behind a Retailer’s Made-up Holiday

challenges. Gupta said Amazon will have to carefully plan for a huge surge in demand, and the supply chain logistics that come along with that, though he believes they are well-equipped to do so given their... View Details
Keywords: Re: Sunil Gupta; Retail
  • 13 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 13

census. We document a shift to smaller shops following a 1996 regulatory change that increased the costs of opening large stores. Our analysis suggests that total factor productivity (TFP) of multi-store retail chains fell after the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • June 2009
  • Case

Plaza, the Logistics Park of Zaragoza

In the year 2000, the Government of the Autonomous Community of Aragón, Spain, made public a project for the development of a large-scale logistics park in the outskirts of the city of Zaragoza. With an area of nearly 13 square kilometers, PLAZA (an acronym for... View Details
Keywords: Customer Satisfaction; Geographic Location; Growth and Development Strategy; Infrastructure; Logistics; Supply Chain; Transportation; Distribution Industry; Zaragoza
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  • 2020
  • Chapter

Luxury and Environmental Responsibility

By: Anat Keinan, Sandrine Crener and Dafna Goor
Luxury and sustainability are often perceived as incompatible and contradictory. However, as the concept of luxury and our understanding of conspicuous consumption are evolving and need to be revisited—from conspicuous to conscious consumption—the book chapter explores... View Details
Keywords: Luxury; Goods and Commodities; Trends; Environmental Sustainability; Research
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  • 23 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 23

case decisions are 1) what factors are critical to the decision; 2) how to calculate the tradeoffs among transportation costs, inventory costs, and order costs; and 3) how the company's managers should coordinate to make the decision. Acts as a very effective... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Sep 2009
  • First Look

First Look: September 15

competence—expertise in technology—and its skilled people to accomplish what government and relief agencies could not: an information system and supply chain that tracked and managed the flow of relief... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Jan 2007
  • First Look

First Look: January 23, 2007

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=407028 Embrapa Harvard Business School Case 507-019 Brazil's national agricultural research corporation, Embrapa, has developed an integrated crop and livestock production... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 06 May 2014
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First Look: May 6

operations to ensure product was genuine and helped facilitate a continuous feedback loop between all players of the supply chain to deliver a high quality product to consumers. In light of strong demand,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Nov 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017

chain that generalizes Antràs and Chor (2013). To assess the evidence, we construct firm-level measures of the upstreamness of integrated and non-integrated inputs by combining information on the production activities of firms operating... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Apr 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 16, 2019

President of Sourcing Amanda Tucker and her colleagues in Nike’s Global Sourcing and Manufacturing division were focusing on three key supply chain challenges: sourcing from suppliers that meet compliance... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 15 Feb 2000
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Delivering Information Services: A 30-Year Perspective

example of a non-high-tech company we study is H.E. Butt Grocery Company. This is a large, very successful privately held chain in southern Texas that has used technology to combat some of the threats of its competitors, including... View Details
Keywords: by Staff

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