Competing Through Manufacturing by Steven C. Wheelwright and Robert H. Hayes Harvard Business Review Reprint 85117 HBR J A N U A RY– F E B R U A RY 1 9 8 5 Competing Through Manufacturing by Steven C. Wheelwright and Robert H. Hayes M anufacturing companies, particularly those in the United States, are today facing intensified competition. For many, it is a case of simple survival. What makes this challenge so difficult is that the “secret weapon” of their fiercest competitors
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pag.: 1 van 13 code: LEV-PORT-art-013-bl Purchasing must become Supply management Bron: Auteur(s): Harvard Business Review, september-oktober 1983 Peter Kraljic Purchasing Must Become Supply Management Peter Kraljic Harvard Business Review No. 83509 SEPTEMBER–OCTOBER 1983 HBR Peter Kraljic Purchasing Must Become Supply Management The stable way of business life many corporate purchasing departments enjoy has been increasingly imperiled. Threats of resource depletion
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Sports Company and Vietnam MK755A, Case Analysis October 20, 2010 Case Analysis OVERALL RECOMMENDATION Based on the market, the Sports Company’s capabilities and the competitive landscape, it is feasible for the Sports Company to enter the Vietnam market within the next three years via a joint venture with a local distributor. They should target their sneakers to the youth market, ages 21 and younger. EXPLANATION The reasons why the Sports Company should enter the market in Vietnam can
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introduces Gmail product. (The launch is met with skepticism) — Dick Cheney and George W. Bush testify before the 9/11 Commission — Oldsmobile builds its final car ending 107 years of production — Facebook launched as social networking site open only to Harvard students — Statue of Liberty reopened to the public. None of the following were around in 2004: Android; Instagram; Mashable; BuzzFeed; The Cloud; Netfix; Tablets & Smart Phones; Huffington Post; Tumblr; Hulu; Twitter; iPhone; Wikipedia; iPad;
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Narayanan, V.G., Ananth Raman, and J. Singh. "Agency Costs in a Supply Chain with Demand Uncertainty and Price Competition." Management Science 51, no. 1 (January 2005). Narayanan, V.G., and Ananth Raman. "Aligning Incentives in Supply Chains." Harvard Business Review 82, no. 11 (November 2004). Kraiselburd, Santiago, V.G. Narayanan, and Ananth Raman. "Contracting in a Supply Chain with Stochastic Demand and Substitute Products." Production and Operations Management Journal 13, no. 1 (spring 2004)
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www.hbr.org BEST OF HBR 1999 Success in the knowledge economy comes to those who know themselves—their strengths, their values, and how they best perform. Managing Oneself by Peter F Drucker . • Included with this full-text Harvard Business Review article: 1 Article Summary The Idea in Brief—the core idea The Idea in Practice—putting the idea to work 2 Managing Oneself 12 Further Reading A list of related materials, with annotations to guide further exploration of the article’s ideas and
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Article Analysis: The Executive Trap Manjinder Jit Kaur Business Policy and Strategy February 22, 2016 The article begins with a comparison between a mediocre strategy well executed and a great strategy poorly executed. Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase, picks mediocre strategy well executed. He says that having a well execution is more important than having a great strategy. A great strategy is waste if it’s not executed well whereas a mediocre strategy will still be able to make positive
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Brad McPherson / Article Summaries Topics 1&2 / Strategy and Marketing Strategies for Learning from Failure – Amy C. Edmondson – Strategy Failure is being looked at the wrong way (Edmondson, 2011). Failure can be an important learning tool for organizations around the globe. If analyzed correctly and quickly, but also implemented effectively, failure can transform negative situations into positive growth. Failure is generally discouraged and instinctively passed onto someone else if possible;
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השיווק בארגון, מושגי יסוד בשיווק, בידול ומיצוב נושא: שיעור 1 קריאה רלונטית: מושגים מרכזיים: פרקים 11,9,,,2,1 מספר החובה של הקורס School Publishing Levitt, T. (1960). Marketing Myopia. Harvard Business Review, 3-21, from Harvard
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9-508-111 REV: JUNE 24, 2009 ANITA ELBERSE JASON BERGSMAN Radiohead: Music at Your Own Price (B) From the moment Radiohead announced its “name-your-own-price” model for the release of its new album In Rainbows, there was wild speculation about how consumers would react. The first insights emerged from the research company comScore. Through a panel of around 2 million people worldwide who allowed their online behavior to be tracked, comScore observed nearly 1,000 visitors to the In Rainbows
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