Publications

01 Feb 2008
What Do You Think?

How Sustainable Is Sustainability in a For-Profit Organization?

size fits all' legislation." All of this will take time. Adrian Gonzalez commented that "There's a limit to what can be accomplished ... because today's products, manufacturing processes, and supply chains were not designed with... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

Ward Melville

After mass-producing shoes for soldiers in World War I, Melville and an associate opened Thom McAn’s in New York as a low cost, high quality shoe retailer. The chain eventually encompassed over 1,200 stores. With Thom McAn’s as its anchor... View Details

Keywords: Retail

Bernard H. Kroger

Kroger is responsible for many innovations in grocery store operations. He was the first to place grocery ads in daily newspapers and was the first grocer to bring meat departments into the store. Starting with one store, he created a View Details

Keywords: Retail

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Introduction - The Worker - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

Production The Worker Chapter Introduction Chapter Images The Audience Bibliography The Worker: The Human Factor The more you see of modern machines, the more may you, too, respect the men who make and manipulate them. Lewis Hine, 1932 The View Details

04 Nov 2019
News

A Home for Startups

Ankit Samdariya (MBA 2013) is CEO of The Hive, a collaborative workspace firm in Chennai, India. In this video, he discusses how the company is serving the rapidly growing trend toward collaborative work among Indian startups and small businesses. “The Hive is a View Details

Keywords: work space

01 Sep 2007
News

Where Are They Now?

HBS faculty in 1980 and teaching organizational behavior, in 1985 he decamped to Au Bon Pain, the chain of bakery cafés, serving as COO for several years before returning to HBS. At the School again until 1998, he taught, wrote books, and... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality; Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Retail Trade

Curtis L. Carlson

Carlson was the first entrepreneur to develop a loyalty program for the grocery chain through the issuance of Gold Bond trading stamps. What began as a simple loyalty program for grocers in the Midwest grew into one of the largest service... View Details

Keywords: Services

19 Sep 2024
Blog Post

A Day at Royal FloraHolland: The Epicenter of the Global Flower Market

house offered a unique lens into the vibrant global horticulture industry. RFH’s Dominant Global Position: Dominant Position in the Flower Supply Chain RFH's dominant position in the flower supply chain is... View Details

01 Jun 2001
News

Virtual Plant Tours and Beer Game Dysfunction

exercise, administered in the computer lab. A software program simulates a supply chain from retailer through wholesaler and distributor up to the beer factory. Students take roles as a participant in the chain, seeing only the orders... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

Herbert J. Siegel

Siegel built the once, small boat maker into one of the largest and most powerful media holding companies. Acquiring two independent television stations with the Chris-Craft acquisition in 1968, Siegel sold the boat business in 1980 and pursued a series of shrewd media... View Details

Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media

December 2010 (Revised March 2013)
Case

Asian Agri and the Future of Palm Oil

By: David E. Bell and Natalie Kindred

For Asian Agri and other Indonesian palm oil producers, the future promised rising demand from fast-growing Asian populations, but also intensifying criticism from environmental groups. With the highest yield and lowest production cost of any edible oil, palm oil... View Details

Keywords: Plant-Based Agribusiness; Social Marketing; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business Strategy; Supply Chain Management; Natural Environment; Marketing Strategy; Environmental Sustainability; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Indonesia; Malaysia

26 Jun 2017
Working Paper Summaries

Inventory Management for Mobile Money Agents in the Developing World

Keywords: by Karthik Balasubramanian, David F. Drake, and Douglas Fearing; Financial Services; Banking

May 1999 (Revised August 1999)
Case

Victory Supermarkets: Expansion Strategy?

By: David E. Bell and Ann Leamon

Jay DiGeronimo, president of a 16-store supermarket chain, is trying to decide the timing and method for expanding his chain. The family-owned company could continue in a maintenance mode, with each family member running one store. It could expand slowly using a new... View Details

Keywords: Budgets and Budgeting; Cost vs Benefits; Trade; Investment; Market Entry and Exit; Supply Chain Management; Private Ownership; Competition; Expansion; Retail Industry

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Harvard Business School Archives | Baker Library

body of his professional correspondence. Wartime Schools Collection During World War II, the U.S. military was facing an increased need for officers trained in statistics and supply chain logistics. The HBS Archives holds records related... View Details

01 Dec 2022
News

3-Minute Briefing: Yla Eason (MBA 1977)

in June, when retailers had made their purchasing decisions in February. Sales is often about education. I asked chain retailers where they were selling dark pantyhose and makeup for brown skin, then cross-referenced that information with... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; diversity; leadership; Miscellaneous Manufacturing; Manufacturing

August 2005 (Revised March 2007)
Case

Leitax (A)

By: Noel H. Watson, Rogelio Oliva and Laura Winig

Leitax, a young digital camera manufacturer selling its cameras mainly through retailers, experienced poor matching of inventory availability with demand for new and existing products in 2002. Describes the implementation and details of a consensus forecasting... View Details

Keywords: Demand and Consumers; Supply Chain Management; Forecasting and Prediction; Supply and Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Retail Industry

17 Mar 2015
First Look

First Look: March 17

uniqueness in the transferable utility (TU) case. Our main result is an extension of the definition and the existence and uniqueness theorems to stochastic games-discounted or undiscounted. Download working paper:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

December 2002 (Revised October 2006)
Case

Tesco Plc.

By: David E. Bell

Tesco, a supermarket chain, has been transformed from a third-rate retailer to a global leader in the past ten years. This case describes how that was accomplished. Interviews with Tesco employees explain the company's approach to understanding customers, motivating... View Details

Keywords: History; Motivation and Incentives; Leadership; Internet and the Web; Supply Chain Management; Global Strategy; Globalization; Customer Focus and Relationships; Business Strategy; Retail Industry