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- 16 Jan 2024
- Cold Call Podcast
How SolarWinds Responded to the 2020 SUNBURST Cyberattack
- 27 Jul 2018
- News
Electricity generation drives need for natural gas demand response
- December 2022
- Case
Mission Produce in 2022
By: Forest Reinhardt, Jose B. Alvarez and Natalie Kindred
Founded by CEO Steve Barnard in 1983, California-based Mission Produce was a leading supplier of Hass avocados with a global sourcing, marketing, and distribution network and $892 million in 2021 sales. Barnard had been influential in the global avocado trade’s...
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Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry;
Food and Beverage Industry;
Retail Industry;
Consumer Products Industry;
United States;
California;
Peru;
Guatemala;
Colombia;
Mexico;
Chile
Reinhardt, Forest, Jose B. Alvarez, and Natalie Kindred. "Mission Produce in 2022." Harvard Business School Case 723-026, December 2022.
- Career Coach
Boom Supatpitak
Boom seeks to provide students with clear and actionable guidance to aid in exploring opportunities available to HBS students in the Consumer Product Goods (CPG) and retail industry. With experience in these industries, he can provide insights into preliminary and...
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- March 1982 (Revised April 1989)
- Background Note
Industrial Buyer Behavior
May be used as background material for courses in industrial marketing and industrial procurement. Surveys the economic, behavioral, and organizational influences that shape buying decision-making in corporations and other institutions. Also describes the kinds of...
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Corey, E. Raymond. "Industrial Buyer Behavior." Harvard Business School Background Note 582-117, March 1982. (Revised April 1989.)
- 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.)
- 02 May 2005
- What Do You Think?
Where is Consumer Generated Marketing Taking Us?
engineering. The result is a fuzzing of the boundaries between a company and some of the users of its products and services. There is a kind of "always on" communication system shaping up between the most outspoken and committed of the tech-minded users and...
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by James Heskett
- January 2001 (Revised March 2003)
- Case
Quantum Corporation: eSupplyChain Group
The eSupplyChain group has been recently formed with Quantum Corp.'s Hard Disk Drive Group to evaluate Internet/IT-based approaches to improving supply chain performance. The Hard Disk Drive Group has endured several quarters of poor financial performance and has...
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Keywords:
Digital Platforms;
Internet and the Web;
Information Technology;
Supply Chain Management;
Business Strategy
McAfee, Andrew P., and Gregory Bounds. "Quantum Corporation: eSupplyChain Group." Harvard Business School Case 601-099, January 2001. (Revised March 2003.)
- Nov 2014
- Report
Managing the Talent Pipeline: A New Approach to Closing the Skills Gap
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation recommends a new demand-driven approach—talent pipeline management—to close the skills gap. Extending lessons learned from innovations in supply chain management, this paper calls for employers to...
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- April 2021 (Revised May 2021)
- Case
Kitopi: The Brave New World of Cloud Kitchens
By: Antonio Moreno and Gamze Yucaoglu
The case opens in February 2021 as Mohamad Ballout, co-founder and CEO of Kitopi, a Dubai-based managed cloud kitchen platform, is looking over the company’s 2020 results. Propelled by the COVID-19 pandemic, delivery orders had been on the rise globally and dine-in...
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Keywords:
Cloud Kitchens;
Food;
Operations;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Food and Beverage Industry;
Middle East;
North Africa
Moreno, Antonio, and Gamze Yucaoglu. "Kitopi: The Brave New World of Cloud Kitchens." Harvard Business School Case 621-102, April 2021. (Revised May 2021.)
- 12 Apr 2022
- News
What Does the Pandemic Have to Do With Inflation?
- 11 May 2020
- News
Apple to produce millions of AirPods in Vietnam amid pandemic
- Research Summary
Overview
Professor Becker’s research revolves around the way financing supply and financial conditions affect firm behavior, investment, and financing choices. His work on financial contracting has revealed that, in recent years, greater competition has tended to lower rather...
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- 07 Jan 2008
- Research & Ideas
Pursuing a Deadly Opportunity
deaths (and only those individuals who lived in the state of Maryland), while the other focused primarily on diseased individuals and their families (who were also able to authorize donations upon death) living both in and out of state. "Rather than focus on the...
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- 15 Oct 2012
- News
Why Business IT Innovation is So Difficult
- 2018
- Working Paper
The Welfare Effects of Peer Entry in the Accommodation Market: The Case of Airbnb
By: Chiara Farronato and Andrey Fradkin
We study the effects of enabling peer supply through Airbnb in the accommodation industry. We present a model of competition between flexible and dedicated sellers - peer hosts and hotels - who provide differentiated products. We estimate this model using data from...
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Keywords:
Peer To Peer;
Digital Platforms;
Market Entry and Exit;
Competition;
Accommodations Industry
Farronato, Chiara, and Andrey Fradkin. "The Welfare Effects of Peer Entry in the Accommodation Market: The Case of Airbnb." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 24361, February 2018.
- 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.
- March 2002
- Case
2002 Global Coffee Summit: Searching for Solutions
By: Ray A. Goldberg and James M Beagle
Global coffee leaders gathered in 2002 to develop alternative market-based approaches that would ensure a sustainable supply of coffee and address the social and ecological issues confronted by a global depression in coffee prices.
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- February 2023 (Revised April 2023)
- Case
Kvadrat: Focus, Execute, and Grow
By: Boris Groysberg and Sarah L. Abbott
Kvadrat was a family-owned global textiles company. The company had enjoyed impressive top-line growth and was shifting gears to emphasize profitability via a shorter strategic agenda. Agenda items included: U.S. expansion, generating improved margins in its consumer...
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