Inventory - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Feb 1999
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HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report

interest in expanding offerings along the lines of programs such as The Entrepreneur's Tool Kit and Odyssey. In the coming months, the committee will conduct a comprehensive inventory of current offerings as well as review past... View Details

01 Mar 2008
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Negotiating with Wal-Mart

managing inventory levels and sales and ultimately save customers money while improving their own margins. “Two sides in this sort of negotiation will always differ on price,” Sebenius observes. “However, if that conflict is the... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; General Merchandise Stores; Retail Trade

22 Feb 2019
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Empowering a New Generation of Business Leaders

assigned a product or service to turn into a business, and then the rest was up to them. That included raising money to start the business, creating a marketing plan, and developing some of the company’s operations, like banking, sales tracking, payroll for the 7... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Arts, Entertainment

01 Oct 2002
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Dean Clark on Leadership, Educational Priorities, and Funding the Future

reverberate through a supply chain, causing huge swings of inventory and production levels. That's a difficult idea for a faculty member to convey at the blackboard. This year, we used our wireless network to run a simulation exercise,... View Details

01 Jun 2018
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Case Study: Tip the Scale

find another way to scale an assembly-line process? The Answers: Has Walden considered an Amazon approach, with additional procedures for a customer’s second and possibly third choices, in case inventory does not match a customer’s first... View Details

01 Dec 1999
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New HBS Portal Offers Alumni Just-In-Time Business Information

graduates who want access to the School's renowned inventory of management information. A new Web portal, HBS Working Knowledge (www.hbsworkingknowledge.hbs.edu), was launched in October, bringing together a wealth of information from... View Details

22 Jan 2020
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What It Takes

it, and he thought it was great. The firm was so small somebody heard that he was looking at this. They came into my office and said, "We think it's terrible." And I said, "Why?" He said, "Because all the company's doing is making View Details

01 Dec 1998
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Year 2000 Computer Problem and You: Disaster for Some, Lessons for All

who aren't yet positioned to meet the deadline? Do a software inventory and begin your triage. What programs do you have? Which are absolutely critical to your business? How long will each take to repair? Are any already scheduled for an... View Details

01 Apr 1997
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Facing the Music

manufacturing, which would allow a store to digitally download from a central facility any CD a customer requested and press it on the spot in a matter of minutes. "This could eliminate the need for inventories and would solve the problem... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

02 Oct 2015
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The ‘F’ Word

heart surgery. We also kept coming up with shortages when annual inventory was taken and simply could not figure out the problem. This all finally came to a head with a nearly $1 million shrinkage at a time when our profits had sunk due... View Details

Keywords: Walt Disney Studios

20 Nov 2015
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Room to Grow

culling its inventory from the excess food other supermarkets and suppliers typically throw away. The Kendall Foundation also supports CommonWealth Kitchen, which offers food entrepreneurs a place to incubate new businesses without the... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Jun 2017
News

Life in Lockdown

a.m. with the Mayor. You should wear: Black blazer (Banana Republic).” Different screens in the prototype show a photo of the suggested outfit for the day; shopping suggestions with prices and store information; a photo inventory of all... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers; photography by Chris Churchill

01 Dec 2012
News

From Where We Stand

"option value" by actively seeking out opportunities—lateral and diagonal moves, along with upward movement—that open up career paths not just now but every step forward. Continually mark-to-market yourself by taking inventory of your... View Details

14 Mar 2019
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The Merchant of Osaka

inventory problems and dire financial crises—and whatever the symptom, the root cause was usually that the company had lost touch with its customers. “It’s one of the main reasons the country continues to fall behind,” she says. Her job... View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance

01 Oct 1996
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Leading In a New Era

arrival at LC in 1994 that the company had done relatively little consumer research, he immediately launched an intensive survey of customer needs. He also performed an asset inventory of the entire organization, which revealed "a lot of... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

06 Jan 2017
News

Mental Illness and the Workplace

solutions. It really is a matter of taking a personal inventory and thinking about your own situation. What you need to be healthy. And then, working with those around you to get that. But again, as I said earlier, very careful not to... View Details

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