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- 17 Apr 2017
- News
Panera-bred Leaders Have Risen Throughout the Restaurant Industry
to lead the operations of such popular chains as Friendly’s Ice Cream, Johnny Rockets, Pizzeria Uno, Smashburger, Wahlburgers (led by CEO Cedric Vanzura, MBA 1990), Pieology, and Upper Crust. Panera was sold earlier this month to Europe’s... View Details
- 25 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part II]
confident he could arrange another round of private financing, which should suffice to carry the company through to profitability in 2002. New market opportunities were arising, such as providing dry cleaning through grocery-store View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
social impact. And the way to magnify that impact is to give away valuable knowledge to anyone who can use it. Bridgespan is unique in another equally important way. It is a pioneer in the application of data-driven strategy and consulting View Details
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Elaine MacDonald Archives | Social Enterprise
Impact Measurement Inclusive Finance International Development K-12 Education Leadership Fellows Leadership in Challenging Times MBA Programs Microfinance Non Profit Management Nonprofit Supportive Services... View Details
- 02 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Retail Reaches a Tipping Point—Which Stores Will Survive?
many of these businesses is still challenged," says Lal, the Stanley Roth, Sr. Professor of Retailing. "From a profit perspective, from a growth perspective, and more importantly from a return on investment perspective." In addition to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
“we-dentity” and the power of community in the face of an inefficient, sometimes corrupt, local government. Santa Ana del Valle, for example, provides many of its services (such as policing or maintenance of the church and museum) through... View Details
- 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 supply chains... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- October 2001 (Revised November 2002)
- Case
Herman Miller(B): Creating Innovation Streams
By: Sandra J. Sucher and Stacy McManus
In 1997, Mike Volkema faced the difficulty of attempting to revitalize a once dynamic organization. Volkema wondered how he could incorporate advances made within subsidiaries, such as Miller SQA's business model innovation, into the company as a whole while also... View Details
Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Management; Product Design; Product Development; Product; Supply Chain Management; Business Model; Service Delivery; Customer Value and Value Chain; Manufacturing Industry; Consumer Products Industry
Sucher, Sandra J., and Stacy McManus. "Herman Miller(B): Creating Innovation Streams." Harvard Business School Case 602-024, October 2001. (Revised November 2002.)
- 14 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
Keeping Your Balance With Customers
and profits could be derived from scale. Customer management was relegated to selling and promoting the company's products. The customer relationship was seldom the issue. The New Economy has changed all of this. With the evolution of... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
- 18 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is Greed Ruining Private Equity Firms?
In a first-ever look at the internal economics driving private equity partnerships, Harvard Business School researchers have found that many of these funds can be torn apart by greed among founding partners who take home a much bigger share of View Details
- 10 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
New Venture Competition 2022: Business and Environment Ventures
2023), Luis F Gutierrez (MBA 2023), Seyfihan Usarer (MBA 2023)Our vision is to build a digital marketplace that connects Farmers directly with Restaurants, enabling farmers to earn higher profits by disrupting existing complex supply... View Details
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Brandon Moore Archives | Social Enterprise
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- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Damon Silvers
congressional bailout than Wall Street? No. The reason Congress voted in October to allot $700 billion for financial institutions was the risk that multiple bankruptcies would place the economy in jeopardy. Let’s apply that reasoning to the automakers. They are at the... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Q & A: Confronting New Technologies: When Doing Right Is Wrong
technologies are often disruptive to established organizations because they have a different set of attributes that aren't valued in existing markets. Market potential can seldom be measured and profit margins are meager at best. Examples... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Disrupting India’s Dental Market
“Entering an industry that was entirely mom-and-pop,” he says, “we found the auxiliary services around it were also non-organized.” Singh saw an opportunity to create a national chain that would offer a... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
- 02 Jan 2008
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Stories 2007
shows how one of the forces that threatens established companies can also be a source of salvation: disruptive change. Plus: Innovation worksheets. Bringing 'Lean' Principles to Service Industries Toyota and other top manufacturing... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
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Margaret Busse Archives | Social Enterprise
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- 01 Jan 2010
- News
Allan W.B. Gray, MBA 1965
focus on asset management and service would yield superior results. The approach worked so well that the company became the largest privately owned, independent asset management firm in southern Africa. Anticipating the end of exchange... View Details
- 05 Sep 2012
- What Do You Think?
Will Business Management Save US Health Care?
for-profit health care organization led to better patient outcomes at the same time that "provider engagement and feeling of satisfaction have increased, our costs have fallen and our net profit has increased." One of the basic... View Details
- 27 May 2008
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Thinking About Global
Professor John Quelch provides some answers. Key concepts include: For decades, Ford has created specialized products for different countries while Toyota, Nissan, and Honda sold standard products under a single brand umbrella. Ford's strategy resulted in added... View Details