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- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Giving New Ventures a Boost
Some $80,000 in cash and in-kind legal and accounting services were awarded to winners and runners-up in the 11th annual HBS Business Plan Contest last April. Traditional track winner Sandra Nudelman (MBA ’07) and her sister Michele, a... View Details
Morton H. Meyerson
Meyerson is recognized as the operational and financial genius of Electronic Data Systems (EDS). During his CEO tenure, EDS grew from a $200 million consulting business into a $4 billion large-scale systems consulting enterprise... View Details
Keywords: Services
- 26 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 26
parents, students, and educators experience the school day. Ventilla focuses on three aspects: 1) using technology to reduce operational costs of the traditional school; 2) intense focus on customer service... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Making Their Way
but from Mexico, South Korea, and elsewhere — was coming in at a lower price point than our unionized operations could match,” Chirchirillo recalls. “And many of my OPM classmates were from outside the United States, so I was getting a... View Details
- 26 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019
deliver results according to the company’s value proposition. This lets a company control operations by standardizing the options frontline employees can choose from to drive results as well as adapting to diverse markets. Combining... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 13
services is much more widespread than has hitherto been appreciated. Drawing on concepts from research on scale economies and transaction costs, we develop a set of hypotheses about differences in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 May 2009
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First Look: May 19, 2009
salinity; and poses strategic choices for a start-up company operating at the intersection of business, agriculture, and climate change. Purchase this case: http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=709019 CalPERS'... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- October 2001 (Revised November 2002)
- Case
Herman Miller(B): Creating Innovation Streams
By: Sandra J. Sucher and Stacy McManus
In 1997, Mike Volkema faced the difficulty of attempting to revitalize a once dynamic organization. Volkema wondered how he could incorporate advances made within subsidiaries, such as Miller SQA's business model innovation, into the company as a whole while also... View Details
Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Management; Product Design; Product Development; Product; Supply Chain Management; Business Model; Service Delivery; Customer Value and Value Chain; Manufacturing Industry; Consumer Products Industry
Sucher, Sandra J., and Stacy McManus. "Herman Miller(B): Creating Innovation Streams." Harvard Business School Case 602-024, October 2001. (Revised November 2002.)
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Speaking for the Airlines
role in assembling the rescue package and the financial and operating data required to persuade Congress and the Bush administration to help the carriers." "Airline service is the backbone of our economy,"... View Details
- 09 Jan 2014
- News
Tapping into Opportunity
beverage companies, and they know they have major water issues." This has created a rapidly increasing demand for technologies and services to discover, manage, filter, and disinfect and/or desalinate water, and to improve infrastructure... View Details
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James Reinhart
We are now scaling into the $20 millions and need to make sure we’re maintaining a great customer experience on both the buying and selling side at a time where consumers are getting used to on-demand View Details
- 14 Nov 2019
- News
Keeping Red Lobster Fresh
to do is work on is following a phased plan. And there are three phases to the plan. Phase one was fixing the fundamentals of the business, which are making sure you're operating well, making sure you got high-quality food and system.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Faculty Research Online
investment managers and firms. See http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5648.html. Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer Apple’s iTunes music download service and illegal peer-to-peer (P2P) music downloads offer two contrasting... View Details
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Leadership, Culture, and Transition at lululemon | Information Technology
Christine Day assumes leadership in mid-2008, tasked with driving the company toward a $1 billion sales goal while addressing operational inefficiencies, underperforming stores, and diminishing cross-functional teamwork. This narrative... View Details
- 04 Jan 2016
- News
Taking Time Out for a Challenge
After living in Sierra Leone from 2006 to 2010, where she worked as a founding board member of the Welbodi Partnership, which supports the country’s health system in delivering essential services to women and children, HBS doctoral... View Details
- 22 Nov 2017
- News
How to Build a Winning Culture on a Losing Team
base, which is a pretty fun group. They work hard, they're extremely ambitious, they demand access and they want to be celebrated and they want to have some fun. Oh, and they want to give back. And so in this organization we each pledged 76 hours of View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Meal Plan
to pay for high levels of service at the front of the house may decrease. And there’ll be additional costs to maintain that level of service due to the decreased capacity demanded by social distancing. There... View Details
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Kanwaljit Bakshi
seem, sex traffickers operate a lot like businesses," she says. "You see these fascinating informal networks of organized criminals sort of collaborating through different aspects of the human trafficking supply chain, so to... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
- 25 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 25, 2007
Conventions and the Operational Risk Maze—The Cases of Three Financial Services Institutions Author:Anette Mikes Periodical:International Journal of Risk Assessment and Management (in press): 1027-1056... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace