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- 09 Apr 2021
- Blog Post
Reflections on Student Conferences in 2020
Building a Sustainable, Resilient, and Nourishing Global Food System "Building a Sustainable, Resilient, and Nourishing Global Food System" was the 2nd annual conference hosted by the Food, Agriculture, and Water Club. The Club invited 22 industry experts from firms... View Details
- 26 Jun 2017
- Working Paper Summaries
Inventory Management for Mobile Money Agents in the Developing World
- May 1999 (Revised August 1999)
- Case
Victory Supermarkets: Expansion Strategy?
By: David E. Bell and Ann Leamon
Jay DiGeronimo, president of a 16-store supermarket chain, is trying to decide the timing and method for expanding his chain. The family-owned company could continue in a maintenance mode, with each family member running one store. It could expand slowly using a new... View Details
Keywords: Budgets and Budgeting; Cost vs Benefits; Trade; Investment; Market Entry and Exit; Supply Chain Management; Private Ownership; Competition; Expansion; Retail Industry
Bell, David E., and Ann Leamon. "Victory Supermarkets: Expansion Strategy?" Harvard Business School Case 599-054, May 1999. (Revised August 1999.)
- December 2002 (Revised October 2006)
- Case
Tesco Plc.
By: David E. Bell
Tesco, a supermarket chain, has been transformed from a third-rate retailer to a global leader in the past ten years. This case describes how that was accomplished. Interviews with Tesco employees explain the company's approach to understanding customers, motivating... View Details
Keywords: History; Motivation and Incentives; Leadership; Internet and the Web; Supply Chain Management; Global Strategy; Globalization; Customer Focus and Relationships; Business Strategy; Retail Industry
Bell, David E. "Tesco Plc." Harvard Business School Case 503-036, December 2002. (Revised October 2006.)
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Harvard Business School Archives | Baker Library
body of his professional correspondence. Wartime Schools Collection During World War II, the U.S. military was facing an increased need for officers trained in statistics and supply chain logistics. The HBS... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Digging Deep
operations, creating 400,000 direct manufacturing jobs since 2010. PwC predicts that in the years ahead “manufacturers in all industries will find themselves in a race to efficiently produce products at the point of demand.” BCG encourages companies to rethink their... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 30 Jul 2024
- Blog Post
Alumni Career Journey: Rob Self (MBA 2021) – Integrating Climate into Consulting
there has been a corporate shift away from an immediate focus on these topics, at least to some extent because supply chains have been so constrained, and inflation has been high. But if you look at the... View Details
- November 1975 (Revised October 1976)
- Case
Cross River Products
Describes production task of meeting peak seasonal demands in a light manufacturing plant. Information is provided for evaluating the options of overtime, second shift, second production line, and inventory buildup. View Details
Keywords: Buildings and Facilities; Information; Labor; Demand and Consumers; Production; Supply Chain
Wheelwright, Steven C. "Cross River Products." Harvard Business School Case 676-086, November 1975. (Revised October 1976.)
- 20 Apr 2016
- News
Steps to Success
capable people to do things they never knew existed and to achieve mastery of it.” In describing that sense of accomplishment, Ruhr could well be speaking about the early years of her own career, which was born in Professor Ray A. Goldberg’s View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 03 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 3, 2018
Improvement in Global Supply Chain Working Conditions By: Short, Jodi L., Michael W. Toffel, and Andrea R. Hugill Abstract—Worker rights advocates seeking to improve labor conditions in global View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 28 Apr 2008
- HBS Case
Negotiating with Wal-Mart
Like Muccio, Talley confronted some of the same hardball price challenges, and like Muccio, she acquired a deep understanding of the Wal-Mart culture while finding "new money" in the supply chain... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Kelp Is on the Way
Petrochemicals are all around us—from ubiquitous plastic packaging to the inconspicuous lining of your takeaway coffee cup, and in everyday products like soaps, deodorants, and toothpaste. But that will change, according to Matthew Perkins (MBA 2009). When industries... View Details
- 13 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Grolsch Brewing Company: Drink Sustainably
in the region, they confirmed that collaboration on sustainable technology was a norm in the industry and region, and that they saw sustainable technology sharing as a crucial component of driving necessary change. Our Remaining Questions View Details
- 21 Jul 2022
- News
How Sumner Feldberg Helped Transform Retail
mill stores were merely a fad. Instead, he bet on supermarket-style stores, with self-service, offering clothing, toys, beauty supplies and housewares. That idea became the basis for the family’s chain of... View Details
- 29 Aug 2024
- Blog Post
Leni Peterson R. (MS/MBA 2023): Solving Big Problems Through Entrepreneurship
Without water, companies cannot operate. Water is not only a key indicator of climate change, but also a major factor behind supply chain disruptions. Poor water access can exacerbate health and political... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
'Rooted' In Innovation
and iron out supply chain and regulatory issues at the United States Embassy in Cameroon. “Establishing a stable supply chain is a huge challenge... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Innovation: The Fish-Farming Fix
Video Embed Cryoocyte’s home lab in action With ocean fisheries increasingly failing to meet global demands—about 85 percent of them are classified as depleted or worse, according to the World Bank—the future of the food supply will... View Details
- 16 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 16, 2015
unifying framework for obtaining reliable proxies of expected returns worldwide. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49238 Monitoring Global Supply Chains By: Short, Jodi... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Peek into Business | MBA
definition of "business" and consider how understanding it can be valuable—from a strawberry farmer managing supply chains to a food scientist meeting market demands, or a software engineer designing... View Details