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  • 02 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 2

Lead Times Authors:Santiago Kraiselburd, Richard Pibernik, and Ananth Raman Publication:Production and Operations Management (forthcoming) Abstract It is generally a well acknowledged fact that, ceteris paribus, reducing the lead times between downstream and upstream... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Feb 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Business and the Global Poor

have several great examples of that. First of all, Nestlé. Since World War II, Nestlé's milk has by and large been produced by thousands of small farmers in developing countries. And their supply chain... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 19, 2008

Author:Noel Watson Abstract In this paper we propose a perceptions framework for categorizing a range of inventory decision making that can be employed in a single-stage supply chain. We take the existence of a wide range of inventory... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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HBS - Financials | From the CFO

informing their teaching in all the School's educational programs, their knowledge educates the next generation of leaders and influences the practice of management on a global scale. As I write, the world continues to face uncertainty. Container ships bottleneck the... View Details
  • 19 Oct 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy

reporting, while strengthening vigorous enforcement of environmental laws. “This workshop was a gold mine of new contacts, information, and studies,” he says. One paper that Silberman found particularly interesting looked at private-sector View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 21 Aug 2018
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New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018

multiple business contexts, the field of operations and supply chain management have not yet explored the possibilities it offers in improving firms' operational decisions. This study attempts to do that by... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 10 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018

expenditures under the entry of new generation lab managers. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=46697 Executive Education in the Digital Matrix: The Disruption of the Supply Landscape By: Moldoveanu,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 14 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 14

physical assets (such as health records); combining data within and across industries (to, say, coordinate supply chains); trading data (as mobile providers do with information on users' whereabouts); and codifying best-in-class... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Sep 2012
  • Research & Ideas

US Competitiveness at Risk

very polarized” That said, our research revealed that offshoring and constructing global supply chains is really complicated—it is challenging to accurately figure out the total costs of locating in China or... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin
  • 06 Mar 2007
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First Look: March 6, 2007

operations. And through Arbitrage, they exploit disparities between national or regional markets, often by locating different parts of the supply chain in different places—for instance, call centers in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Mar 2017
  • News

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
  • 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 Jun 2025
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books

(MBA 2002) Orpen Press John Travers uses the lens of his medical training to examine the ability of humanity—from the backstreets of Kolkata, through a hospital in Ghana, to the busiest emergency department in the world, a women’s prison, and a View Details
  • 30 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 30

Baldwin, and Christopher L. Magee Abstract Hierarchy is a generic structure in which levels are asymmetrically ordered. In an industry setting, classic supply chains display strict hierarchy, whereas... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 21 Jun 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets

Jamshedpur. Metro Cash & Carry's primary business filled voids in the food supply chains in emerging markets, reducing waste and bringing more transactions into the tax net, although this argument could... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 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
  • 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
  • 29 Mar 2016
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March 29, 2016

the incumbent attracts service (price) sensitive customers in markets where it has supplied relatively high (low) levels of service quality in the past. Furthermore, we show that it is the high-quality incumbent’s most profitable... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Nov 2011
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First Look: November 15

in achieving greater energy efficiency and reduced carbon emissions, the firm is looking for other ways to expand its sustainability initiatives, such as in its supply chain and incorporating sustainability... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 5, 2008

No abstract is available at this time. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-057.pdf Managing Functional Biases in Organizational Forecasts: A Case Study of Consensus Forecasting in Supply View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace