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  • August 2021
  • Supplement

Coats: Supply Chain Challenges: Spreadsheet Supplement

By: Willy C. Shih
Coats, the largest thread maker in the world, transformed its business to digital colour measurement so that it could respond better to customer demand in the garment industry for rapid product cycles and more fragmented colour choices. Its embrace of digital colour... View Details
Keywords: Inventory Management; Supply Chain; Inventory; Supply Chain Management; Operations; Growth and Development Strategy; Forecasting and Prediction; Demand and Consumers; Consolidation; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Asia
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    Satish K. Tadikonda

    Satish Tadikonda is a Senior Lecturer in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at Harvard Business School. In the MBA program, Satish teaches The Entrepreneurial Manager, a required first-year MBA course, and Entrepreneurship in Life Sciences, an elective course for... View Details

    • Article

    Channel Integration, Sales Dispersion, and Inventory Management

    By: Santiago Gallino, Antonio Moreno and Ioannis Stamatopoulos
    We study the effects of the introduction of cross-channel functionalities on the overall sales dispersion of retailers and the implications of these effects for inventory management. To do that, we analyze data from a leading U.S. retailer who introduced a... View Details
    Keywords: Retail Operations; Online Retail; Channel Integration; Sales Dispersion; Long Tail; Empirical Operations; Inventory Management; Omnichannel Retail; Marketing Channels; Integration; Sales; Logistics; Operations; Management; Retail Industry
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    • February 2023
    • Supplement

    Coats Dyehouse Management

    By: Willy C. Shih
    Coats, the largest thread maker in the world, transformed its business to digital colour measurement so that it could respond better to customer demand in the garment industry for rapid product cycles and more fragmented colour choices. Its embrace of digital colour... View Details
    Keywords: Inventory Management; Supply Chain; Inventory; Supply Chain Management; Operations; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Asia
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    Troy Peterson

    Troy (HBS’19, West Point ‘08) has 15+ years of experience in technical program management, organizational leadership, and product development & operations. Troy has worked in roles across the tech ecosystem from startups/growth... View Details
    • 11 Jan 2022
    • Research & Ideas

    Feeling Seen: What to Say When Your Employees Are Not OK

    lot of people are feeling apprehension,” says Yu, who’s now a scientist at Humu, a Palo Alto company that develops productivity tools for workplaces. “Maybe they want to go back to work but there's a lot of social anxiety because they're... View Details
    Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
    • 04 Oct 2022
    • What Do You Think?

    Have Managers Underestimated the Need for Face-to-Face Contact?

    large crowds. Have the changes in the underlying behaviors affecting many industries become so ingrained in employees, consumers, and everyday life that they will not revert to what they were before? The evidence is mixed. One can argue... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett
    • 07 Feb 2007
    • Research & Ideas

    Dividends from Schumpeter’s Noble Failure

    Business Cycles was Joseph Schumpeter's least successful book when measured by its professed aims and several other yardsticks. Yet the book contains two vital aspects that have largely been overlooked. First, the prodigious research that... View Details
    Keywords: by Thomas K. McCraw
    • June 2017
    • Article

    The Political Economy of Financial Innovation: Evidence from Local Governments

    By: Christophe Pérignon and Boris Vallée
    We examine the toxic loans sold by investment banks to local governments. Using proprietary data, we show that politicians strategically use these products to increase chances of being re-elected. Consistent with greater incentives to hide the cost of debt, toxic loans... View Details
    Keywords: Financial Innovation; Political Elections; Financing and Loans; Innovation and Invention
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    • March 13, 2023
    • Article

    Sales Teams Need to Stop Focusing on the Customer Funnel

    By: Frank V. Cespedes
    Understanding where customers are, how they navigate streams in your market, and how to interact with them in a given stream is now central to crafting a good customer experience, and that has implications. Among other things, companies need to shift from thinking... View Details
    Keywords: Customer Experience; Customer Value and Value Chain; Customer Relationship Management; Consumer Behavior
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      Two Hundred Years of Health and Medical Care

      Using two hundred years of national and Massachusetts data on medical care and health, we examine how central medical care is to life expectancy gains. While common theories about medical care cost growth stress growing demand, our analysis highlights the importance of... View Details
      • January 2016 (Revised October 2016)
      • Case

      Saudi Aramco and Corporate Venture Capital

      By: Joseph B. Fuller, Matthew Rhodes-Kropf and Nathaniel Burbank
      Saudi Aramco launched an internal venture capital arm in 2011, which promptly became the world's largest investor in energy related startups. In choosing to proceed, the company's New Business Development unit (NPD) wrestled with a number of challenges. How should the... View Details
      Keywords: Venture Capital; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Energy Industry; Saudi Arabia
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      • February 2024
      • Module Note

      Collaborate on the Core, Compete on the Edges

      By: Frank Nagle
      In the rapidly evolving environment of modern business, the digitization of economic activity and the ubiquitous integration of technology across industries are fundamentally altering how companies develop and implement strategy. The rise of digital technologies has... View Details
      Keywords: Technology Adoption; Competition; Cooperation; Collaborative Innovation and Invention
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      • 03 Mar 2003
      • Research & Ideas

      Top Ten Legal Mistakes Made by Entrepreneurs

      unpatentable in Japan. The same is true with trademarks. A tremendous amount of money might be spent in developing a brand in the United States, yet when the product is shipped overseas it could violate trademarks of companies dealing in... View Details
      Keywords: by Staff
      • 13 May 2014
      • First Look

      First Look: May 13

      "freemium" business model, which is used by some Internet businesses and smartphone application developers to give users free basic features of a digital product and access to premium functionality for a subscription fee. The... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • May 1994
      • Background Note

      Managing Market Complexity: A Three-Ring Circus

      By: V. Kasturi Rangan
      Proposes models of organization that address the various product-market environments posed by the product life cycle. Frames these changes along the two dimensions of uncertainty and diversity. Offers three sets of organizational characteristics to reflect the three... View Details
      Keywords: Business Processes; Growth and Development Strategy; Complexity; Organizational Structure; Organizational Culture; Product Marketing; Markets; Product
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      • Teaching Interest

      Harvard Business Analytics Program: Operations and Supply Chain Management

      By: Dennis Campbell
      Digital technologies and data analytics are radically changing the operating model of an organization and how it connects to its broader supply chain and ecosystem. This course emphasizes managing product availability, especially in a context of rapid product... View Details
      • June 2019
      • Case

      ClearLife: From Prospect to Platform

      By: Alexander Braun, Lauren Cohen, Mauro Elvedi and Jiahua Xu
      ClearLife’s first product was a trading and analytics platform for participants in the U.S. life settlement market, the secondary market for life insurance. ClearLife played a key role in facilitating transactions and devising a common language for expressing value and... View Details
      Keywords: Digital Platforms; Insurance; Entrepreneurship; Expansion; Diversification; Strategy
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        Sleeping with Your Smartphone

        Does it have to be this way? Can't resist checking your smartphone or mobile device? Sure, all this connectivity keeps you in touch with your team and the office--but at what cost? In "Sleeping with Your Smartphone," Harvard Business School professor Leslie Perlow... View Details

          Derrick Bransby

          Derrick's research lies at the intersections of creativity, innovation, and learning. He is a field researcher who uses qualitative and quantitative methods to study creative production - the process of forging tangible outcomes... View Details