Publications and patents

The articles, books, and patents we have authored demonstrate how many ideas we have originated and how profoundly they influenced both practice and theory. Although many of our ideas have established themselves in business school curricula, our publications are not (just) theoretical.

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  • Patents

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Articles and books

Title Authors Publication

Innovation

"Using knowledge brokering to improve business processes"

Corey Billington & Rhoda Davidson

McKinsey Quarterly, February 2010

"Open innovation using intermediary networks" Corey Billington & Rhoda Davidson POMS Special Issue (forthcoming)

"Gain Competitive Advantage with Knowledge Brokering"

Corey Billington & Michele Barnett Berg

In Anticipating the Future, eds. B. Büchel et al, Favre & Winteregg, 2007, pp 97-101

"A problem shared is a problem halved" Corey Billington Financial Times, August 6, 2007

"Technological Evolution, Standard Interfaces, and New Market Opportunities"

Corey Billington & Lee Fleming

POMS Series in Technology and Operations Management 1, 1998: 30-41

"Procurement: The Missing Link in Innovation"

Corey Billington & Francois Jager

Supply Chain Management Review, Jan-Feb 2008, pp. 22-28

 "Want to improve your below average business processes? Innovate don't invent."

 Corey Billington & Rhoda Davidson

Perspectives for Managers, IMD 2008

Successful execution

"The Positive Discretion of Leadership: Providing Structures for Organizational Transformation and Success"

Corey Billington & Michele Barnett Berg

In Being There Even When You Are Not: Leading Through Strategy, Structures, and Systems, eds. R. Hooijberg at al. California: Elsevier, 2007, pp 217-227

"Global Industrial Trends"

Corey Billington, Rhoda Davidson & James Henderson

2009, ISBN 978-2-8399-0610-4

"Supply Chain - Attracting and Rewarding – MBAs"

Michele Berg & Corey Billington

Supply Chain Management Review, May-June 2008, pg. 10-11

"Effective Collaboration"

Gianpaolo Callioni & Corey Billington

ORMS Today, October 2001, 7 pages

"Smarter Execution: 7 steps for getting results"

Xavier Gilbert, Bettina Büchel & Rhoda Davidson

Financial Times Prentice Hall, 2008

"The Art of Piloting New Initiatives" Rhoda Davidson & Bettina Büchel MIT Sloan Management Review, Fall 2011, Vol 53 no1

"The Art of Piloting"

Bettina Büchel and Rhoda Davidson

Chapter 8 In Riding the Winds of Change, OWP 2008

"How to be an effective strategic initiative sponsor: Roll up your sleeves! You matter!"

Rhoda Davidson & Bettina Büchel

Perspectives for Managers, IMD 2008

"Roll up your sleeves! Your role matters!" Rhoda Davidson & Bettina Büchel Human Factors, May 2011

"Client Initiated Projects in Partnership Programs"

Xavier Gilbert & Rhoda Davidson

Chapter 29 In Mastering Executive Education by IMD Faculty, Paul Strebel, Tracey Keys, Financial Times Prentice Hall, 2005

Managing and modeling the supply chain

"Cycle are cycles: How Knowledge of the Bullwhip Effect Could Have Improved the Crisis"

Corey Billington

Journal of Supply Chain Management, 2010

"The customer value proposition should drive supply chain design: An example in mass retailing" Corey Billington & Winter Nie Perspectives for Managers, IMD, 2009

"Accelerating the Profitability of Hewlett-Packard’s Supply Chains"

Corey Billington, Gianpaolo Callioni, Barrett Crane, Julie Unruh-Rapp, Trace White, John Ruark & Sean P. Willems

Interfaces vol. 34, no. 1, January-February 2004, pp. 59-72

"Successful Strategies for Product Rollovers: Process, Strategies, and Opportunities"

Corey Billington, Hau L. Lee, & Christopher S. Tang

Sloan Management Review, Spring, 1998, pp. 23-30

"The Evolution of Supply-Chain-Management Models and Practice at Hewlett Packard"

Hau Lee & Corey Billington

Interfaces vol. 25, no. 5, September-October 1995, pp. 42-63

"Designing Products and Processes for Postponement"

Hau Lee & Corey Billington

In Management of Design: Engineering and Management Perspectives, eds. S. Dasu and C. Eastmen. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1994

"Material Management in De-Centralized Supply Chain"

Hau Lee & Corey Billington

Operations Research 41, no. 5 September/October 1993, pp. 835-847

"Hewlett-Packard Gains Control of Inventory and Service through Design for Localization"

Hau Lee, Corey Billington & Brent Carter

Interfaces 23, no. 4 (July/August 1993): pp. 1-11

"Manufacturing Strategy Analysis: Models and Practice"

Corey Billington & Tom D. Davis

OMEGA International Journal of Management, vol 20, number 5/6, 1992, pp. 587 to 595

"Managing supply chain inventory: Pitfalls and opportunities"

Lee, H. L., & Corey Billington

Sloan Management Review, vol. 33 no. 3, 1992, pp.65-73

"Design of Manufacturing Cells: Operation Assignment in Printed Circuit Board Manufacturing"

M.L. Brandeau & C.A. Billington

Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, 2 (1991), 95-106

"Investing in Product Design to Maximize Profitability Through Postponement"

Corey Billington & Jason Amaral

Ascet, vol 1,April, 1999, 8 pages

"Supply Chain Strategy: Real Options for Doing Business at Internet Speed"

Corey Billington & Andre Kuper

Ascet, vol 2, April, 2000, 6 pages

"Strategic Supply Chain Management"

Corey Billington

The IT Journal, Fall, 1999, pp 36-44

"The Language of Supply Chain"

Corey Billington

Supply Chain Management Review, Summer, 1999, pp. 86-96

"Getting Ahead of your Competition through Design for Mass Customization"

Lee, Feitzinger, & Billington

Association for Manufacturing Excellence, vol. 13, no. 2, April-May 1997, pp. 8-16

"Supply Chain Management"

Corey Billington

CiME, Spring, 1996, pp. 14-26

"Strategic Supply Chain Management"

Corey Billington

OR/MS Today, April, 1994, 8 pages

"Service Supply Management: The Next Frontier for Improved Organizational Performance"

Lisa M. Ellram, Wendy Tate & Corey Billington

California Management Review, Vol 49, No 4, Summer 2007, pp 44- 66

"Myths and Reality of Supply Chain Management: Implications for Industry-University Relations"

Andre Kuper & Bublu Thakur-Weigold

Chapter in Applications in Supply Chain Management and e-Commerce Research, Geunes, Joseph/Akçali, Elif/Pardalos, Panos M./Romeijn, H. Edwin/Shen, Zuo-Jun (eds.), Kluwer Academic Publishing 2004

"Lean-Six-Sigma verbessert die Logistikprozesse"

Stephan Wagner, Christoph Bode & Bublu Thakur-Weigold

Logistics Innovation, No. 3/2010

"S&OP: Ein Planungsinstrument erleichtert die Zusammenarbeit"

Prof. Stephan Wagner, Flavio Zanon, Bublu Thakur-Weigold

io new management, Vol. 79, No. 3, pp. 8-11, 2010

"Delivering Solutions to Customers: High-Velocity Manufacturing"

Andre Kuper, Doug Kahn, Heinz Schmid & Bublu Thakur-Weigold

ASCET, Vol. 4, May 15, 2002

"Business Validation of E-Business Applications at Hewlett-Packard"

Andre Kuper & Bublu Thakur-Weigold

Cutter IT Journal, volume 19, Nr. 9, September 2001

"Are you ready for VMI?" Tarikere Niranjan, Stephan Wagner & Bublu Thakur-Weigold Industrial Engineer, February 2011, pp39-44
"Sustaining supply chain alignment" Kerstin Langenberg, Ralf Seifert & Corey Billington  
"Funktionsübergreifende Planung: Nicht nur bei S&OP ist Zusammenarbeit wichtiger als Technik" Stephan Wagner, Corey Billington, Bublu Thakur-Weigold Logistics Innovation, 5/2011

Procurement maturity

"Understanding and Managing the Services Supply Chain"

Lisa M. Ellram, Wendy Tate & Corey Billington

The Journal of Supply Chain Management, Volume 40, No. 3, 2004

"Talk a common language"

Corey Billington, Joe Sandor & Tom Vollmann

In CPO Agenda, Summer 2006, Vol 2 No 2, pp 46-49

"Developing the Super Supplier"

Corey Billington, Carlos Cordon & Tom Vollmann

CPO Agenda, Spring 2006, 6 pages

"Super Supplier Collaboration" Corey Billington, Carlos Cordon & Tom Vollmann Perspectives for Managers, IMD, 2006

"Managing Professional Services Costs"

Lisa Ellram & Corey Billington

CAPS Research Best Practices, 2002

"Trends in Procurement"

Corey Billington & Andre Kuper

Ascett, vol 5, July, 2003, 7 pages

Operational risk management

"HP cuts risk with portfolio approach"

Corey Billington

Purchasing Magazine, February 21, 2002, 43-45

"Creating and Leveraging Options in the High Technology Supply Chain"

Corey Billington & Blake Johnson

In The Practice of Supply Chain Management: Where Theory and Application Converge, eds. T. Harrison, H. Lee, and J. Neale, Kluwer Academic Publishing, 2003, pp.157-174

"A Real Options Perspective on Supply Chain Management in High Technology"

Corey Billington, Blake Johnson & Alex Triantis

Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, pg. 32-43, vol15, No 2, Summer 2002

Tax options

"Engineering a Lower Tax Bill"

Corey Billington, Francois Jager & Andy Tsay

CPO Agenda Winter 2008-2009, 50-54

Outsourcing

"Offshore Outsourcing of Professional Services: A Transaction Cost Economics Perspective"

Lisa M. Ellram, Wendy Tate & Corey Billington

In Journal of Operations Management, March, 2007

"Safeguarding the Promise of Production Outsourcing"

J.C. Amaral, C. Billington & A. Tsay

Interfaces, Vol. 36, No. 3, May-June 2006, pp. 220-233

"Outsourcing Production without Losing Control" J.C. Amaral, C.A. Billington & A. Tsay Supply Chain Management Review, Nov 2004, pp.44-52

"Purchasing Leverage Considerations in the Outsourcing Decision"

Lisa Ellram & Corey Billington

European Journal of Purchasing & Supply Management, no. 7, 2001, pp.15-27

"Services Supply Management: The next frontier for improved organizational performance" Lisa Ellram, Wendy Tate & Corey Billington California Management Review, vol 49, no.4, Summer 2007

"Making Outsourcing and Offshoring Work"

Andre Kuper & Bublu Thakur-Weigold

Cutter IT Journal Volume 19, Nr. 12, December 2006

Sustainability

"Fill in the Blanks on CSR"

Corey Billington, Aileen Ionescu-Somers & Michele Barnett Berg

CPO Agenda, Summer 2009, p58-63

"Buying Responsibly"

Corey Billington & Michele Berg

In Riding the Winds of Global Change edited by Buchel et al, 2008

Business cases

Name Case number

Innovation

Chasing the Zeitgeist: Making Change at the Heart of an Amorphous Organization

IMD-3-1951

NASCAR: Every Second Counts - Helping Win from the Pits

IMD-6-0294

La Cuisine Francaise: The Innocentive Experience

IMD-6-0295

Hilton (A): Global Function in a Distributed Environment

IMD-6-0309

Hilton (B): Funding for Resources

IMD-6-0310

Business Case (Stanford ) - Network Printer Design for Universality

 

Business Case (Stanford ) - Deskjet Printer Localization

 

Procurement maturity

Delphi Steel Price Increase (A)

IMD-6-0306

Delphi Steel Price Increase (B)

IMD-6-0307

Operational risk management

Industrial Stamping Machines: The Real Option Strategy

IMD-6-0289

Outsourcing

INFOSYS: Effectively Leveraging Global Resources

IMD-3-1814

Sustainability

Feeling the Heat: Allianz and WWF pushing the financial services industry towards climate change action

IMD-2-0142

Developing IT solutions for reducing travel related CO2 emissions: HP HALO video collaboration solutions

IMD-2-0152

Developing an innovative business model: Novo Nordisk and Dong Energy driving the market for renewable energy in Denmark

IMD-2-0148

Breaking down alignment barriers: Tetra Pak pulls together allies to reach climate goals

IMD-2-0147

Removing barriers to innovation: Xanterra Parks and Resorts gaining scale in on-site solar power generation

IMD-2-0148

What does it take to get projects off the ground? Johnson & Johnson’s capital relief funding for CO2 reduction projects

IMD-2-0146

Fairmont Hotels & Resorts stretching the target for climate action at landmark hotels

IMD-2-0150

Reaching a point of no return: How Elopak rolls out CO2 reduction initiatives

IMD-2-0151

Lafarge’s C-O-Tool: Supporting CO2 mitigation decision making

IMD-2-0153

Activist Inside: Making Responsible Procurement Happen

IMD-3-1952

Patents

Number Name Date

Innovation

Inventor 6,588,907 "Self contained cool-down system for a video projector" July 8, 2003.
Inventor 6,944,689 "Printer powered peripheral node system" September 13, 2005.
Inventor 6,963,487 "Pedestal computer docking station" November 8, 2005.
Inventor D538,839 S "Camera Printer Combination" March 20, 2007.
Inventor 7,411,608 B1 "System and Method for Producing Photographic Prints" August 12, 2008.

Managing and modeling the supply chain

Inventor 5,258,915 "System and method for optimum operation assignments in printed circuit board manufacturing" November 2, 1993.

Operational risk management

Docket number 10004812-1 "Spot market-based Inventory Planning"  
Docket number 10004356-1 "Spot market-based Inventory Planning Tools"  
Docket number 10004813-1 "Spot market-based Inventory Planning Services"  

Tools

Title Authors Use

Procurement

Procurement organization maturity model

Corey Billington 

Test out whether your organization is a beginner or world class

Procurement organization immaturity model

Corey Billington 

Test out whether your organization is a green beret or a buffalo herd