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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
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
London Forum Highlights the Best of HBS
next decade. As chairman of one of the world’s leading suppliers of food, household, and personal-care products, Burgmans addressed issues of corporate governance. If transparency is good for multinationals, why isn’t the same thinking... 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
- 19 Jul 2011
- News
Brightening the Future
that inner voice led Ayala to launch Hybrid Social Solutions, Inc. (HSSI), a Philippine social business that distributes solar lanterns and water filtration devices specifically designed for the needs of poor communities. HSSI’s solar View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Books
were being purchased, with each factory having its own suppliers and price points. While this revelation was itself startling, the manager maximized its impact by inviting the company's division presidents into a boardroom where samples... View Details
- 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
- 20 Nov 2015
- News
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 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 Jan 2003
- News
Lillian Lincoln Lambert, MBA 1969
investing $4,000 in savings and a $12,000 loan to found Centennial One. A supplier gave her ninety days of credit on vacuum cleaners, buffers, and chemicals. With a secretary and twenty part-time employees, Lambert focused at first on... 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
- 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 Dec 1999
- News
The Message and the Media: Advertising's Brave New World
are on the increase. These substitutes compete directly with traditional media for advertisers' marketing dollars. Similarly, mergers between media providers and content suppliers (such as news and entertainment programming) also... View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs
- 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 Mar 2009
- News
Gazprom Goes Global
disputed pipeline fees, unsigned contracts, bad faith, and, ultimately, failed negotiations. Although other neighboring countries had had similar problems with Ukraine, the shutoff was a PR disaster for Gazprom, which had enjoyed a long-standing reputation as a... 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 Mar 2009
- News
Damon Silvers
policymaker in Europe last week, and he confirmed the Japanese auto industry’s belief that its supply chain in the United States would be disrupted should the three automakers fail. That’s because key suppliers are dependent on having a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
percent a year and is poised on the cusp of enormous change. In June, Prime View International (PVI) signed an agreement to acquire E Ink for about $215 million. Based in Taipei, Taiwan, PVI is E Ink’s largest customer and the world’s leading View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Case Study: Something New
creating the best cost structure in the market. But the company wanted to compete primarily on quality not price. To that end, it struck exclusive deals with suppliers and marketing partners. Where they are today: The company continues to... View Details
Keywords: April White