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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
  • 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
Keywords: by Nitin Nohria, Davis Dyer & Frederick Dalzell; Manufacturing
  • 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
Keywords: by Thomas R. Eisenmann; Media & Broadcasting; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 05 May 2009
  • First Look

First Look: May 5, 2009

Psychology (forthcoming) Abstract This study examined the convergent and construct validity of ratings of individual creative contributions in a team context. A sample of 201 employees and supervisors, working on 26 team projects, completed the NEO-Five Factor View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 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
  • 06 Jan 2017
  • News

Mental Illness and the Workplace

solutions. It really is a matter of taking a personal inventory and thinking about your own situation. What you need to be healthy. And then, working with those around you to get that. But again, as I said earlier, very careful not to... View Details
  • 15 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018

Purchase this case:https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/618028 Harvard Business School Case 618-019 Improving Worker Safety in the Era of Machine Learning (A) Managers make predictions all the time: How fast will my markets grow? How much View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 20 Jan 2015
  • First Look

First Look: January 20

resulting in 99.99% accuracy in its inventory system and completing orders on-time. At the end of the (A) case, students are asked to list the strategic uncertainties that should be keeping the two co-founders awake at night as they... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Nov 2012
  • First Look

First Look: November 6

five months-cut defects by half, reduced inventory by 20%, and raised output by 10%. A control group saw no such gains. The authors' global data set suggests that implementing good management at schools and hospitals yields change more... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Mar 2019
  • News

The Merchant of Osaka

inventory problems and dire financial crises—and whatever the symptom, the root cause was usually that the company had lost touch with its customers. “It’s one of the main reasons the country continues to fall behind,” she says. Her job... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
  • 16 Dec 2014
  • First Look

First Look: December 16

compare those clicks with users' subsequent purchases. Ever-cheaper IT makes this tracking cost effective and routine. In addition, a web of interlocking ad networks trades inventory and offers to show the right ad to the right person at... 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
  • 10 Apr 2018
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First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018

customer value, and the transformation of the stores of offline-first retailers from fulfillment-dominant centers into experience-dominant centers, which simultaneously reduce store size and inventory while improving the customer... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Jul 2010
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First Look: July 13

initially? Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/810096-PDF-ENG Supply Chain Partners: Virginia Mason and Owens & Minor (A) (Abridged) V.G. Narayanan and Lisa BremHarvard Business School Case 110-063 Owens & Minor (O&M) performed lean... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Oct 1996
  • News

Leading In a New Era

arrival at LC in 1994 that the company had done relatively little consumer research, he immediately launched an intensive survey of customer needs. He also performed an asset inventory of the entire organization, which revealed "a lot of... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
  • 24 Apr 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018

fulfillment that uses centralized inventory management. We ask whether, and if so, how, showrooms benefit the two most basic retail objectives: demand generation and operational efficiency. Using quasi-experimental data on showroom... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Nov 2017
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017

Tianjin, China, factory, which can produce below the cost target but will incur extensive shipping costs and require a far greater amount of inventory holding. This case examines a core question facing managers who want to produce... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 19 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 19

dramatically increase its profits. ALAC critically needed to obtain financing for the explosive growth in its inventory and accounts receivable balances. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/211065-PDF-ENG Businesses... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 May 2009
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First Look: May 12, 2009

and Low Unit of Measure services for VM, but they believed the pricing model in the industry was outdated. VM and O&M partnered to create the Total Supply Chain Cost (TSCC) pricing program, an activity-based model that assigned all the cost drivers of distribution... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 21 May 2013
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First Look: May 21

liquidated include Borders Group in 2012, Circuit City in 2009, and Linens `n Things in 2008; the value of inventory sold during these liquidations alone is $3B. The store liquidation problem is related to but also differs substantially... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne