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- 19 Apr 2023
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A Kick Start for Latin American Startups
performance data, options that so far have not reached their full potential in Latin American countries. Another startup, Diferente, tackles food waste. According to Forbes, the region's annual loss in food supplies represents 6 percent... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Savings and Loam
process was painful, he concedes, but federally insured deposits would make all the pain and suffering worthwhile by clearing a key blockage in the system. While he was building Walden Local and its supply View Details
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
D. Ronald Daniel, MBA 1954
graduated from HBS and was finishing a three-and-a-half-year stint as an officer in the U.S. Navy Supply Corps, in charge of a select group that used early models of giant IBM computers to manage inventory for the Navy's airplanes. About... View Details
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
That is why we introduced pep+ (PepsiCo Positive), our strategic end-to-end transformation, with sustainability at the center of how we will create value for our shareholders and all our stakeholders. Climate action across our supply... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
A Sustainable Solution for Fashion
Ferdinand Stockmann (MBA 2021), who previously worked at Boston Consulting Group and has a background in the technical side of supply chain management, created Syrup Tech, a predictive software that drives... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jan 2011
- News
Karen Gordon Mills, MBA 1977
working in the public sector to be extremely rewarding and is deeply committed to helping small US manufacturers who operate in large corporate supply chains. "We cannot lose their expertise," she emphasizes. "If we do, we'll lose even... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Delivering the Goods
opportunities for last-mile delivery if the USPS can be proactive in building supply chains around printing centers. Of course, this opportunity may be seized by others if it delays. How quickly will... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Ideas: Faculty Research Online
What Drives Supply Chain Behavior? Surprise! Managers are not always rational decision-makers. In this interview, Assistant Professor Noel Watson and Rogelio Oliva discuss how human behavior affects View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Year in Review 2017
edited by April White; illustrations by Jonathan Carlson RETAIL: Voice-Activated, One-Hour-Delivery Shopping MANUFACTURING: The Supply Chain Goes High Tech ENERGY: A Future of Lower Energy Prices MEDIA:... View Details
- 13 Jan 2021
- News
Stress Test
Andrew Kelley, III (MBA 2002) Andrew Kelley, III (MBA 2002) 2020 was the year everybody learned what a supply chain is. The first lesson came in the form of a toilet paper shortage in the earliest days of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
A Jolt for the African Coffee Industry
inability to get one of the espresso-based drinks to which he had grown attached during his years working in finance in New York. Dozie hopes to solve both the supply and the demand problems with Café Neo, a... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Top Ten Cases: Research from Around The World
Yoffie and M. Kwak (9-799-108), 1999 “Yahoo!: Business on Internet Time,” by J. Rivkin and J. Girotto (9-700-013), 2000 “Ford Motor Co.: Supply Chain Strategy,” by R. Austin (9-699-198), 1999 “Calyx &... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Beyond the Plastisphere
works in developing countries to prevent ocean-bound plastic from entering the water in the first place and channels it into recycled products. OceanCycle builds and certifies supply chains for recycled... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Walking the TalkTalk
challenges.” She embraced a formidable task in 2010 when, with years of experience at supermarket chains Sainsbury’s and Tesco but none in telecom, she became CEO of TalkTalk, which supplies telephone and... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Elevator Pitch: Power Sourced
Illustration by Drue Wagner Illustration by Drue Wagner Chaku Foods Nikki Okrah (MBA 2021), CEO and Founder Concept: A snack-food company in Okrah’s native Ghana that is building farming supply chain... View Details
- 27 Sep 2021
- News
Sewn with Love
supply chain. The gowns were produced by a tight circle of manufacturers that had begun to shut down as a result of COVID-19. “The system works very well when the demand is stable,” notes Hanazawa. It was clear, however, that the View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Ask the Expert: Human Intelligence
think so, but I don’t know when that will happen. The phase we are in now is “augmentation.” AI is not replacing the need for human labor; it is automating certain lower-level tasks and freeing up humans to take on more challenging or more strategic activities in many... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
It's academic. (Not!)
black-box entity linked to a start-up with a dollar sign. A Los Angeles native, Wasserman, 32, met his wife (now a practicing obstetrician) as an undergraduate at the University of Pennsylvania, where he received joint degrees in management and View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Case Study: On the Table
(PMD 58, 1989) Gaia Design should use an already established logistics company such as UPS, FedEx, or DHL. Although the e-commerce infrastructure as a whole is not good in Mexico, these organizations are large enough to drive world-class View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Capitalizing the Corner Shop
photo by Getty Images photo by Getty Images When Samuel Ejeh decides to open a new location for his Lagos-based supermarket chain Grocery Bazaar, he likes to move quickly. But expansion is capital-intensive, constraining his cash flow,... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell