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Downstream businesses that utilize global suppliers frequently use auditing programs to monitor their suppliers’ working conditions and are often deployed to address reputational concerns associated with procuring from unregulated suppliers. Despite their widespread... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
recall of 450,000 tires missing a key safety feature that a U.S. importer had purchased from a Chinese manufacturer and distributed to retail outlets. “I don’t think there is a strong culture of adherence to regulations in China right... View Details
- 15 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 15
Retail Inventory: Managing the Canary in the Coal Mine! By: Gaur, Vishal, Saravanan Kesavan, and Ananth Raman Abstract—Retail inventory is a statistic that is closely watched by retailers as well as their... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Stocking Up Can Build Customer Value
papers (and miss one or more possible sales) once a week, or one-seventh of the time. What's ignored in this equation, though, according to HBS professor David Bell, is that customers care how often a retailer runs out of stock. "The... View Details
- 03 Jun 2016
- News
Birchbox at Six: Cute Boxes Filled With Makeup Aren't Enough
Keywords: Retail Trade
- 07 Nov 2007
- Op-Ed
How Marketing Hype Hurt Boeing and Apple
production delays (the Airbus 380 is two years behind schedule) and customers know this when they place their orders. They will simply operate their existing 747s and 777s a little longer. In addition, no airline manufacturer ever wants... View Details
- 27 Sep 2024
- Research & Ideas
Charting 'Cheapflation': How Budget Brands Got So Pricey
of the costliest, according to an analysis of microdata from large retailers by Harvard Business School Professor Alberto Cavallo. In a forthcoming article in the Journal of Monetary Economics, Cavallo and coauthor Oleksiy Kryvtsov,... View Details
Keywords: by Ana Elena Azpúrua
- 06 Apr 2016
- News
Rich People Now Have a Safe Way to Dump Their Jewelry
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Wheels Up
built in Europe in more than 20 years. As CEO of global airports and travel retail group daa plc, Dalton Philips (MBA 1998) leads operations in Dublin and airports in Cork, Riyadh, Dusseldorf, and Cyprus, as... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 20 Mar 2017
- News
Rent The Runway Cofounder Fleiss Bows out as Company Preps for IPO
- 08 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
The Critical Computer Science Principles Every Strategic Leader Needs to Know
than others. “Every company today needs to think of themselves as a tech company,” says Andy Wu, the Arjun and Minoo Melwani Family Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. “Whether you’re in retailing or... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
2017 in Manufacturing: The Supply Chain Goes High Tech
seeing more and rapid change: The digital revolution is only about halfway through transforming the manufacturing sector. What’s next in manufacturing? “As physical retail declines, manufacturers are being forced to think about how to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
New Idea: On-Demand Package Delivery
they return to campus this month. On the to-do list? Forging partnerships with e-commerce retailers (which might offer a Boxxify option at checkout) and car services like Uber (whose drivers could deliver packages on the side). Plus, to... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Do Good: Eat Chocolate
nibs and raisins. Manufactured at a plant outside Medellín, Colombia, and sold at Whole Foods and gourmet specialty stores, sweetriot products are also available for purchase on Virgin America, at the outdoor equipment retailer REI, and... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; candy; chocolate; Crop Production; Agriculture; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
New Releases
retail sales will pass through a franchise chain; fully 96 percent of the American population has eaten at a McDonald's. Considering the astonishingly rapid growth of chains in recent years, it is not surprising that a comprehensive... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
At Cyberposium, Amazon's Bezos Debunks Internet Myths
world," he said. "Probably more so because more business models are possible online." Myth #5: It's easier for bricks-and-mortar retailers to extend their business. Using books as an example, Bezos noted that online sellers are... View Details
- 07 Jan 2025
- Blog Post
Revolutionizing Wellness: Kate Twist (MBA 2008) Shapes the Future of Consumer Health Brands
consumer retail clients, including luxury retail brands like Oscar de la Renta, BCBG, and Badgley Mishka. During this time, Twist found that she was a “marketer at heart” and entered HBS with a plan to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Making Big Data Fashionable
from anything so unquantifiable as emotion, Moon values that intuition and wants to “help validate” it. More Retail Revolutions Speeding Up Accessories BaubleBar cofounders Amy Jain and Daniella Yacobovsky (both MBA 2010) apply the... View Details