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Health Care - Faculty & Research

a simple, two-part playbook: Demand transparency from suppliers and avoid entire classes of chemicals. Keywords: Occupational Health ; Safety Regulations ; Regulation ; Working Conditions ; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms ;... View Details

09 Jan 2012
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Location, Location, Location: The Strategy of Place

feed growth, even if their competitors are also on the same block. Detroit and Silicon Valley, likewise, provided valuable clusters of talent and suppliers where, Alcácer realized, "whenever you saw one firm, you saw the other... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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Faculty & Researchers - Managing the Future of Work

Know to Understand the Supply Chain , The Wall Street Journal, 2022. In Uncertain Times, Big Companies Need to Take Care of Their Suppliers , Harvard Business Review, 2022. Are the Risks of Global Supply Chains Starting to Outweigh the... View Details

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Business Fundamentals Course - CORe | HBS Online

Customer Demand: Foundations Strategies for Assessing and Increasing Demand Suppliers and Cost Markets Competition and Differentiation Featured Exercises Develop effective pricing strategies Apply conjoint analysis to understand what... View Details

06 Aug 2013
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First Look: August 6

Publications August 2013 Cengage Learning Principles of Management. 1st ed By: Gulati, Ranjay, Anthony J. Mayo, and Nitin Nohria Abstract—Prepare your students, as managers, to confront today's challenges and opportunities that are more dynamic and complex than ever... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

09 Jul 2020
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It’s Time to Reset Decision-Making in Your Organization

decisions? Each team member is responsible for research within their area: talking to big customers, participating in supplier forums and webinars, scouring competitor websites. At the meeting, team members share their findings and... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott

09 Apr 2007
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Industry Self-Regulation: What’s Working (and What’s Not)?

issue, managers at buyers and suppliers are faced with hundreds of different supply chain programs—from labeling schemes like Fair Trade and organics, to industry association programs like Responsible Care and Sustainable Slopes, to a... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

17 Jun 2011
HBS Case

KFC’s Explosive Growth in China

should develop a national footprint—supported by a company-owned distribution system since third-party suppliers didn't exist—instead of growing in geographic chunks through franchising. Su sourced products from within China whenever... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Food & Beverage

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Social Enterprise - Faculty & Research

worker activism, evidenced by varying compliance with multinational enterprises’ (MNEs’) labor standards. Analyzing audit data from thousands of Chinese suppliers, we find that suppliers in cities with more wage-related activism increased... View Details

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Redefining Productivity in the Value Chain - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

following are some ways in which shared value thinking is transforming the value chain, which are not independent but often mutually reinforcing. Procurement that enhances supplier capabilities and efficiency Improving energy, water and... View Details

09 Mar 2003
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Six Keys to Building New Markets by Unleashing Disruptive Innovation

innovation. Mainstream suppliers of tabletop radios, which were made with vacuum tubes, couldn't figure out how to use transistors because they couldn't initially handle the power requirements of these components. Then in 1955, Sony... View Details

Keywords: by Clayton M. Christensen, Michael E. Raynor & Scott D. Anthony

20 Apr 2021
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A Simple Question That Can Guide Companies to Epic Success

that pays little attention to the well-being of society overall. The vitamin cartel provides another. Compare this type of thinking to initiatives that are designed to create value. You might remember when Nike built a training center in Sri Lanka to get its View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

01 May 2013
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Raphael Geismar, MBA 2006

For Raphael Geismar, chairman and CEO of Stumec, a French supplier of tools and equipment to the railway industry, the attraction to HBS was part aspiration, part continuity. “In France and everywhere,” Geismar says, “HBS is recognized as... View Details

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Automotive Product Development

At present, my primary research focus is studying product development in the auto industry. I am working with Stefan Thomke (HBS) and Takahiro Fujimoto (University of Tokyo) on the 4th Round of the Global Automotive Development Study. The first round of this... View Details

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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition

market, offering the only economically competitive, domestically produced, renewable source of this clean burning fuel. Clear Suppliers Paul Morgenthaler Alex Zhang Business Track Runner-Up Clear Suppliers... View Details

02 Oct 2006
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Negotiating in Three Dimensions

you to devise the most promising approach to overcoming them. Without an accurate barriers assessment, the strategy and tactics you craft may address the wrong problems. Imagine that a supplier is negotiating with an important but... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

16 Mar 2020
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How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business

intermediate term, we will see companies that rely on global supply chains be hurt. Once companies run through their existing safety stocks of raw materials or parts provided by a far-flung supplier base, they may face challenges filling... View Details