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- 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
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
A Climate Change Optimist
Verizon’s move to shift its energy use to 50 percent renewables by 2025, and supply chain programs to increase carbon sequestration through soil health initiatives with companies like Danone and Cargill:... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; photo by Seth Lowe
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
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Franchise Organizations by Jeffrey L. Bradach (Harvard Business School Press) How much impact do chains such as Pizza Hut and McDonald's have on today's economy? Here are some telling numbers: a new franchise opens in the United States... 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
- 01 Apr 2020
- News
What My Time in Vietnam Taught Me About Dealing with Shortages
uniforms, and other urgently needed items. The actions we took enabled us to avoid the worst of most of the problems we faced. Perhaps they have some relevance to today’s worries. First, timely and accurate information was needed to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Action Plan: Net Proceeds
supply chain and certification company, to address the plastic pollution he saw in Haiti and other communities around the world. Goodwin had originally traveled to Haiti under the auspices of Executives... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Global Perspectives
members across disciplines, noting the dynamic discussions that took place on topics ranging from supply chain management to social enterprises. Opportunities for faculty members to take a deep dive into the... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
New Releases
managerial formula. His book is designed to help managers understand that distinction and show them how to adapt and respond accordingly. The Service Profit Chain by James L. Heskett, W. Earl Sasser, Jr., and Leonard A. Schlesinger (Free... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Faculty Books
Corporate Information Strategy and Management by Lynda M. Applegate, Robert D. Austin, and F. Warren McFarlan (Irwin/McGraw-Hill) This extensive collection of HBS cases devoted to IT gives an overview of contemporary View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
The Maestro and the Market
experiences, you almost can’t listen to the customer.” Norton asks students to consider the operations and marketing of elBulli. There is much about the restaurant that is inefficient, as MBAs are quick to note: Adrià should lower his staff numbers, use cheaper... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Ideas: Books
research team) examine 24 cases of collaboration between businesses and nonprofit organizations in Mexico (a food bank and an American supermarket), Colombia, Chile (a pharmacy chain and an elder-care home), Argentina (a newspaper and a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Faculty Research Online
in the number of “functional” managers for crowding in the C-suite. Is J.C. Penney’s Makeover the Future of Retailing? The stuffy department store chain has become emboldened under new CEO Ron Johnson (MBA 1984) with plans for an... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
"Service-Profit Chain" Links Members of Service Management Unit
Heskett as "a chain of relationships involving customer loyalty; customer satisfaction; the value of goods and services delivered; the quality of the process; and employee loyalty, satisfaction, productivity, and support." The results of... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Alumni Take Action to Improve US Competitiveness
middle skills jobs,” Worrell says. “We focused our research on that gap and the failure in the talent supply chain that’s leading to that gap.” HBS alumnus Matt Sigelman (MBA 1999) also stepped up to help... View Details
- 02 Nov 2020
- News
The First Five Years: Julianne White (MBA 2017)
state food banks. The combination of a sharp rise in food insecurity and the pandemic’s disruption of the food supply chain meant that there was a period of time where we struggled to bring in enough food to... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Books
three factors that differentiate growth strategies that succeed from those that fail. In Unchained Value: The New Logic of Digital Business, Internet expert Mary Cronin argues that corporations will fail at e-business as long as they continue to use the traditional... 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 Dec 2001
- News
Film School
fabrics firm in Pennsylvania, but prior to that, he had run a departmentstore chain in Southern California and had friends and contacts in the movie industry. With their help, in 1994 Seder founded the Big Picture Alliance (BPA), an... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Industry-Related Clubs Offer Alumni a New Resource
Association, a number of other HBS alumni associations exist. These include the African-American Alumni Association, the Association of Gay and Lesbian Alumni, the Christian Fellowship Alumni Association, the Supply View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Reaching New Heights
nonprofit to help build schools and libraries in Nepal and supply them with books, the Harbus reported. With expansion into Southeast Asia and soon into Latin America and Africa, Wood’s Room to Read has established 3,600 libraries, built... View Details