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Facilitates a discussion of the sources of Wal-Mart Stores' competitive advantage in discount retailing, and the future sustainability of that advantage. Also profiles the company's major diversification move in the early 1980s. View Details

Keywords: Diversification; Competitive Advantage; Retail Industry; United States

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Ford: Countries of Operation

June 1990
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Operations Strategy, Module Overview: Planning and Implementing Operations Strategies Over Time

By: David A. Garvin

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Managing the Operating Role of Customers

By: Frances X. Frei

Customers in operating roles introduce considerable variability into the production environment including differences in the demands they impose on the environment and the unpredictability of those demands. When customers are the source of production variability, the... View Details

June 2017
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Is Operating Flexibility Harmful under Debt?

By: Nikolaos Trichakis, Dan A. Iancu and Gerry Tsoukalas

We study the inefficiencies stemming from a firm's operating flexibility under debt. We find that flexibility in replenishing or liquidating inventory, by providing risk-shifting incentives, could lead to borrowing costs that erase more than a third of the firm's... View Details

Keywords: Covenants; Risk-shifting; Inventory; Agency Costs; Debt Financing; Risk Management; Borrowing and Debt

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Technology & Operations Management - Doctoral

Technology & Operations Management The doctoral program in Technology & Operations Management prepares students to conduct important research on a broad range of issues in View Details

12 Jul 2007
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Toward a Theory of Behavioral Operations

Keywords: by Francesca Gino & Gary Pisano

10 Jun 2015
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High-Tech Tools Won’t Automatically Improve Your Operations

fall 1991
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Beefing-up Operations in Service Firms

By: R. H. Hayes and R. B. Chase

Keywords: Operations; Business Ventures; Service Industry

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September 1987 (Revised November 1992)
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Note on Operating Exposure to Exchange-Rate Changes

By: Timothy A. Luehrman

Describes the effects on operating cash flows of a real change in exchange rates. Describes different elements of operating exposure and includes illustrative examples. View Details

Keywords: Currency Exchange Rate; Fluctuation

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March 1974 (Revised June 1996)
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First National City Bank Operating Group (A)

By: Jay W. Lorsch

Growth in the banking field has produced new demands on the "back office." Traditional management practices in check processing and paper handling operations have resulted in ten years of cost increases and quality loss. New manager of the operating group faces an... View Details

Keywords: Change Management; Transition; Banks and Banking; Management Practices and Processes; Managerial Roles; Production; Banking Industry

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