supply chain management - Publications - Faculty & Research

25 Apr 2024
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Origin Stories

“I loved learning how capital and labor came together to create things,” she says. That same spirit of discovery would come in handy in York’s career as an entrepreneur and venture capitalist with 30 years of experience financing early-stage technology and healthcare... View Details

31 Oct 2023
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Securing a Resilient Future for Senegal

changed rapidly. “When I decided to take on that role, the world looked very different than it did later that spring,” recalls Diagne. “I had no idea that job would turn into pandemic response and economic recovery.” Worldwide, crisis View Details

18 Jan 2018
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The Lessons of All-Day Breakfast

after lackluster business performance for a number of years, we knew we needed to do things differently, we needed to take some bold action. So I'd say that was really the turning point from a cultural perspective, not just within the company, but with our... View Details

Keywords: Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality

01 Jun 2024
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Quantum Leap

“This is the first new kind of computer in 75 years,” says John Levy (MBA 1979), CEO of the quantum computing startup SEEQC. “And we’re building it on a chip!” Strolling through his company’s design and testing facility in Elmsford, New York, Levy looks less like a... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Chris Sorensen; quantum computing; innovation; leadership; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

04 Sep 2019
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From Retail to Real Estate

traded national chain and generations-long family enterprise—until it was acquired by Walmart for $1.6 billion in 2009. As reported in the Bloomberg story, “Harvard Grad Solves His Family’s $1.6 Billion Liquidity Problem,” Ibañez was... View Details

22 Feb 2022
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New Urban Order

Highway As cities reshape themselves and populations increase, demand for goods will rise. And if the pandemic taught us anything about supply and demand, it’s that the trucking system—once largely unnoticed—can become a real bottleneck.... View Details

Keywords: Kathleen Fu, Deborah Blagg, Julia Hanna, and Maureen Harmon; illustrations by; energy; environment; sustainability; entrepreneurship; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems

01 Mar 2024
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On the Radar

including those engineered by humans, that will enable countries to rapidly quell potential pandemics. “The earlier you detect, the faster you nip something in the bud,” observes McKnight, general manager of Concentric, Ginkgo’s... View Details

Keywords: Janine White; Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities; Government

01 Feb 1999
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Too Much of a Good Thing?

temporary glut, but one that is a result of progress, which is good for the overall economy. Furthermore, when overcapacity produces a drop in demand, production usually slackens, excess supply is gradually drawn down, and, over time,... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Jan 2004
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D. Ronald Daniel, MBA 1954

graduated from HBS and was finishing a three-and-a-half-year stint as an officer in the U.S. Navy Supply Corps, in charge of a select group that used early models of giant IBM computers to manage inventory... View Details

01 Jan 2011
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Karen Gordon Mills, MBA 1977

working in the public sector to be extremely rewarding and is deeply committed to helping small US manufacturers who operate in large corporate supply chains. "We cannot lose their expertise," she emphasizes. "If we do, we'll lose even... View Details

25 Aug 2022
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Up on the Corner

corridor of Southwest Baltimore. Factories and warehouses supplied the city with everything from furniture to gelato, and people flocked to the strip’s shops, theaters, and saloons. Just to the south, a series of elegant row houses earned... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Melissa Golden; Real Estate

12 Nov 2021
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Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

That is why we introduced pep+ (PepsiCo Positive), our strategic end-to-end transformation, with sustainability at the center of how we will create value for our shareholders and all our stakeholders. Climate action across our supply... View Details

01 Mar 2005
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Turkish Delight

BYFORD: Changing careers is well worth the effort. Grenville Byford (MBA ’79) was practical when he decided to pursue his interest in international relations. “Unless your name is Kissinger, you have to specialize in a particular area of the world,” he says. “As a... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

01 Jun 2022
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A Sustainable Solution for Fashion

Ferdinand Stockmann (MBA 2021), who previously worked at Boston Consulting Group and has a background in the technical side of supply chain management, created Syrup Tech, a predictive software that drives... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Mar 2024
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Research Brief: The Real Cost of Countering China

Illustration by Patric Sandri Over the last five years, global supply chains have come under unprecedented stress from the pandemic, natural disasters, geopolitical events, and general anti-globalization sentiments. Nowhere is this more evident than in the trade... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers; Miscellaneous Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Jan 2005
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Joseph J. O'Donnell, MBA 1971

publisher in Lowell whose products included Gideon Bibles. Another—which came his way via an Executive Education participant who was president of the Boston Bruins—was from a small company with about a million dollars in sales that View Details

01 Aug 1998
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High Honors

enlisting in the U.S. Navy. He was subsequently posted to HBS, where he completed the first year of the MBA Program before going on active duty from 1944 to 1946. His management experience in military logistics and View Details

01 Mar 2018
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Case Study: On the Record

Despite the renewed interest in vinyl, there were not many manufacturers—less than 20 in the United States—and few had updated their processes or supply chain since the heyday of the late 1970s. In the... View Details