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- 01 Apr 2000
- News
The World at a Click
hotel room, or car rental. The suppliers of such services then decide whether or not they can meet that price. Priceline currently holds several patents on demand collection technology and has expanded to offer customers a chance to bid... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelly
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Ask the Expert: Barreling Ahead
the number of acres they cultivate continues to grow. We’ve also created relationships with our malt, glass, can, keg, and packaging suppliers (some of which have only become stronger as a result of our relationship with Constellation... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Make or Break
to the Times, is “to invigorate private-sector initiatives in these industries, then in a host of supplier companies, and eventually throughout manufacturing.” Commented Bloom, “I am deeply afraid that if you lose the ability to make... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
But It's All Right Now (In Fact, It's a Gas)
suppliers for the project, ensued. One participant reported that Shearer “personally took them on and ran rings around them.” “The big oil companies are used to dealing with smaller players by keeping them in their place,” Shearer... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Negotiating with Wal-Mart
are numerous media accounts of the corporate monolith riding its suppliers into the ground. But what about those who manage to survive, and thrive, while dealing with the classic hardball negotiator? In “Sarah Talley and Frey Farms... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
What Industrial Policy?
plants, you don’t need to employ highly skilled technicians to maintain equipment. Suppliers of production equipment also tend to cluster near manufacturing. (The countries with the highest production of machine tools—Germany, Japan,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Sleight of Hand
Camirand Academy of Magic, a magic-products supplier in Quebec. “I use this lotion at least twice a week, minimum, and I probably go through an ounce, an ounce and a half a year,” he told the New York Times (February 19, 2006). “For most... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
An Rx for Small Business Recovery
looking at the health of America’s supply chains shouldn’t just consider large companies, but also small innovative suppliers of both goods and services. Are they getting access to the capital, the trained workforce, and the intellectual... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Case Study: Up in the Air
firms), the awareness will permeate the ecosystem. —Boris Tsimerinov (PLDA 16, 2017) you have signed up suppliers, but quality over quantity is mandatory, and the best ones are often the hardest. Do the suppliers have the structure and... View Details
- 02 Apr 2020
- News
Patriots Plane Delivers a Million Masks from China
traditional commercial air transport.” Which is eventually how, on April 2, a plane owned by the New England Patriots flew from China to Logan International Airport, carrying more than a million N95 respirator masks that the Baker administration arranged to buy from... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Sustaining Business And Society For The Long Term
clean energy technology, and customer demand for products and services. Another case looks at Norsk Gjenvinning, Norway’s largest supplier of recycling and environmental services, which was purchased by a private equity fi rm in 2012.... View Details
- 03 Oct 2017
- News
Can Bezos’s Ties to Boston—and HBS—Seal the Deal?
North Reading’s Kiva Systems, founded by Mick Mountz (MBA 1996). Regarding the headquarters decision, Russ Wilcox (MBA 1995), who cofounded E Ink–which would become a key supplier for the Amazon Kindle—says the Bezos might be employing a... View Details
Keywords: Retail Trade
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
HBS Business Plan Contestants Pin Their Hopes on the Internet
that has already garnered $16 million in funding to link shipping companies with suppliers via the Internet. More than one hundred teams involving over three hundred students initially entered the competition. Some 95 percent of the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Priceline's Jay Walker: The Future is Wow
convenient place to shop ("7-Eleven is more convenient, but it doesn't have the retail share Wal-Mart has"), the discount retailer gained market supremacy by proclaiming, and delivering, "always the lowest price" -- typically by wringing out every possible cost factor... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Buy the Book
publishing industry today ships books to stores and waits for customers to purchase them. James Patterson represents the age of brands, in which a supplier builds a persistent demand and designs production to perpetuate that brand’s most... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Corruption 101
increasing number of red flags, he had to consider not only his US employer and his HBS position, but also his local client, his client's employees and their families, customers throughout the region, and all the suppliers for the... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
William Fung: E-Commerce and Efficiency
on how to succeed in the new economy. “We look at how the Internet can enhance our business by improving communication with both our customers and our network of suppliers around the world,” he explains. A quality-control problem at a... View Details
- 06 Feb 2020
- News
HBS Alumni Join Forces on Virus Outbreak in China
February 6, the Task Force—which runs a donor-supplier marketplace—has sourced and connected donors with medical suppliers from more than seven countries and three continents. Supplies include 35,700 medical coveralls, 208,000 medical-use... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
New Economy Notables: Peter C. Wendell
that, how to share information efficiently within a company, new ways to share information with suppliers and customers — those elements of the new economy are unstoppable. How job has changed in last five years Dramatic growth. Five... View Details
- 13 Jul 2011
- News
China Boot Camp
’76) of Esquel Group (the world’s largest manufacturer of woven shirts), Bruno Filipi (AMP 164, 2003) of Coca-Cola, and Alexander H.K. Zhang (MBA ’07), founder of Clear Suppliers Corporation, all opened their doors to the group, while HBS... View Details