Retail Trade - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Sep 2023
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End Game

exit. Yvon drives a Toyota Corolla. No one wanted a Porsche,” Conn says. The idea of a publicly traded benefit corporation fell short, too: “Once you’re public, nothing can lock in your mission forever. And the family felt there could be... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Miscellaneous Store Retailers

16 May 2024
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On the Job

when it comes to business. After ninth grade, I worked on the floor of a brokerage firm in the trading area. Then I worked for Dr. BJ Diener (HRPBA 1963/MBA 1964/DBA 1974), who was one of the first four women to get her PhD from HBS, and... View Details

Keywords: first job; leadership; life experience; career lessons; Retail Trade; Retail Trade; Retail Trade; Retail Trade

01 Jun 2022
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The Exchange: Same Great Price, Now with Fewer Chips

trade off what they buy in the store, depending on price. There are also brand-loyal people who will buy the same container of, say, Edy’s ice cream, no matter what it costs, every time. And there will always be the price-sensitive... View Details

Keywords: Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Miscellaneous Store Retailers

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Past Issues - Alumni

Choudhury and Stack Overflow CEO Prashanth Chandrasekar on the long-term lessons of the global remote-work moment Meal Plan Inspire Brands Chief Growth Officer Christian Charnaux and investor Keith Pascal of Act III Holdings trade... View Details

21 Feb 2012
First Look

First Look: Feb. 21

managed. Firms in developing countries, such as Brazil, China, and India tend to be poorly managed. American retail firms and hospitals are also well managed by international standards, although American schools are more poorly managed... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2024
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Alumni Achievement Awards 2024

top Gerald W. Schwartz (MBA 1970) Founder and Chairman, Onex Corporation In the blood: “My father was a through-and-through entrepreneur. He had everything from a salvage yard to a machine shop to a retail auto-parts store in Winnipeg,... View Details

03 Jun 2013
Research & Ideas

The Power of Rituals in Life, Death, and Business

follow-up experiment showed that participants in the ritual experience actually thought the chocolate bar was worth more money than those in the nonritual group—thus showing the retail marketing potential for food-related rituals. The... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition

web-based solution that streamlines the transition of patients from the hospital to post-acute care facilities. XinfuGo (now Tang Mall) Ying Chen, HBS Yixin La, HBS Qiwei Shi, HBS Social Enterprise Track Runner-Up A disruptive base-of-pyramid (BOP) View Details

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Accounting & Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Business School Working Paper, No. 12–077, 2012). George Serafeim : Runner-up for the 2013 Whitebox Grant for Research in the Behavioral Sciences for the paper with Mozaffar Khan and Leonid Kogan, "Mutual Fund Trading Pressure: Firm-Level... View Details

08 Apr 2019
Sharpening Your Skills

The Life of Luxury and How to Sell It

knowingly: Money can’t buy you a happy ride. But looking at the statistics more closely reveals a more nuanced reality. The vehicles traded in are often baseline models of those prestige brands, favored more by aspirational buyers than... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail; Retail; Retail

07 Sep 2011
First Look

First Look: Sept. 7

New Face of Chinese Industrial Policy: Making Sense of Anti-Dumping Cases in the Petrochemical and Steel Industries Author:Regina M. Abrami Publication:Journal of East Asian Studies (forthcoming) Abstract Why have China's petrochemical and steel industries behaved so... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Industry Information - Alumni

and news on emerging designers, disruptive technologies and global brands in the fashion and luxury goods industries. United States Census Bureau: Retail Trade Provides the industry monthly sales and... View Details

17 Aug 2009
Research & Ideas

Quantifying the Economic Impact of the Internet

Internet provides to the rest of the U.S. economy is estimated at $175 billion. It comprises $20 billion of advertising services, $85 billion of retail transactions (net of cost of goods), and $70 billion of direct payments to Internet... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch; Advertising; Publishing

19 Apr 2004
Research & Ideas

Birth of the American Salesman

and services that supported sales managers, including trade journals and popular magazines about salesmen and sales management. The creation of methods of sales management also opened up new branches of academic inquiry, such as... View Details

Keywords: by Laura Linard

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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

U.S. checks appear to have increased retail buying and share prices of retail-dominated portfolios. The Hong Kong payments increased overall market turnover and share prices in Hong Kong and mainland Chinese markets, especially in... View Details

01 Jan 2013
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André R. Jakurski, MBA 1973

enabled Jakurski and his colleagues to expand into a full range of financial services, including trading and investment banking. In 1991, when the Brazilian stock market opened up to foreign investment, Jakurski invested heavily in... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

07 Jul 2003
Research & Ideas

4+2 = Sustained Business Success

William Joyce, and Bruce Roberson Winners, losers, climbers, and tumblers—with startling consistency, their fortunes marched in lockstep with how well they performed on the 4+2 practices. Consider how Tennessee-based retailer Dollar... View Details

Keywords: by Nitin Nohria, William Joyce & Bruce Roberson

09 Mar 2015
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Professor Emeritus Walter J. Salmon Dies at 84