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- 17 Nov 2022
- News
Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combating Climate Change
– our scientists and engineers have delivered massive design improvements and our manufacturing and supply chain leaders have delivered unbelievable cost improvements. If you take the cost competitiveness of renewables, the increasing... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Faculty Books
The New Science of Retailing: How Analytics Are Transforming the Supply Chain and Improving Performance by Marshall Fisher and Ananth Raman (Harvard Business Press) Professor Raman and his coauthor explain how to use analytics to better... View Details
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
the fast-casuals—the bulk of those losses were to competitors like Wendy’s, Burger King, and Taco Bell. Value was key, too. McDonald’s had dropped its Dollar Menu in 2013, and the rest of the market jumped. “Just as competitors were... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Mr. Coffee
opened a dozen successful coffee bar locations and a roasting facility in Shanghai, with plans to develop more stores in other major cities.” Peet’s in two words: Coffee and community. “During California’s Kincade Fire, we assembled a... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
The End of Cows?
When Senior Lecturer José B. Alvarez was the CEO of Stop & Shop, he heard a recurring complaint from customers: The meat quality, they said, seemed to vary by the day. That’s the nature of meat: Nobody in the supply chain can guarantee... View Details
- 12 Jan 2015
- News
Good Investments
booth is a differentiator—something to keep the slow creep of the chain stores at bay. She also earns money directly from the booth, collecting half of the 30-cent user fee. (The other half goes to Barared.) All told, Reyes says the booth... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Local Hero
day game guy, all the way.” Instant replay in baseball? “Very limited use is probably OK, but I prefer human judgment.” Favorite player? “Mays, the greatest ballplayer ever.” The group Baer helped assemble paid $100 million for a storied... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
from the Indian state of Gujarat; he was born in Pretoria, South Africa, where his family ran a small chain of grocery stores and butcher shops. What wealth the family had built up, however, was expropriated with the rise of apartheid... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 23 Apr 2016
- News
Tipping His Cap to Open Source
deconstructs the traditional software value chain at big tech employers like Oracle and IBM. “What are the boundaries of an organization going forward in a world where information and content are open or can... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Case Study: Something New
design the company’s real value proposition? The Answers: Why not have a set of silhouettes with customizable features at a range of price points? With X bod- ices and Y skirts and Z trims, the bride now has a large number of... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 03 Sep 2018
- News
Moving Pictures
important to me as a kid, even if I now consider myself somewhere between an agnostic and a believer. The cultural values of trying to heal and do good in the world have stayed with me.” Singer’s father had always stressed the importance... View Details
- 21 Sep 2016
- News
Accelerating Change on Medicine’s Final Frontier
has the responsibility to push the field forward.” To date, NeuroLaunch has worked with 11 startups and is currently assembling a new group of applicants for its 90-day curated program, which focuses on product development, operations,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
We Rise
in VC is just not OK. We have a window to come up with changes. Could we get together to brainstorm constructive ways to improve our industry faster?” Within 48 hours, nearly everyone on the email chain agreed to participate. “Founders... View Details
- 19 Jan 2023
- News
Forged in Fire
new Emerging Leaders edition of True North, which includes Foster's story as an example of the importance of crucible experiences in defining leaders. And in this episode of Skydeck Foster and George share the lessons of their own crucibles, discuss the View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Action Plan: Net Proceeds
“I’m a root-cause kind of guy,” says Robert Goodwin (GMP 3, 2007), reflecting on a military, government, and civilian career that has taken him from counterdrug operations in Colombia to assisting with the peace process in Sudan to rebuilding the health care system in... View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Better, Simpler Strategy
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Tipping Point
November and December, these women typically awake before dawn to pick the coffee cherries in the cooler morning air. Then they spend days tending to the drying beans, meticulously sorting them for sale. To ensure that more of the value... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
because the fourth aftershock of an earthquake rarely does,” he explains, “and yet it can still be devastating.” Back to top Re·shor·ing (verb) There were visible cracks in the global supply chain for US firms prior to the pandemic,... View Details
- 19 Aug 2013
- News
Bees Make a Sweet Deal for African Farmers
value to their products. At the time, Keshavjee was the head of the Aga Khan Foundation in East Africa, a major development agency, and believed that the best way to sustain health and education initiatives was through income generation... View Details
- 18 Mar 2014
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The Oz of Data Opens the Curtain
crunching. Acxiom, say analysts, has constructed the world's largest consumer database. Nearly 25,000 servers track data on 700 million consumers worldwide, including most US consumers, assembling approximately 1,500 data points per... View Details