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- October 2018 (Revised April 2019)
- Teaching Note
Kids & Company: Entering the U.S.
By: Boris Groysberg and Matthew G. Preble
Teaching Note for HBS No. 418-011. View Details
Keywords: Child Care; Childcare; Day Care; Daycare; Strategy; Growth Management; Business Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Expansion; Leadership; Product Marketing; Brands and Branding; Service Delivery; Service Operations; Product Design; Product Development; Selection and Staffing; Customer Focus and Relationships; United States; Canada
- January 1988 (Revised January 1997)
- Case
Digital Equipment Corp.: The Endpoint Model (A)
By: David A. Garvin
Describes a comprehensive manufacturing strategy designed to reduce substantially the cycle time of orders (i.e. the time between the placement of an order by a customer and its delivery to the customer). To launch the strategy Digital has adopted manufacturing... View Details
Keywords: Business Plan; Information; Time Management; Production; Strategic Planning; Strategy; Manufacturing Industry
Garvin, David A. "Digital Equipment Corp.: The Endpoint Model (A)." Harvard Business School Case 688-059, January 1988. (Revised January 1997.)
- 05 Oct 2016
- News
Harvard to Open Life Sciences Lab
provide an experiential, educational environment in which students and faculty can put classroom ideas directly into practice. The 15,000-square-foot facility will have fully equipped and permitted laboratory and office space for early-stage companies. It will be View Details
- Web
Supplemental Financial Information | Annual Report 2024
flow from operating activities, HBS concluded fiscal 2024 with an unrestricted current use reserves balance of $260 million, an increase of $13 million (or 5 percent) from the prior year. This level is substantially above the required... View Details
- 14 May 2021
- News
4 Strategies to Simplify the Customer Journey
- 09 Apr 2025
- News
The Working Parent Revolution
parents in the last decade. What are people reacting to? SK: Certainly this idea of managing both productivity at work and having a good family life has been something that's been really important forever. And the reality is there are... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Alumni Books
development opportunities, or proper rewards. Expanding on their previous books, The HR Scorecard and The Workforce Scorecard, the authors recommend that workforces be managed like portfolios, with more investments in the jobs that create... View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
Exploring Big Issues at the Intersection of Business and Society
Curriculum. To address this need, the School piloted a new daylong program, Viewpoints, this past spring. “Our goal was to help students understand how they need to think about the broader social context in which firms operate and how the... View Details
Keywords: Educational Innovation
- 23 Mar 2023
- News
Should You Share AI-Driven Customer Insights with Your Customers?
- 04 Dec 2020
- News
Hour by Hour
their former employees so that both can benefit. The company uses a web-based application to connect employers and former workers in good standing, and allows employers to automate and manage their interactions with former employees.... View Details
James D. Sinegal
Sinegal was one of the principal founders of Costco in 1983. As CEO, he has built the fledgling wholesale shopping center into the largest such organization in the United States, outpacing both Sam’s Club and BJ’s Wholesale. Though he built a $40+ billion View Details
Keywords: Retail
- 17 Aug 2022
- News
Keeping Your Team Motivated When the Company Is Struggling
- 20 Aug 2021
- News
Let Your Top Performers Move Around the Company
- 08 Mar 2017
- News
Safe, Secure, and Prosperous
country. “I was appointed to the position of Deputy Secretary of the Department of Immigration and Border Protection in Australia. This department now manages our borders, issues the millions of visas in our country. We facilitate all the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2022
- News
Work-Life Supports That Truly Help Your Organization
- 1998
- Chapter
Configuring a Supply Chain to Reduce the Cost of Demand Uncertainty
By: J. H. Hammond, Marshall L. Fisher, Walter Obermeyer and A. Raman
Keywords: Supply Chain Management; Cost Management; Demand and Consumers; Risk Management; Risk and Uncertainty
Hammond, J. H., Marshall L. Fisher, Walter Obermeyer, and A. Raman. "Configuring a Supply Chain to Reduce the Cost of Demand Uncertainty." In Global Supply Chain and Technology Management. Vol. 1, edited by Hau Lee and Shu Ming Ng, 76–90. POMS Series in Technology and Operations Management. Miami: Production and Operations Management Society (POMS), 1998.
- March 2003 (Revised April 2006)
- Background Note
Scale and Scope in Professional Service Firms
By: Ashish Nanda
This case discusses why economies (and diseconomies) of scale and scope exist in professional service firms (PSFs) and how they influence the amount and range of services that PSFs offer. It is distributed with a case that focuses on determining the optimal scale/scope... View Details
Nanda, Ashish. "Scale and Scope in Professional Service Firms." Harvard Business School Background Note 903-117, March 2003. (Revised April 2006.)
- 13 Apr 2017
- News
Solving Nigeria’s Skilled Workforce Challenge
Tulip, a four-star hotel in Festac, into a position as a telephone operator at the Radisson Blue Hotel in Victoria Island. WAVE is expected to train 25,000 people by 2019. “We have to start leveling the playing field. It should matter... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 18 Mar 2013
- News
Sheryl Sandberg: The HBR Interview
- December 1988 (Revised March 1990)
- Case
Karen Vincent and Zodiac Corp.
Keywords: Family Business; Production; Management; Performance Improvement; Apparel and Accessories Industry
Stevenson, Howard H. "Karen Vincent and Zodiac Corp." Harvard Business School Case 389-078, December 1988. (Revised March 1990.)