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  • 23 Aug 2019
  • Blog Post

A Summer of Peaks and Swells: Interning at Patagonia

company -- we’re fighting the good fight. This past year Patagonia changed its mission to: “we’re in business to save our home planet.” The company is constantly working to improve its supply chain and reduce the environmental impact from... View Details
Keywords: Technology; Consumer Products / Retail
  • 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
  • 04 Oct 2016
  • First Look

October 4, 2016

income. By the end of the revolution in 2014, Hassab Labs was among the top five chains in the country. In October 2014, Seha partially exited Hassab Labs in a sale to an African conglomerate, SAHAM Group. At the same time, Azab learned... View Details
  • May 2024
  • Case

HarvEast

By: Jeremy Friedman and Natalie Kindred
In late 2023, Dmitry Skornyakov, CEO of Ukrainian agribusiness HarvEast, was navigating the turmoil caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine that began in 2014 and escalated into full-scale war in February 2022. Before the full-scale invasion, HarvEast managed 127,000... View Details
Keywords: Goods and Commodities; Natural Resources; Food; Problems and Challenges; Adaptation; Innovation and Management; Crisis Management; Logistics; Supply Chain; Risk and Uncertainty; Loss; Trust; Human Needs; War; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Chile; South America; Latin America; Ukraine
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  • September 2023
  • Background Note

Amager Bakke: Municipal Waste to Energy

By: Willy Shih, Michael W. Toffel and Kelsey Carter
This background note describes the Amager Bakke waste-to-energy (WtE) plant in Copenhagen, which merges traditional waste incineration with a combined heat and power (CHP) plant and air pollution control (scrubbing) technology, and had plans to add carbon dioxide (CO2)... View Details
Keywords: Decarbonization; Innovation; Innovation Focused Strategy; Environmental Operations; Circular; Waste Heat Recovery; Waste Management; Carbon Regulation; Buildings and Facilities; Energy Generation; Environmental Sustainability; Pollution; Climate Change; Wastes and Waste Processing; Innovation Leadership; Innovation Strategy; Energy Industry; Denmark; Netherlands; Europe; European Union
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  • 09 May 2018
  • Research & Ideas

A Simple Way for Restaurant Inspectors to Improve Food Safety

and the less energy you’re going to have to discover violations” “This study brought together Maria’s interest in how scheduling affects workers’ behavior and how that affects quality or productivity, and my interest in studying the effectiveness of inspections of... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Food & Beverage; Service
  • 23 Jun 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Psychology, Pathology, and the CEO

100 additional participants called "ambassadors for change," ensuring that people below the managerial ranks would be part of the strategy conversation. Haythornthwaite also recruited experts to lead in four areas cutting across the business-supply View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
  • July 2005 (Revised January 2011)
  • Case

Understanding Customer Profitability at Charles Schwab

By: Francisco de Asis Martinez-Jerez
Charles Schwab is transforming into a customer-centric organization. Central to this cultural and organizational change is the utilization of customer profitability at different decision-making levels. Examines several technical aspects of the ABC cost system, as well... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Motivation and Incentives; Customer Relationship Management; Customer Value and Value Chain; Activity Based Costing and Management; Decision Making; Organizational Culture; Profit; Performance Evaluation; Budgets and Budgeting
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  • 02 Feb 2016
  • First Look

February 2, 2016

journals, professional societies, and doctoral programs. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50489 Harvard Business School Case 616-040 Haiti Hope: Innovating the Mango Value Chain This case study... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Article

The Growing Strategic Importance of End-of-Life Product Management

By: Michael W. Toffel
Requiring manufacturers to manage the their products when they become waste is an innovative form of regulation, one that has been adopted by countries in Asia, Europe, and North America on a variety of products that range from vehicles to appliances to batteries.... View Details
Keywords: Product; Environmental Sustainability; Cost Management; Wastes and Waste Processing; Strategy; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Manufacturing Industry; Asia; Europe; North and Central America
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  • 29 Mar 2011
  • First Look

First Look: March 29

produce products to fill the gap. Compact fluorescent light bulbs, already on the market, seemed the obvious replacement. But light-emitting diodes (LEDs) were attracting attention as a more efficient alternative in lighting, steadily working their way up the value... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Feb 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Marketing Wine to the World

than corporate managers who are trying to move money from "cash cows" to "growth businesses." Q: It sounds like supermarkets and chain stores are starting to dominate wine distribution—Costco is one of the largest wine... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation; Food & Beverage
  • 17 Jun 2002
  • Research & Ideas

A Litmus Test for Entrepreneurs

years of experience at the likes of Procter & Gamble and Johnson & Johnson, decided to set himself up as Spain's first pizza magnate and founded TelePizza. He believed that customers in Spain—and, indeed, throughout Europe—would respond enthusiastically to a... View Details
Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle
  • 20 Feb 2001
  • Research & Ideas

What’s Next for Japan

production techniques. Yasunobe, meanwhile, predicted that some type of keiretsu system would survive and be valuable. "Even in the U.S.," he added, "there are supply chain systems very much like the keiretsu." As... View Details
Keywords: by Hilah Geer
  • 21 Dec 2022
  • Blog Post

Climate Stories Episode #12: Vehicle to Everything - Claire Broido Johnson (MBA 2002), Chief Operating Officer of Fermata Energy

experimentation is everywhere. Just before Thanksgiving, the pizza delivery chain Domino's announced plans to put a fleet of 100 custom-branded Chevy Bolt electric cars on the road, growing to 855 by the end of 2023. Domino's called it... View Details
  • 20 Nov 2015
  • News

Room to Grow

and focus it up the supply chain and let the market forces determine which of the growers, processors, and distributors are going to succeed and be responsive to these market opportunities,” says Kendall. One major opportunity, he says,... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • 10 Nov 2014
  • HBS Case

How Restaurants in Lima and Copenhagen Became Best in the World

you can't create multiple Nomas. Obviously, there are some restaurant chains that do that, like Danny Meyer, but after awhile Danny Meyer is an investor, not the chef, and René would not like to do that—he likes to cook. Norton: Look at... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Food & Beverage
  • 24 May 2011
  • First Look

First Look: May 24

used engineering expertise and political savvy to build a major privately held company providing the entire supply chain of water treatment, waste water, and integrated municipal solid waste capabilities. The company's services include... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Jul 2010
  • First Look

First Look: July 20

Chairman Liu Jia wondered what that meant for his 15-year-old dental clinic business. Founded in 1993, Jiamei Dental Medical Management Group ("Jiamei") rode the wave of China's rapid economic development and had become China's largest private dental View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 Mar 2020
  • News

Can This Man Change the American Diet?

average American consuming 3.1 servings of meat daily, Muir (MBA 2004) realized that food was a place he could make a difference. In 2008 he started Clover Food Lab with the goal of making vegetables irresistible for people who love to eat meat. Now a View Details
Keywords: Agriculture