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- 01 Dec 1998
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Year 2000 Computer Problem and You: Disaster for Some, Lessons for All
who aren't yet positioned to meet the deadline? Do a software inventory and begin your triage. What programs do you have? Which are absolutely critical to your business? How long will each take to repair? Are any already scheduled for an...
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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
- News
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 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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- 03 May 2013
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Looking Through Glass, Historically
inventoried over 3,000 molds, most of which hadn't been used in years. "For this book project," Wilson concludes, "there isn't a course that I took at HBS that I didn't find useful in some measure, particularly marketing, production,...
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- 02 Oct 2015
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The ‘F’ Word
heart surgery. We also kept coming up with shortages when annual inventory was taken and simply could not figure out the problem. This all finally came to a head with a nearly $1 million shrinkage at a time when our profits had sunk due...
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Walt Disney Studios
- 01 Jun 2020
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Prognosis
many firms that were making other products. PS: As you well know, one thing that’s been drilled into the head of every business in the world, including health care businesses, is this notion of just-in-time inventory, and we’ve all worked hard to keep our View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
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Life in Lockdown
a.m. with the Mayor. You should wear: Black blazer (Banana Republic).” Different screens in the prototype show a photo of the suggested outfit for the day; shopping suggestions with prices and store information; a photo inventory of all...
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- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Case Study: Glass Half Full
and customer acquisition. If you are building a brand, my advice is to keep Amazon while you build out your Shopify ecosystem, and then make the move. It may not be relevant in your business but buying inventory can keep the supply chain...
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- 06 Dec 2021
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Case Study: Let’s Dance
and New York. Cummings asked readers for their thoughts on how to design a fulfillment system that would suit their complex process. Their path: The company switched to an assembly line from a pack-to-complete system with two key improvements: First, the packers stay...
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- 20 Nov 2015
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Room to Grow
culling its inventory from the excess food other supermarkets and suppliers typically throw away. The Kendall Foundation also supports CommonWealth Kitchen, which offers food entrepreneurs a place to incubate new businesses without the...
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Margie Kelley
- 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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Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
arrival at LC in 1994 that the company had done relatively little consumer research, he immediately launched an intensive survey of customer needs. He also performed an asset inventory of the entire organization, which revealed "a lot of...
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Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Apr 1997
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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
- 06 Jan 2017
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Mental Illness and the Workplace
solutions. It really is a matter of taking a personal inventory and thinking about your own situation. What you need to be healthy. And then, working with those around you to get that. But again, as I said earlier, very careful not to...
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- 01 Dec 2012
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From Where We Stand
"option value" by actively seeking out opportunities—lateral and diagonal moves, along with upward movement—that open up career paths not just now but every step forward. Continually mark-to-market yourself by taking inventory of your...
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