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  • April 2025
  • Teaching Note

Allbirds: Decarbonizing Fashion (A) and (B)

By: Michael W. Toffel, Ken Pucker and Stacy Straaberg
Teaching Note for HBS Case Nos. 622-024, 625-004, 625-005, and 625-702. The Allbirds: Decarbonizing Fashion (A) case introduces Allbirds as a footwear startup not only focused on simple design, comfort, and sustainable natural materials but on decarbonizing the wider... View Details
Keywords: Decarbonization; Climate Impact; Environmental Strategy; Innovation; Product Design; Supply Chain Management; Innovation Strategy; Innovation and Management; Product Development; Climate Change; Environmental Management; Environmental Sustainability; Business Startups; Initial Public Offering; Knowledge Sharing; Competitive Advantage; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Fashion Industry; United States; California
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  • 18 Dec 2023
  • Blog Post

Climate Symposium 2023: Adopting Climate Solutions at Scale

join a wide range of panel discussions featuring industry experts in the following areas: Decarbonizing Farming; Food Supply Chain and Waste; Scaling Green Energy Generation; Hard to Decarbonize Sectors;... View Details
  • 04 Feb 2025
  • Blog Post

Leadership with Purpose: Redefining Success & Impact with Satpal Singh (SELP—India 4, 2019)

more strategic and holistic lens. My career has continued to evolve since SELP—India. As Country Head of Supply Chain during the pandemic, I navigated operational complexities that taught me invaluable... View Details
  • 22 Dec 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 22

supplement: http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/310047-PDF-ENG VF Brands: Global Supply Chain Strategy Gary P. Pisano and Pamela AdamsHarvard Business School Case 610-022 This case examines VF Brands... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 11 Jun 2007
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching the Next Generation of Energy Executives

forever, and this is an example of the type of industry transition that future energy executives must anticipate. "At some point it will become more trouble than it's worth to extract those supplies and refine them—and at that point... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Energy; Utilities
  • May 2011
  • Teaching Note

The Dutch Flower Cluster (TN)

By: Jorge Ramirez-Vallejo and Michael E. Porter
Teaching Note for 711507. View Details
Keywords: Customer Value and Value Chain; Auctions; Industry Clusters; Competition; Plant-Based Agribusiness; Netherlands; China; Colombia; Ecuador; Kenya
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  • June 1992 (Revised March 2006)
  • Case

Concordia Casting Company

By: F. Warren McFarlan
Describes five years of development in a centralized data processing activity serving a highly decentralized corporation. Data processing manager discovers that a major software system conversion is a full year behind schedule, and subsequently makes several managerial... View Details
Keywords: Analytics and Data Science; Applications and Software; System; Information Technology; Change Management; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Leadership Style; Leading Change; Human Resources; Conflict and Resolution; Supply Chain Management; Accounting; Auto Industry
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  • 29 Sep 2022
  • News

Securing a Resilient Future for Senegal

with enough oil, gas, and food supplies, given supply chain disruptions. Important, too, was being mindful of budget deficits and encouraging investments from international partners. “We had to do it all... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
  • 22 Jan 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019

experimentation that is required for the initial commercialization and diffusion of technologies. A New Categorization of the U.S. Economy: The Role of Supply Chain Industries in Innovation and Economic... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • January 2007 (Revised May 2008)
  • Case

National Logistics Management: Founder Decisions

By: Lynda M. Applegate and Elizabeth Collins
Scott Taylor, CEO & founder of NLM, is a serial entrepreneur faced with an important decision. As his industry consolidates, he knows that his company must grow quickly, yet he believes he has reached the limit of what organic growth can achieve. Should he accept the... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Startups; Decision Choices and Conditions; Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development Strategy; Supply and Industry; Supply Chain
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  • 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... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • 16 Aug 2016
  • First Look

August 16, 2016

U.S. market? Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/516117-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 216-039 Supply Chain Finance at Procter & Gamble In April 2013, Procter & Gamble... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Oct 2011
  • First Look

First Look: October 25

scale and influence in the technology industries that fall under the incidence of their assets. We also discuss some efficiency issues raised by the growing prominence of patent merchants. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-023.pdf Engaging View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Jun 2010
  • First Look

First Look: June 8

  PublicationsThe New Science of Retailing: How Analytics Are Transforming the Supply Chain and Improving Performance Authors:Marshall Fisher and Ananth Raman Publication:Harvard Business School Press, 2010... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Fast Answer

Sustainable investing and ESG resources

provided to CDP by companies responding publicly to an information request sent by CDP on behalf of its signatory investors. Datasets include Climate Change Data, Supply Chain Data, Water Data, Forests Data,... View Details
  • 22 Jul 2014
  • News

Hungry for Change

technical solution or a cure for something that isn't scientifically possible or known," says Zeaske. "We have a resource scarcity and distribution problem, not a production problem." That last point is particularly true in agriculturally rich Minnesota. "We've... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
  • 30 Oct 2019
  • Blog Post

Candidates Seeking Opportunities After Graduation: Lessons Learned

again, concentrating on roles that were related to his own background in supply chain management and business development. Confident that potential employers would appreciate his previous experience with... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • September 2008
  • Teaching Note

Chi Mei Optoelectronics (TN)

By: Willy C. Shih
Teaching Note for [608-123]. View Details
Keywords: Diversification; Information Technology; Market Entry and Exit; Standards; Industry Clusters; Supply Chain; Production; Experience and Expertise; Biotechnology Industry; Chemical Industry; Taiwan; Asia; Korean Peninsula; China
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  • 27 Aug 2007
  • Op-Ed

Mattel: Getting a Toy Recall Right

million toys manufactured in China with lead paint and/or loose, potentially dangerous magnets. Clearly Mattel did not have sufficiently tight quality control procedures in its supply chain to compensate for... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch; Consumer Products
  • March 2018 (Revised March 2018)
  • Supplement

Sandlands Vineyards

By: Benjamin C. Esty and Greg Saldutte
Approximately 80% of the wineries in the US breakeven or lose money. An even greater percentage lose money on an economic basis (i.e., after a charge for the cost of equity). Tegan Passalacqua is a successful, young, Californian winemaker who specializes in making... View Details
Keywords: Wine; Winery; Vineyard; Market Attractiveness; Porter's 5 Forces; Capital Investment; Industry Attractiveness; Performance Analysis; Napa Valley; Agriculture; Entrepreneurship; Business Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Vertical Integration; Segmentation; Food; Supply Chain; Industry Structures; Retail Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; United States; California; Napa Valley
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