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- June 2004 (Revised September 2006)
- Case
Business Intelligence Software at SYSCO
The large food service company SYSCO has decided to purchase business intelligence (BI) software, a technology intended to provide superior monitoring and analysis capabilities. Twila Day, assistant vice president of technology and applications, is in charge of the BI... View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Information Technology; Applications and Software; Decision Making; Management Systems; Distribution Industry; Food and Beverage Industry
McAfee, Andrew P., and Alison Berkley Wagonfeld. "Business Intelligence Software at SYSCO." Harvard Business School Case 604-080, June 2004. (Revised September 2006.)
- 29 May 2020
- Op-Ed
How Leaders Are Fighting Food Insecurity on Three Continents
according to the Nwunelis. Sahel Capital Agribusiness Managers, where Mezuo Nwuneli is the managing partner, provides capital and technical assistance to food and agriculture-focused small- to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) through the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
School Ties
When Jan Rivkin talks about what the US educational system must deliver, he lays out the challenge in stark terms. "For young Americans to succeed in today's workforce, they must out-innovate and out-produce the world's best," declares... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
And his afterlife: “When three-headed Cerberus greeted him / Socrates replied: ‘I won’t need / an attack dog, thank you. I married one.’” Mergers and Acquisitions: Integration and Transformation Management as the Gateway to Success by... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
was typical for an HBS Leadership Fellow. The program catapults new grads into high-level positions at nonprofit and public-sector organizations, offering access to CEO-level management and decision-making. Meanwhile, organizations... View Details
- 04 Feb 2022
- News
Hour by Hour
application to connect employers and former workers in good standing, and allow employers to automate and manage their interactions with former employees. HourWork’s model—pooling and then nurturing former talent for future permanent and... View Details
- May 1989
- Teaching Note
Tektronix: Portable Instruments Division (B), Teaching Note
By: Robert S. Kaplan
Teaching Note for (9-188-143). View Details
- 20 Jul 2022
- News
Wired to be Inspired
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Professor Ranjay Gulati, whose research looks at how the most resilient companies approach growth and profitability, chaired the Advanced Management Program at HBS for many... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Mexico on the Brink: A Conversation with Juan Enriquez-Cabot (MBA '86)
upheaval - financial collapse, peasant uprisings, and political violence. What's going on? Some people see the repression in Mexico's political system and call the system authoritarian. Others see its... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Strange Bedfellows
overlooks the fact that managers don’t always do the right thing for shareholders. If managers are opportunistic, then the extra latitude provided by the dual- reporting system... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
loyalty) into a full-fledged management system that results in extraordinary financial and competitive results. They define the fundamental concept of Net Promoter; explain its connection to a company’s... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
An American Odyssey
He’s got a superhero’s name, and he’s shining a light on enduring wrongs here at home while confronting challenges in the Third World as well. Meet Richard America, who sees policy analysis and quality management as keys to development... View Details
- November 1984 (Revised March 1999)
- Case
Mayers Tap, Inc. (B)
Mayers Tap, Inc. has decided to redesign its cost system. In this case, the budgeted costs have to be allocated to the machine level. The teaching objective is to demonstrate two-stage allocation and the sensitivity of cost data to allocation base selection. View Details
Cooper, Robin. "Mayers Tap, Inc. (B)." Harvard Business School Case 185-025, November 1984. (Revised March 1999.)
- Web
Transforming Health Care Delivery - Course Catalog
Susanna Gallani is the Tai Family Associate Professor of Business Administration. Her research focuses on performance management systems in health care organizations and how these View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Church on Sunday, Work on Monday
religious life at Stanford University, have developed several new frameworks to help businesspeople and clergy actively draw on their religious faith to address management problems. "Our goal is not to convince the church that it should... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Where Are They Now?
of California, Berkeley, earlier that year. “Bob Anthony, the father of the management control systems field, was teaching at HBS, as were Dick Vancil, Bill Bruns, and John Dearden. These were the giants in... View Details
- Student-Profile
A Jay Holmgren
while gaining expertise in management, which hadn’t factored into my previous graduate-level work,” he says. “When it comes to an industry as complex as healthcare, the management of the implementation of View Details
- 1992
- Chapter
Sharing the Burden. Fair Allocation and Equity
By: James K. Sebenius, Michael Grubb, Antonio Magalhaes and Susan Subak
- 2007
- Working Paper
Plant-Size Distribution and Cross-Country Income Differences
By: Laura Alfaro, Andrew Charlton and Fabio Kanzcuk
We investigate, using plant-level data for 79 developed and developing countries, whether differences in the allocation of resources across heterogeneous plants are a significant determinant of cross-country differences in income per worker. For this purpose, we use a... View Details
Keywords: Heterogeneous Plants; Productivity; Policy Distortions; Wages; Equality and Inequality; Resource Allocation; Macroeconomics
Alfaro, Laura, Andrew Charlton, and Fabio Kanzcuk. "Plant-Size Distribution and Cross-Country Income Differences." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 07-086, May 2007. (Revised May 2008, August 2008. NBER Working Paper Series, No. 14060, June 2008)
- October 1984
- Background Note
Goals: The Problem of Balancing Multiple Constituencies
By: Joseph L. Badaracco Jr. and Richard R. Ellsworth
Badaracco, Joseph L., Jr., and Richard R. Ellsworth. "Goals: The Problem of Balancing Multiple Constituencies." Harvard Business School Background Note 385-187, October 1984.