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  • 03 Mar 2014
  • HBS Case

Decommoditizing the Canned Tomato

sales growing from 11 million in 1995 to 185 million in 2011. And it offers important insights on supply chain management, innovation, and risk-taking. But it also provides lessons to anyone selling a commodity—after all is said and done... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Agriculture & Agribusiness; Food & Beverage; Retail
  • 18 Apr 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Prosper with Multi-Channel Retailing

of store finance and operations for youth retailer Abercrombie & Fitch, Inc., said his company uses all its channels to magnify its brand message. "For us, it's all about building brands, and branding is just about building an... View Details
Keywords: by Julie Jette; Consumer Products; Retail
  • 09 Dec 2015
  • Research Event

When Hosts Attack: The Competitive Threat of Online Platforms

are building their services around these platforms,” said Harvard Business School assistant professor Feng Zhu, during a presentation at Future Assembly, an event at Harvard Business School where business leaders and academics discussed the challenges of View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail; Technology; Web Services
  • June 2000
  • Case

Lifeline Systems, Inc. (A)

By: H. Kent Bowen and Marilyn Matis
Lifeline Systems provides emergency response equipment to the elderly who live at home. The company uses local hospitals to market, sell, and install these units in homes, while the hospital monitors and calls for aid to respond to emergency calls from the elderly... View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Product Marketing; Sales; Problems and Challenges; Growth and Development Strategy; Managerial Roles; Service Operations; Information Infrastructure; Age; Service Delivery; Restructuring; Crisis Management; Health Industry; Service Industry
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  • 01 Dec 2009
  • News

Alumni Books

CIOs Create and Communicate Value by Richard Hunter and George Westerman (DBA ’03) (Harvard Business Press) The authors recommend that to combat the IT-as-cost mindset, CIOs use IT to create three kinds of value — value for the money (the IT department View Details
  • 01 Mar 2008
  • News

Alumni Books

most innovative, successful biotech firm ever, Amgen led its industry in revenue and sales growth in 2007. Binder, the firm’s CEO during 1988–2000, describes Amgen’s climb to success, revealing the highs and lows in the race to develop... View Details
Keywords: Noel Capon; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 20 Jul 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Globalization Hasn’t Killed the Manufacturing Cluster

staying ahead of the market. That has helped the lead firm in this case grow from sales of 20 million euros in 1997 to 500 million euros today. "They drove the innovation. They weren't waiting around to be told," Pisano says. Another... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Manufacturing; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion
  • Web

Flatiron School: Reflections from Summer 2020 - Recruiting

project was the capstone project, and I worked with Birchbox (an HBS founded company!) on analyzing their customer churn. Jay Kim (MBA 2020) : I was paired with a beverage start-up based in Miami and helped the company make the pivot from B2B View Details
  • 01 Sep 2017
  • News

Case Study: Confidence Builder

go-to-market strategies in parallel: The students represent an audience that is familiar with Confi, so market acceptance and credibility is already there. The universities are able to roll out the program, so Confi will achieve critical mass, but it is a longer View Details
Keywords: April White; Confi; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 10 Jun 2013
  • Research & Ideas

How Numbers Talk to People

many of these CSI-like stories, and they almost always yield substantial financial or operational benefits. Sometimes the CSI stories do involve deeper quantitative and statistical analysis. One member of Megibow's team was investigating... View Details
  • 05 Apr 2011
  • First Look

First Look: April 5

  PublicationsThe Labor Illusion: How Operational Transparency Increases Perceived Value Authors:Ryan W. Buell and Michael I. Norton Publication:Management Science (forthcoming) Abstract A ubiquitous feature of even the fastest... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Feb 2020
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2020

in an Omnichannel World, Vol. 8 edited by Santiago Gallino and Antonio Moreno, Sicupira Family Associate Professor, Technology and Operations Management Unit Springer Series in Supply Chain Management The world of retailing has changed... View Details
  • 19 Oct 2011
  • News

A Good Look

expected to reach $6.7 billion in sales in 2015.) “Everything we’re making is plant-based,” explains Levy in a phone interview from Kemin’s headquarters in Des Moines, Iowa. “FloraGLO Lutein is a natural antioxidant from marigold extract.... View Details
Keywords: Health and Personal Care Stores; Retail Trade
  • 01 Mar 2007
  • News

Avon CEO Jung on Leadership

leadership, the company introduced new lines and products, repackaged old standbys, invested heavily in research and development, and expanded overseas. Redubbed “the company for women,” Avon now operates in more than 100 countries,... View Details
Keywords: makeup; grooming; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management; Health and Personal Care Stores; Retail Trade
  • 01 Mar 2007
  • News

Daniel Vasella

Vasella Illustration by Dennis Balogh Twenty years ago a young doctor with a hankering for business experience gave up his clinical practice in Bern, Switzerland, and moved to East Hanover, New Jersey, to try his hand at drug sales with... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; multinational pharmaceutical company; prescription drugs; vaccines; Medicare; generics business; Health, Social Assistance
  • 01 Mar 2014
  • News

Insight: Yenball

geographic: Japanese stars who come to US cities with a large Japanese population—Los Angeles and New York, for example—can convert those populations into increased ticket and merchandise sales. (All major league teams share national TV revenues as well as View Details
Keywords: Morrell, Daniel; Masahiro Tanaka; Hideki Matsui; Isao Okada; business of sports; Arts, Entertainment
  • 08 Jan 2008
  • First Look

First Look: January 8, 2008

that is headed for early approval by the FDA. The first in a series focuses on operational decisions triggered by the drive for early approval. Sparks discussion about a leader's economic, legal, and ethical responsibilities to multiple... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 09 Jan 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Excerpt: ’Fortune Tellers’

businesspeople were forcefully reminded, yet again, of the ups and downs of the economy. By World War I, there were only about ten forecasting agencies operating in the United States. Professional economists, like Irving Fisher and Warren... View Details
Keywords: by Walter A. Friedman
  • 05 Feb 2025
  • Blog Post

Leadership with purpose: Redefining success and impact with Satpal Singh (SELP—India 4, 2019)

Supply Chain during the pandemic, I navigated operational complexities that taught me invaluable lessons in resilience and Later as CEO at Numeric I learned the power of collective strategy, growth mindset and Inspired Teams. Now, as... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • 06 May 2008
  • First Look

First Look: May 6, 2008

its historic status as a vendor of the Macintosh personal computer (PC) line. Mac sales remained vital to Apple's future, but they now accounted for less than half of its total revenue. The company's line of iPod media players, its iTunes... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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