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- 18 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 18
methods, panel data, and instrumental variables, we find that government procurement rules produce spillover effects that stimulate both private-sector adoption of the LEED standard and supplier investments in green building expertise.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Apr 2005
- Research & Ideas
Tips to Reinvent the Department Store
each chain." Petsch agreed. "At Sears, we have an increasing number of proprietary brands," Petsch said. Overton said the mergers will have a major effect on the suppliers of department stores' real estate—the malls. JC... View Details
- 07 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 7
refining its branding and retail-customer strategy—and it also seeks to expand in other markets, especially China. To become a leading year-round supplier to retailers, Camposol needs to increase the product volumes it controls, likely... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2004
- What Do You Think?
Are Customer Loyalty Initiatives Worth the Investment?
to let customers acquire points or miles or any loot unconnected to the product they are using . . . It's about customers and suppliers caring for each other's success." As Alan de Winter put it, "A consistently well-delivered... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 16 May 2016
- HBS Case
Food Safety Economics: The Cost of a Sick Customer
Business School and Professor in Health Policy and Management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Even though Chipotle’s supply chain is shorter, with fewer intermediaries between supplier and restaurant, the use of local... View Details
- 03 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Ingredients of a Deal Disaster
underlying social contract. A second union was quickly organized, and it took a far more adversarial approach, demanding higher wages and insisting on job guarantees. Local suppliers saw the company as untrustworthy and refused to do... View Details
- 06 Aug 2018
- Research & Ideas
Supersmart Manufacturing Tools are Lowering Prices on TVs, Bulbs, and Solar Panels
likely already facing or soon will face commoditization pressures because there just aren’t many entry barriers that can protect you. If your suppliers are in this position, it may actually help you over the short term, but you really... View Details
- 02 Sep 2019
- What Do You Think?
Are Overlooked Forces Shielding the US from Severe Economic Downturns?
of “just in time” inventory management that led to greater speed and dependability among manufacturers and suppliers of logistics services to companies like Toyota and others. Of course, the concept was facilitated by the internet. What... View Details
- 17 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 17, 2018
for harms caused by defective products may also affect innovation incentives. This paper examines this issue, exploiting a major quasi-exogenous increase in liability risk faced by U.S. suppliers of polymers used to manufacture medical... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 3
product development team is the right exit strategy for their start-up. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/product/yahoo-both-sides-of-the-stamped-deal/an/814051-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 214-084 School Specialty, Inc. Set in 2013, School Specialty was a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
LEED-ing by Example
Simcoe, an assistant professor at Boston University, adds that such policies might also resolve a type of coordination problem often seen in the diffusion of technology standards, such as the Universal Serial Bus (USB) interface or a new video game console. "Input... View Details
- 20 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018
bankruptcy are predictive of lower recovery rates, and that in such cases these creditors sell ahead of less informed suppliers and other creditors. This result is especially pronounced for more opaque distressed firms, when trade... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 16, 2019
President of Sourcing Amanda Tucker and her colleagues in Nike’s Global Sourcing and Manufacturing division were focusing on three key supply chain challenges: sourcing from suppliers that meet compliance standards, challenging and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Jun 2020
- In Practice
Are Digital Organizations Better at Overcoming COVID?
industry. That said, technology will be most powerfully utilized during the pandemic by those firms who apply it organization-wide to create more nimble, efficient organizations, more capable of managing the factors of production (e.g., labor, capital, View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 26 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Strategic Way to Go to Market
repository of lost opportunities" that serve neither end users nor channel partners very well. Why is this? A: That is because most channels are constructed from the supplier out, rather than from the customer in. In other words, the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Want to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part I]
and suppliers in its fast-growing market, and to facilitate possible acquisitions. Prior to jointly founding IWA, the three had worked in management consulting and investment banking: each, however, did have substantial experience with... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
- 10 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 10
multinational buyers. We find that supplier factories are more likely to comply when they are embedded in states that are active participants in the International Labour Organization treaty regime and that have highly protective domestic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Apr 2018
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: The Trouble with Tariffs
already the leading network infrastructure supplier globally, ahead of Cisco, Nokia, and Ericsson. It is a leader in optical network equipment, and has passed Apple in smartphone sales (outside the US, of course). In the US, it is... View Details
Keywords: by Willy C. Shih; Manufacturing; Auto; Steel; Air Transportation; Technology; Telecommunications
- 30 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 30
supply chain factories' adherence to the global labor standards embodied in codes of conduct imposed by multinational buyers. We find that suppliers are more likely to adhere when they are embedded in states that participate actively in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 10
particular, supportive incumbent industrial structures for input and output markets are strongly linked to higher establishment entry rates. We also find substantial evidence for the Chinitz effect where small local incumbent suppliers... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne