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01 Mar 2025
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Heartland

supermarket offerings. Put simply, it’s an arbitrage opportunity, Lambert says. She hopes gatherings like these and the connections they generate (she maintains an “offal people” email list) will spark innovation, building a stronger domestic View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photos by Vance Jacobs. OPEN CONCEPT: Lambert at Quail Ridge Dairy in Fort Morgan, Colorado.

03 Mar 2015
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use of exchange rate stabilization plans. It focuses on two episodes where there was "too little money" in the economy: during the hyperinflation episodes during the late 1980s, when money demand collapsed, and the early 2000s, when the View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

11 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 11

effect of efficiency wages on employee behavior and social norms. Working PapersSpatial Organization of Firms: Internal and External Agglomeration Economies and Location Choices Through the Value Chain Authors:Juan Alcácer and Mercedes... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

September 2023 (Revised September 2023)
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On

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Karolin Frankenberger, Sascha Mader, Jordan Mitchell and Karen Elterman

Slides to support the teaching of the On case, 723-430. On is a premium performance running shoe company founded in Switzerland in 2010. The company rapidly gained traction through its unique CloudTec cushioning technology, its innovative midsole plate called the... View Details

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Purchase

21 May 2013
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First Look: May 21

retail industry depends extensively on store liquidation, not only as a means for investors to recover capital from failed ventures, but also to allow managers of going concerns to divest stores in efforts to enhance performance and to change strategy. Recent examples... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

September–October 2013
Article

The Role of Organizational Scope and Governance in Strengthening Private Monitoring

By: Lamar Pierce and Michael W. Toffel

Governments and other organizations often outsource activities to achieve cost savings from market competition. Yet such benefits are often accompanied by poor quality resulting from moral hazard, which can be particularly onerous when outsourcing the monitoring and... View Details

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01 Mar 2017
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The Middle Way

Woods”—a series of demonstrations involving environmental and First Nations activists blocking the path of logging equipment and chaining themselves to trees and bulldozers. The protests attracted international attention and spread beyond... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photos by Kamil Bialous

21 Dec 2022
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HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion

decreased supply of traditional food exports of wheat and corn from Russia and Ukraine will also result in rising prices, Shih said. "You'll pay more for everything that uses wheat and corn and flour.” Harvard Ukrainian Research... View Details

05 May 2015
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First Look: May 5

address the diverse values and interests of their companies' stakeholders. Publisher's link: http://www.greenleaf-publishing.com/productdetail.kmod?productid=4059 May 2015 Environmentally Responsible Supply View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

26 May 2015
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First Look: May 26

comparative advantage of clusters located in one region versus another. Under this scenario, geographic concentration is still valuable, but the center of production activity can shift from one location to another. The paper then analyzes how firm View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

22 Feb 2011
Research & Ideas

The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century

Internet-based companies like Google record every click and keystroke of every customer, analyzing the data to continuously improve their products and marketing. Customers are courted and supply chains are... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Oct 1996
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Lasting Impressions

until many years later that I came to appreciate the dissenting view of the Vietnam War." Ed Mathias, now a managing director of the Carlyle Group, a merchant bank in Washington, D.C., came to HBS after serving as an officer in the Navy View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg

23 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

Strategy for Small Fish

rules and purchase orders, and can optimize supply chains across different systems. Niche leverage: Power over keystones. Finally, the emergence of loosely coupled technology interfaces has another critical... View Details

Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien

30 Sep 2014
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supply chain factories' adherence to the global labor standards embodied in codes of conduct imposed by multinational buyers. We find that suppliers are more likely to adhere when they are embedded in states... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

18 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018

organizations prefer to diversify into product categories with three features: high levels of fit with the organization’s current clients, campaigns, and strategies; appealing market features, defined as highly integrated, predictable, low-risk View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

10 Jun 2014
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tens of thousands of code-of-conduct audits, we conduct one of the first large-scale comparative studies to determine which international, domestic, civil society, and market institutions promote supply View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

24 May 2011
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First Look: May 24

used engineering expertise and political savvy to build a major privately held company providing the entire supply chain of water treatment, waste water, and integrated municipal solid waste capabilities.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

12 Jan 2018
Cold Call Podcast

Leadership Lessons from a Young Martin Luther King, Jr.

we have people that are willing to stand up to him and do the right thing by their companies. I'm thinking somebody like Mary Barra at General Motors, where they've said you can't have a supply chain that... View Details

21 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 21, 2008

Asian industrial cluster with global scope which has no participants or competitors in the West. The case can also be used to expose students to the global supply chain for key information technology... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

28 Apr 2010
Research & Ideas

Earth Day Reflections

very large, important, and well-run organizations making significant commitments to sustainability. I would cite Wal-Mart, Cisco, IBM, Unilever, Duke Energy, and Marks & Spencer as organizations on the leading edge. For example, Wal-Mart is working to completely... View Details

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On

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The Role of Organizational Scope and Governance in Strengthening Private Monitoring

The Middle Way

HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion

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The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century

Lasting Impressions

Strategy for Small Fish

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New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018

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Leadership Lessons from a Young Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Earth Day Reflections