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- 25 Aug 2014
- News
Wendell P. Weeks, MBA 1987
Download Wendell Weeks profile Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1959 Born, Reno, Nevada 1981 Earns BS, Accounting, Lehigh University 1983 Joins Corning 1987 Earns MBA 2001 Named President, Corning Optical Communications 2002 Named President and... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 11 Jun 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Brittani Rettig (MBA 2010)
Your Twitter bio reads like that of a superhero ("Management consultant by day, fitness instructor & wellness blogger by night"). Can you tell us about your day and evening jobs? "By day I'm a manager at Deloitte Consulting. I work with clients in the health care and... View Details
- 10 Feb 2014
- News
King of His Castle
APPLING George Appling (MBA 1998) has become king of his castle. The Texas native turned an "enduring passion" for Renaissance fairs into a successful business owning one. "What sets our fair apart is that we didn't build it to make money first. We built it because we... View Details
- 14 Jan 2014
- News
Mary Barra Brings Teaming to General Motors
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Noted & Quoted
“Unfortunately, the technology for growing flu viruses to make vaccines is fifty years old — it’s chicken eggs.” — HBS Professor of Management Practice and former Merck CEO Raymond Gilmartin, at a November HBS panel discussion on drug development and availability in... View Details
- 2012
- Working Paper
Information Technology and Boundary of the Firm: Evidence from Plant-Level Data
By: Chris Forman and Kristina McElheran
We study the relationship between different margins of information technology (IT) use and vertical integration using plant-level data from the U.S. Census of Manufactures. Focusing on the short-run decision of whether to allocate production output to downstream plants... View Details
Keywords: Information Technology; Technology Adoption; Production; Factories, Labs, and Plants; Vertical Integration; Supply Chain; Manufacturing Industry; United States
Forman, Chris, and Kristina McElheran. "Information Technology and Boundary of the Firm: Evidence from Plant-Level Data." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 12-092, April 2012.
- December 2007 (Revised October 2008)
- Case
The American National Red Cross (A)
By: Jay W. Lorsch, Eliot Sherman and David Chen
Describes the governance issues facing the Board of Governors of the American Red Cross. After a series of issues--FDA consent decree on its blood operations; the response to 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina--the Red Cross board was under pressure to fix its governance from... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Management Practices and Processes; Service Operations; Business Processes; Non-Governmental Organizations; Service Industry
Lorsch, Jay W., Eliot Sherman, and David Chen. "The American National Red Cross (A)." Harvard Business School Case 408-040, December 2007. (Revised October 2008.)
- February 2008
- Article
Where Do Transactions Come From? Modularity, Transactions, and the Boundaries of Firms
This article constructs a theory of the location of transactions and the boundaries of firms in a productive system. It proposes that systems of production can be viewed as networks, in which tasks-cum-agents are the nodes and transfers—of material, energy and... View Details
Keywords: Boundaries; Production; Market Transactions; Supply Chain; Management; Cost; Theory; Performance Productivity; Information Management; Complexity
Baldwin, Carliss Y. "Where Do Transactions Come From? Modularity, Transactions, and the Boundaries of Firms." Industrial and Corporate Change 17, no. 1 (February 2008): 155–195. (Selected as one of the top twenty articles in the first twenty years of publication, 1992-2011.)
- March 2002 (Revised May 2003)
- Case
Supply Chain Close-Up: The Video Vault
By: V.G. Narayanan and Lisa Brem
The owners of the Video Vault struggle to determine the optimal stocking levels of home videos in an industry fraught with new technology, new pricing paradigms, and stiff competitive pressure from large national chains. Teaching Purpose: To demonstrate the role of... View Details
Keywords: Supply Chain Management; Competition; Motivation and Incentives; Price; Technological Innovation; Service Delivery; Entertainment and Recreation Industry
Narayanan, V.G., and Lisa Brem. "Supply Chain Close-Up: The Video Vault." Harvard Business School Case 102-070, March 2002. (Revised May 2003.)
- December 1990 (Revised December 1993)
- Case
Australian Paper Manufacturers (A)
By: David M. Upton and Joshua D. Margolis
Describes a company which has broken an unwritten cordial agreement amongst the three Australian paper manufacturers to split the domestic market three ways by market segment. The company invades another's "territory" with advanced technology, quality, and,... View Details
Keywords: Agreements and Arrangements; Production; Information Technology; Ethics; Situation or Environment; Product Development; Segmentation; Expansion; Financial Strategy; Pulp and Paper Industry; Australia
Upton, David M., and Joshua D. Margolis. "Australian Paper Manufacturers (A)." Harvard Business School Case 691-041, December 1990. (Revised December 1993.)
- 29 Apr 2010
- News
Playing With Fire, Barbed Wire and Beer
- 27 Jul 2010
- News
Four Things Great VCs Do
J. Willard Marriott, Jr.
Residence Inn, and Ritz-Carlton. Other operations include Vacation Club International, Marriott Senior Living Services and Marriott Distribution Services (a food services company). View Details
Keywords: Restaurants & Lodging
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Screen Grab
engagement, then you have something that brings the consumer back on a weekly or even daily basis,” says Delph, citing Red Bull and GoPro as two examples of brands that have created direct relationships with consumers. Red Bull, for example, View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; HBO; Netflix; Hulu; Vimeo; YouTube; Telecommunications; Information; Arts, Entertainment
- 21 Oct 2019
- Blog Post
Know Your Audience: Recruiting HBS Students for Consumer Products
products before joining the CPD team in 2003 as a career coach and sector lead for the consumer products industry. Katja brings a wealth of operational knowledge from her experience in logistics and event planning at HBS and a personal... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
- 22 Feb 2019
- News
Empowering a New Generation of Business Leaders
invoicing of other services. Mallory says the kids would shop at each other’s companies, but only “after the company was operating and employees were paid.” In the weeks prior to JA BizTown, students get instructions on how to start and... View Details
- 16 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Delivering Solutions During a Crisis with Hans Kristian Furuseth (MBA 2019)
through crisis while operating an ecommerce organization during Brexit. With business in the UK and across the EU, Furuseth and his team had to adjust to foreign exchange rates and find ways to quickly cut costs. The experience of rapid... View Details
- 04 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Start to Measure Your E-commerce Success
payoffs of e-commerce operational and capital investments are necessary to demonstrate the value creation of e-commerce initiatives and to obtain additional resources for critical e-commerce projects. The measures are essential to monitor... View Details
Keywords: by Marc J. Epstein
- 20 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Student Spotlight: Summer Internships in Business and Environment
power generation source in any location – be it wind, solar, or fossil fuels – enabling reliable and predictable operation of the grid. Jessica's role prior to HBS was a Natural Gas Engineer at PSE&G. Elizabeth Marotta (MBA 2022,... View Details