Operations Strategy - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Mar 2009
News

Your Taxi Is Waiting

term familiar to every good HBS student. With its relatively low price tag (about $2.8 million) and low operating costs (40 percent less than existing small jets), the twin-engine Mustang and other “very light jets” (VLJs) represent a... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Air Transportation; Transportation

29 Jun 2010
First Look

First Look: June 29

contracts model of vertical integration choices into a standard perfectly-competitive international trade framework. Integration decisions are driven by a trade-off between the pecuniary benefits of coordinating production decisions and the managers' private benefits... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Oct 2000
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Books

Design Rules: The Power of Modularity (Volume 1) by Carliss Y. Baldwin and Kim B. Clark (The MIT Press) Today's fast-paced global economy often seems to operate as an independent force, but its products, firms, and markets are all derived... View Details

April 1989
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Norton Auto Supply

By: Janice H. Hammond

Describes a multiechelon distribution system for the distribution of automobile spare parts. An analyst has been hired by the Norton Auto Supply Co. to improve the company's inventory planning and control techniques. Includes demand, cost, weight, and supplier lead... View Details

Keywords: Business or Company Management; Operations; Distribution Channels; Management Practices and Processes; Management; Strategy; Industrial Products Industry; Auto Industry

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10 Jun 2002
Research & Ideas

Reinventing the Industrial Giant

could save a great deal of money through this B2B exchange, and Chairman John Smith Jr. claimed that "we think e-business will have an even greater impact on the way we operate than e-commerce." 85 Besides saving money,... View Details

Keywords: by Nitin Nohria, Davis Dyer & Frederick Dalzell; Manufacturing

25 Sep 2017
Research & Ideas

Why Politics is Failing America, and What Business Can Do To Help

operate with a very light touch. Theoretically, voters are supposed to be the ultimate check: If the public doesn’t like what’s going on, the party or elected officials get voted out. Yet even with some leadership churn, candidates from... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette

01 Sep 2008
News

Alumni Books

advice on how to own and run a business, find the right deal, negotiate, determine when to get in and get out, and much more. Dubai & Co.: Global Strategies for Doing Business in the Gulf States by Aamir A. Rehman (MBA ’04) (McGraw-Hill)... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

July 2010 (Revised March 2015)
Teaching Note

1366 Technologies

By: Ramana Nanda and Joseph B. Lassiter III

Teaching Note for 810005. View Details

Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Production; Supply and Industry; Corporate Strategy; Capital; Manufacturing Industry

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27 Jun 2023
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Marketing When Budgets Are Down

07 Apr 2009
First Look

First Look: April 7, 2009

between domestic employment conditions and the growth of foreign operations by American firms have led to calls for increased taxation on foreign operations—the so-called "end to tax breaks for companies that ship our jobs... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

January 2022
Supplement

Kornit Digital: The Amazon Warrants (C)

By: Benjamin C. Esty, E. Scott Mayfield and Daniel Fisher

As of 12/31/21, Amazon held $22 billion of equity and warrants in related companies. In fact, it often requests a free grant of warrants when it enters into a new commercial agreement with a supplier. Over the past 20 years, Amazon has gotten warrants almost 20... View Details

Keywords: Valuation; Value Creation; Consumer Behavior; Negotiation; Distribution; Ownership; Partners and Partnerships; Business Strategy; Equity; Distribution Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; United States

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June 2010
Teaching Note

Playing with Fire at Sittercity (A) (TN)

By: Noam T. Wasserman and Rachel Gordon

Note: This mini-Teaching Note was created to provide a brief overview of the teaching plan for this case. Please see the upcoming, fuller Teaching Note for an extensive overview of the underlying research, pedagogical approaches, and other teaching issues. View Details

Keywords: Internet and the Web; Service Delivery; Family Ownership; Problems and Challenges; Growth and Development Strategy; Expansion; Service Industry; Boston

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05 Jun 2017
News

Uber hires HBS’s Frances Frei to fix its management mess

Keywords: Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation

01 Mar 2014
News

3-Minute Briefing: Frank Blethen (PMD 35, 1978)

I ALWAYS REFER TO myself as the accidental publisher. My dad's side of the family has owned the paper since 1896. But my mom divorced my dad when I was six, and we moved to Arizona. My dad had no real presence in my life. I came up in the summers to work at the Times,... View Details

Keywords: Hanna, Julia; Seattle Times Company; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Information

October 1995 (Revised March 1996)
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Executive Shirt Company, Inc.

By: Janice H. Hammond and Sylvie Ryckebusch

The Executive Shirt Co. is contemplating a move into custom-made shirts. The company's general manager has charged two of his managers to come up with plans for incorporating production of custom shirts into the existing manufacturing process. View Details

Keywords: Change Management; Production; Strategic Planning; Expansion; Apparel and Accessories Industry; United States

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12 Aug 2015
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Alphabet--the Pros and Cons

Keywords: Google; Alphabet; business structure; technology

01 Mar 2019
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2019

would find a new owner, continuing to operate very successfully to the present time. I Really Meant to Tell You : Finding the Courage for Kindness by Jeff Hutsell (MBA 1978) BookLogix Have you ever regretted not telling someone you love... View Details

10 Jun 2002
Research & Ideas

Disruption: The Art of Framing

required by that framing. We don't pretend to have all the answers to this vexing problem, but examining what sets the winners apart does offer some provisional lessons. Separate for better performance. Across the newspaper industry, high performers had one thing in... View Details

Keywords: by Clark Gilbert & Joseph L. Bower