Filter Results:
(559)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(559)
- News (91)
- Research (413)
- Events (6)
- Multimedia (1)
- Faculty Publications (262)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(559)
- News (91)
- Research (413)
- Events (6)
- Multimedia (1)
- Faculty Publications (262)
- 30 Mar 2022
- News
Giving Hope and Comfort
sourcing these vital products in the face of inflation and snags in the supply chain. About 25 percent of Hope and Comfort’s inventory comes through direct donations—from corporations, from hygiene drives hosted by schools, religious... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Brick by Brick
globalize, the financial picture grew worse. One problem: The company's growing complexity was choking it. Adding more bricks made products harder to assemble, forecasts harder to determine, and inventory more difficult to manage. The toy... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
The World at a Click
win-win situation," Brier declares. "The buyer can get the price he or she wants, and the suppliers -- the airlines or the hotels -- can sell their excess inventory without jeopardizing their retail prices." Priceline currently meets more... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelly
- 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
- 26 Aug 2009
- Op-Ed
Where Cash for Clunkers Ran Off the Road
new cars. The program proved so popular that inventories of the qualifying cars soon dwindled, further boosting the dealers' negotiating leverage and unit profit margin. “Why did taxpayers, having already bailed out GM and Chrysler once,... View Details
- 31 May 2016
- First Look
May 31, 2016
functional proximity over base proximity when locating preventive health services. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51094 forthcoming Production and Operations Management Multi-Echelon Inventory Management... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Profile
Linda Leung
things.” After further work in the field with CBS Interactive, where she was responsible for the ad inventories of renowned sites such as CNET.com, ZDnet.com, and CBSnews.com, Linda decided the best way to move forward would be to pursue... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Timothy G. Brier: The Price is Right
which matches consumer demand with sellers' excess inventory -- one of the Internet's big winners. The inspiration of former marketing consultant Jay Walker, Priceline opened for business a little over two years ago. Previously, in 1995,... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
interest in expanding offerings along the lines of programs such as The Entrepreneur's Tool Kit and Odyssey. In the coming months, the committee will conduct a comprehensive inventory of current offerings as well as review past... View Details
- Web
Teams | New Venture Competition
Christian Vosbikian (MBA 2025) Leora Sutton (MBA 2025) Providing virtual patient support as an extension of existing women’s health practices EcoLens Safiyah Bharwani (MBA 2025) Emily Tench (MPA 2025) Reducing food waste & emissions with an AI-powered platform... View Details
- Web
Tracking Tariffs: Are Retailers Passing Costs to Consumers? | Working Knowledge
was connected to a range of short-run retailer adjustment mechanisms, including margin reductions, inventory front-loading, and trade diversion,” the researchers wrote. “The same mechanisms, coupled with the growing uncertainty over the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Courting the Poor
manner, through virtual showrooms (see photo above) that use computers and sales staff to help customers navigate the store’s inventory and make a purchase. “The company had an amazing influence on customer behavior,” Frei notes. “People... View Details
- 19 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Why Innovations Sit on the Shelf
excess inventory was a perennial problem for the company. The inventory could be sold off only via heavy discounting, which tended to depress margins for all sales. Since the warehouse was close to a major... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- Research & Ideas
When Will the Hot Housing Market Finally Start to Cool?
They may still be working from home, but they’re working from home in those cities. Gazette: Why does inventory remain so low across the country, and can anything be done to help ease the crunch? Gerardo Lietz: At the end of the day, it’s... View Details
Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Ask the Expert: On the Fly
(above: photo by Getty Images/Patrick Foto) A mathematics major, Don Carty (MBA 1971) has always seen the airline business as a huge puzzle, with the equation involving inventory and pricing, cruising allocations, weather, and holiday... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 02 Nov 2016
- Op-Ed
Government and Financial Tech Can Fix Cash Woes for Small Businesses
Ask any small business owner and they will tell you that cash flow is on their mind pretty much all the time. This isn’t surprising, given that they are continuously managing dollars coming in from customers and going out to pay for expenses such as payroll, View Details
Keywords: by Karen Mills
- 29 Oct 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Next Marketing Challenge: Selling to ’Simplifiers’
cannot be inventoried except in the form of "Kodak" moments; but they do not tie you down, require no maintenance, and permit variety-seeking instincts to be quickly satisfied. Dining out, foreign travel, and learning a new sport will... View Details
- 12 Sep 2007
- Op-Ed
Building Sandcastles: The Subprime Adventure
crumble. The cooling of the hot market was inevitable. Expectations aside, housing prices could not continue to outpace incomes. But builders had overbuilt, creating large inventories of unsold homes. Houses remained on the market for... View Details
- 22 Feb 2019
- News
Empowering a New Generation of Business Leaders
assigned a product or service to turn into a business, and then the rest was up to them. That included raising money to start the business, creating a marketing plan, and developing some of the company’s operations, like banking, sales tracking, payroll for the 7... View Details
- 01 Apr 2020
- News
What My Time in Vietnam Taught Me About Dealing with Shortages
given authority to decide whether spare parts should be sent to combat troops or to the evolving production base. By centralizing inventory control in this manner, the optimum use was made of scarce supplies. The US economy can work... View Details