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- 20 Dec 2016
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December 20, 2016
securities to retail investors. We focus on a large market of investment products targeted exclusively at households: retail-structured products in Europe. We hypothesize that banks strategically use product complexity to cater to...
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Carmen Nobel
- 15 Dec 2015
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December 15, 2015
harming its own sales or those of its retail customers? Could Unilever encourage industry-wide changes to have a real impact on global environmental sustainability? Purchase this case:...
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Carmen Nobel
- 17 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 17
and Kyle ArmbresterHarvard Business School Case 112-062 In 2007, under the leadership of CEO Stuart Rose, the iconic British retailer Marks and Spencer (M&S), with great fanfare, announced its "Plan A" initiative. Based on...
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Carmen Nobel
- 13 Mar 2018
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March 13, 2018
failure in U.S. history. Faced with Wachovia’s impending bankruptcy, the FDIC intervened again, voting on Monday, September 29, to sell Wachovia’s retail bank to Citigroup for $1 a share. Three days later, Wells Fargo offered $7 a share...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Oct 2016
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October 25, 2016
growing component of many firms' retailing strategies, particularly in the fashion industry. Outlet stores offer attractive prices in locations far from central shopping districts. The main perspectives on why outlet stores exist can be...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Oct 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 24, 2017
manufacturer) and Mattress Firm (MFRM, a bedding retailer and TPX's largest customer). For almost 20 years, the firms enjoyed a mutually beneficial and commercially prosperous relationship. Yet in August 2016, Steinhoff (a large, South...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 7, 2009
109-070 Commercial Director Prado wonders how to leverage the loyalty card information to prepare the fall 2008 budget. The case discusses the value of subjective and objective information for profit-planning purposes. Spanish children's apparel View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 12 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 12, 2007
land and outgrowers for production, the addition of value-added processing to obtain premium prices, and the introduction of global certification to ensure food safety and meet retailer and consumer requirements. The case also discusses...
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Martha Lagace
- 08 Jul 2014
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First Look: July 8
isolated markets in which a nationwide retail bank conducted business over a five-year period. We find that customers defect at a higher rate from the incumbent following increased service quality (price) competition only when the...
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Carmen Nobel
- 12 Oct 2011
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First Look: October 12
the service and retail sectors. But target firms also create more new jobs at new establishments, and they acquire and divest establishments more rapidly. When we consider these additional adjustment margins, net relative job losses at...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Mar 2016
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March 8, 2016
analysis of 82,235 customers exploits the varying competitive dynamics in 644 geographically isolated markets in which a nationwide retail bank conducted business over a five-year period. We find that customers defect at a higher rate...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 May 2008
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First Look: May 28, 2008
Case 508-074 The largest retailer of diesel fuel in the U.S., Flying J, is rethinking its growth strategy as the economy goes into a recession. Its major customer base, owner-operated truck drivers, are facing increasing costs of doing...
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Martha Lagace
- 06 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 6
benefits from racial diversity but that diversity is a liability when society's negative stereotypes about racial minorities' competence inhibit such interactions. We analyze two years of data from 496 retail bank branches to investigate...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 25, 2007
in the retail industry, some shareholders claimed that the price was "grossly inadequate," making the decision whether to approve the transaction a difficult one for shareholders generally. Purchase this case:...
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Martha Lagace
- 14 Aug 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 14, 2018
Armarium would need to charge for its one-of-a-kind pieces with retail values that could reach as high as $15,000. The two founders faced significant scaling challenges, from how to establish guardrails around curation of the collection...
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- 10 May 2016
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May 10, 2016
Ozik, and Ronnie Sadka Abstract—We develop real-time proxies of retail corporate sales from multiple sources, including approximately 50 million mobile devices. These measures contain information from both the earnings quarter (within...
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Carmen Nobel
- 17 Jan 2017
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First Look at New Research: January 17
Chung, Doug J., and Das Narayandas Abstract—We collaborate with a Swedish retail chain to conduct a field experiment in which we change the sales force compensation scheme from a monthly to a daily quota plan. This intervention, along...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Mar 2017
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First Look at New Research, March 14
https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/516023-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 817-083 thredUP: Think Secondhand First In the fall of 2016, the management team at thredUP, the largest U.S. online retailer of second hand clothing, is...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Feb 2012
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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...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 10
are the best 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...
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Sean Silverthorne