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John Stuart
Having started in the cereal business as a sweeper at Quaker Oats, Stuart always paid attention to details and to the efficiency with which his father managed the company. His first major task at Quaker Oats was to create a more effective... View Details
Keywords: Food & Tobacco
Scott D. Cook
century. The success of Quicken was just the beginning. Cook and Intuit went on to launch a full suite of financial applications from on-line bill payment for individuals to inventory and account receivables View Details
Keywords: Computers & Electronics
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
House of Bread on the Rise
her House of Bread was soon doing a brisk business. “Frankly, the first bakery was successful from day one, and I just thought everything was so easy,” says McCann, who also invested heavily in an information system that tied cash register sales to baking schedules and... View Details
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Supply Chain Analytics - Course Catalog
managing product availability, especially in a context of rapid product proliferation, short product life cycles, and global networks of suppliers and customers. Hence, topics not examined in RC TOM such as View Details
- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
the value of their information intermediation function. The Effect of Product Variety and Inventory Levels on Retail Sales: A Longitudinal Study Author:Zeynep Ton and Ananth Raman Publication:Production and Operations View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Aug 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
Parmigiano-Reggiano, Jane Austen, and Other Things You Didn't Know About Finance
climate-controlled vaults. Here's why. Inventory Management for Mobile Money Agents in the Developing World Mobile money agents in the developing world face a key inventory... View Details
- 01 Aug 2008
- What Do You Think?
Has the Time Come for “Stretch” in Management?
that stretch, by itself, is not a useful management concept. Nishant Miglani pointed out that "as a complement to stretch, GE also had this notion of the 'boundaryless organization' ..." Matthew Tuttle suggested that... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 01 Oct 2020
- What Do You Think?
Are CEOs the Wrong Leaders for Stakeholder Capitalism?
of distribution (more transparency across multiple organizations in inventory management, lower inventory to sales ratios, fewer stockouts, etc.). Just as important was the question of who could lead the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Shop Talk, Different Avenues
You launched in 2007, and 2008 was one of the worst years ever for retail, so you had a good deal of unsold inventory to offer customers. How did you adapt as the business environment became healthier and you saw a decrease in what was... View Details
- 26 Jan 2016
- News
The First Five Years: Jill Applebaum (MBA 2015)
fun. “We have a lot of challenges, but inventory management is one of our biggest. Even though our wipes are simple and small, there are still several materials that need to be sourced to put it all... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Prognosis
patients than any other hospital in the state—to bend without breaking under the pressure of the pandemic. Professor Robert Huckman is an economist and health care researcher who serves as unit head for Technology and Operations View Details
Levels of Meaning
project inventory needs over the course of the year. My business history courses posed questions like, How did an entrepreneur build his or her business over time? What choices did they make that were fundamental in making the business a... View Details
- 22 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 22, 2016
the complex regulatory environment that governs Indian gaming. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51932 Fall 2016 Manufacturing & Service Operations Management The Impact of Supplier View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Balanced Scorecard and Beer Game Go High-Tech
Narayanan, the Thomas D. Casserly Jr. Professor of Business Administration and chair of the Accounting and Management Unit. Called the Balanced Scorecard Game, the complex simulation was the result of intensive research, development, and... View Details
- 18 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 18, 2007
Working PapersOptimal Reserve Management and Sovereign Debt Authors:Laura Alfaro and Fabio Kanczuk Abstract Most models currently used to determine optimal foreign reserve holdings take the level of international debt as given. However,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
Can LEGO Snap Together a Future in Asia?
Mintzberg argued that strategic planning techniques (such as scenario planning) do not work well for organizations because they typically fail to engage business managers and remain detached from everyday action. But Mikes says the... View Details
- 18 Apr 2005
- Research & Ideas
Prosper with Multi-Channel Retailing
It is important for managers and executives to "help people in the organization understand it's both things working together." "One of our big challenges is simply inventory management,"... View Details
- 06 May 2015
- What Do You Think?
Are You Ready for Personalized Predictive Analytics?
companies like Amazon have been contemplating. For years, logistics have been managed by principles such as that of "postponement and speculation." The idea is that to approach the best match between supply and demand at a... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 19 Dec 2006
- First Look
First Look: December 19, 2006
change. Thus, for a capitalist system to evolve in an effective developmental sense through time, it must have two hands and not one: an invisible hand that is implicit in the pricing mechanism and a visible hand that is explicitly View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Business IT Innovation is so Difficult
prices is that tremendous cost has been taken out of its supply chain and operations by using IT to keep inventory low but still not stock out." That Walmart is secretive about how it manages to so finely... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish