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- 24 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
With Millions of Workers Juggling Caregiving, Employers Need to Rethink Support
understandable. They’re running complicated operations; they can’t let every store manager make their own decisions, not only because it would be chaos, but also because if somebody in Topeka is getting fired, but a person who did the... View Details
Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- 18 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 18
http://www.pearsonhighered.com/educator/product/Managerial-Accounting-Decision-Making-and-Motivating-Performance/9780137024872.page February 2015 Rajiv Lal Retail Revolution: Will Your Brick & Mortar Store Survive? By: Lal, Rajiv,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Manager’s Guide to Communicating with Customers Collection
Underhill. "If I go to a Web site that's hard to read because it's got funky type face, and I can't get service when I call, well, that's a problem." And many stores post signs with print far too small for many of their... View Details
- 23 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
Will the “Long Tail” Work for Hollywood?
won't incur costs for less popular videos until a customer actually purchases the title. They can produce a copy on demand, doing away with the need to store inventory in the warehouse that may or may not sell. Life In The Tail Elberse... View Details
- 30 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Your Employees and Customers Drive a New Value Profit Chain
super-large organizations can maintain a sense of "family." In Wal-Mart's case, it involves such things as clear channels of communications, particularly electronic but also involving frequent store visits by senior executives... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Mahoney
- 08 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Return of the Salesman
television. The importance of this is that all these negative portrayals have lasting effects on the field in terms of both who goes into it and the general attitude toward salespeople as they go about their work. Q: The BHR series offers... View Details
- 27 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 27, 2007
of collective action. While the available evidence is generally consistent with these theories, there is a dearth of quality evidence. Moreover, a large part of the variation in access to public goods seems to have nothing to do with the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Marketing Wine to the World
addition, the supermarkets offer private label wines in Europe, while they generally do not in the United States. (The exception is Wal-Mart, which recently introduced a private label wine through an alliance with E&J Gallo.) The... View Details
- 10 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Is Groupon Good for Retailers?
higher cost of goods sold, giving them less room to discount. And if they don't sell a product one day, they can hold it in inventory for future sale. So marginal business is less urgent for them. We're not prepared to say Gap's Groupon was a mistake. Getting customers... View Details
- 06 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017
innovations in transparent packaging, specifically cellophane in the mid-twentieth century United States, helped retailers create full self-service merchandising systems, including selling perishable food. While self-service View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Oct 2013
- Op-Ed
Response to Readers: Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking
With more than 7,500 views and 180-plus tweets, I want to thank everyone for taking the time to read the original HBS Working Knowledge piece, The Case for Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking, and, in particular, for sharing your thoughts with one... View Details
- 08 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 8, 2008
is a time-honored approach, particularly in media and entertainment. When space is limited on store shelves and in traditional distribution channels, producers tend to focus on a few likely best sellers, hoping that one or two big hits... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 25, 2008
of control), (iii) increase DM total and performance-based pay. The results are generally consistent with the explanation that firms redesign their organizations through a set of complementary choices in response to changes in their... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018
maintaining a high level of exploration. Solutions improved most on rounds with social influence after a period of separation. We also show that storing subjects’ best solutions so that they could be reloaded and possibly modified in... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 2
Lead Times Authors:Santiago Kraiselburd, Richard Pibernik, and Ananth Raman Publication:Production and Operations Management (forthcoming) Abstract It is generally a well acknowledged fact that, ceteris paribus, reducing the lead times... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 5, 2007
response, Beijing Hualian developed a new "Family Store" format targeted at the nation's growing middle class, made up of younger consumers with more fashionable tastes. Like hypermarkets, Hualian Family Stores include both food... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
Stephen A. Greyser Abstract—When a Major League Baseball club signs a Japanese star player, it obviously tries to commercialize its investment in the player. The initial focus is on home attendance (ticket sales) and television audiences, plus View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Where Did My Shopping Mall Go?
The new book Retail Revolution: Will Your Brick-and-Mortar Store Survive? argues that traditional store-front retailing is at an inflection point, under tremendous pressure from ecommerce and the changing wants and needs of a new View Details
- 17 Oct 2016
- HBS Case
Business Solutions That Help Cut Food Waste
his career, Alvarez would visit farms after they had been picked over for the best fruits and vegetables to be sold in stores and was astounded at the amount of edible food that was rejected. “If you could get consumers to go to a farm to... View Details
- 16 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
At the Center of Corporate Scandal Where Do We Go From Here?
essence of our problem. I spent a very interesting few hours last fall speaking with two CEOs on campus at HBS about these issues. One of them told me, "I run a cash business that has 6,000 stores all over the world, and the problem... View Details
Keywords: by Kim B. Clark