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- 04 Feb 2008
- News
After Twenty Years, Rankings Remain Controversial
on objective measures. The MBA Pathfinder Data Warehouse stores admissions, enrollment, and employment information. If not exactly an antidote to the rankings, Pathfinder can at least lay claim to being the definitive source of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Delivering the Goods
are likely to find in coming years that the problems borders create are easily solved by forward positioning goods and services. Free-trade zones and special warehouses that preposition products for anticipatory delivery, helped by data... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
In VMI Partnerships, the Devil is in the Data
other words, if a retailer only gives the manufacturer warehouse stock information rather than actual sales data, or if the data is sent by fax instead of electronic transfer (which can be more efficiently verified), VMI may not pay off.... View Details
Keywords: Laura Singleton (MBA 1988)
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
A Look at Olook
André Beisert's olook targets a very particular part of Brazil's new consumer market. "Our brand has a persona," Beisert (MBA 2009) says in his white brick office, which sits atop a small warehouse in the Vila Nova Conceição neighborhood... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Case Study: Tip the Scale
as it passes. It’s probably obvious, but you could just replicate the old model and stamp it out. There are lots of regional micro-fulfillment centers that are closer to customers, all with seven employees on the line. —Casey Taylor (MBA 2011) This is a View Details
- 08 Mar 2018
- News
How HBS Gives Back
Staff volunteers from across HBS pitch in to help sort donations at the Cradles to Crayons warehouse in Brighton A recent installment of Up Close—which features the day-to-day work of HBS and the people who do it—offers a look at the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Old Meets New: A Dinosaur Named Sue
would be auctioned at Sotheby's in 1997. "I started to think about what the dinosaur could mean for the Field, in terms of education, research, and visitorship," recalls McCarter, who took two of his top scientists to the Sotheby's View Details
- 10 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Winners and Losers in the Retail Revolution
printing dollars, it's minting quarters. It's very, very problematic. Walmart has a new strategy that uses smaller stores, supercenters, and their warehouses in an ecosystem that includes ecommerce, but it's going to be a lot of work for... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Deals For Sale
department and we agree to move them." In an arrangement with Federal Express, the modems are shipped to a warehouse in Memphis, Tennessee, and inspected. FairMarket then posts a description of the merchandise online for the next... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 24 Aug 2016
- Blog Post
Internship In Action
introducing a new operational strategy for a group of sellers. After a few weeks of investigation my manager and I pushed to initiate the launch of this new operational strategy, which has been super cool. After visiting the warehouse and... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Barbara Bry: Business is Blooming
Proflowers, there are no warehouses and no network of retail florists. Orders are transmitted electronically to growers, who cut, pack, and ship, usually within 24 hours. This supply-chain compression allows Proflowers to offer a unique... View Details
- Profile
Jon Schechter
As an engineer at Amazon Robotics (formerly Kiva Systems), Jon Schechter viewed the future, almost literally, from the ground floor. “We worked on fleets of orange robots that move warehouse inventory,” he explains. “They drive underneath... View Details
Keywords: Tech
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Robots to the Rescue
investment.” Once Staples embraced the Kiva approach with positive bottom-line results, other retailers followed. Kiva’s robots today are processing millions of orders a year in retailers’ warehouses across the United States, the UK, and... View Details
- 12 Jul 2011
- News
Phone Fun
cited Phones 4u’s claim “to be the UK’s fastest-growing independent mobile phone retailer” and Braterman’s role in helping the company double its share of pay-as-you-go cell phone customers last year on a marketing budget that was “less than half of its Carphone View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Streamlining the Supermarket
A new alumni-backed venture hopes robots will change how we buy our milk, bread, and eggs. In early 2016, José Vicente Aguerrevere (MBA 2002) attended a talk at HBS by Mick Mountz (MBA 1996), founder of Kiva Systems. Kiva’s small, mobile View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Complete Package
“You have to be honest and deliver on what you have promised.” Essential entrepreneurship skill: Driving a 14-foot pickup and a warehouse forklift. “Sometimes you must really dirty your hands,” she says. “The men would always be very... View Details
Keywords: April White; entrepreneurship; sustainability; packaging; leadership; women; Manufacturing
- Fast Answer
Stock Pitching: company, industry and market research
with Baker Library LSEG Workspace Introduction. WRDS WRDS is a warehouse of financial, accounting, banking, economics, management, marketing, and public policy databases accessible through... View Details
- 07 Jan 2002
- What Do You Think?
Did Consumer Behavior Tracking Come of Age on September 11?
name of tracking terrorists that we begin to take it for granted as consumers? In fact, will we one day look back on September 11 as a point in time when data warehousers were able to take a significant step forward in fully utilizing the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 29 Jun 2016
- Blog Post
Emerging Into Singapore
the implications of my suggestions. So far I have really enjoyed my autonomy in structuring my project and working with the team to identify challenges and opportunities, as well as testing ideas with the different stakeholders involved. My manager and I will be... View Details
- 22 Sep 2015
- News
Getting New Ideas off the Ground
to start companies without having to be the CEO. I have three small daughters at home, and there's nothing more important to me than spending time with my family. I love to build, and just love that creative experience. We bought a View Details