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- 20 Nov 2015
- News
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
- 22 Feb 2019
- News
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 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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- 01 Dec 1999
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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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- 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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- 22 Jan 2020
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What It Takes
it, and he thought it was great. The firm was so small somebody heard that he was looking at this. They came into my office and said, "We think it's terrible." And I said, "Why?" He said, "Because all the company's doing is making View Details
- 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
- 16 May 2024
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On the Job
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. We all have early memories of on-the-job learnings—those moments that had a lasting impact on how we see the world of work and our place in it. This...
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first job;
leadership;
life experience;
career lessons;
Finance;
Oil and Gas Extraction;
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Retail Trade
- 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 Oct 2002
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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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- 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 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
- 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 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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- 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
- 14 Mar 2019
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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
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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