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  • May 2016 (Revised April 2018)
  • Case

Building the Digital Manufacturing Enterprise of the Future at Siemens

By: Willy Shih
This case describes the motivation for and the development of Siemens' digital manufacturing enterprise vision, which became the foundation for its implementation of Industrie 4.0. While the effort started with a purely defensive move by Anton Huber, head of the... View Details
Keywords: Big Data; Internet Of Things; Internet Of Everything; Industrie 4.0; Digital Factory; Digital Enterprise; Digital Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Production Management; Production Planning; Computer Software; Germany; German Manufacturing; Machinery and Machining; Information Technology; Digital Platforms; Technological Innovation; Production; Supply Chain; Applications and Software; Information Infrastructure; Internet and the Web; Analytics and Data Science; Manufacturing Industry; Germany
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  • 23 Jul 2013
  • First Look

First Look: July 23

enhance the emotional payoff of charitable initiatives. 2013 pub Learning by Supplying By: Alcácer, Juan, and Joanne Oxley Abstract—Learning processes lie at the heart of our understanding of how firms build capabilities to generate and... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 20 Nov 2012
  • First Look

First Look: November 20

Movement to Reduce Obesity in Texas Jose B. Alvarez, Jason Riis, and Walter J. SalmonHarvard Business School Case 512-034 In January 2012, H-E-B Grocery Co., a private retail chain with stores located in Texas and Mexico, was introducing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Jan 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: January 17

preemption of national banks in 2004 from local laws against predatory lending to gauge the effect of the supply of credit on the real economy. Specifically, we exploit the heterogeneity in the market share of national banks across... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Jul 2013
  • First Look

First Look: July 2

mitigation policies within its supply chain and in government policy. Publisher's link: http://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/caesars-entertainment-betting-on-sustainability/   Working Papers Market... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 07 Feb 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: February 7

Location Choices Through the Value Chain By: Alcácer, Juan, and Mercedes Delgado Abstract—We explore the impact of geographically bounded, intra-firm linkages (internal agglomerations) and geographically bounded, inter-firm linkages... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Mar 2013
  • First Look

First Look: March 12

lack of customer and geographic diversification, aggressive warranty policies, excessive production capacity growth, and supply chain risks. The case places students in the shoes of CFRA analysts who need to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Jun 2013
  • First Look

First Look: June 18

point, management was aiming to raise $15 million to get closer to manufacturing prototypes, but had they sufficiently proved out both the manufacturing feasibility and the market demand? How could they address the next hurdles in terms of partnership building, View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • February 2021
  • Case

Threadless: The Renewal of an Online Community

By: Shane Greenstein, Karim Lakhani and Christian Godwin
Threadless, an online apparel company and artist community which Jake Nickell founded in 2000, continued to maintain its status as a top company in the online apparel industry during its second decade. From 2010 to 2020, Threadless continued to operate its... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Decision Making; Entrepreneurship; Innovation and Invention; Leading Change; Management; Marketing; Product Launch; Operations; Supply Chain; Distribution; Networks; Sales; Strategy; Adaptation; Information Technology; Applications and Software; Digital Platforms; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Technology Industry; North America
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  • 25 Sep 2007
  • First Look

First Look: September 25, 2007

subsidiaries are only observable at the four-digit level because the inputs they are supplying are so proximate to their parent firms' final good that they appear identical at the two-digit level. We call these proximate subsidiaries... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Dec 2015
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December 15, 2015

Unilever Sustainable Living Project, including a goal to halve the waste associated with the disposal of its products. Unilever's chief supply chain officer Pier Luigi Sigismondi and his team were working... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 05 Sep 2012
  • What Do You Think?

Will Business Management Save US Health Care?

Wittenberg put it, " management will never fix the health care system (it) can promote standardization and mass production (but) the actions of individual managers will have no effect on the overall system," one that as Barry Shere pointed out, "attempts... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Health
  • 10 Jan 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance

their traditional crops lived in primitive conditions; thus, incorporating them into the company value chain would have a significant impact on their lives.14 In the last case of this sub-group, the use of a cross-sector collaboration as... View Details
Keywords: by James Austin, Ezequiel Reficco & SEKN research team
  • 14 Nov 2006
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First Look: November 14, 2006

brings with it approaches such as customer resource management and supply chain management and lets companies re-create interactions between groups of workers or with business partners. Different types of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Oct 2017
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First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017

have higher management quality, more MBA trained managers, and lower mortality rates. This is true compared to the distance to universities that offer only business or medical education (or neither). We argue that supplying joint... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Sep 2014
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First Look: September 2

embedding environmental and social factors in their supply chain management and by signing on the United Nations Global Compact, while Malaysian firms adopted reporting guidelines. We do not find any... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Nov 2013
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First Look: November 26

Supply Chain for PepsiCo South America Foods, and his team had worked for 10 years to realize their dream of creating an agro research center in Peru that could provide more productive and healthier... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 23

service (price) sensitive customers in markets where it has supplied relatively high (low) levels of service quality in the past. Furthermore, we show that it is the high quality incumbent's most valuable customers, those with the longest... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • February 2013 (Revised December 2015)
  • Case

Groom Energy Solutions: Selling Efficiency

By: Michael W. Toffel, Kira R. Fabrizio and Stephanie van Sice
Groom Energy Solutions helps organizations reduce their energy use and costs through the implementation of energy efficiency measures, which create long-term financial and environmental benefits. With early success serving customers in the cold storage and industrial... View Details
Keywords: Groom Energy Solutions; Jon Guerster; Salem, MA; Energy Management; Energy Efficiency Paradox; Sustainability Management; Manufacturing; Cold Storage; Commercial Real Estate; Enterprise Smart Grid; Carbon Accounting; LED Lighting; Sustainability Research; Entrepreneurship; Environmental Entrepreneurship; Energy Entrepreneurship; Energy Services; Electricity; Startup; Expansion; Growth; Sustainability; Business Startups; Forecasting and Prediction; Energy Conservation; Revenue; Geographic Location; Human Resources; Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Market Entry and Exit; Operations; Service Delivery; Strategic Planning; Science; Environmental Sustainability; Climate Change; Society; Social Issues; Technology Adoption; Energy Industry; Green Technology Industry; Technology Industry; Utilities Industry; United States; Boston
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  • 08 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 8, 2008

PublicationsEstimating Demand Uncertainty Using Judgmental Forecasts Authors:Vishal Gaur, Saravanan Kesavan, Ananth Raman, and Marshall L. Fisher Periodical:Manufacturing and Service Operations Management 9, no. 4 (fall 2007) Abstract Measuring demand uncertainty is a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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