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  • January 1990 (Revised March 1994)
  • Case

Royal Ahold NV

By: Richard F. Meyer
Contains a general description of a large international retailer. Focus is on the major financial risks facing the company: exchange rate risk and commodity price risk. This case is an introduction to financial risk management. It poses some of the major problem areas. View Details
Keywords: Risk Management; Currency Exchange Rate; Futures and Commodity Futures; Trade; Distribution; Financial Services Industry
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Meyer, Richard F. "Royal Ahold NV." Harvard Business School Case 190-113, January 1990. (Revised March 1994.)
  • March 2003
  • Case

Zara

Fashion retailer ZARA has achieved spectacular growth via a distinctive design-on-demand operating model. This case describes this model and outlines a number of challenges facing the company, with a particular emphasis on its international expansion. Includes color... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Globalized Firms and Management; Production; Order Taking and Fulfillment; Fashion Industry; Retail Industry
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Arnold, David J., and Guillermo D"Andrea. "Zara." Harvard Business School Case 503-050, March 2003.
  • May 2024 (Revised March 2025)
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MStudio and Djoli: Accelerating Startup Growth in Francophone Africa

By: Paul A. Gompers, Pippa Tubman Armerding and Temitayo Lawal
Djoli, a procurement platform, was one of the startups launched and supported by MStudio, a startup studio in Côte d'Ivoire, in 2023. After a year of operations, Djoli must look beyond MStudio, which had supported them financially and in kind in exchange for equity,... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Distribution Industry; Distribution Industry; Distribution Industry; Africa; Côte d'Ivoire
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Gompers, Paul A., Pippa Tubman Armerding, and Temitayo Lawal. "MStudio and Djoli: Accelerating Startup Growth in Francophone Africa." Harvard Business School Case 824-183, May 2024. (Revised March 2025.)
  • 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
  • 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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Kerr, William R., James Palano, and Bastiane Huang. "Osaro: Picking the Best Path." Harvard Business School Case 820-012, July 2019. (Revised November 2019.)
  • 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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Beshears, John, Patrick Rooney, and Jenny Sanford. "Express Scripts: Promoting Prescription Drug Home Delivery (A)." Harvard Business School Case 916-026, February 2016.
  • 01 Sep 2011
  • News

Green Day

Issue Focus: Business and the Environment Issue Focus The Business and Environment Initiative at HBS The City Solution Water for Life Green Day Related Links HBS Business and Environment Initiative The Untold Story of 'Green' Entrepreneurs (HBSWK) Watch Stuart Evans... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna;Sarah Auerbach; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution
  • 01 Dec 2017
  • News

2017 in Manufacturing: The Supply Chain Goes High Tech

e-commerce retailers, but that could result in a distribution bottleneck. I haven’t seen it yet, but the most innovative manufacturers will start thinking about ways to reach their customers directly and at scale.” —Professor Gary Pisano... View Details
Keywords: Jerry Jasinowski (AMP 97, 1985), former president and CEO, National Association of Manufacturers
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Neil Band | MBA

track in tech entrepreneurship. Tech areas of interest: I’m fascinated by the application of machine learning, distributed systems, and cryptography to economics and biology. I currently research memory optimization in deep neural network... View Details
  • 07 Dec 2022
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Dubai-Based Proptech Builds Up

Dubai to Saudi Arabia and beyond. "There are almost 25,000 short-term rentals here in Dubai and 550 companies are operating them," he said. "These are often small companies that do a great job, but in a piecemeal manner. They don't necessarily have access to technology... View Details
  • 01 Oct 2002
  • News

Thinking Outside the Centerfold

most noted for have nothing to do with advertising and everything to do with advertising. We're this hybrid company that creates and distributes creative content designed to make brands famous.” View Details
  • 24 Mar 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Why Cutting Jobless Aid Isn't the Answer to Worker Shortages

materialized a month or two later if those governors had opted to keep distributing the federal benefits, Kluender says. Unemployment insurance flowing into accounts dropped by $281.50 per week by early September. Yet earnings for those... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 29 Mar 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Creativity, Entrepreneurship, and Organizations of the Future

global rather than merely local. The issue of limited resources and inefficient distribution is creating environmental and social problems respectively, that businesses can no longer afford to neglect/be indifferent to. Technological... View Details
Keywords: by Teresa M. Amabile & Mukti Khaire
  • 18 Aug 2020
  • Blog Post

Innovating in the Hot Market of Cold Brew

3D printed, fully-functional, and in the final design aesthetic – which we’re now distributing to our advisors and friends to collect feedback (if you want in, you can sign up for our Beta at our website). We’ve been picked up in a few... View Details
  • 13 Dec 2018
  • Blog Post

Working at the Intersection of Business and Environment

areas of focus to help move the needle on climate action.   The initiative is especially active on the curriculum front through facilitating the development of innovative cases, teaching notes, and other materials, both for use in the HBS classrooms and for broader... View Details
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FAQ - Alumni

Alumni Track. Prizes will be distributed by Alumni Relations in the weeks following the Finale. What are the important dates? 10/1/24 Applications open 12/5/24 Past winners’ panel 1/31/25 5 pm ET Applications close 2/3/25 Regions start... View Details
  • 06 Dec 2021
  • News

Tipping Point

distributed through the coffee cooperatives, building more permanent homes to replace mud houses and investing in their daughters’ educations. “They can start planning for the future,” Nyamumbo says. She hopes to expand Kahawa’s approach... View Details
Keywords: April White; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing
  • 26 Jan 2016
  • News

The First Five Years: Jill Applebaum (MBA 2015)

and do fulfillment for our e-commerce orders. First thing in the morning, we pack and ship the orders that came in overnight. Beyond that, every day is different. One day, we might be out of the office meeting with prospective View Details
  • 11 Jul 2013
  • News

The Good Writer

Studios’ film distribution division in Burbank. “A friend told me that people in Hollywood would think I was Einstein because I could work with spreadsheets,” he half jokes. “I’m one of the few writers who gets excited about reading the... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
  • 01 Jun 2004
  • News

Strengthening Ties with Executive Education Graduates

incorporated into a larger, School-sponsored Executive Education survey currently under development. That survey strives to enhance the School’s understanding of the role the HBS experience may have played in helping graduates along their diverse career paths. It will... View Details
Keywords: Ted Fischer; Alumni Association Board of Directors; committee; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
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