Agricultural Supply Chain - Publications - Faculty & Research

08 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 8, 2008

PublicationsEstimating Demand Uncertainty Using Judgmental Forecasts Authors:Vishal Gaur, Saravanan Kesavan, Ananth Raman, and Marshall L. Fisher Periodical:Manufacturing and Service Operations Management 9, no. 4 (fall 2007) Abstract Measuring demand uncertainty is a... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

05 Sep 2006
Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Porsche’s Risky Roll on an SUV

Only when you think of it in terms of a pure manufacturing product does its content become problematic for deciding just how 'German' it is. We do not try to figure that out. It's near impossible because of the long supply View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Auto; Manufacturing

12 Jul 2021
News

Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis

than 100 volunteers from across the US, Europe, and Asia. The nonprofit matches those who need PPE with verified suppliers who can provide vetted products. The demand shock to the supply chain in March left... View Details

12 Mar 2018
Op-Ed

Op-Ed: Why BlackRock CEO Larry Fink Is Not a Socialist

cost-cutting; in fact, cutting infrastructure, supply chain costs, and excess expenses should be done all the time, in good times and bad. This is the approach used by ExxonMobil as it has been one of the... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George; Banking

07 Nov 2005
What Do You Think?

Is Less Becoming More?

Amazon stimulates sales by its listing of thousands of books that would otherwise be out of print, given their meager sales through traditional channels. Internet technology and supply chain efficiencies... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Consumer Products

30 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Computer Security is For Managers, Too

but they will inform the process by asking questions like "How do we keep suppliers from accessing the payroll data?" Just as companies keep an eye on their equipment and supplies by conducting scheduled audits and random spot... View Details

Keywords: by Robert D. Austin & Christopher A.R. Darby

15 Mar 2011
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First Look: March 15

agricultural subsidies and tariffs, or instead to pursue regional trade agreements in South and Central America. Rousseff also pledged active government involvement in the economy, described in the case as "Brazilian... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

04 May 2010
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First Look: May 4

second-generation product, which facilitates real-time connectivity between primary care physicians and specialists? Should American Well pursue new markets in the U.S., such as hospitals, chains of clinics, and pharmacies, or even expand... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Dec 2013
News

Faculty Opinion: Making It Better

a key driver of innovation is necessity—truly the mother of invention. For example, in Brazil, Russia, and China, which have universal coverage, and in India, which does not, demand for health care far outstrips the state's ability to pay for and View Details

Keywords: Herzlinger, Regina; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

05 Sep 2012
What Do You Think?

Will Business Management Save US Health Care?

Wittenberg put it, " management will never fix the health care system (it) can promote standardization and mass production (but) the actions of individual managers will have no effect on the overall system," one that as Barry Shere pointed out, "attempts... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Health

01 Jun 2019
News

City on a Hill

beyond West Wind, he passes the high-tunnel greenhouses that Pine Mountain provides to local farmers. “In many ways, it’s like running a small town,” says Marietta, casting his eye across the potato fields and chicken coop that help View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Clay Cook

03 Apr 2019
Book

Fintech's Game-Changing Opportunities for Small Business

that draws on sales systems, supply chain systems, and manufacturing and product data. A similar system for small businesses would combine at least four key activities: banking and payments, loans and... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Banking; Financial Services

26 Jul 2016
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July 26, 2016

Organizations' Strategic Responses By: Heese, Jonas, Ranjani Krishnan, and Frank Moers Abstract—We posit that nonprofits that provide a greater supply of unprofitable services (beneficent nonprofits) face lenient regulatory enforcement... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

17 Nov 2009
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First Look: Nov. 17

Johnson, and Linnea MeyerHarvard Business School Case 210-021 What role does trade finance play in facilitating global supply chain management? Richard S. Elman, founder and CEO of Noble Group Ltd., a global... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

25 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 25, 2007

subsidiaries are only observable at the four-digit level because the inputs they are supplying are so proximate to their parent firms' final good that they appear identical at the two-digit level. We call these proximate subsidiaries... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

17 Jan 2017
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First Look at New Research: January 17

preemption of national banks in 2004 from local laws against predatory lending to gauge the effect of the supply of credit on the real economy. Specifically, we exploit the heterogeneity in the market share of national banks across... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

December 2012 (Revised April 2025)
Case

AmTran Technology Ltd.

By: Willy Shih, Jyun-Cheng Wang and Karen E. Robinson

As an original design manufacturer (ODM) of television sets and leading supplier to Vizio, a market leader in the U.S. for LCD flat panel TVs, AmTran Technology Ltd. uses what founder Alpha Wu describes as a "WE" model in which western companies perform sales,... View Details

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20 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018

bonds generates a crowding out of corporate lending. For a given domestic firm, new debt is less likely to be a loan—i.e., the loan supply contracts—when local banks have purchased more domestic sovereign debt and when that debt is risky... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

12 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 12

lack of customer and geographic diversification, aggressive warranty policies, excessive production capacity growth, and supply chain risks. The case places students in the shoes of CFRA analysts who need to... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

September 2011 (Revised February 2013)
Case

Trucost: Valuing Corporate Environmental Impacts

By: Michael W. Toffel and Stephanie van Sice

Trucost provided corporate environmental performance data and analysis to institutional investors and corporate managers, but after operating for a decade had yet to achieve profitability. Trucost was struggling to effectively differentiate its high quality products... View Details