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- 21 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
Lessons for Retailers from the Rebirth of Indie Bookstores
inventory without the need to step foot in a bookstore; and then Amazon launched the Kindle e-book service in 2007, challenging the very idea of a physical book. “Not only had the traditional buying channels fundamentally shifted, but the... View Details
- 30 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Computer Security is For Managers, Too
digital assets are (they're not always obvious). A team of senior managers from across the company should take an inventory of data and systems, assess how valuable each is to the company, and decide how much risk the company can absorb... View Details
- 04 Oct 2004
- What Do You Think?
Does Speed Trump Intellectual Property?
decision-empowered, and experienced teams with limited senior management review and oversight. Fast competitors were often "leaders" of supply chains in which speed was emphasized over cost, information was shared among partner organizations, and duplicated... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Case Study: Gazelle's New Predators
remain a 'reseller,' taking inventory of products from users and reselling them to wholesalers. This means its advantage can only come from scale. The problem then is that Gazelle's direct-to-consumer approach on its buy side places it at... View Details
- 01 Aug 2008
- What Do You Think?
Has the Time Come for “Stretch” in Management?
extraordinary goals higher than those thought achievable for the coming year. It was to set outlandish, almost unthinkable goals that business groups might achieve in the longer-run. For example, instead of striving for an inventory... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 22 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Online Banks Fill Funding Needs for Small Business
Kabbage and can be referred to as online balance sheet lenders. Their loans typically are short-term, less than nine months, and fund working capital and inventory purchases. Many of these loan products operate similarly to a merchant... View Details
- 19 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
How Mercadona Fixes Retail’s ’Last 10 Yards’ Problem
Carrefour, and more than twice that of an average U.S. supermarket. Sales per employee were 18 percent higher than that of other Spanish supermarkets that disclosed financial information that year and more than 50 percent higher than U.S. supermarkets. By all measures,... View Details
- 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
- 07 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
How to Help Small Businesses Survive COVID's Next Phase
small-business owners trying to survive. Strict safety protocols haven’t been enough to get customers through the door for some small businesses, and many owners—crushed by inventory and overhead costs—are grappling with hard choices.... View Details
- 07 Sep 2016
- What Do You Think?
How Can the Threat of Networks Be Reduced?
graph theorists had to say about the impact of network design on transportation and inventory location at least 60 years ago. It was my meal ticket to a position on the Harvard Business School faculty. What has changed, of course, is the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 16 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Unfulfilled Promise of Educational Technology
inventory without the use of technology," says John Jong-Hyun Kim, a senior lecturer and William Henry Bloomberg fellow at Harvard Business School. "And yet, schools have been slow to adopt and integrate technology in the... View Details
- 05 Feb 2009
- What Do You Think?
Why Can’t We Figure Out How to Select Leaders?
organizations would consider too costly. Some organizations have inventoried the qualities that successful employees display, then try to select others with the same qualities. But the process is often applied only to those at middle or... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Q & A: Jeanne P. Jackson: A New Regime at Banana Republic
it "dress casual." So, we combined that need with our equity, and we found our mission. Defining a mission is just the beginning. How about the implementation phase? We started with the product. We took inventory of what we had and found... View Details
- 16 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 16, 2010
wholesalers. Going forward, its two main strategic challenges are 1) deciding how much to rely on partnerships with large retailers for growth and 2) deciding whether to continue as a "merchant," i.e., buying and reselling goods (and thereby taking View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 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
- 25 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 25, 2016
growing component of many firms' retailing strategies, particularly in the fashion industry. Outlet stores offer attractive prices in locations far from central shopping districts. The main perspectives on why outlet stores exist can be broadly classified into View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 9, 2008
H.Watson, Yu-Sheng Zheng Abstract In this paper, we study managers' errors in decision making for inventory replenishment and how these errors affect their inventory system. In particular, primarily for its... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne