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- 12 Jan 2015
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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 Dec 2012
- News
Corruption 101
Ramanna. Economic tools of supply and demand can also be applied to studying the phenomenon of corruption. On the demand side, it is true that corrupt government officials sometimes garner a degree of sympathy from the public,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Capitalizing the Corner Shop
photo by Getty Images photo by Getty Images When Samuel Ejeh decides to open a new location for his Lagos-based supermarket chain Grocery Bazaar, he likes to move quickly. But expansion is capital-intensive, constraining his cash flow,... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 14 Oct 2014
- News
A legacy of social and environmental respect
film. Both seemed in short supply when Parija was growing up poor in a tiny rural village in the eastern Indian state of Odisha. Still, there was a spark. “I knew I could not change my destiny to be born there,” he says, “but I also knew... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
A Conversation with John Doerr (MBA '76)
market; and a set of financings reasonable for all parties. Fifth, and most important, is a tremendous sense of urgency. We want to back ventures that are the first or second entrants in their markets, so speeding the product to market in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
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Digging Deep
operations, creating 400,000 direct manufacturing jobs since 2010. PwC predicts that in the years ahead “manufacturers in all industries will find themselves in a race to efficiently produce products at the point of demand.” BCG encourages companies to rethink their... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Perspectives on Success
From finance to flea markets, Class of '73 alums have made their mark in a wide range of endeavors over the past 25 years. For some, a series of random events crystallized into an unexpected opportunity or a new professional direction.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Paulson Advocates Regulatory Reform
institution should be too big to fail,” he added. But regulation alone is not enough. Said Paulson, “We need a combination of regulation and market discipline,” an attribute in short supply in the run-up to the financial crisis. View Details
- 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
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Kelp Is on the Way
Petrochemicals are all around us—from ubiquitous plastic packaging to the inconspicuous lining of your takeaway coffee cup, and in everyday products like soaps, deodorants, and toothpaste. But that will change, according to Matthew Perkins (MBA 2009). When industries... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
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Cutting Edge
and bolts: exiting underperforming adjunct businesses (e.g., pickles and fresh poultry); shaking up the management team; improving the supply chain (thereby increasing plant productivity by 50 percent); and... View Details
- 21 Jul 2022
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How Sumner Feldberg Helped Transform Retail
mill stores were merely a fad. Instead, he bet on supermarket-style stores, with self-service, offering clothing, toys, beauty supplies and housewares. That idea became the basis for the family’s chain of... View Details
- 11 Dec 2014
- News
Fashion's Retail Revolution
Dressing by Number Dressing by Number Ivy Ross Creating the Shopping Experience of the Future Creating the Shopping Experience of the Future Today, though, the case studies are on a multitude of fashion businesses—“fast fashion” chain... View Details
- 22 Jul 2014
- News
Hungry for Change
technical solution or a cure for something that isn't scientifically possible or known," says Zeaske. "We have a resource scarcity and distribution problem, not a production problem." That last point is particularly true in agriculturally rich Minnesota. "We've... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
- 01 Dec 2002
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What You Know Depends on Where You Go
market often lacks one or more core infrastructure elements, such as a supply of trained business professionals, liquid stock exchanges, predictable contract enforcement, or quality service providers for auxiliary needs like printing and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
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Balanced Scorecard and Beer Game Go High-Tech
current iteration, the game still teaches supply chain costs, lead time, and inventory management, but now students order kegs on beloved tablets and other devices. For students, simulations bring material... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Case Study: Sneak Peak
moving off the shelf fast enough to yield $1 million, you probably have a consumer-marketing problem more than a financing problem. Do you know how well your product is moving off the shelf? It is easy to think you are succeeding based on... View Details
- 31 Mar 2011
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Building an Online Swap Shop
on paper: ‘Yeah, sure, we’re just going to create demand here and supply here, and it’s all going to work out.’ Even now, we’re still dealing with big challenges.” Soon after launching in April 2010, thredUP received seed View Details
- 29 Apr 2022
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Clean Slate
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes In the first of a weekly series of Skydeck episodes honoring recipients of the 2022 Alumni Achievement Award, finance veteran Naina Lal Kidwai (MBA 1982) talks about her... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
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Jerry Shafir: A Simmering Success Story
vegetables and to package, chill, and ship the finished product, there is constant motion in Kettle Cuisine's cramped but immaculate Somerville, Massachusetts, kitchen. The 11,000-square-foot facility supplies more than two thousand... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg