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Jeremy Andrus

are lots of different markets that require different strategies and investments. Our supply chain is complex. Most of our manufacturing happens... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Consumer Products; Entertainment / Media

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 View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail

01 Jun 2022
News

Eyes in the Skies

climate change, with its attendant rise in extreme (and extremely disruptive) weather—has whetted the commercial sector’s appetite for worldwide data and analytics. “That combination of things means that the world really does need... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand

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Media

This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details

June 1993 (Revised September 1993)
Case

Retail in Mexico 1993

By: David B. Yoffie and Charles McHugh LaFollette

In the wake of NAFTA, U.S. retail firms begin to see Mexico as an attractive market for international expansion. This case examines the structure of Mexico's volume retail (grocery, discount, warehouse club, hypermarket) industry, the joint ventures between U.S. and... View Details

Keywords: Expansion; Global Strategy; Joint Ventures; Industry Structures; Trade; Retail Industry; United States; Mexico

Article

Managing Climate Change: Lessons from the U.S. Navy

By: Forest Reinhardt and Michael W. Toffel

The U.S. Navy operates on the front lines of climate change. It manages tens of billions of dollars in assets on every continent and on every ocean, which take many years to design and build and then have decades of useful life. This means that it needs to understand... View Details

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01 Mar 2012
News

Balanced Scorecard and Beer Game Go High-Tech

Investing in HBS Great Expectations Model Teamwork Donor Spotlight FIELD 2: Global Intelligence FAQ For one day last November, it was every hand on deck and every eye on screen inside the war room set up by HBS’s Educational Technology... View Details

Keywords: Professor V.G. Narayanan; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

07 Mar 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research, March 7

and forming R&D partnerships in Europe and North America. As the company continues its growth in the context of a slowing Chinese economy, how can Yili integrate its new global resources and View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

August 2012 (Revised September 2013)
Case

EnerNOC: DemandSMART

By: Michael W. Toffel, Kira Fabrizio and Stephanie van Sice

EnerNOC is an energy company with an innovative business model: it serves as an intermediary between electric utilities and electricity users. It contracts with electricity users willing to reduce demand during periods of peak energy demand, and sells this as excess... View Details

Keywords: Production Planning; Productivity; Environmental Protection; Energy; Environment; Business Government Relations; Laws And Regulation; Business Model; Environmental Sustainability; Innovation and Invention; Opportunities; Risk and Uncertainty; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Supply Chain Management; Production; Energy Conservation; Energy Industry

10 Jun 2014
First Look

First Look: June 10

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... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

June 1992 (Revised March 2006)
Case

Concordia Casting Company

By: F. Warren McFarlan

Describes five years of development in a centralized data processing activity serving a highly decentralized corporation. Data processing manager discovers that a major software system conversion is a full year behind schedule, and subsequently makes several managerial... View Details

Keywords: Analytics and Data Science; Applications and Software; System; Information Technology; Change Management; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Leadership Style; Leading Change; Human Resources; Conflict and Resolution; Supply Chain Management; Accounting; Auto Industry

01 Jun 2011
News

Touch Down

traveling some 300,000 miles, the equivalent of a trip to the moon and halfway back, said SignOnSanDiego.com (January 8, 2011). The epic voyage also earned Gannon’s Lady the distinction of going to more... View Details

Keywords: world records

July 2007 (Revised March 2008)
Background Note

Staging Two-Sided Platforms

By: Thomas R. Eisenmann and Andrei Hagiu

Firms that aspire to develop two-sided platforms face a formidable challenge. Prospective users on each side will not invest in the platform until they are confident there will be enough users on the other side. Traditional strategies for dealing with this... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Risk Management; Two-Sided Platforms; Supply Chain; Strategy; Retail Industry

06 Dec 2021
News

What's the Word?

because the fourth aftershock of an earthquake rarely does,” he explains, “and yet it can still be devastating.” Back to top Re·shor·ing (verb) There were visible cracks in the global View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustrations by Martha Rich; Manufacturing; Finance; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

25 May 2016
Research & Ideas

How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health

and nutrition and readiness to learn in schools is also well established. Forthcoming revisions to the Millennium Development Goals are expected to again highlight the importance of disease prevention and health care to the View Details

Keywords: by John A. Quelch; Health

23 Sep 2014
First Look

First Look: September 23

conduct-that diffuse global standards. But little is known about the conditions under which companies adhere to these standards. We conduct one of the first large-scale comparative studies to determine which... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

25 Feb 2014
First Look

First Look: February 25

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2378899 Monitoring the Monitors: How Social Factors Influence Supply Chain Auditors By: Short, Jodi L., Michael W. Toffel, and Andrea R. Hugill... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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... View Details

May 1991 (Revised April 2008)
Case

The Japanese Facsimile Industry in 1990

Japanese firms dominate the facsimile machine industry, accounting for more than 90% of worldwide sales. This case explores the reasons for this dominance. View Details

Keywords: Globalized Markets and Industries; Industry Structures; Business and Government Relations; Competition; Telecommunications Industry; Japan