Store Experience - Publications - Faculty & Research

23 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 23

Publication: Management Science (forthcoming) Abstract We examine whether the likelihood of entrepreneurial activity is related to the prior career experiences of an individual's co-workers, using a unique matched employer-employee panel... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

03 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 3

steps towards investigating this possibility by devising a novel 10-day field experiment to estimate the differences in behavior that are created by sorting workers into their preferred institutional regimes versus having them unsorted.... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Sep 2008
News

Reality to News Biz: Drop Dead

Good luck with that. Industry fundamentals are corroding so rapidly that they will eat through even the noblest of cross-financing oblige. Newspapers, for one, are seeing the wholesale kneecapping of each ad driver, from classifieds to inserts to department View Details

Keywords: Roben Farzad; journalism; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

06 Jun 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017

observe homophily in ethnicity and gender increases the probability of forming teams by 25%. Homophily in education and past working experience increases the probability of forming teams by 17% and 11 % respectively. Homophily in... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2010
News

How to Survive Past Start-up

— a common experience that might bind the entrepreneurs I wrote about and give the reader some focus. Serendipitously, I came across an article from Fortune, written in 1999 at the height of the Internet bubble. “For new MBAs at Harvard... View Details

Keywords: Bill Murphy Jr.; Health and Personal Care Stores; Health and Personal Care Stores; Health and Personal Care Stores; Health and Personal Care Stores

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Working with City Leadership to Leverage Technology | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

but to extract metadata, using artificial intelligence technology, that makes the stored videos much easier to search. “It’s a huge privilege to be trusted to lead so much important work,” Henry says. “The mayor calls me about my... View Details

06 Dec 2021
News

Tipping Point

2021, the percentage of those who contributed skyrocketed to 25 percent. The company also matches the gratuities; the total has been rising steadily since Trader Joe’s began stocking the product in its 200 California stores in 2021, and... View Details

Keywords: April White; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing

24 Nov 2014
Research & Ideas

Corrupting Silence: Companies Must Speak Up Against Bribes

counsel. "Sometimes they'll be a little more subtle and say, 'My wife's going to be in Hong Kong next week, and she's going shopping.' Either you say, 'That's nice,' and you pass on, or you say, 'What store is she going to, and can I give... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

27 Feb 2013
Research & Ideas

Sidetracked: Why Can’t We Stick to the Plan?

experience vividly once we were back home. As we went from one tiny, packed store to the next, we noticed that amid the traditional shops lining the souk's enchanted streets were other shops filled with fake... View Details

Keywords: Re: Francesca Gino

22 Feb 2022
News

Case Study: Welcome Aboard

was crazy,” Lerner says, noting that a successful onboarding experience could translate to long-term results. “This is the time to put your best foot forward, but we were using primitive tools that didn’t allow any of that and caused our... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

01 Mar 2023
News

March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books

Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books Invisible Trillions: How Financial Secrecy Is Imperiling Capitalism and Democracy—and the Way to Renew Our Broken System By Raymond W. Baker (MBA 1960) Berrett-Koehler Publishers Over the last half century, capitalism has created... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

03 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

The Basics of Consumer Marketing in Asia

2002 he was CEO of Philips China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. He pointed to Unilever's early experience in China as a cautionary tale. Unilever had done well selling high-end soap products elsewhere, but in China it had a difficult time... View Details

Keywords: by Julie Jette

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Kraft Accelerator

unmet need: Extracting, cleaning and codifying the data stored in dozens of electronic medical record systems in an attempt to understand how patients experience cancer care. Concerto HealthAI has been... View Details

10 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

The Knowledge Coach

"Deep smarts," as Harvard Business School professor emerita Dorothy Leonard and collaborator Walter Swap see the term, is the intuition, judgement, and knowledge, both explicit and tacit, that is stored in the heads and hands of... View Details

Keywords: by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap

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Cristina Ros Blankfein

When Cristina Ros Blankfein and Jennifer Ross returned from their FIELD 2 expeditions, they were both feeling the entrepreneurial buzz that an international travel experience often spawns. But the idea that the close friends and... View Details

30 Sep 2021
Blog Post

Driving Social Impact Through Consumer Behavior: Nonprofit to Finance to Retail with Nicole Krantz (MBA 2022)

You also have a project mentor who went through the executive development program and who is there to make sure you’re on track, shows you the ropes of Dick’s, and introduces you to people around the company.” For her project, Krantz focused on creating an innovative... View Details

Keywords: Retail

01 Sep 2004
News

American Dream

inheritance to purchase the Wall Drug Store in 1931, it was just that: a drug store. At the height of the Great Depression, in a part of the country sometimes described as “the geographic center of nowhere,” the family struggled to make... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Accommodation; Hospitality

19 Sep 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19

implications of these effects for inventory management. To do that, we analyze data from a leading U.S. retailer who introduced a “ship-to-store” (STS) functionality that allows customers to ship products to their local store free of... View Details