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- September 1992 (Revised July 1993)
- Case
Staples, Inc.
By: David E. Bell
Staples is dissatisfied with the merchandising of its office furniture. The case reviews the situation, allowing students to consider whether the category should be dropped or changed. Permits consideration of the portfolio of products a positioning implies, and... View Details
Bell, David E. "Staples, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 593-034, September 1992. (Revised July 1993.)
- November 2011 (Revised January 2014)
- Teaching Note
FIJI Water: Carbon Negative?
By: Michael W. Toffel and Francesca Gino
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Ask the Expert: Human Intelligence
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies to better understand the issues. + ONLINE web-only content Do you see AI replacing the need for humans completely as it’s applied in certain value chain roles in the future? —Ian Grant Smith... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Case Study: Golden Ticket
when you see what kinds of dogs are eating the dog food. —Uli Riebe (MBA 2011) The company has a chance to become an ecosystem. By focusing on what it has, it can plug into other companies to form value chains and achieve vertical... View Details
- November 2023
- Case
From Imitation to Innovation: Zongshen Industrial Group (Abridged)
By: Willy Shih and Nancy Dai
Like other small shops based in Chongqing, China, Zongshen Industrial Group started by assembling motorcycles from "standard" parts. The quality of its early products was good enough for rural Chinese buyers, though wealthier consumers usually purchased premium... View Details
Keywords: Disruptive Innovation; Growth and Development Strategy; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Competitive Strategy; Supply Chain; Product Positioning; Manufacturing Industry; Motorcycle Industry; China
Shih, Willy, and Nancy Dai. "From Imitation to Innovation: Zongshen Industrial Group (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 624-056, November 2023.
- 2008
- Book
Business Market Management: Understanding, Creating, and Delivering Value
By: James C. Anderson, James A. Narus and Das Narayandas
For business-to-business marketing courses. The authors build the book around a framework of understanding, creating, and delivering value. View Details
Keywords: Customer Relationship Management; Customer Value and Value Chain; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Marketing; Marketing Strategy; Business Processes; Value
Anderson, James C., James A. Narus, and Das Narayandas. Business Market Management: Understanding, Creating, and Delivering Value. 3rd ed. Pearson Prentice Hall, 2008.
- September 2023
- Teaching Note
CMA CGM: Reducing the Carbon Footprint of Container Shipping
By: Willy Shih
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 623-006. Marine transport is the most cost-effective way to move large volumes over long distances, and container shipping is the backbone of international trade in goods. Yet shipping contributed 3% of worldwide greenhouse gas emissions,... View Details
- September 2023
- Teaching Note
Apple’s iPhone Revolution: Pioneering the Circular Economy
By: George Serafeim
Teaching Note for HBS Case 123-089. The case describes the Trade-In system for iPhones that allow iPhones to be refurbished and reused or to be recycled. The case provides information for the students to analyze the financial attractiveness of the Trade-In system and... View Details
- 24 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 24, 2017
States, up from 6,700 two decades earlier, and these clubs claimed 41 million members, over 14% of the U.S. population. Nearly 67 million people used these clubs in 2004. As the industry grew, many large chains began to emerge, opening... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
Globalization Hasn’t Killed the Manufacturing Cluster
create a new cluster. Once the cluster erodes, it's hard to rejuvenate it. "When they actually start to decline, they come apart pretty quickly," Pisano says. When making supply chain decisions, executives need to understand it's more... View Details
- 02 Aug 2024
- HBS Case
How a Mission to Cut Food Waste Launched a Multimillion-Dollar Venture
this,” he realized. “Yet somehow, he committed, and it was through that commitment that the magic happened.” “A former executive at one of the big grocery chains in Canada told me that across 39 stores the year before, they threw out... View Details
- 12 Jun 2020
- Working Paper Summaries
Corporate Resilience and Response During COVID-19
- January 2017 (Revised August 2017)
- Case
Weathernews
By: Karim R. Lakhani and Akiko Kanno
Tomohiro Ishibashi (Bashi), chief executive officer for B to S, and Julia Foote LeStage, chief innovation officer of Weathernews Inc., were addressing a panel at the HBS Digital Summit on creative uses of big data. They told the summit attendees about how the Sakura... View Details
Keywords: Crowdsourcing; Operations; Globalization; Weather; Forecasting and Prediction; Global Strategy
Lakhani, Karim R., and Akiko Kanno. "Weathernews." Harvard Business School Case 617-053, January 2017. (Revised August 2017.)
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Cutting Edge
and bolts: exiting underperforming adjunct businesses (e.g., pickles and fresh poultry); shaking up the management team; improving the supply chain (thereby increasing plant productivity by 50 percent); and developing a sequenced regional... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Ray A. Goldberg (MBA '50)
at the School, John H. Davis, coined the term "agribusiness." The two men wanted a word to describe the complex value-added chain that begins with a farmer's purchase of livestock or seed and ends with a product ready for the consumer's... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Andrew H. Tisch
Growing up in the Fifties and Sixties, Andrew Tisch never had to seek out part-time jobs. Employment opportunities were everywhere in the family business, a chain of hotels in New Jersey, Florida, and New York City. “I started before I... View Details
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Collection Highlights | Baker Library
collection includes his lecture and seminar notes and almost the entire body of his professional correspondence. Wartime Schools Collection During World War II, the U.S. military was facing an increased need for officers trained in statistics and supply View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Negotiating with Wal-Mart
negotiations to supply Wal-Mart with her family farm’s pumpkins and watermelons. 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
- 18 Oct 2016
- News
Leading the Way for Women Entrepreneurs
world.” Sapone said she found her inspiration at HBS, following the success of Barna and Hyman. “There is a chain reaction of inspiration at HBS,” Sapone said. “These women had to beat down the door harder than I did. There has been some... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Supplying Demand
whopping $5.2 billion. In creating Staples, Stemberg drew on the knowledge of modern distribution techniques he had acquired during his twelve years in the grocery business. As a vice president with the Jewel Companies' Star Market chain... View Details
Keywords: Paul Michelman