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- 08 Dec 2008
- Research & Ideas
Thinking Twice About Supply-Chain Layoffs
centers can seriously affect an organization's bottom line and undermine its strategy. "My research reveals that what happens in the last 10 yards of retail supply chains is really important. Customers often experience stockouts not because the supply-chain View Details
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This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details
- 19 Jan 2023
- Blog Post
11 Ways to Reengage Employees in the New Year
plans. 2. Set Team Resolutions: Ease the stress of getting back on track after the holidays by coming together as a team to clarify your goals. Plan to discuss team resolutions that can be achieved together and lay out your project View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 19 Jun 2014
- News
Turning "Black Gold" to Green
Capturing industrial carbon dioxide and pumping it back underground to help extract energy from old, unproductive oil fields seems like a plan that might be good in theory but is probably too complicated to pull off in the real world.... View Details
- 26 Jul 2017
- Blog Post
“Uncertainty Makes It More Interesting.”
he reported directly to the CEO.” More importantly, he got the exclusive rights to one of 3G’s investments: ownership of the Tim Hortons chain in Mexico. With the capital raised, the plan was “to build aggressively” in an alien... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Team MBA
key takeaway. Andrew Saunders: Whenever you’re in a small group, I think it’s important to recognize the context of what you need to do, and that your goals and objectives will change over time. Sometimes you need to have those difficult View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Sound Bites: A Degree of Hope
Stephen Moret (MBA 2001) President and CEO, the Strada Education Foundation Illustration by John S. Dykes I grew up as the son of a single mother in rural Mississippi. And while we were never legally poor, there was that sense of economic insecurity the whole way. And... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Disrupting India’s Dental Market
dentist,” he recalls thinking, “but the process is not working.” Singh, who spent his formative years in Canada and his adulthood in the United States, had recently moved back to his native India so that his children could be raised among... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
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Social Entrepreneurship Fellowship | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
your income calculation for these programs. The loan assistance programs require that you receive need-based financial aid while enrolled at HBS, and each program has distinct eligibility requirements, application processes and deadlines,... View Details
- 19 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Wrapping Your Alliances In a World Wide Web
costs, and enabled businesses to form mutually beneficial alliances.Once two or more companies agree to do business with each other on activities beyond simple procurement, they again face a challenge in executing many joint processes as... View Details
Keywords: by Andrew McAfee
- 13 Mar 2005
- Research & Ideas
Reinforcing Values: A Public Dressing Down
mountaineering expeditions and firefighting crews. We've found that for change to stick, leaders must design and run an effective persuasion campaign—one that begins weeks or months before the actual turnaround plan is set in concrete.... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Garvin & Michael A. Roberto
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Tools | New Venture Competition
a copy of the FOCUS Foods business plan, please email julia@focusfoodsinc.com . Tomato Jos 2014 Runner-Up Vertically integrated tomato processing company. Executive Summary (pdf) Presentation (pdf) Business View Details
- 12 Mar 2012
- Research & Ideas
Crowded at the Top: The Rise of the Functional Manager
game-changers such as e-mail accounts, intranets, and enterprise resource planning (ERP) software. "You might expect that advances in information technology would increase the number of people you could manage because it makes it... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Nov 1999
- Lessons from the Classroom
What’s Next & So What? Leading in the 21st Century
astounding organizations of any kind. Q: In the course description, you talk about breaking the "shackles" of traditional management. Can you provide some specifics? Hamel: Sure. Let's look at resource allocation, for example. That View Details
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- 24 Sep 2015
- Blog Post
Why We Recruit: Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation
caliber and performance of the students we have interviewed and hired for our positions at DRK. The recruiting process is very well planned and organized which enables us to better View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
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IT Strategy: Building a Smarter, Scalable Future in the Cloud | Information Technology
IT Strategy: Building a Smarter, Scalable Future in the Cloud 2.02: Cloud Program By Jeff Colgan on March 27, 2025 Share via Facebook Share via LinkedIn Print Share via email The Opportunity In the IT world, “the cloud” refers to a network of remote servers that store,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Li & Fung's Global Footprint
Issue Focus: Leadership To keep pace with a fast-changing global business environment, “You’ve got to institutionalize the process of reinvention,” says William Fung. Photo courtesy Li & Fung Ltd. Issue Focus Making the Leadership Case... View Details
- 13 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
3 Ways Firms Can Profit From Environmental Investments
In the course of her work, Rebecca Henderson meets business executives who don't address the threat of climate change because they don't believe that it exists. Her recommendation: They should consider investments in environmental sustainability anyway, assuming that... View Details
- 26 Oct 2017
- News
Can Farming Save the Planet?
Wiviott, noting that SFP can document up to 30 tons per hectare of carbon dioxide capture at its farms. In addition to capturing carbon dioxide, organic farming cuts down on demand for artificial, petroleum-based fertilizers. “This is the only thing I’ve ever seen... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Burunda Prince (MBA 1987)
estate and construction business in Atlanta 70 years ago. He was an incubator and accelerator before the terms were even coined. Our Big IDEAS curriculum helps develop a step-by-step plan for creating a sustainable business. The View Details