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- 06 Jul 2023
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Lessons from Major League Baseball's Game-Changing Innovations
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Back in 2014, When Chris Marinak (MBA 2008) was in the process of rolling out the instant replay system as a Senior Vice President at Major League Baseball, he...
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- 28 Mar 2024
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Rooms with a View
to run a 250-room luxury getaway, the Mogul hotel would only require 50 people overseeing processes—each a top talent with an ownership stake—with robots taking care of the most demanding housekeeping tasks. “Nobody really wants to do...
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- 01 Dec 2023
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Rounding the Bend
operations, and more recently as a director at Google Cloud, working with fashion and beauty companies to help drive more circular business practices using AI and machine learning. In 2021, her team at Google worked with the World Wildlife Fund and Stella McCartney’s...
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- 01 Sep 2023
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Made in Italy
focused on Italy’s luxury brands: She wanted to understand why other countries have not been able to replicate the quality of goods made in Italy or the country’s reputation for excellence. At Casa Zegna, home to the historical archive of...
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- 05 Feb 2019
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The First Five Years: Karan Shah (MBA 2016)
Karan Shah (MBA 2016) Karan Shah (MBA 2016) Karan Shah (MBA 2016) is executive director of Precision Camshafts Limited, a large precision manufacturing company in Solapur, India, and a partner in MAYU, a luxury goods startup. What’s a...
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- 01 Mar 2024
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Unlocking the Power of Community
finding there’s strong interest in this.” Think luxury brands that sell in department stores, food and beverage brands that customers encounter in grocery stores or restaurants, or sports team fans who commonly engage with each other...
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April White
- 12 Mar 2021
- News
My Favorite Case
in the fall of 2008, the executive chairman of the luxury brand Shanghai Tang must decide what to do about a recently vacated creative director position and how to manage employees who see themselves as artists. This case taught me about...
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- 01 Jan 2005
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Joseph J. O'Donnell, MBA 1971
including facilities in more than twenty arenas and stadiums, serving all kinds of snacks and comfort food in the stands and fine cuisine in the luxury boxes. It is also a major player in numerous convention and performing arts centers...
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- 11 Dec 2014
- News
Fashion's Retail Revolution
Dressing by Number Dressing by Number Ivy Ross Creating the Shopping Experience of the Future Creating the Shopping Experience of the Future Today, though, the case studies are on a multitude of fashion businesses—“fast fashion” chain ZARA, “pretail” e-commerce model...
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- 01 Jun 2015
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@Soldiers Field
Photo courtesy @chiaraferragni Case study subject Chiara Ferragni—the fashion designer/blogger best known as The Blonde Salad—took a break from New York Fashion Week to visit HBS professor Anat Keinan’s new Luxury Marketing elective....
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- 01 Mar 2009
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Deep Discovery
The British luxury liner RMS Lusitania was torpedoed by a German submarine on its New York-to-Liverpool run in 1915. The ship sank in 300 feet of water off the coast of Ireland; 1,198 (including 128 Americans) of 1,959 passengers and crew...
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- 01 Mar 2004
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High Brow
Churchill, Laurence Olivier, and Oscar Wilde, not to mention a slew of British royals. “We figured that Truefitt & Hill was the luxury play in men’s grooming,” said Cartwright, whose Chicago-based company plans to open its first...
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- 01 Mar 2023
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Research Brief: Great Expectations
The narrative surrounding employees who are passionate about their jobs holds so much sway in today’s workplace that it has become a self-fulfilling prophecy. “Ultimately, if you believe in a passionate person, they will perform better,” observes Assistant Professor...
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- 01 Jun 2012
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A Better World, One Idea at a Time
Pacific, which plans to use modern agricultural technology and management to enable people living on remote Pacific islands to grow fresh vegetables and fish to replace unhealthful diets high in calories and low in nutrition. Second place was awarded to Jamela Oil, a...
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- 01 Sep 2003
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Jonathan Mariner
negotiated as part of last year’s collective bargaining agreement will usher in a new era of fiscal responsibility. “Those measures — luxury taxes, revenue sharing, and debt limits — have teeth,” Mariner notes, “and a large part of my job...
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- 01 Sep 2013
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Geisha Secrets
TSAI: A luxury skin-care line based on ancient Japanese rituals. Years of work-related testing of beauty products had left Victoria Tsai (MBA 2006) with acute dermatitis. After trying various medications to no avail, she turned to Japan...
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- 06 Dec 2021
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The Sparkles in Our Skies
that create Aether’s luxurious packaging. (Only the vegan suede exterior of each jewelry box isn’t biodegradable, but it is recyclable.) “True sustainability is not just something that is sourced responsibly and that you can dispose of...
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- 01 Jun 2022
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Action Plan: Writing the Next Chapter
It’s a memory shared by countless Swiss children: Caran d’Ache has been producing carefully crafted drawing and writing implements—pencils made of sustainably sourced incense cedar wood, pastels, paint, and luxury pens crafted from silver...
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- 01 Mar 2016
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How Do I Get Your Job?
McKinsey before coming to HBS. Beck, cofounder and CEO of beauty retailer Bluemercury, tells Uberoi, a member of the student-run Retail & Luxury Goods Club, how she went from consultant to entrepreneur to retail maven, with 70-plus stores...
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- 01 Mar 2015
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@Soldiers Field
England Patriots owner Robert Kraft (MBA 1965) and president Jonathan Kraft (MBA 1990) suggested an innovation they’d like to see: a way to predict the next Tom Brady. The Retail and Luxury Goods Club brought designer Tommy Hilfiger to...
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