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- 10 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
New Venture Competition 2022: Business and Environment Ventures
sustainable food future. We’re engineering microalgae to be sustainable and cost-efficient substitutes for palm oils. TROVEMarketCaroline Walton, MBA 2023; Andrew Morgan, MBA 2023The packaged food industry wastes $30-50 billion worth of View Details
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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
- 17 Nov 2020
- In Practice
How Retailers Can Thrive in a Shopping Season Like No Other
stronger demand for home goods and furnishings. Many retailers may be wary about excess inventory and will pare back their ordering. The COVID-19 pandemic is also adversely affecting the supply chains of manufacturers who provide goods to... 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
- 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
- 28 Apr 2008
- HBS Case
Negotiating with Wal-Mart
tractors ($12,000 each) as a cheaper and faster way to transport melons to the warehouse. Talley also negotiated a coveted co-management supplier agreement with Wal-Mart, showing how Frey Farms could share the responsibility of managing View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
HBS Duo Offers Personalized Career Assessment
success. An unusual feature of the book is the inclusion of a diskette containing the Business Career Interest Inventory (BCII), a self-scoring psychometric tool developed by the authors, who are also psychologists and principals in a... View Details
Keywords: Bob Binstock
- 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
- 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
- 25 Mar 2018
- News
Modernizing Infrastructure Management
actually know and inventory what's in their town, but then to actually have the tools to be able to maintain them and track those maintenance so that when the fire hydrant recall comes out, they can run a list and say, oh, Mr.... 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
- 19 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Ground-Floor Opportunities for Retail in India
however, offers a different model that consumers are beginning to embrace. "Our outlets encourage browsing and we sell at a fixed price." Jain cited a challenge familiar to any retailer in any country: difficulty managing View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Case Study: Glass Half Full
and customer acquisition. If you are building a brand, my advice is to keep Amazon while you build out your Shopify ecosystem, and then make the move. It may not be relevant in your business but buying inventory can keep the supply chain... View Details
- 26 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 26, 2016
https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/516108-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 616-049 Curtis LLP: A Case on Cases A product market firm faces an inventory investment decision in the face of demand uncertainty. To hedge against some... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Is Groupon Good for Retailers?
higher cost of goods sold, giving them less room to discount. And if they don't sell a product one day, they can hold it in inventory for future sale. So marginal business is less urgent for them. We're not prepared to say Gap's Groupon... View Details
- 25 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 25, 2008
introducing retail inventory management, including cost optimization, service-level criteria, and forecasting in single and multiproduct settings. The owner of a single-location paper and paper products store considers the implications of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 20, 2015
on the home country remains unclear. We know very little about return migration of workers engaged in innovation and entrepreneurship, except that it is rapidly growing in importance. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49887 Service... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Rocket Science Retailing: A Practical Guide
describes how investors can—and do—pay closer attention to retailers' inventory levels. “When it comes to implementing science in retailing, the 'missionary' is more important than the scientist.” Raman, who specializes in operations... View Details
- 18 Mar 2009
- Research & Ideas
Marketing After the Recession
quality, measured objectively, has remained constant. Stay focused on costs. Many manufacturing industries (as opposed to services industries) are plagued by global overcapacity, relative even to pre-recession demand. Combined with excess View Details