Retail Expansion Strategy - Publications - Faculty & Research

10 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance

distinguished philanthropist well-known for his social commitment.5 Despite the expansion and level of sophistication of operations achieved by the corporation over the years, its founder's vision and values remain rooted in the group's... View Details

Keywords: by James Austin, Ezequiel Reficco & SEKN research team

01 Dec 1998
News

Africa's Way

and HBS professor David B. Yoffie. Vietor's case study on GEAR - the Mandela government's Growth, Employment, and Redistribution strategy - covers the major issues the country faces as it attempts to join the global economy and shake off... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young and Garry Emmons

02 Sep 2018
News

Havana Rising

When hotel manager Alessandro Benedetti worked for Kempinski chain locations in Spain and Switzerland, morning meetings were a time to go over the numbers and discuss strategy for the days ahead. But ever since Benedetti moved to Havana... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North

13 Feb 2019
News

We’re All Going to Get Hacked

point-of-sale systems at the retail stores. They had some policies that were interesting. One of the policies is, they cleared the POS systems every night. They’d wipe the hard drives, just in case someone steals one of these cash... View Details

01 Mar 2011
News

Making Their Way

Chirchirillo was able to establish a foothold in China. That import model, however, was only intended to be an interim strategy to build a global capability, and in 2008, Chirchirillo purchased a precision metal-stamping company in... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Rail Transportation; Transportation

14 Mar 2019
News

The Merchant of Osaka

country where women hold only 5 percent of senior leadership roles. Her strategy is radically simple: fix the system by designing for the patient. She’s leading a quiet shift, not a noisy revolution, but in Japan and particularly for... View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance

01 Jun 2018
News

The Long Run

efforts—dubbed the Meth Project—and a decline in drug use, surveys showed the number of Montana high school students who said they’d used the drug declining by 45 percent between 2005 and 2007. Now Shaw wanted to import Siebel’s strategy... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Melissa Golden

12 Jul 2021
News

Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis

get scrubs to nurses on the front lines who really needed them,” Singer told CBS News, noting that they worked through their network of retailers to deliver the donation within ten days APRIL 17 After he and his wife recovered from... View Details

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