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- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Case Study: Something New
expertise in various parts of a complex supply chain and high efficiency (to keep lead times down and costs manageable). But that is valuable precisely because it is difficult and thus very hard to... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
'Rooted' In Innovation
and iron out supply chain and regulatory issues at the United States Embassy in Cameroon. “Establishing a stable supply chain is a huge challenge... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Negotiating with Wal-Mart
negotiations to supply Wal-Mart with her family farm’s pumpkins and watermelons. Like Muccio, Talley confronted some of the same hardball price challenges, and like Muccio, she acquired a deep understanding of the Wal-Mart culture while... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Faculty Books
and skilled people to accomplish what relief agencies could not: an information system and supply chain that managed the flow of relief supplies. IBM’s actions exemplify an emerging business idea: the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Research Brief: The Real Cost of Countering China
Illustration by Patric Sandri Over the last five years, global supply chains have come under unprecedented stress from the pandemic, natural disasters, geopolitical events, and general anti-globalization... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
New Releases
satisfaction, and vice versa) constitute a service profit chain that can form the foundation for strategic service vision and help guide managers in their operations and marketing. The authors explain how any service View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
corridor of Southwest Baltimore. Factories and warehouses supplied the city with everything from furniture to gelato, and people flocked to the strip’s shops, theaters, and saloons. Just to the south, a series of elegant row houses earned... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Tipping Point
Illustration by Erin Robinson At one end of the global coffee supply chain are the diners who gather for brunch at the sidewalk tables outside Chloe’s Cafe in San Francisco’s Noe Valley neighborhood.... 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... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Eyes in the Skies
after analyzing supply chains and integrating geospatial intelligence with AI-driven analysis at companies such as IHS Markit, DigitalGlobe, and CAPE Analytics. With satellites scoping the same terrestrial... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
stacks of the white foam growing racks—she lays out the challenge. Climate change and its progenies, drought and flooding, are threatening traditional agricultural systems. And even when those systems work, they still rely on carbon-intensive shipping View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Faculty Books
evolving, mutually beneficial channel strategies. To navigate the complex distribution environment successfully, companies must map the industry channel, build and continually edit their own channel to best serve customers, and align and... View Details
- 19 Sep 2012
- News
On a Sound Track
that is relevant in Shanghai, Panama, South Africa, Europe, or wherever. The United States is one big market. Contrast that with Europe, where we have a central office, but where there are lots of different markets that require different strategies and investments. Our... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Case Study: On the Record
Despite the renewed interest in vinyl, there were not many manufacturers—less than 20 in the United States—and few had updated their processes or supply chain since the heyday of the late 1970s. In the... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Alumni Books
created so much financial devastation. The Curse of the Mogul: What’s Wrong with the World’s Leading Media Companies by Jonathan A. Knee, Bruce C. Greenwald, and Ava Seave (MBA ’82) (Portfolio) In an industry built on celebrity, media... View Details
- 02 Mar 2015
- News
To Market, To Market
building an agricultural and market infrastructure in places—like parts of Nepal, Romania, Haiti, and Guatemala—where little or none has previously existed. “The way we do this is through value-based development, where we engage farmers in wealth-creating value View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Disrupting India’s Dental Market
“Entering an industry that was entirely mom-and-pop,” he says, “we found the auxiliary services around it were also non-organized.” Singh saw an opportunity to create a national chain that would offer a... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
- 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... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
WATER Ltd.
In an age of global scarcity, water has become a valuable commodity in both the industrialized and developing worlds. With governments and communities increasingly unable to manage the complexities and expense of water treatment and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Faculty Books
also knows its people, suppliers, customers, and future direction. Bower describes the inside outsider’s attributes and reveals how to recruit, nurture, and promote this special type of leader. With a healthy supply of qualified internal... View Details