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- 01 Mar 2004
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Derek Ferguson
million. As Bad Boy’s CFO, Ferguson oversees a multifaceted hip-hop empire founded in 1993 by chairman and CEO Sean “P. Diddy” Combs, a Grammy Award–winning producer and recording artist in his own right. Sometimes criticized for its...
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- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Every Trick in the Book
bookstores found ways to stay in business. Then came Amazon. The internet giant got its start as a bookseller, taking its first order in July 1995. Its online-only model meant that Amazon’s inventory was essentially limitless, and its...
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April White
- 01 Apr 2002
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Stocking Up Can Build Customer Value
A classic business problem from the 1950s illustrates the tension between inventory costs and missed sales. A newspaper vendor must decide how many papers to buy each day based on typical demand. His profit is optimized, the solution...
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- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Over 50 and Job Hunting?
inventory their professional skills, attend relevant professional conferences and seminars, and study marketplace trends. “You can’t do anything about getting older,” she notes, “but you can stay in touch with the forces that drive your...
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- 25 Mar 2018
- News
Modernizing Infrastructure Management
make it better. “So when I left HBS, I set out on the path to find a business to acquire. I was very fortunate that I found the company I did. gWorks got its start helping counties digitize all their county records into an interactive map...
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- 01 Apr 1997
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Facing the Music
record industry, 1996 was a bluesy kind of year. As revenues increased less than 1 percent and consumers bought 8 percent fewer CDs and cassettes compared to the previous year, the pause button, it seems, was hit on a decade of...
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Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 13 Jan 2021
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Stress Test
the manufacturer to each individual, Kelley says. “They need to be sure 100 percent of the vaccines are administered to the community in the right way.” —April White The COVID-19 vaccines currently on the market went from concept to approval in View Details
- 03 May 2013
- News
Looking Through Glass, Historically
Office, and I had to buy over 1000 pieces of glassware to describe and photograph. After the company's closing, I was able to go through old sales, production, and financial records I found at the factory. In four days, I View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Case Study: Tip the Scale
find another way to scale an assembly-line process? The Answers: Has Walden considered an Amazon approach, with additional procedures for a customer’s second and possibly third choices, in case inventory does not match a customer’s first...
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- 01 Dec 1999
- News
New HBS Portal Offers Alumni Just-In-Time Business Information
graduates who want access to the School's renowned inventory of management information. A new Web portal, HBS Working Knowledge (www.hbsworkingknowledge.hbs.edu), was launched in October, bringing together a wealth of information from...
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- 22 Jan 2020
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What It Takes
painful for those of us who don't like writing. As you can tell, I like talking. I like video. But writing is a very difficult task. It took me probably, off and on, over two years to write the book. Dan: You have this really long track View Details
- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
inventory problems and dire financial crises—and whatever the symptom, the root cause was usually that the company had lost touch with its customers. “It’s one of the main reasons the country continues to fall behind,” she says. Her job...
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