Value Chains - Publications - Faculty & Research

15 Feb 2000
Lessons from the Classroom

Delivering Information Services: A 30-Year Perspective

IPO in 1990 to a $10-billion company today, with a market value of close to $140 billion! I'm also doing research for a case on Drugstore.com, which is essentially a drug store "built" on the Internet. It's getting ready to... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

21 Jul 2015
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First Look: July 21, 2015

company's efforts on its entire value chain from its raw materials sourcing to the lifestyle of its end consumers. The plan especially centered on wood, which represented 60% of IKEA Group's total... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Feb 2000
News

Jerry Shafir: A Simmering Success Story

Cuisine brand more visibility - the company has begun selling soup in individual serving-sized portions, a move Shafir characterizes as "a really big step for us." "Until now," he explains, "we've been mostly selling in bulk to grocery View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

19 May 2009
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First Look: May 19, 2009

commercialization and adoption. Emerging opportunities must be nurtured, and the transition to high growth must be managed. Once breakthrough innovations catch hold, growth must be funded and managed to exploit the full value of the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Jun 2022
News

Case Study: Glass Half Full

and customer acquisition. If you are building a brand, my advice is to keep Amazon while you build out your Shopify ecosystem, and then make the move. It may not be relevant in your business but buying inventory can keep the supply chain... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Nonstore Retailers; Retail Trade

10 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance

their traditional crops lived in primitive conditions; thus, incorporating them into the company value chain would have a significant impact on their lives.14 In the last case of this sub-group, the use of a... View Details

Keywords: by James Austin, Ezequiel Reficco & SEKN research team

19 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018

coupled with collaboration between companies is value enhancing. However, collaboration between companies is notoriously difficult and fragile requiring commitment mechanisms. I suggest that a small set of large institutional investors,... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

28 Jul 2015
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First Look: July 28, 2015

reviews. Third, chain restaurants-which benefit less from Yelp-are also less likely to commit review fraud. Fourth, when restaurants face increased competition, they become more likely to receive unfavorable fake reviews. Using a separate... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

23 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 23

Publications 2013 pub Does Social Connection Turn Good Deeds into Good Feelings?: On the Value of Putting the 'Social' in Prosocial Spending By: Aknin, Lara B., Elizabeth W. Dunn, Gillian M. Sandstrom, and Michael I. Norton... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

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Business and Climate Change Course | HBS Online

Footprinting BMW's Approach to Emissions Reduction Greenhouse Gas Protocol Show Hide Details Concepts New Belgium Brewing: Creating a Mitigation Strategy The BMW Group: Reducing Emissions Across the Value View Details

10 Apr 2007
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First Look: April 10, 2007

structures in the European Union and Japan. Purchase this note: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=707471 McDonald's Corp.: Managing a Sustainable Supply Chain Harvard Business School Case 907-414 McDonald's... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

02 Mar 2017
What Do You Think?

Is China About to Overtake the US for World Trade Leadership?

currency, triggering a chain reaction that some believe contributed to the Great Recession of 2008. Here’s their thinking: Although the depressed value of the yuan increased the cost of raw materials... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

25 May 2016
Research & Ideas

How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health

disaster that killed over 1,000 factory workers in Bangladesh in 2013 highlighted to Western consumers the challenging conditions faced by the workers who made their clothes. Consumer pressure on Western retailers worked its way back up the supply View Details

Keywords: by John A. Quelch; Health

01 Mar 2004
News

Ron Shaich’s Café Society

Ron Shaich (MBA 1978) is cofounder, chairman, and CEO of Panera Bread, the fast-growing bakery-café chain with over six hundred locations in mostly suburban markets across the United States. Panera’s ability to deliver high-quality food... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality

03 Sep 2014
What Do You Think?

Who Should Choose Your Boss?

Summing Up Is The Question of Who Should Choose Your Boss Becoming "A Little Irrelevant"? The remarkable events at grocery chain Market Basket over the summer stimulated a range of responses to this month's column about who... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Food & Beverage

30 Oct 2005
Research & Ideas

Tuning Jobs to Fit Your Company

vital to strategy implementation (for example, at exclusive hotel chains) or when the organizational design is highly complex because of sophisticated technologies and a complex value chain (in aerospace or... View Details

Keywords: by Robert Simons

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... View Details

Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills

10 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

The Knowledge Coach

helpful to the total novice. In our entrepreneurship study, we observed extensive chains of knowledge transfer in which a coach's protégé quickly became a coach to someone less knowledgeable than himself, who then coached a budding... View Details

Keywords: by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap

16 Aug 2016
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August 16, 2016

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51481 The Value of Trading Relationships in Turbulent Times By: Di Maggio, Marco, Amir Kermani, and Zhaogang Song Abstract—This paper investigates how dealers’ trading relationships shape... View Details