logistics - Publications - Faculty & Research

November 2020
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Axis My India

By: Ananth Raman, Ann Winslow and Kairavi Dey

Pradeep Gupta founded Axis My India (AMI) as a printing and publishing company in 1998. In 2013, AMI expanded into consumer research and election forecasting. Although a relatively unknown entity, AMI predicted several election results accurately. Gupta describes AMI’s... View Details

Keywords: Market Research; Operations; Management; Infrastructure; Logistics; Service Operations; Political Elections; Forecasting and Prediction; Asia; India

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23 Nov 2021
Book

What It Takes to Build an Organizational Culture That Wins

led a renewal of the company by discarding performance metrics that discouraged risk-taking, aligning employees behind a mission to empower customers, and proclaiming that the “C” in his title stood for culture. The book, forthcoming in January, tackles head on some of... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

22 May 2019
Blog Post

What is FIELD Global Immersion?

logistics and project content for both the RC FGI course and the EC Immersive Field Courses (IFCs). Our staff handles everything from flight and hotel booking to identifying the Global Partner companies who will work with our students.... View Details

Daniel M. Gilbane

Dan Gilbane is a Lecturer of Business Administration presently teaching Deal Making in Real Estate in the Finance Unit.

Dan is a 5th generation family leader of Gilbane, Inc., a construction and real estate development firms in the industry with a global... View Details

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Employment Data Trends

17% 21% 20% 23% Other Finance 2% 4% 3% 3% 4% General Management 14% 11% 10% 16% 13% Logistics 0% <1% 0% 0% 0% Operations / Manufacturing 2% 2% 2% 1% <1% Project Management <1% <1% <1% 2% 2% Rotational / Leadership Development 4% 3% 3% 2%... View Details

08 Dec 2022
HBS Case

The War in Ukraine and Nestlé’s Moral Dilemma: Stay or Leave Russia?

unprovoked aggression toward its neighbor, and apart from paying corporate taxes, it was hard to say the company was complicit in the war effort. And arguably, it was providing stable jobs and lifesaving foods for innocent people. It also had to consider the View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Consumer Products

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Leadership Fellows

framework and logistics for the interviewing and hiring process. For Student-Proposed: Supports students as they work with organizations to develop a proposal. Awards $65,000 toward the Fellow’s annualized salary of $130,000 in addition... View Details

12 Dec 2023
Research & Ideas

COVID Tested Global Supply Chains. Here’s How They’ve Adapted

China through its trade and [global-value chain] links with these third-party countries,” the paper notes. “The global supply chains actually helped us during COVID-19.” Moreover, there are growing concerns that the reshuffling of global manufacturing and View Details

Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis

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Sample Student Projects - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Poultry Cluster in Brazil (2006) Bulgaria Bulgaria's Apparel Cluster (2007) Canada Alberta Energy Cluster (2010) Ontario Financial Services (2008) China Transportation and Logistics Cluster in Northeast China (2017) Wind Turbine Cluster... View Details

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Networking Events - Recruiting

Career & Professional Development. On-Campus Logistics Details Conversations This 1:1 or small group coffee chat style event allows for high-level engagement between the organization and participating students. Quick introduction with... View Details

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Health-care Applications

Active postmarketing drug surveillance. There is substantial interest within the U.S. health community and among health policymakers in developing a surveillance system that scans public health databases in order to proactively detect potential drug safety... View Details

19 Oct 2021
Research & Ideas

Fed Up Workers and Supply Woes: What's Next for Dollar Stores?

merchandise into their distribution centers. All retailers are suffering from a shortage of truckers, a shortage of trailers, shortage of capacity in all the logistics networks to move goods around. At the same time, we’re seeing... View Details

Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Retail

12 Jan 2022
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How I Spent My HBS 2+2 Deferral: Cecil Alfaro-Mora

logistics operation in Florida, but my role gradually evolved into Chief of Staff to the CEO. In this final stage, I helped him carry out several company-wide initiatives mostly related to Operational Excellence. Did 2+2 change your path... View Details

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Business & Environment - Faculty & Research

led to a more environmentally sustainable business. But could the company take the model to the next level? Keywords: Transformation ; Customer Value and Value Chain ; Environmental Sustainability ; E-commerce ; Logistics ; Product Design... View Details

27 Feb 2023
Research & Ideas

How One Late Employee Can Hurt Your Business: Data from 25 Million Timecards

deviations on the performance of individual stores in a new study. “One employee being late or absent can negatively affect not only store operations, but also their coworkers by making them stay to make up for the lost labor.” Ananth Raman, UPS Foundation Professor of... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand; Retail

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Interviews - Recruiting

Hire Talent Interviews Hire Talent Interviews HBS-Coordinated Interviews Let HBS manage your first-round interview logistics so you can focus on what matters: finding the right candidate for your position. Request an interview on our... View Details

August 2015 (Revised June 2021)
Case

Amazon.com, 2021

By: John R. Wells, Benjamin Weinstock, Gabriel Ellsworth and Galen Danskin

In February 2021, Amazon announced 2020 operating profits of $22,899 million, up from $2,233 million in 2015, on sales of $386 billion, up from $107 billion five years earlier (see Exhibit 1). The shareholders expressed their satisfaction (see Exhibit 2), but not all... View Details

Keywords: Strategic Analysis; Retail; E-commerce; Amazon; Internet; Amazon.com; AmazonFresh; Jeff Bezos; Cloud Computing; Marketplaces; Streaming; E-reader Market; Digital Media; Mobile App; Online Retail; Shipping; Database; Tablet; Kindle; Kindle Fire; Smartphone; Delivery; Digital Platforms; Competition; Internet and the Web; Corporate Strategy; Digital Marketing; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; Business Organization; For-Profit Firms; Film Entertainment; Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Music Entertainment; Television Entertainment; Profit; Revenue; Global Strategy; Multinational Firms and Management; Taxation; Business History; Human Resources; Resignation and Termination; Books; Human Capital; Working Conditions; Business or Company Management; Goals and Objectives; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Management Practices and Processes; Industry Growth; Industry Structures; Media; Distribution; Distribution Channels; Order Taking and Fulfillment; Infrastructure; Logistics; Product Development; Supply Chain; Supply Chain Management; Organizational Culture; Public Ownership; Work-Life Balance; Problems and Challenges; Labor and Management Relations; Strategy; Adaptation; Business Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Diversification; Expansion; Integration; Horizontal Integration; Vertical Integration; Information Infrastructure; Information Technology; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Price; Applications and Software; Marketing; Marketing Strategy; Working Capital; Customer Focus and Relationships; Customer Value and Value Chain; Retail Industry; Advertising Industry; Distribution Industry; Electronics Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Information Technology Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Motion Pictures and Video Industry; Music Industry; Publishing Industry; Shipping Industry; Technology Industry; Video Game Industry; Web Services Industry; United States; Washington (state, US); Seattle

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Topics - HBS Working Knowledge

Development (57) Leadership Style (56) Leadership (446) Leading Change (57) Learning (16) Legal Liability (12) Leveraged Buyouts (4) Life Cycle (1) Literacy (1) Local Range (1) Logistics (20) Loss (1) Luxury (12) Macroeconomics (10)... View Details

01 Mar 2024
News

Game On

It’s raining in Sarasota. And not a light sprinkle but a proper, Florida drenching, so the outdoor courts at the Pickleball Club’s Lakewood Ranch location are deserted. Inside is a different story. Most of the 12 courts are in play. With four people to a court, all... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photographed by Edward Linsmier; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment

May 1994 (Revised March 2008)
Case

Barilla SpA (A)

By: Janice H. Hammond

Barilla SpA, an Italian manufacturer that sells to its retailers largely through third-party distributors, experienced widely fluctuating demand patterns from its distributors during the late 1980s. This case describes a proposal to address the problem by implementing... View Details

Keywords: Order Taking and Fulfillment; Logistics; Supply Chain; Technology; Food and Beverage Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Italy

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