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  • 01 Mar 2011
  • News

Making Their Way

medical industry; shelving units for retail consumer products; and high-tolerance firing pins for military applications. When it comes to per-piece cost for metal stampings, the United States is very competitive with China because labor... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Rail Transportation; Transportation
  • 12 Aug 2002
  • Research & Ideas

‘Let the Buyer Beware’ Doesn’t Protect Investors

principle is "buyer beware." The dynamics of the financial markets are the attempt of the bank to sell to suspicious investors. In bubbles, the professionals in the Financial Value Chain get too successful at fooling the View Details
Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills
  • 28 Aug 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018

focus. The theory includes many realistic elements such as salespeople’s multi-dimensional effort, heterogeneity in ability, product focus, and forward-looking behavior. We test our theory through a field experiment in which we vary the sales force compensation scheme... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 21 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 21

databases, search tools, and other programs-that would help the company reach scale. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/product/claritas-genomics/an/814032-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 514-018 Olam: Building a Sustainable Supply View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Jan 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019

faster-growing companies to raise more capital. These results highlight the importance of institutions in enabling the provision of entrepreneurial capital to young companies. In Search of Organizational Alignment Using a 360-Degree Assessment System: A Field... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 19 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 19, 2007

production and sales of fast moving, low-priced goods. Provides an opportunity to discuss trends in consumer eating habits, supply chains for locally-produced goods, and changes in retail formats. In... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Dec 2015
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December 15, 2015

Unilever Sustainable Living Project, including a goal to halve the waste associated with the disposal of its products. Unilever's chief supply chain officer Pier Luigi Sigismondi and his team were working towards this goal and had chosen... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 21 Jun 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets

fills a void by making the market between, on the one hand, thousands of producers of goods and services and on the other, big-box retailers and many others in the United States that want to source from emerging markets. Li & Fung... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 08 Jan 2008
  • First Look

First Look: January 8, 2008

PublicationsEstimating Demand Uncertainty Using Judgmental Forecasts Authors:Vishal Gaur, Saravanan Kesavan, Ananth Raman, and Marshall L. Fisher Periodical:Manufacturing and Service Operations Management 9, no. 4 (fall 2007) Abstract Measuring demand uncertainty is a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 04 Nov 2020
  • News

The Long View: Persevering Through Past Crises

Fienning, MBA Class of 1970, Section C. Five years after graduation, I was a partner in a mobile-home retailing company in Greensboro, North Carolina. I was a bachelor, living in a mobile home, and trying to create a manufactured housing... View Details
  • 26 Jun 2025
  • News

The Vinyl Revival

paid. We saw such a spike in demand that our turnaround times ballooned. Simultaneously, we had a global supply chain crisis where the inputs we used to make our records ... PVC, nickel, cardboard, all of those things ... were being stuck... View Details
  • 02 Jul 2013
  • First Look

First Look: July 2

mitigation policies within its supply chain and in government policy. Publisher's link: http://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/caesars-entertainment-betting-on-sustainability/   Working Papers Market Reallocation and Knowledge Spillover: The... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 14 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 14, 2009

Publications The Role of Execution in Managing Product Availability Authors: Nicole DeHoratius and Zeynep Ton Publication: Chap. 4 in Retail Supply Chain Management, edited by Narendra Agarwal and Stephen A.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 21 Jul 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Don’t Get Buried in Customer Data—Use It

more elusive than ever. A recent McKinsey study reveals that the annual churn in the wireless industry increased from 17 percent in 1995 to 32 percent in 2000. This trend holds true even in industries less susceptible to turnover. In core View Details
Keywords: by Jean Ayers
  • 23 Aug 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Strategy for Small Fish

departments easily embracing the Web. In the software industry, for example, we have witnessed how the emergence of loosely coupled interfaces has enabled the majority of application companies to leverage multiple platforms. The same is true in the semiconductor and... View Details
Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien
  • 30 Jun 2015
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First Look: June 30, 2015

Management Journal Monitoring Global Supply Chains By: Short, Jodi L., Michael W. Toffel, and Andrea R. Hugill Abstract—Firms reliant on supply chains to manufacture their goods risk reputational harm if the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 10 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 10, 2009

Chain Planning: A Case Study of Sales and Operations Planning (revised) Authors: Rogelio Oliva and Noel H. Watson Abstract In most organizations, supply chain planning is a cross-functional effort.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 Mar 2016
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March 8, 2016

analysis of 82,235 customers exploits the varying competitive dynamics in 644 geographically isolated markets in which a nationwide retail bank conducted business over a five-year period. We find that customers defect at a higher rate... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 May 2008
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First Look: May 28, 2008

Case 508-074 The largest retailer of diesel fuel in the U.S., Flying J, is rethinking its growth strategy as the economy goes into a recession. Its major customer base, owner-operated truck drivers, are facing increasing costs of doing... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 May 2020
  • In Practice

Nonprofits Hurt by COVID-19 Must Hoard Cash to Hold On

that will risk closing their doors without our aid. Because COVID-19 affects the entire economy, to triage this way requires donors to urgently look in an unfamiliar place: for-profit models delivering high-impact interventions. To illustrate with an example, in... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
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