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- 25 Apr 2023
- Op-Ed
How SHEIN and Temu Conquered Fast Fashion—and Forged a New Business Model
information technology to directly match consumer demand to dispersed production by a collection of factories in China. This method of reaching customers should inspire any business that provides products or services that come from many... View Details
- June 1987 (Revised May 1990)
- Case
John Deere Component Works (B)
By: Robert S. Kaplan
Having installed an activity-based system, the division is now exploring the insight provided by that system. In particular, it is studying the economics of lot-size process planning and product mix management. View Details
Keywords: Activity Based Costing and Management; Production; Business or Company Management; Planning; Cost Accounting; Cost Management; Product Marketing; Management Practices and Processes; Consumer Products Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry
Kaplan, Robert S. "John Deere Component Works (B)." Harvard Business School Case 187-108, June 1987. (Revised May 1990.)
- 24 May 2017
- News
John J. Brennan, MBA 1980
experience to Vanguard in 1982, joining the Valley Forge, Pennsylvania–based pioneer of index funds when it was only seven years old. By 1989, the year he was named president, the company was regarded as an emerging industry leader in... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 16 Jun 2008
- Research & Ideas
Seven Tips for Managing Price Increases
Editor's Note: Harvard Business School professor John Quelch writes a blog on marketing issues, called Marketing Know: How, for Harvard Business Online. It is reprinted on HBS Working Knowledge. When driving these days, do you look at the... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 11 Apr 2023
- Op-Ed
The First 90 Hours: What New CEOs Should—and Shouldn't—Do to Set the Right Tone
headhunters will have tempted away your best executives. 7 steps to a successful start Here are seven recommendations newly appointed leaders should consider following—and it would be best to get all of this work done by the end of their... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
The company Rockefeller started at age 23, Standard Oil, came to hold a virtual monopoly on the American oil industry. He maintained control of Standard Oil until its eventual break-up by the U.S. government. The company was so successful... View Details
Keywords: Utilities & Energy
- December 2014 (Revised March 2018)
- Case
John D. Rockefeller: The Richest Man in the World
By: Tom Nicholas and Vasiliki Fouka
By the late nineteenth century scale and managerial hierarchies had extended to several major industrial sectors of the U.S. economy. Although the precise mechanisms often varied, this process mainly involved horizontal integration, some form of legal or administrative... View Details
Keywords: Horizontal Integration; Wealth; Business History; Vertical Integration; Consolidation; Personal Development and Career; Energy Industry; United States
Nicholas, Tom, and Vasiliki Fouka. "John D. Rockefeller: The Richest Man in the World." Harvard Business School Case 815-088, December 2014. (Revised March 2018.)
John H. Bryan, Jr.
When Bryan took over Consolidated Foods, later renamed the Sara Lee Corporation, the company was a $2.5 billion dollar conglomerate. Bryan made significant acquisitions including the Hanes Corporation, which experienced a doubling of sales from $450 to $900 million.... View Details
Keywords: Food & Tobacco
John W. Van Dyke
Taking over the debt-ridden firm after it was forcefully spun-off from Standard Oil by the United States Supreme Court, Van Dyke had minimal assets with which to work: only 3 refineries, no marketing structure, and no sales organization.... View Details
Keywords: Utilities & Energy
John G. Medlin, Jr.
Medlin expanded the relatively small Wachovia Bank into one of the largest financial companies in the south. During his seventeen year tenure, he acquired banks in Georgia and South Carolina and grew the asset base of the company from $3.6 billion to $35.3 billion.... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- June 2002 (Revised November 2004)
- Compilation
John Maynard Keynes: His Life, Times, and Writings
By: Huw Pill and Ingrid Vogel
Discusses the life, times, and writings of John Maynard Keynes. Consists of three parts. First, it summarizes Keynes' life by reproducing his 1946 obituary from The Times of London. Second, it recalls the dramatic economic events of the times in which he lived by... View Details
Pill, Huw, and Ingrid Vogel. "John Maynard Keynes: His Life, Times, and Writings." Harvard Business School Compilation 702-092, June 2002. (Revised November 2004.)
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John H. McArthur | About
John H. McArthur 1934—2019 John H. McArthur, a member of the Harvard Business School community for more than six decades—as student (MBA 1959 and DBA 1963), as faculty member (beginning in 1962), as Dean... View Details
- 04 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Smart Cities are Complicated and Costly: Here's How to Build Them
Chombosan Much promotion of smart cities assumes that municipalities will take a proactive, top-down, technology-first approach to urban progress. Thus far, these initiatives look for some forward-thinking city official (or immensely deep-pocketed private investor) to... View Details
- 13 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Managing the Family Business: Leadership Roles
Editor's note: This is part of a series of occasional columns on managing the family business written by Senior Lecturer John A. Davis. In this article, Davis discusses leadership roles. Part Two:... View Details
Keywords: by John A. Davis
- 07 Sep 2019
- Op-Ed
Even for Non-Believers, These Are the Next Steps on Climate Change
by bodies like the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. They show a range of sea rise probabilities in 2050, just 30 years from now. In Boston, for example, they show a rise... View Details
Keywords: by John Macomber
- 11 Dec 2013
- HBS Seminar
John Deighton, Harvard Business School
- 04 Dec 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Fantastic Horizon: How to Invest in a New City
Editor's Note: Rapid urbanization and resource scarcity pose problems—and opportunities—for businesses and governments all over the world. But who can best lead the building and developing of these municipalities? One model: promotion and regulation View Details
- 17 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
Quantifying the Economic Impact of the Internet
The fight was lost as consumers voted for free information supported by advertising over subscription services. Ironically, online advertising and the commercialization of the Web achieved important goals of the resisters: to preserve the... View Details
- 13 Mar 2023
- Op-Ed
How Leaders Should Leave
will you gain by resigning, and what will you give up? Are your skills in such strong demand that you are already being approached by recruiters? Meet with the boss. No one likes a surprise exit, so don’t... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 06 Nov 2012
- Op-Ed
Stop Talking About the Weather and Do Something: Three Ways to Finance Sustainable Cities
The wrath of Hurricane Sandy has illuminated a fundamental question: How do we ensure that our cities are resilient in the face of inevitable future disasters? A destroyed city is not a sustainable city. I'm making the case that it's time to stop complaining about... View Details