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September – October 2011
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The Manufacturer's Incentive to Reduce Lead Times

By: Santiago Kraiselburd, Richard Pibernik and Ananth Raman

It is generally a well acknowledged fact that, ceteris paribus, reducing the lead times between downstream and upstream parties in a supply chain is desirable from an overall system perspective. However, an upstream party (e.g., a manufacturer) may have strong... View Details

Keywords: Cost; Demand and Consumers; Order Taking and Fulfillment; Production; Supply Chain Management; Sales; Manufacturing Industry; Retail Industry

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Shurgard Self-Storage: Expansion to Europe

By: Richard G. Hamermesh and Indra Reinbergs

Shurgard, a U.S.-based firm that rents storage facilities to consumers and small businesses, is considering financing options for rapid expansion of its European operations. Five years after entering Europe, Shurgard Europe has opened 17 facilities in Belgium, France,... View Details

Keywords: Private Equity; Valuation; Business Model; Governing and Advisory Boards; Entrepreneurship; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Service Industry; Belgium; France; Sweden; United States; Europe

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10 Oct 2018
HBS Seminar

Michael Bordo, Rutgers School of Arts and Sciences

01 Jun 2013
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Building a Better Brazil

of our Executive Education programs is to help fulfill the need for well-trained business leaders at all levels of organizations worldwide, and we are interested in increasing our focus in Latin America," said Dean Nitin Nohria. "This... View Details

Keywords: Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance; Paper Manufacturing; Manufacturing

02 Aug 2021
Research & Ideas

What If Closing the Wage Gap Means Everyone Earns Less?

to disclose salary ranges. But Cullen’s research suggests these companies don’t need to fear transparency. Real, mandated disclosure—coming from laws that protect workers and bind companies to the rules—benefits corporations that hold up... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

01 Apr 2000
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Student "Treks" Lead to Jobs and Opportunities

the skills and values needed to nurture a company and enable it to grow and prosper," he notes. "The numerous treks and special conferences organized by our students complement that goal by giving them access to many of the people and... View Details

04 May 2021
Blog Post

Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month at HBS

history of prejudice that these attitudes stem from. But he also demonstrated the U.S.’s ongoing need for purposeful and inclusive leadership, and I hope to spend my career defending individual liberties and creating warm, empathetic... View Details

01 Jan 2002
News

Egon P.S. Zehnder (MBA '56)

goal is to gauge the integrity and empathy of these young men and women. We need to learn about their values and judgment; we want to find out if they're warm, honest, and sincere. All of this is critical information for our firm, which... View Details

15 Oct 2007
Research & Ideas

Businesses Beware: The World Is Not Flat

achieved profitability—Canada, Mexico, and the United Kingdom—are the ones culturally, administratively, and geographically closest to the United States. The point is not that Wal-Mart shouldn't have ventured into more distant markets, but rather, that it View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 May 2012
First Look

First Look: May 1

Microsoft and IBM were initially very successful in creating freestanding business units that could compete with entrants on their own terms, but that as the new businesses grew, the need to share key firm-level assets imposed significant... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

08 Sep 2008
HBS Case

The Value of Environmental Activists

There are many methods, most financial, to measure the success of companies in meeting goals. But the question becomes a lot harder at Harvard Business School when MBAs are challenged to measure the efforts of environmental organizations like Greenpeace and the World... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Energy; Utilities

01 Mar 2018
News

Every Trick in the Book

without a bookstore,” she says. “It’s every bit a part of a community as a bank or a grocery store or a hardware store.” As she surveyed her new business in early 2016, however, Brody knew the East Hampton icon couldn’t remain trapped in amber. To survive, BookHampton... View Details

Keywords: April White

11 Jul 2023
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Second Life: Reflections on Complementing Success with an Encore Career

decline. “I need to keep my professional skills in play, or they will atrophy.” The path ahead, however, remained unclear. Kloeblen was not sure how his executive experience could translate into one, or multiple, roles, what kinds of... View Details

27 Oct 2002
Research & Ideas

Want a Happy Customer? Coordinate Sales and Marketing

individuals in the business, their individual motivation, and their ability to work together harmoniously. Nowhere is the need to work together more important than in the twin customer-facing functions of marketing and sales. Sales and... View Details

Keywords: by Benson Shapiro

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Emily Schlichting

the private sector that to effectively implement policy reform, I needed to understand how business works, particularly in health care." To pursue her ultimate objective, "a health care system in the U.S. that provides everyone... View Details

Keywords: Healthcare/Biotech; Nonprofit/Government/Education

Portrait Project

Wyatt Smith

up, "show how much more we need to work to buy new clothes, go out for dinners, or take a vacation." I was confused. We didn't take many vacations. On our family farm in Alabama, my dad's work ethic seemed oppressive, almost... View Details

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Online Business in Society Courses | HBS Online

programs, conducted by City Square Associates). Better overall experience (From a 2023 survey of prospective learners, conducted by City Square Associates). Related Content Free E-Book How to Be a Purpose-Driven, Global Business Professional In this guide, you’ll learn... View Details

01 Jun 2023
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In My Humble Opinion: Very Continental

infrastructure, technology, and agribusiness. “There’s a lot of common sense, hard work, and relationship-building that needs to happen,” she notes. “But I refuse the ‘doomed’ narrative for Africa. It’s easier for me to tell someone to... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; investment; exports; infrastructure; life experience; finance; Finance

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Agents of Change: The Founding of the AASU - The Value of Business Education

political science and assistant vice president of finance. Monroe Davis Dowling HBS MBA 1931 Atlantic City, NJ Lincoln University, 1929 Upon graduation from HBS, Monroe Davis Dowling worked for the Colored Merchants' Association (CMA), a cooperative of stores that... View Details

10 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

Globalization: The Strategy of Differences

potential for the scale economies that such commonalities unlock, as their primary source of added value. Differences from country to country, in contrast, are viewed as obstacles that need to be overcome. It's possible to apply different... View Details

Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat

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