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- 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
- 22 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 22, 2006
improving inventory management for its network of small and large retailers. Set just after the announcement of the Adidas-Reebok transaction in 2005, with New Balance having recently initiated a companywide effort to improve operational... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Nov 1999
- Lessons from the Classroom
What’s Next & So What? Leading in the 21st Century
So even though most companies spent the last decade reinventing their core business processes — such as how they do purchasing or manage inventory and order processing — they did so with the aim of greater efficiency. Most of them have... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 20 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
How an Order Views Your Company
the companies that did the best job of order cycle management. Despite the overwhelming data, some companies just do not take the customer orientation seriously.— Benson Shapiro Finally, order cycle management helped to enable the supply chain revolution, which has... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston
- 16 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 16, 2016
chains lengthened by 20% following the collapse of a flagship dealer in 2008 and even more for institutions strongly connected to this dealer. Finally, dealers drastically reduced their inventory during the crisis. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
Cash and the Woman-Owned Business
leased or inventory purchased before outside investors or bankers must be brought into the deal. Of course, the more fully developed your business is when you begin looking for outside investors, the more clearly you can demonstrate... View Details
- 17 May 2016
- First Look
May 17, 2016
inventory holding, Amazon’s business model was more diverse. Amazon was primarily an online retail department store, offering a wide range of product categories, but it also maintained a significant third-party marketplace where it... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Confronting the Challenges that Face Bricks-and-Mortar Stores
rather than by URLs. A shopper views a map that shows the retail topography of the local town, highlighting stores that sell products of particular interest. He or she then selects a view showing specific brands, prices, store specials, and View Details
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Key Metrics | Annual Report 2024
48,244 32,735 40,754 51,025 Municipal Solid Waste (tons) 400 357 204 196 394 GHG Emissions is calculated using location-based reporting methodology. Harvard University follows The Climate Registry’s General Reporting Protocol for the Voluntary Greenhouse Gas (GHG)... View Details
- 20 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 20
problems, hence the potential improvements from our framework come at essentially limited extra computational cost. We perform numerical experiments drawn from three di erent application areas (portfolio optimization, inventory... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Reinventing the Industrial Giant
efficient for consumers and for GM. First, it would reduce the amount of time customers had to wait for their car to arrive. A car ordered online would take only 15 to 20 days to reach the customer compared to the usual 55 to 60. 79 Customers could also go through the... View Details
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Cable TV: From Community Antennas to Wired Cities
John Walson launched the first commercial cable television system in Mahanoy City, Pennsylvania, an Appalachian town eighty-six miles from Philadelphia. 1,2 Walson worked as a lineman for Pennsylvania Power & Light and also owned a local appliance store, which held... View Details
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Brand Power from Wedgwood to Dell: Part One
brand in a new market when there is lots of competition involves paying attention to every spoke of the strategy wheel, every division of the emerging, evolving organization chart. The brand is involved in everything the firm does. So if you are at Marshall Field's,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 09 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 9, 2015
sales have been strong, but due to the company's novel sizing scheme, which provides more measurement dimensions than typical women's clothing, inventory is high and operations are complex. Operational challenges have made it difficult to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 12
Research and Analysis (CFRA) on companies in the solar industry with a focus on First Solar Inc. In 2009, CFRA was concerned that First Solar, like much of the solar industry, was facing deterioration in business prospects and exposed to risks arising from revenue... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 23, 2015
Demoulas by his cousin, Arthur S. Demoulas, and directors affiliated with him set off employee protests throughout the grocery store chain. Industry specialists estimated that Market Basket was losing close to $10 million each day in lost business and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Life in Lockdown
a.m. with the Mayor. You should wear: Black blazer (Banana Republic).” Different screens in the prototype show a photo of the suggested outfit for the day; shopping suggestions with prices and store information; a photo inventory of all... View Details
- 21 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 21
would allow RTR to aggressively expand its inventory and customer acquisition efforts in order to serve a broader range of customer segments with a wider selection of products (e.g., accessories, maternity wear). Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Winners and Losers in the Retail Revolution
that. They make sure they carry enough inventory so you can get that job done immediately. Lighting fixtures, on the other hand, are a different animal. There are hundreds of thousands of options to choose from and generally the need is... View Details
- 15 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019
inventory (a proxy for support). Our findings highlight important factors for successful implementations of 360-degree systems as complements to explicit incentives. Finally, we share some lessons learned with respect to performing field... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman