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Karen Mills
Karen Gordon Mills is a Senior Fellow at Harvard Business School and a leading authority on U.S. competitiveness, entrepreneurship, and innovation. She served in President Barack Obama’s Cabinet as the Administrator of the U.S. Small Business... View Details
- January 2000 (Revised March 2004)
- Case
Officenet (A): Making Entrepreneurship Work in Argentina
Describes the creation and financing of Officenet, an office supply distributor in Argentina. The company serves the business-to-business market through a catalog (combined with phone orders) and also through an Internet-based catalog. Officenet is a pioneer in both...
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Keywords:
Internet and the Web;
Entrepreneurship;
Business Startups;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Consumer Products Industry;
Distribution Industry;
Argentina
Kuemmerle, Walter, and William J. Coughlin Jr. "Officenet (A): Making Entrepreneurship Work in Argentina." Harvard Business School Case 800-238, January 2000. (Revised March 2004.)
- Research Summary
Overview
Professor Goh’s primary research interest is applying mathematical models to real-world problems in health care in order to inform, improve, and enhance medical decision making and health policy. His recent work in this domain focuses on developing new methods for...
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- 14 Dec 2021
- News
Red Light, Green Light
- 16 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
Has COVID-19 Broken the Global Value Chain?
The coronavirus pandemic has not only disrupted lives and businesses, it has illuminated underlying fragilities in the global value chain (GVC) that drives economies around the world. The smartphone you use many times daily is a product...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 2001
- Case
Stora Enso North America (SENA)
By: Vijay Govindarajan, Jesse Johnson and Chris Trimble
Robert Leach, VP of information technology for SENA had a vision of building an IT infrastructure that connected all of the participants in the paper supply chain and launching new service businesses enabled by the new infrastructure. Through a detailed description of...
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Govindarajan, Vijay, Jesse Johnson, and Chris Trimble. "Stora Enso North America (SENA)." 2001. (Case No. 2-0001.)
- November 2002 (Revised August 2003)
- Case
MedSource Technologies
Considers the issues facing Richard Effress, MedSource's chairman and CEO, as the firm approaches the Precision Cut project--the first test of MedSource's capabilities as an integrated, contract manufacturer in the medical device industry. MedSource Technologies was...
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Keywords:
Product Development;
Production;
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Product Design;
Supply Chain Management;
Management Teams;
Medical Devices and Supplies Industry;
United States
Huckman, Robert S. "MedSource Technologies." Harvard Business School Case 603-081, November 2002. (Revised August 2003.)
- September 2010 (Revised November 2013)
- Supplement
Aspen Skiing Company (B)
By: Michael W. Toffel and Stephanie van Sice
Having begun improving the environmental performance of its own operations, Aspen Skiing Company is considering "greening" its supply chain and lobbying for greenhouse gas regulations. A world renowned ski resort vulnerable to global climate change, Aspen's activities...
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Keywords:
Environmental Sustainability;
Supply Chain;
Entertainment and Recreation Industry;
Sports Industry;
Aspen
Toffel, Michael W., and Stephanie van Sice. "Aspen Skiing Company (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 611-003, September 2010. (Revised November 2013.)
- September 2010 (Revised September 2013)
- Supplement
Aspen Skiing Company (C)
By: Michael W. Toffel and Stephanie van Sice
Having begun improving the environmental performance of its own operations, Aspen Skiing Company is considering "greening" its supply chain and lobbying for greenhouse gas regulations. A world renowned ski resort vulnerable to global climate change, Aspen's activities...
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Keywords:
Environmental Sustainability;
Supply Chain;
Entertainment and Recreation Industry;
Sports Industry;
Aspen
Toffel, Michael W., and Stephanie van Sice. "Aspen Skiing Company (C)." Harvard Business School Supplement 611-018, September 2010. (Revised September 2013.)
- November 2005 (Revised December 2016)
- Case
Bally Total Fitness (A): The Rise, 1962–2004
By: John R. Wells, Elizabeth A. Raabe and Gabriel Ellsworth
From a single, modest club in 1962, Bally Total Fitness had grown to become—in management’s words—the “largest and only nationwide commercial operator of fitness centers” in the United States in 2004. Bally had faced its share of challenges, but the last couple of...
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Keywords:
Bally Total Fitness;
Fitness;
Gyms;
Health Clubs;
Chain;
Securities And Exchange Commission;
Paul Toback;
Weight Loss;
Exercise;
Contracts;
Personal Training;
Retention;
Accounting;
Accounting Audits;
Accrual Accounting;
Finance;
Advertising;
Business Growth and Maturation;
Business Model;
For-Profit Firms;
Customers;
Customer Satisfaction;
Public Equity;
Financing and Loans;
Revenue;
Revenue Recognition;
Geographic Scope;
Multinational Firms and Management;
Health;
Nutrition;
Business History;
Lawsuits and Litigation;
Management;
Business or Company Management;
Goals and Objectives;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Marketing;
Operations;
Service Delivery;
Service Operations;
Public Ownership;
Problems and Challenges;
Business and Shareholder Relations;
Business Strategy;
Competition;
Corporate Strategy;
Expansion;
Segmentation;
Trends;
Cost Management;
Profit;
Growth and Development;
Leadership Style;
Five Forces Framework;
Private Ownership;
Opportunities;
Motivation and Incentives;
Competitive Strategy;
Health Industry;
United States;
Illinois;
Chicago
Wells, John R., Elizabeth A. Raabe, and Gabriel Ellsworth. "Bally Total Fitness (A): The Rise, 1962–2004." Harvard Business School Case 706-450, November 2005. (Revised December 2016.)
- August 1996 (Revised May 1997)
- Case
Delta & Pine Land: Measuring the Value of Transgenic Cotton
By: Ray A. Goldberg and Charlotte A. Tasker
Discusses the joint venture between two companies with different capabilities: 1) technology provider and 2) transportation agent. Discusses how to capture value from joint venture and biotechnology: 1) who are winners and who are losers; 2) how much value can/should...
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Agribusiness;
Joint Ventures;
Marketing Strategy;
Supply Chain Management;
Performance Consistency;
Information Technology;
Transportation;
Valuation;
Biotechnology Industry
Goldberg, Ray A., and Charlotte A. Tasker. "Delta & Pine Land: Measuring the Value of Transgenic Cotton." Harvard Business School Case 597-005, August 1996. (Revised May 1997.)
- 2022
- Working Paper
Machine Learning Models for Prediction of Scope 3 Carbon Emissions
By: George Serafeim and Gladys Vélez Caicedo
For most organizations, the vast amount of carbon emissions occur in their supply chain and in the post-sale processing, usage, and end of life treatment of a product, collectively labelled scope 3 emissions. In this paper, we train machine learning algorithms on 15...
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Keywords:
Carbon Emissions;
Climate Change;
Environment;
Carbon Accounting;
Machine Learning;
Artificial Intelligence;
Digital;
Data Science;
Environmental Sustainability;
Environmental Management;
Environmental Accounting
Serafeim, George, and Gladys Vélez Caicedo. "Machine Learning Models for Prediction of Scope 3 Carbon Emissions." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 22-080, June 2022.
- February 2024
- Article
An Economic Framework for Vaccine Prioritization
By: Mohammad Akbarpour, Eric Budish, Piotr Dworczak and Scott Duke Kominers
We propose an economic framework for determining the optimal allocation of a scarce supply of vaccines that become gradually available during a public health crisis, such as the Covid-19 pandemic. Agents differ in observable and unobservable characteristics, and the...
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Keywords:
Vaccine;
Fairness;
Public Finance;
Public Goods;
Allocation Problems;
Allocative Efficiency;
Allocation Rules;
Social Welfare;
Pandemics;
Inequality;
COVID-19;
COVID-19 Pandemic;
Public Sector;
Resource Allocation;
Market Design;
Marketplace Matching;
Public Administration Industry
Akbarpour, Mohammad, Eric Budish, Piotr Dworczak, and Scott Duke Kominers. "An Economic Framework for Vaccine Prioritization." Quarterly Journal of Economics 139, no. 1 (February 2024): 359–417. (Authors' names are in certified random order.)
- April 2023
- Case
Fizzy Fusion: When Data-Driven Decision Making Failed
By: Michael Parzen, Eddie Lin, Douglas Ng and Jessie Li
This is a case about a fictional New York beverage company called Fizzy Fusion. The business is facing supply chain and inventory management challenges with its new product, SparklingSip. Despite seeking help from a data science consulting firm, the machine learning...
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Keywords:
Supply Chain Management;
Production;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Analytics and Data Science;
Food and Beverage Industry
Parzen, Michael, Eddie Lin, Douglas Ng, and Jessie Li. "Fizzy Fusion: When Data-Driven Decision Making Failed." Harvard Business School Case 623-071, April 2023.
- November 2015 (Revised October 2017)
- Case
Nestle's Creating Shared Value Strategy
By: Michael E. Porter, Mark R. Kramer, Kerry Herman and Sarah McAra
This case considers Nestlé’s creating shared value (CSV) strategy, which focused on the three categories of nutrition, water, and rural development. In the packaged food and beverage industry, pressure had mounted since the 1990s to improve supply chain sustainability...
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Keywords:
Shared Value;
Health And Wellness;
Nutrition;
Health;
Labor;
Environmental Sustainability;
Strategy;
Operations;
Food and Beverage Industry;
Switzerland;
Europe;
Africa;
Latin America;
North America;
Asia
Porter, Michael E., Mark R. Kramer, Kerry Herman, and Sarah McAra. "Nestlé's Creating Shared Value Strategy." Harvard Business School Case 716-422, November 2015. (Revised October 2017.)
- Teaching Interest
Technology and Operations Management
By: Chiara Farronato
This course is taught in the MBA required curriculum. It provides students with the foundations necessary to be effective operating managers. During the course students learn to analyze decisions that drive the design, planning, and execution of the activities that...
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- 01 Aug 2018
- News
Inside the Emerging Economy With Millions of High-Paying Jobs
- February 2000 (Revised December 2000)
- Case
Staples.com
By: Thomas R. Eisenmann, Joanna M. Jacobson and Gillian Morris
Staples.com, the online unit of the U.S. office supplies retailing chain Staples, faces a range of strategic and organizational issues as it accelerates its growth. Should it pursue only existing Staples customers or consumers who do not shop in Staples stores? How...
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Keywords:
Supply Chain;
Business Units;
Business Model;
Growth and Development;
Internet and the Web;
Entrepreneurship;
Business Strategy;
Service Industry;
United States
Eisenmann, Thomas R., Joanna M. Jacobson, and Gillian Morris. "Staples.com." Harvard Business School Case 800-305, February 2000. (Revised December 2000.)
- 31 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Japan Disaster Shakes Up Supply-Chain Strategies
causing many companies to rethink their supply chain strategies, which suddenly seem extremely fragile. When a natural disaster hits, relief organizations such as the Red Cross and Doctors Without Borders...
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- November 15, 2022
- Article
What Really Makes Toyota’s Production System Resilient
By: Willy C. Shih
Toyota has fared better than many of its competitors in riding out the supply chain disruptions of recent years. But focusing on how Toyota had stockpiled semiconductors and the problems of other manufacturers, some observers jumped to the conclusion that the era of...
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Keywords:
Supplier Relationships;
Manufacturing;
Supply Chain;
Production;
Auto Industry;
United States;
Japan
Shih, Willy C. "What Really Makes Toyota’s Production System Resilient." Harvard Business Review Digital Articles (November 15, 2022).