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- March 2016
- Case
IC Group A/S
By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth
IC Group owned several of Scandinavia's leading premium fashion brands. How should it respond to the decline of its primary wholesale distribution channels (independent fashion boutiques and department stores)? Should it open more physical stores or focus on...
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IC Group;
IC Companys;
Carli Gry;
InWear;
Mads Ryder;
Niels Martinsen;
Premium Fashion;
Fast Fashion;
Business Units;
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Business Model;
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For-Profit Firms;
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Product Positioning;
Competition;
Competitive Strategy;
Corporate Strategy;
Vertical Integration;
Segmentation;
Web Sites;
Apparel and Accessories Industry;
Fashion Industry;
Retail Industry;
Scandinavia;
Denmark;
Sweden;
Norway
Wells, John R., and Gabriel Ellsworth. "IC Group A/S." Harvard Business School Case 716-446, March 2016.
- 12 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 12
Cost-Benefit Analysis in Environmental Policy Abstract We conducted an analysis that explores the merits of a low-carbon development strategy for Liberia. This chapter describes both our cost-benefit analysis initiative and a plausible policy process for Liberia. We...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Apr 2018
- News
The First Five Years: Regan Turner (MBA 2013)
Photos courtesy of Regan Turner Regan Turner (MBA/MPP 2013) is executive director of The Mission Continues, a national nonprofit that “deploys” military veterans to community-impact projects to help them find purpose and to serve as role View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015
entrepreneurs actually go about producing transformative change. There are four key stages: understanding the world; envisioning a better future; building a model for change; and scaling the solution. The Debate over Jewish Achievement:...
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- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
money out there looking for interesting new businesses. On the face of it, it’s a match made in heaven, with lots of positives; but beware the negatives. Those investment decisions will shape the future of your business. The standard View Details
- 24 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018
customer-to-customer communications promote different types of usage? We study these questions using two data sets and by developing a multivariate hierarchical Poisson hidden Markov model (HMM), which fits the data significantly better...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 11
change the course of history. Indispensable will also help you understand this new model so you can use it in your own life-whether you're a citizen casting a ballot, an executive choosing your next CEO, or a leader trying to make your...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jun 2018
- News
My First Job: Selling Shoes, Surviving Black Monday, and Shaped by Chicken Lenses
insight into how the business model might work. And so by seeing several industries in a very short period of time, then it really did teach me how to think strategically. And I think it's something that's served very well the rest of my...
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- June 2024
- Teaching Note
Beamery: Using Skills and AI to Modernize HR
By: Boris Groysberg, David Lane, Susan Pinckney and Alexis Lefort
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 424-004. Unicorn human relationships startup Beamery evaluates it growth versus depth strategy as its strategic partners and customers could become future competitors in a quickly changing AI based human resources and talent management...
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Analysis;
Business Growth and Maturation;
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Business Startups;
Business Plan;
Disruption;
Transformation;
Talent and Talent Management;
Decisions;
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- 18 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas, April 18
argue that the puzzling combination of high-frequency excess sensitivity and low-frequency decoupling between short- and long-term rates can be understood using a model in which (i) shocks to short-term interest rates lead to a rise in...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
It’s Called ‘Price Coherence,’ and It’s Surprisingly Bad for Consumers
responses to the impractical aspects of price coherence. "Our first price coherence paper develops a theory model showing what happens in affected markets," Edelman says. "Our companion paper, Markets with Price Coherence, explores the...
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- 06 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Power of Leadership Groups for Staying on Track
fundamental reassessment of leadership and leadership development. The command-and-control model so prevalent in the twentieth century has ceased to be effective because it fails to motivate people, particularly younger generations that...
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by Bill George
- 22 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 22
change its business model? Could Dubai maintain its independence from Abu Dhabi in the wake of the bailout? And if the emirate's current model was not sustainable, then how exactly should it change? This case explores all these issues, in...
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Martha Lagace
- 19 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
How Mercadona Fixes Retail’s ’Last 10 Yards’ Problem
processes and well-treated people can be a natural fit rather than some kind of painful tradeoff." Not For The Shortsighted Ton acknowledges that the model could be difficult to implement for companies focused more on meeting Wall...
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- Web
The Spiritual Lives of Leaders - Course Catalog
they have seen this modeled in invited leaders from the realms of business, public health, education, and public policy. They also should have a better sense of how this awakened sense can help them to guide their own personal and...
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- 23 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
understanding the impact that branding activity (the audio-visual representation of brands) and consumers' dispersion of attention have on their moment-to-moment avoidance decisions during television advertising. It formalizes this in a Dynamic Probit View Details
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Martha Lagace
- Web
Art Nature Business
innovative industry, and can also be a model for 21st-century entrepreneurs investing in new technologies and experimenting with novel ways to use natural resources. The Tudor Company Records are held in Baker Library Special Collections....
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- 01 Apr 1998
- News
World Class Learning
strengthens the value of the HBS learning model for all our students," he notes. Other faculty members agree that diverse classes form the cornerstone of excellent courses. "Diversity of all kinds is the basis upon which dynamic case...
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Eileen K. McCluskey
- 20 Mar 2017
- Book
Why Companies Are Placing Users at the Core of Their Innovation Strategies
to work for me. The research shows you don’t have to hire all the smart people to have innovation. It allows the outside world to help with innovation and causes companies to excel in other dimensions. Previously, you relied on R&D for success. Now you have to be...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 17, 2015
venture capital finance. Using a theoretical model and rich data, we are able to both document and provide a framework to understand the changes in the investment strategy of VCs in recent years—an increased prevalence of investors who...
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Sean Silverthorne