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- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?
order to offset the negative impact of a sagging economy and sharply rising employee benefit costs. Over the course of the past three years, U.S. manufacturing has shed some 2.7 million jobs, with companies marshaling technology and ever-leaner View Details
- March 1995 (Revised July 1996)
- Case
Mattson Foods, Inc. (Revised): The Bardolini Division
The Bardolini Division of Mattson Foods, with plants in the northeast and midwest, wants to open up the western market for its pizza. Management must decide whether to build a new plant on the West Coast, and what type of technology to put in the plant if they decide... View Details
Keywords: Logistics; Emerging Markets; Business Startups; Decision Choices and Conditions; Business Plan; Capital Budgeting; Expansion; Buildings and Facilities; Strategic Planning; Marketing Strategy; Technology; Economic Systems; Food and Beverage Industry
Wheelwright, Steven C. "Mattson Foods, Inc. (Revised): The Bardolini Division." Harvard Business School Case 695-058, March 1995. (Revised July 1996.)
- June 2024
- Case
Aidoc: Building a Hospital-Centric AI Platform
By: Ariel D. Stern and Susan Pinckney
In 2023, Israel-based AI health care company Aidoc evaluated its future. The company, founded in 2016, had grown from commercializing a single AI product for radiologists to a software platform that could detect 20 conditions and immediately notify care teams of... View Details
Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; Business Organization; Business Startups; Disruption; Cost vs Benefits; Decision Choices and Conditions; Decisions; Private Sector; Entrepreneurial Finance; Global Range; Global Strategy; Globalized Markets and Industries; Governance Compliance; Governance Controls; Governing and Advisory Boards; Policy; Medical Specialties; AI and Machine Learning; Digital Platforms; Digital Transformation; Technology Adoption; Disruptive Innovation; Innovation and Management; Innovation Strategy; Laws and Statutes; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Distribution; Product Development; Success; Performance Efficiency; Strategic Planning; Research and Development; Risk and Uncertainty; Business Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Value Creation; Health Industry; Israel
Stern, Ariel D., and Susan Pinckney. "Aidoc: Building a Hospital-Centric AI Platform." Harvard Business School Case 624-046, June 2024.
- 28 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 28, 2010
Review (forthcoming) Abstract Companies in Victorian Britain operated in a laissez-faire legal environment from the perspective of outside investors, implying that such investors were not protected by the legal system. This article seeks... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- March 2020 (Revised January 2023)
- Case
Nadine Vogel: Transforming the Marketplace, Workplace, and Workforce for People with Disabilities
By: Lakshmi Ramarajan, Hannah Riley-Bowles and Michael Norris
In 2019, Nadine Vogel, founder and CEO of Springboard Consulting, a firm that worked with Fortune 500 companies on issues related to disability and their workforce, faced the decision of the best path forward to grow her small company. Should she build more and better... View Details
Keywords: Diversity; Entrepreneurship; Personal Development and Career; Decision Choices and Conditions; Growth and Development Strategy; Product Development; Market Entry and Exit; Consulting Industry; United States; Florida; New York (state, US)
Ramarajan, Lakshmi, Hannah Riley-Bowles, and Michael Norris. "Nadine Vogel: Transforming the Marketplace, Workplace, and Workforce for People with Disabilities." Harvard Business School Case 420-062, March 2020. (Revised January 2023.)
- October 2001
- Supplement
BMW AG: The Digital Auto Project-An Interview With Chris Bangle, Head of Global Design
By: Stefan H. Thomke
Chris Bangle describes how BMW is trying to reduce its development time by half with the aid of computer-aided technologies. To leverage these technologies in the very competitive automotive industry, he talks about how BMW is faced with the challenges of changing its... View Details
Keywords: Interpersonal Communication; Management Practices and Processes; Time Management; Product Development; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Problems and Challenges; Competition; Information Technology; Auto Industry
Thomke, Stefan H. "BMW AG: The Digital Auto Project-An Interview With Chris Bangle, Head of Global Design." Harvard Business School Video Supplement 602-802, October 2001.
- January 1998
- Case
Connecticut Spring and Stamping Corp. (C)
By: H. Kent Bowen, Massimo Russo and Steven J. Spear
Andy Youmans, executive vice president of CSSC, joins a group of U.S. executives on a tour of Japanese factories that practice the TPS. Three of the factories produce products similar to CSSC's, and even though they use similar equipment, they are significantly more... View Details
Keywords: Managerial Roles; Performance Improvement; System; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Performance Productivity; Training; Quality; Business Ventures; Competency and Skills; Production; Adoption
Bowen, H. Kent, Massimo Russo, and Steven J. Spear. "Connecticut Spring and Stamping Corp. (C)." Harvard Business School Case 698-039, January 1998.
- 18 Feb 2014
- News
Stick with Plan A
MADDY "When I have my mind set on something, I do not create a Plan B," says Monique Maddy (MBA 1993). "I feel that it lessens my commitment and my focus. If it doesn't work out, I come up with another Plan A, which I will also relentlessly pursue." Serial entrepreneur... View Details
- October 2016
- Case
Yili Group: Building a Global Dairy Company
By: William C. Kirby and Nancy Hua Dai
From its humble beginnings as a local Chinese dairy company, the Inner Mongolia Yili Group has become one of the largest dairy companies in the world. To achieve this, Yili has aggressively expanded its footprint overseas including building the world’s largest... View Details
Keywords: Globalized Markets And Industries; Global Supply Chain; Competition; Culture; Agribusiness; Animal-Based Agribusiness; Business Growth and Maturation; Food; Global Range; Local Range; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Global Strategy; Globalized Firms and Management; Nutrition; Employee Relationship Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Brands and Branding; Supply Chain; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; China
Kirby, William C., and Nancy Hua Dai. "Yili Group: Building a Global Dairy Company." Harvard Business School Case 317-003, October 2016.
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
Long remembers eating lots of pumpkin — the only food readily available. The early engines of growth were holdovers from the Maoist era: township and village enterprises (TVEs) rooted in China’s vast rural regions, and state-owned enterprises (SOEs). The TVEs were... View Details
- 15 Jun 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2020
system clash with the digital age, and how to take action. Presenting examples of companies already making a difference, the authors show how business must serve both as innovator and activist, developing corporate strategies that effect... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Too Big To Fail
assets reaching roughly $10 trillion, equivalent to total assets in the entire U.S. banking system. Says Moss: “While new systemic threats had emerged along the way, there was little effort to regulate them, undercutting the original New Deal View Details
- January 2023
- Case
Natura: Weathering the Pandemic at Brazil's Cosmetic Giant
By: Brian Trelstad, Pedro Levindo and Carla Larangeira
Brazil's Natura, a multi-brand cosmetics group, has taken several measures to safeguard the livelihoods of its thousands of employees and millions of sales representatives during the COVID-19 health and economic crisis. The company has also made strides in its efforts... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic; ESG Reporting; Acquisition; Customer Focus and Relationships; Decision Making; Social Entrepreneurship; Environmental Sustainability; Environmental Management; Climate Change; Ethics; Moral Sensibility; Values and Beliefs; Global Strategy; Corporate Governance; Health Pandemics; Human Resources; Human Capital; Crisis Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Marketing; Distribution Channels; Supply Chain; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Culture; Customer Ownership; Relationships; Business and Community Relations; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Networks; Partners and Partnerships; Science-Based Business; Reputation; Human Needs; Social Issues; Strategy; Equality and Inequality; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; Brazil; Latin America
- 18 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
enjoys a positive VoC under general conditions. We conduct numerical simulations to study the magnitude of the VoC and find that it can be substantial—in our simulations, retailers that switched from a fixed to a sequential assortment View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 22 Mar 2017
- Research & Ideas
What's the Ideal Frequency for a Sales Quota?
them would just give up in the latter half, because there was no way they could make quota.” An ideal setting for a field experiment The retailer was an ideal setting for a field experiment for a few reasons. One, it operated 94 stores... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 19 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
The Road to Impact
if—you could have a huge positive impact by just providing common-sense business techniques. Not Six Sigma, not One Sigma, just common sense,” Offensend observes. When he landed his first nonprofit position as chief operating officer at... View Details
- 12 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 12, 2016
member to discover how and whether his employees can speed up cleaning, checking, restocking, and refueling. Expert commentary comes from Atilla Korkmazoglu, president of ground handling and cargo operations at Celebi Aviation Holding,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Dec 2014
- News
Front-Row Seat
Bradley merged the Atlantic magazine’s Boston operations with those of the National Journal and Government Executive, just 3 of 55 employees elected to make the move to Washington, DC. Nearly 150 years after its founding, the Atlantic’s... View Details
- 30 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Market Makers Bid for Success
6 I got to work in my basement on starting FreeMarkets. The first thing we did was raise some money, and then we built some software. We found some pilot clients and started to develop market-making skills, a supplier database, rules for the market, and a call center... View Details
- May 2010
- Case
Alpen Bank: Launching the Credit Card in Romania
By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Sunru Yong
In 2006, the country manager for Alpen Bank in Romania, Gregory Carle, considers whether to recommend the launch of a credit card business. The firm rejected the idea several years earlier because of poor economic conditions in Romania. However, Romania is experiencing... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Credit; International Business; International Marketing; Product Introduction; Service Management; Credit Cards; Globalized Firms and Management; Product Positioning; Marketing Strategy; Service Delivery; Personal Finance; Product Launch; Banking Industry; European Union; Romania
Rangan, V. Kasturi, and Sunru Yong. "Alpen Bank: Launching the Credit Card in Romania." Harvard Business School Brief Case 104-559, May 2010.