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- 20 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 20
resulting in 99.99% accuracy in its inventory system and completing orders on-time. At the end of the (A) case, students are asked to list the strategic uncertainties that should be keeping the two co-founders awake at night as they...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018
customer value, and the transformation of the stores of offline-first retailers from fulfillment-dominant centers into experience-dominant centers, which simultaneously reduce store size and inventory while improving the customer...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
How an Order Views Your Company
the companies that did the best job of order cycle management. Despite the overwhelming data, some companies just do not take the customer orientation seriously.— Benson Shapiro Finally, order cycle management helped to enable the supply chain revolution, which has...
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by Sarah Jane Johnston
- 16 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Can Applied Economics Save Homeless Puppies?
Wagaroo’s Get a Dog page is a great place to start, Exley says. But for people who specifically want to buy a dog from an ethical breeder, there’s a strategy afoot to help them avoid puppy mills. For shelters and rescue groups that struggle with making matches because...
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- 26 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 26
opportunity. This is particularly interesting as prior research in the finance literature has shown that firms will overinvest in high quality projects when investors have imperfect information about the quality of the firm's opportunities. While we conduct our...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Harvard Business School Faculty Comment on Crisis in Japan
lean inventories and just in time deliveries, there is not a lot of slack in the system to act as a buffer. This disaster promises to be quite a test. Consider, for example, Shin-Etsu Handotai, one of the world's leading producers of the...
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- 03 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Ingredients of a Deal Disaster
about their counterpart's inventory levels and warranty coverage, further exacerbating the conflict. Neither side did its due diligence on their mutual perceptions of the real underlying social contract.—Ron S. Fortgang, David A. Lax, and...
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- 27 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
New Cluster Mapping Project Helps Companies Locate Facilities
decline markedly within a cluster. Inventory largely disappears, and lead time falls sharply. In a cluster, a company can draw on a local supplier base, skilled people, specialized service providers, and local institutions that can...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Business IT Innovation is so Difficult
prices is that tremendous cost has been taken out of its supply chain and operations by using IT to keep inventory low but still not stock out." That Walmart is secretive about how it manages to so finely coordinate its enormous global...
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by Maggie Starvish
- 13 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 13
initially? Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/810096-PDF-ENG Supply Chain Partners: Virginia Mason and Owens & Minor (A) (Abridged) V.G. Narayanan and Lisa BremHarvard Business School Case 110-063 Owens & Minor (O&M) performed lean...
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Martha Lagace
- 07 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017
Tianjin, China, factory, which can produce below the cost target but will incur extensive shipping costs and require a far greater amount of inventory holding. This case examines a core question facing managers who want to produce...
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Carmen Nobel
- 19 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 19
dramatically increase its profits. ALAC critically needed to obtain financing for the explosive growth in its inventory and accounts receivable balances. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/211065-PDF-ENG Businesses...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 12, 2009
and Low Unit of Measure services for VM, but they believed the pricing model in the industry was outdated. VM and O&M partnered to create the Total Supply Chain Cost (TSCC) pricing program, an activity-based model that assigned all the cost drivers of distribution...
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Martha Lagace
- 21 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 21
liquidated include Borders Group in 2012, Circuit City in 2009, and Linens `n Things in 2008; the value of inventory sold during these liquidations alone is $3B. The store liquidation problem is related to but also differs substantially...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Facing the Music
manufacturing, which would allow a store to digitally download from a central facility any CD a customer requested and press it on the spot in a matter of minutes. "This could eliminate the need for inventories and would solve the problem...
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Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 02 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
‘Retail Revolution’ Excerpt: The Scale of the Ecommerce Threat
take their place and the need for stocking or tidying up merchandise at store level doesn't exist. Without a store network, real estate costs are confined to a handful of distribution centers. Inventory aggregation at a few key points of...
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- 04 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 4
switching to a business model with high inventory and long lead times. The company must consider what the change will mean for operations, risk, and measuring profitability. Purchase this case:...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Dean Clark on Leadership, Educational Priorities, and Funding the Future
reverberate through a supply chain, causing huge swings of inventory and production levels. That's a difficult idea for a faculty member to convey at the blackboard. This year, we used our wireless network to run a simulation exercise,...
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- 21 May 2007
- Research & Ideas
Fixing the Marketing-CEO Disconnect
operations where there are established techniques in inventory management and reengineering, there are no obvious and permanent cost-cutting results to be gained through marketing, short of simply slashing the advertising budget. In...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 31
venture capital would allow RTR to aggressively expand its inventory and customer acquisition efforts, in order serve a broader range of customer segments with a wider selection of products, (e.g., accessories, maternity wear). Purchase...
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Carmen Nobel