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- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Streamlining the Supermarket
full-time employees, slashing labor costs by 90 percent. Those two innovations are expected to add up to a net profit margin of three times that of the overall industry. “And that is really powerful,” Pedró says. “You can actually give... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Case Study: Tip the Scale
photos courtesy of Walden Local Meat In 2014, Walden Local Meat founder and CEO Charley Cummings (MBA 2011) crisscrossed New England in a company truck to personally deliver orders of chicken, pork, lamb, and beef—all pasture-raised on... View Details
- 29 Aug 2024
- News
A Kick Start for Latin American Startups
they believe tech entrepreneurs have the power to catalyze transformation in Latin America. MAYA Capital starts by supporting the first round of funding—getting the team off and running, in order to raise the second round. “Most of the... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
The Small Business Difference: How Smaller Companies Manage with Less
A few years ago, H. Kent Bowen, the Bruce V. Rauner Professor of Business Administration, undertook a study of smaller companies (firms in the $5 million to $50 million range) in order to develop cases and teaching materials for the... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Short Takes
companies, turnaround companies, and low-performing companies. But in order to focus on how compensation decisions are made, he garnered most of his data from interviews with the compensation committee chairs from fifty of the sample's... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
John Batcha: Sowing the Seeds to Fight Hunger
vegetable and flower seed, which Batcha sources, packages, and labels in a dozen languages, working out of his home in Charlotte, North Carolina. In the past four years, SPI has shipped nearly six million packets of seed abroad. Batcha sells the seed at nominal View Details
- 14 Jul 2021
- News
The First Five Years: Nicolas Manes (MBA 2020)
from small- and medium-sized farms and ship it to our warehouses, where we prepare the orders. After the order is prepared, we ship the orders using a decentralized network of drivers to the group buyers,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Arunma Oteh (MBA 1990)
stance as director general of SEC Nigeria. “We made sure that the cost of wrongdoing was very high and that there were no sacred cows. I knew that the Nigerian capital markets could be transformative—that this was a role where I could... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?
base. As a result, they get cost savings, and we get sales.” Welcome to the new reality in U.S. manufacturing, where, more than ever, intense foreign competition is driving product and strategy innovations. Even those firms without direct... View Details
- 17 Nov 2015
- News
Carbon Neutral
Eacho, left, and Minnick (Getty Images) Congress is at a standstill over carbon. One side wants to regulate emissions as a pollutant; the other fears that any move to regulate oil and gas will impede growth and cost jobs. A compromise... View Details
Keywords: Michael Blanding
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Capitalism’s False Mantra
Related Links Martin discussing his book One of the most influential papers defining the role of business, “Theory of the Firm: Managerial Behavior, Agency Costs and Ownership Structure,” was coauthored in 1976 by Michael Jensen, the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
For the Records
collection is to start a factory. It’s only going to cost you $2 million.” —Caren Kelleher (MBA 2010) “I always joke that a good way to build a vinyl collection is to start a factory. It’s only going to cost... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Case Study: Off to a Fine Art
too. Perhaps they can offset the upfront cost of capital until order volume reaches the appropriate tipping point. The company can purchase inventory with a traditional financial vehicle from there. —Brad... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Curb Your Smartphone Habit
much bigger, which is the amount of time we are “on”—meaning at work or monitoring work remotely. Workaholics are nothing new in the managerial ranks, but technology has made a 24/7 connection to work the norm for many more people than ever before. What kind of... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Tipping Point
Illustration by Erin Robinson At one end of the global coffee supply chain are the diners who gather for brunch at the sidewalk tables outside Chloe’s Cafe in San Francisco’s Noe Valley neighborhood. Regulars there order the fluffy... View Details
- 11 Dec 2017
- News
Growing from Within
there’s an obvious cost to that arrangement. But what are the benefits that company ownership offers McDonald’s? In the US, the McDonald’s Operating Company, McOpCo as we call it, plays an important role for the McDonald’s system:... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Short Takes
environmental management. Reinhardt argues that in order to manage the environmental challenge successfully, firms should improve their cost management, reduce risk, create and capture value, and help... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Real Conflict
prices are significantly lower than its competitors. Assuming the company’s prices are 8 percent lower — at the low end of the estimates from various studies summarized in a recent report by Global Insight — and applying that to Wal-Mart’s domestic sales volume, U.S.... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
The Doctor Is In
"Doctors and hospitals must be fairly compensated in order to supply first-rate patient care," Slavin emphasizes. "Doctors are seeing more patients than ever, and in some specialties, reimbursement has fallen by 50 percent. But I think... View Details
- 21 Nov 2017
- News
Alumni Peer into the Future of Energy
than climate change. How can we use all of these tools of abundance to create solutions of abundance? “What we do at Scoot is share electric vehicles. We started with little red scooters, with a 10-mile range; two years later we ordered... View Details