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- 26 Jan 2016
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The First Five Years: Jill Applebaum (MBA 2015)
She shared the same germy fears and so we teamed up to launch Spruce & Co—our consumer goods startup focused on simple products for everyday healthy routines.” What have been some of the most enjoyable and most challenging parts of...
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- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Life in Lockdown
building leadership skills and working relationships as it was about building businesses. Planning the program for Spring Break would give students time to dedicate solely to fleshing out their business ideas from concept to product...
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- 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
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Clicks and Mortar
gotten used to as consumers. Antonio Moreno: People still like going to a physical store to have an experience and learn about products, but now that can be decoupled from the act of taking possession of a product because there are better...
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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...
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- 03 May 2013
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Looking Through Glass, Historically
described in terms meaningful to this market through the company's first direct-to-the-consumer advertising. Production runs were lengthened and inventory simplified. Glass decoration was all but eliminated...
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- 01 Jun 2020
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Prognosis
the Toyota production system and lean manufacturing, we also discuss the complementary need for pooling inventory across sites and even firms. Right now, we are seeing companies and health systems bidding...
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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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- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Eyes in the Skies
Image courtesy BlackSky There was a time not too long ago, says Amy Minnick (MBA 2000), when only governments and the military had the hardware and human resources necessary to acquire and interpret satellite imagery. But times have changed: BlackSky, the geospatial...
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Alexander Gelfand
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
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...
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- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Case Study: Let’s Dance
Illustration by Avalon Nuovo Before launching her own startup, Lily Liang (MBA 2008) worked as a product manager in San Francisco’s tech industry, including a stint at the movie review site Rotten Tomatoes from 2012 to 2017. Those were...
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- 01 Jun 2008
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Greed, Gullibility, and Optimism
this for rethinking the kinds of mortgage products that should be offered in the future? Our challenge is to develop new mortgage products that extend credit that is reasonably priced, and where the risk is...
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- 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 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 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...
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- 20 Nov 2015
- News
Room to Grow
says Kendall, executive director of the Henry P. Kendall Foundation, his family’s philanthropic organization, which is dedicated to creating a “resilient and healthy food system in New England that increases the production and consumption...
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Margie Kelley
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
(the company that invented voicemail); Jane Fonda’s Workout; and Playboy TV/Video, my most instructive failure was during my year as product manager of Tostitos. Top management had decided that we would implement a “trial size” promotion...
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- 01 Apr 1997
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Facing the Music
Music, WEA (Warner), and UMVD (Universal). Each conglomerate owns, in part or in full, various "labels" - fully staffed companies that sign and groom artists, guide the album production process, and market the final product. Labels such...
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Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
expansion (President Johnson's Great Society); there were more opportunities for advancement. I soon became manager of the research department, then advertising manager of the book clubs division—Doubleday's largest and most profitable division. After that, I was View Details