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- 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
- 29 Aug 2024
- Blog Post
Exploring Sustainable Energy: A Visit to Vestas Wind Turbine Manufacturing in Odense, Denmark
extreme weather conditions without interruption, stressing each component at 3x the expected load. Vestas discussed their unique partnership structures with their customers and suppliers to ensure the safety and quality of all of its... View Details
- 17 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Harvard Business School Faculty Comment on Crisis in Japan
sets, notebook computers, smartphones, and tablets. 70% of the world supply comes from Japan, and as of March 16th, suppliers have stopped taking orders. Most of the world supply of LCD panels comes from Korea, Taiwan, or China. All of... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 27 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
New Cluster Mapping Project Helps Companies Locate Facilities
company to be more competitive because it is easier to source skilled people, access suppliers efficiently, and operate productively. In money management, for example, every road show comes to Boston because there is a cluster of major... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
Tech Investment the Wise Way
the offering, given the value proposition and value chain structure chosen; describe the position of the firm within the value network linking suppliers and customers, including identification of potential complementors and competitors;... View Details
- 17 Apr 2017
- Research Event
The Most Pressing Issues for Platform Providers in the Sharing Economy
side than on the demand side. The key is to persuade suppliers that an online platform can help them suss out the demand for their services. Take Openbay, for example. “These companies have been passed down from generation to generation,”... View Details
- Web
Charting Tariff Pain: Small Businesses Brace for Job Cuts, Falling Sales | Working Knowledge
government will support them through tariff-related changes. Most respondents say they wouldn't be able to secure price reductions from suppliers abroad. Image by Yoav Aziz for Unsplash. Featured Faculty and Collaborator Zoe B. Cullen... View Details
- 02 Oct 2019
- What Do You Think?
What Grade Would You Give Walmart CEO Doug McMillon?
on the Purpose of a Corporation, signed by 181 CEOs of major companies, changes the criteria for judging business decisions to include consideration of all stakeholders. It calls for companies to deliver value to customers, invest in employees, treat View Details
- Fast Answer
Sustainability in CPG and Retail
Background readings Consulting firm reports McKinsey: Direct Google search for the firm's reports on sustainability and packaging (e.g., Sustainability in packaging: Inside the Minds of US Consumers. October 2020). Working with View Details
- 27 Aug 2007
- Op-Ed
Mattel: Getting a Toy Recall Right
immediate steps to tighten quality assurance requirements on Mattel's suppliers. There has been no effort to duck behind blaming suppliers and distributors or, even worse, consumers—as Audi attempted to do in the famous unintended... View Details
- 02 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018
model where firms choose which suppliers to integrate and whether to delegate decisions to integrated suppliers or keep them centralized. We test the predictions of this model using a novel dataset that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jul 2024
- In Practice
The New Rules of Trade with China: Navigating Tariffs, Turmoil, and Opportunities
overseas suppliers. One example is Hasbro, which began sourcing from firms in India, Vietnam, and Mexico in the last five years. Moving existing suppliers out of China. Goertek, a supplier of Google’s Pixel... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
2017 in Energy: A Future of Lower Energy Prices
States will continue to play the role of swing supplier for years to come. And because improving technology will allow the North American oil and natural gas production sector to respond ever more quickly to global demand spikes, this... 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
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Disrupting India’s Dental Market
all confined to India, although some of the auxiliary services Clove has developed could be marketed beyond. For example, Singh created an online marketplace for dental instruments and equipment, called OneIvory, as a supplier to... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
- 19 Sep 2019
- News
Predicting Human Behaviors
spreadsheet of startups that the i-lab created.” Today, Boston-based Perceptive Automata is working with suppliers and automakers in the United States, Europe, and Asia, and the technology is in testing in autonomous vehicles and highly... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 28 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
Eyes Shut: The Consequences of Not Noticing
In their contracts with Walmart, suppliers must agree to accept any financial or criminal liability resulting from the sale of their products. Elmburg felt that Walmart, given its size and as the point of purchase, had an ability to... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Emerging Information
"a huge chicken-and-egg game" between signing up data suppliers and finding customers willing to pay for the data. But Mueller's perseverance has paid off. Mueller attributes much of Internet Securities' success to learning what customers... View Details
Keywords: Paul Michelman
- 26 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 26
sustainably, and demanded its suppliers do the same, this would have an impact on its own bottom line and make the world a better place for everyone. Students can explore whether Walmart is making these changes to improve its battered... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 18
methods, panel data, and instrumental variables, we find that government procurement rules produce spillover effects that stimulate both private-sector adoption of the LEED standard and supplier investments in green building expertise.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne