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- 01 Jun 2017
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Ask the Expert: On the Fly
(above: photo by Getty Images/Patrick Foto) A mathematics major, Don Carty (MBA 1971) has always seen the airline business as a huge puzzle, with the equation involving inventory and pricing, cruising allocations, weather, and holiday...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
James McKenney Remembered
Waves of Change: Business Evolution through Information Technology, McKenney also wrote numerous case studies, among them the first on airline-reservation systems and inventory management across the consumer-products supply chain. Active...
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- 01 Apr 2020
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What My Time in Vietnam Taught Me About Dealing with Shortages
given authority to decide whether spare parts should be sent to combat troops or to the evolving production base. By centralizing inventory control in this manner, the optimum use was made of scarce supplies. The US economy can work...
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- 25 Mar 2018
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Modernizing Infrastructure Management
actually know and inventory what's in their town, but then to actually have the tools to be able to maintain them and track those maintenance so that when the fire hydrant recall comes out, they can run a list and say, oh, Mr....
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- 01 Sep 2010
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Faculty Books
The New Science of Retailing: How Analytics Are Transforming the Supply Chain and Improving Performance by Marshall Fisher and Ananth Raman (Harvard Business Press) Professor Raman and his coauthor explain how to use analytics to better manage View Details
- 02 Nov 2020
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The First Five Years: Julianne White (MBA 2017)
enjoy that Some days I work with our CFO on food-spend projections, or help our COO build a multi-year strategic planning framework. Other days, I work with my team to coordinate food donations or manage inventory turns. Even though we...
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- 01 Mar 2008
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Negotiating with Wal-Mart
managing inventory levels and sales and ultimately save customers money while improving their own margins. “Two sides in this sort of negotiation will always differ on price,” Sebenius observes. “However, if that conflict is the...
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- 04 Sep 2019
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Clicks and Mortar
increasingly transform into places for experiences, not just for taking inventory home. What probably will not survive are the retailers that are more like a warehouse, or just physical repositories of goods. Real estate is too expensive...
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- 13 Jan 2021
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Stress Test
inventory is really the tail that wags the logistics dog. This is why we see distribution centers encroaching on population centers, getting closer and closer to the point of consumption. The more time and money you spend on...
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- 30 Mar 2022
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Giving Hope and Comfort
sourcing these vital products in the face of inflation and snags in the supply chain. About 25 percent of Hope and Comfort’s inventory comes through direct donations—from corporations, from hygiene drives hosted by schools, religious...
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- 01 Jun 2013
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Brick by Brick
globalize, the financial picture grew worse. One problem: The company's growing complexity was choking it. Adding more bricks made products harder to assemble, forecasts harder to determine, and inventory more difficult to manage. The toy...
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- 01 Jun 2022
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Eyes in the Skies
machine-learning algorithms running on massive on-demand cloud-computing platforms like Amazon Web Services. At the same time, a trifecta of trends—namely, the widespread reliance on just-in-time inventory management; the ongoing...
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Alexander Gelfand
- 01 Mar 2005
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House of Bread on the Rise
her House of Bread was soon doing a brisk business. “Frankly, the first bakery was successful from day one, and I just thought everything was so easy,” says McCann, who also invested heavily in an information system that tied cash register sales to baking schedules and...
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- 01 Oct 1999
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Q & A: Jeanne P. Jackson: A New Regime at Banana Republic
it "dress casual." So, we combined that need with our equity, and we found our mission. Defining a mission is just the beginning. How about the implementation phase? We started with the product. We took inventory of what we had and found...
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- 01 Feb 1999
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HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
interest in expanding offerings along the lines of programs such as The Entrepreneur's Tool Kit and Odyssey. In the coming months, the committee will conduct a comprehensive inventory of current offerings as well as review past...
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- 01 Mar 2023
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Case Study: Power Nappy
Illustration by Alvaro Dominguez Before she had a baby of her own, Amrita Saigal (MBA 2014) kept hearing from friends that the “natural” diapers on the market didn’t hold up as well as the old standards, like Pampers. Trained as a mechanical engineer, Saigal knew her...
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- 22 Feb 2019
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Empowering a New Generation of Business Leaders
assigned a product or service to turn into a business, and then the rest was up to them. That included raising money to start the business, creating a marketing plan, and developing some of the company’s operations, like banking, sales tracking, payroll for the 7...
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- 01 Mar 2014
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Case Study: Gazelle's New Predators
remain a 'reseller,' taking inventory of products from users and reselling them to wholesalers. This means its advantage can only come from scale. The problem then is that Gazelle's direct-to-consumer approach on its buy side places it at...
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- 01 Jun 2008
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Greed, Gullibility, and Optimism
revenues, falling property prices, and increases in crime, since many foreclosures are clumped in certain neighborhoods. One of the reasons the housing market will be slow to recover is that foreclosures have added to the glut on the market. Until that View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
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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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