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  • March 1993
  • Case

Liz Claiborne, Inc. and Ruentex Industries, Ltd. (Abridged)

By: Roy D. Shapiro and Marie-Therese M. Flaherty
Details the evolution of a value-creating supplier-buyer partnership. Describes the buyer's (Liz Claiborne) manufacturing and marketing strategy, and details the workings of the firm's relationship with an important Taiwanese supplier of piece goods (Ruentex Industries... View Details
Keywords: Marketing Strategy; Order Taking and Fulfillment; Production; Supply Chain Management; Alliances; Value Creation; Manufacturing Industry
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  • July 2019 (Revised November 2019)
  • Case

Osaro: Picking the Best Path

By: William R. Kerr, James Palano and Bastiane Huang
The founder of Osaro saw the potential of deep reinforcement learning to allow robots to be applied to new applications. Osaro targeted warehousing, already a dynamic industry for robotics and automation, for its initial product—a system which would allow robotic arms... View Details
Keywords: Artificial Intelligence; Machine Learning; Robotics; Robots; Ecommerce; Fulfillment; Warehousing; AI; Startup; Technology Commercialization; Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Logistics; Order Taking and Fulfillment; Information Technology; Commercialization; Learning; Complexity; Competition; E-commerce
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  • February 2016
  • Case

Express Scripts: Promoting Prescription Drug Home Delivery (A)

By: John Beshears, Patrick Rooney and Jenny Sanford
The pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) sector processes prescription drug claims on behalf of companies that offer a prescription drug benefit to their employees. This case follows Bob Nease, Chief Scientist at Express Scripts, as he considers methods to promote home... View Details
Keywords: Pharmaceuticals; Prescription Drugs; Pharmacy Benefit Manager; PBM; Healthcare; Behavioral Economics; Choice Architecture; Active Choice; Service Delivery; Decision Choices and Conditions; Health Care and Treatment; Order Taking and Fulfillment; Compensation and Benefits; Pharmaceutical Industry
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  • 28 May 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Can LEGO Snap Together a Future in Asia?

stock turnovers that drive LEGO's business model. Senior distribution manager Asger Juncher Métais said the group should assume that all retailers want quick lead times and fast stock turnover, capabilities where LEGO is strong. The... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 20 Mar 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Lessons of Successful Entrepreneurs

acquisition activities, he said. "That's nuts." Steve Hafner, founder and CEO of Kayak.com, an online travel information site, said an alternative to growing your own customers is to secure distribution through partnerships,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

VBHCD Initiative - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

care for patients with intellectual and behavioral disabilities The VBHCD team is also examining how to estimate and distribute the costs of ancillary, indirect, and support departments, including Radiology and Billing. VBHCD Project... View Details
  • Web

Generative AI for Business Leaders - Course Catalog

sessions for a packed agenda of content. The grading distribution is as follows: Grading : 50% class participation 50% project The use of generative AI is not just encouraged but required for class preparation and all class assignments.... View Details
  • Web

The new industrial state? | Institute for Business in Global Society

relationship between the country's public and private sectors. The CHIPS Program Office (July 2024) By Mitchell B. Weiss and Sebastian Negron-Reichard Learn how $39 billion in CHIPS Act funding for semiconductor manufacturing is View Details
  • 19 Aug 2013
  • News

Bees Make a Sweet Deal for African Farmers

on the spot, then processed, packed, and distributed the honey and related products for sale in supermarket chains. To date, the company has helped more than 9,000 small-scale beekeepers (over 45 percent of them women) and its business... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture; Finance; Health, Social Assistance; Management
  • May 2024
  • Teaching Note

AI21 Labs in 2023: Strategy for Generative AI

By: David Yoffie
Teaching Note for HBS Case 724-383. The case has 3 important teaching purposes: First, what are the advantages and disadvantages of imitation? (e.g., Should AI21 imitate OpenAI with a chatbot?) Second, what are the advantages and disadvantages of keeping new technology... View Details
Keywords: AI; Generative Ai; Generative Models; AI and Machine Learning; Innovation Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy; Business Model; Business Startups; Open Source Distribution; Competitive Advantage; Technology Industry; Israel
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  • 12 Oct 1999
  • Research & Ideas

Throwing Your Opponent: Strategies for the Internet Age

change their ideas constantly while they are trying to build complex new products and technologies." In addition, by making it possible to "organize businesses in new ways, offer new products and services, and distribute those products... View Details
Keywords: by Daniel Penrice
  • 15 Oct 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Four Questions for David Garvin and Michael Roberto

unequally distributed among the participants, when information is unequally distributed, and when there are no clear rules of engagement—especially about how the final decision will be made. Unfortunately, in many senior teams these... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace

    Ralph A. Hart

    Hart was instrumental in taking the newly public company, Heublein, to new heights. He grew revenues five-fold (from $100 million to $500 million) and dramatically expanded Heublein’s international footprint with production facilities in 34 countries. Under his... View Details
    Keywords: Food & Tobacco
    • 01 Dec 2011
    • News

    Letters to the Editor

    Seeds of Green Congratulations to Erika Diamond and Annie Fishman (both MBA 2007) on their founding of the HBS Green Business Alumni Association as reported in the September Bulletin. It’s great to see their efforts and the related story of HBS alumni in green... View Details
    Keywords: HBS Show; Natural Gas Distribution; Natural Gas Distribution; Natural Gas Distribution; Natural Gas Distribution
    • 29 Jun 2010
    • First Look

    First Look: June 29

    anti-malaria campaign which has become a model in sub-Saharan Africa. This paper aims at quantifying the individual and macro level benefits of this campaign, which involved mass distribution of insecticide treated mosquito nets,... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 25 Jul 2006
    • First Look

    First Look: July 25, 2006

    Jones Author's Abstract A noteworthy characteristic of the contemporary global economy is the uneven distribution of world foreign direct investment (FDI). While in the first global economy before 1929 most FDI was located in developing... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

      Leroy A. Lincoln

      Under Lincoln’s leadership, Metropolitan became an ardent supporter and provider of public health education while his company achieved record levels of profitability. For many years, the company promoted health and safety through advertisements in press, radio shows... View Details
      Keywords: Finance
      • 17 Jul 2006
      • Lessons from the Classroom

      Developing a Strategy for Digital Convergence

      users to time-shift their TV viewing. According to Yoffie, entertainment and communications are coming together to produce a mobile music revolution—the distribution of digital music over wireless networks. And your cell phone has also... View Details
      Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Computer; Education
      • 13 Sep 2011
      • First Look

      First Look: September 13

      Laura Arjona, and Emily ZhangHarvard Business School Case 712-410 AppDirect is a start-up that offers small businesses software-as-a-service solutions through a business app marketplace and portal. Daniel Saks, co-founder and co-CEO, is faced with the key question of... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 01 Apr 1997
      • News

      Facing the Music

      look at how the music industry functions. After years of consolidation, the business is now dominated by a handful of major distribution companies (often referred to simply as "the majors") that are responsible for some 80 percent of... View Details
      Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso