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- 16 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restaurant Revolution: How the Industry Is Fighting to Stay Alive
inside The future of the restaurant industry is especially of concern to us. We collectively share 35 years of restaurant and food industry experience, navigating our way through as waitstaff and bartenders, as managers and senior leaders...
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- 02 Apr 2020
- What Do You Think?
What Are Lessons for Leaders from This Black Swan Crisis?
outbreaks Climate change and its ensuing environmental, economic and social disasters is the next White Swan.” JSD saw a possible motive behind the debate when he opined that, “In the corporate sector, the continuing effort to brand the...
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by James Heskett
- 01 May 2009
- What Do You Think?
Do Innovation and Entrepreneurship Have to Be Incompatible with Organization Size?
managers to "'personally' drive innovation and competitive advantage." Gerald Nanninga placed the blame on "infestation" (parasites that successful organizations attract) and "cannibalization" (fear of...
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by Jim Heskett
- November 1994 (Revised February 1997)
- Case
Levi Strauss & Co.: Global Sourcing (A)
By: Lynn S. Paine and Jane Palley Katz
In 1993, senior managers at Levi Strauss & Co., the world's largest brand-name apparel manufacturer, were deciding whether the company should have a business presence in China, given the human rights and other problems there. The China Policy Group has been asked to...
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Management Teams;
Decisions;
Management Skills;
Trade;
Brands and Branding;
Rights;
Ethics;
Foreign Direct Investment;
Apparel and Accessories Industry;
China
Paine, Lynn S., and Jane Palley Katz. "Levi Strauss & Co.: Global Sourcing (A)." Harvard Business School Case 395-127, November 1994. (Revised February 1997.)
- 08 Aug 2022
- HBS Case
Building an 'ARMY' of Fans: Marketing Lessons from K-Pop Sensation BTS
What would it take to attract customers who are so loyal that they would not only buy your products, but would also lavish your distributors with flowers and purchase advertising to elevate your brand? Ask the minds behind K-pop sensation BTS. Created by a Korean View Details
- November 2017
- Teaching Note
Reinventing Best Buy
By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth
Teaching Note for HBS No. 716-455.
On March 1, 2017, Best Buy Company, Inc., North America’s largest retailer of consumer electronics and appliances, announced a third year of comparable-store sales increases and a 20.8% increase in domestic comparable online sales....
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Keywords:
Best Buy;
Hubert Joly;
Renew Blue;
Showrooming;
Webrooming;
E-commerce;
E-Commerce Strategy;
Online Retail;
Multichannel Retailing;
Omnichannel;
Marketplaces;
Turnaround;
Consumer Electronics;
Consumer Electronics Accessories;
Appliances;
Stores-within-stores;
Store Experience;
Store Size;
Store Pickup;
Store Management;
Delivery;
Delivery Models;
Amazon;
Amazon.com;
Pricing Strategy;
Business Subsidiaries;
Business Units;
Business Growth and Maturation;
Business Model;
For-Profit Firms;
Customer Focus and Relationships;
Customer Satisfaction;
Entertainment;
Film Entertainment;
Games, Gaming, and Gambling;
Music Entertainment;
Television Entertainment;
Theater Entertainment;
Price;
Profit;
Revenue;
Geographic Scope;
Multinational Firms and Management;
Business History;
Cost;
Selection and Staffing;
Reports;
Technological Innovation;
Job Cuts and Outsourcing;
Human Capital;
Leading Change;
Business or Company Management;
Goals and Objectives;
Growth and Development;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Management Teams;
Brands and Branding;
Product Marketing;
Consumer Behavior;
Demand and Consumers;
Media;
Distribution;
Order Taking and Fulfillment;
Distribution Channels;
Infrastructure;
Product;
Service Delivery;
Service Operations;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Public Ownership;
Problems and Challenges;
Programs;
Groups and Teams;
Sales;
Salesforce Management;
Strategy;
Adaptation;
Business Strategy;
Competition;
Competitive Advantage;
Competitive Strategy;
Corporate Strategy;
Expansion;
Technology;
Hardware;
Information Technology;
Internet;
Mobile Technology;
Online Technology;
Search Technology;
Software;
Web;
Web Sites;
Wireless Technology;
Resource Allocation;
Computer Industry;
Electronics Industry;
Entertainment and Recreation Industry;
Information Technology Industry;
Retail Industry;
Service Industry;
Technology Industry;
Telecommunications Industry;
Video Game Industry;
United States;
Minnesota;
Minneapolis;
Saint Paul;
St. Paul
- 04 Oct 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
Reviews, Reputation, and Revenue: The Case of Yelp.com
- December 2006
- Case
Vipp A/S
By: Robert D. Austin and Daniela Beyersdorfer
Rapidly growing Vipp sells highly differentiated (and expensive) "designer" versions of a product that most buyers think about in purely functional terms: Trash bins. Examines how the company successfully produces and positions a trash bin so that it is regarded as an...
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Austin, Robert D., and Daniela Beyersdorfer. "Vipp A/S." Harvard Business School Case 607-052, December 2006.
- January 2015 (Revised March 2017)
- Case
New Urban Mechanics
By: Mitchell Weiss
Funding to scale Citizens Connect, Boston's 311 app, is both a blessing and a burden and tests two public entrepreneurs. In 2012, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts provides Boston's Mayor's Office of New Urban Mechanics with a grant to scale Citizens Connect across the...
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Keywords:
Public Entrepreneurship;
Civic Technology;
Government Innovation;
Civic Innovation;
Cities;
New Urban Mechanics;
Thomas. M. Menino;
Chris Osgood;
Nigel Jacob;
Connected Bits;
SeeClickFix;
Ben Berkowitz;
Eric Carlson;
Dave Mitchell;
Government Technology;
Open Innovation;
Open Source Software;
Citizens Connect;
Commonwealth Connect;
Entrepreneurship;
Innovation and Invention;
Innovation Leadership;
Innovation and Management;
Open Source Distribution;
Public Administration Industry;
Information Technology Industry;
Boston
Weiss, Mitchell. "New Urban Mechanics." Harvard Business School Case 315-075, January 2015. (Revised March 2017.)
- 21 Mar 2019
- HBS Case
The Ferrari Way
Ferrari N.V. is one of the rare brands that unequivocally achieves it—making its iconic horse logo synonymous with luxury and excitement. Thomke, the William Barclay Harding Professor of Business Administration, thinks of a student he...
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- 07 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 7
brands and manufacturing network, he intends to reposition the company as a branded retailer of furniture and home fashions. Just as management is poised to implement a new...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 4
Publications 2006 O'Reilly Media, Inc. Managing Startups: Best Blog Posts By: Eisenmann, Tom, ed. Abstract—Harvard Business School Professor Tom Eisenmann annually compiles the best posts from many blogs on technology startup...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 8
Publications August 2013 Journal of Consumer Research Brand Tourists: How Non-Core Users Enhance the Brand Image by Eliciting Pride By: Bellezza, Silvia, and Anat Keinan Abstract—This research examines how...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
How To Make Restructuring Work for Your Company
Taken together, they suggest there are three critical hurdles or challenges that management faces in any restructuring program: 1. Design. What type of restructuring is appropriate for dealing with the specific challenge, problem, or...
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by Stuart C. Gilson
- March 1996 (Revised February 1999)
- Case
Vistakon: 1 Day Acuvue Disposable Contact Lenses
By: Alvin J. Silk, Bruce Issacson and Marie Bell
Vistakon, an independent and entrepreneurial subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, pioneered the production and marketing of disposable contact lenses with the 1987 launch of Acuvue, the first disposable extended-wear lens--a soft contact lens that patients wear for a...
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Advertising Campaigns;
Business Subsidiaries;
Business Startups;
Corporate Entrepreneurship;
Price;
Risk Management;
Marketing;
Product Positioning;
Production;
Performance Effectiveness;
Consumer Products Industry;
United States
Silk, Alvin J., Bruce Issacson, and Marie Bell. "Vistakon: 1 Day Acuvue Disposable Contact Lenses." Harvard Business School Case 596-087, March 1996. (Revised February 1999.)
- 21 Oct 2022
- Research & Ideas
People Trust Business, But Expect CEOs to Drive Social Change
Public trust in business remains relatively unshaken amid economic turbulence and a lingering pandemic, even as faith in the media and government falters, but leaders could do more to address social issues, a new global opinion survey shows. However, not everyone...
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by Scott Van Voorhis
- August 2005 (Revised May 2006)
- Case
Cherkizovsky Group, The (A) (Abridged)
By: Lynn S. Paine
Describes the transformation of a formerly state-owned meat processing plant in Russia into a privately owned and operated food processing conglomerate under Russia's economic reforms of the 1990s. Among the challenges the CEO, Igor Babaev, and his top management team...
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Keywords:
History;
Business Conglomerates;
Privatization;
Transformation;
Management Teams;
Sales;
Brands and Branding;
Business or Company Management;
Marketing Strategy;
Crisis Management;
Food and Beverage Industry;
Russia
Paine, Lynn S. "Cherkizovsky Group, The (A) (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 306-021, August 2005. (Revised May 2006.)
- December 1997 (Revised April 1998)
- Case
www.springs.com
By: F. Warren McFarlan and Melissa Dailey
Business Week's June 1997 "Rising Star" profile of Springs Industries' president and COO, Crandall Bowles, reported that she was poised to become one of the top two or three women executives in the country. In November 1997, the company announced Bowles' appointment to...
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Information Technology;
Operations;
Product Marketing;
Management;
Strategy;
Consumer Products Industry;
South Carolina
McFarlan, F. Warren, and Melissa Dailey. "www.springs.com." Harvard Business School Case 398-091, December 1997. (Revised April 1998.)
- 23 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 23
firm was confident that it and the current management could work together to revamp the fortunes of China's leading electronic retailer. However, it did not anticipate the power Huang had behind bars. As the majority shareholder, Huang...
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Sean Silverthorne
- December 1997 (Revised February 2000)
- Case
Hewlett Packard: Creating, Running, and Growing an Enduring Company
By: H. Kent Bowen and Courtney Purrington
Traces the development of Hewlett-Packard Co. from a small start-up company in 1938 to a world-class manufacturer of electronic instruments and computer products. Examines the challenges of starting and running a small company, including financing, human resources...
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Business or Company Management;
Product Positioning;
Business Growth and Maturation;
Business Startups;
Brands and Branding;
Computer Industry;
Electronics Industry
Bowen, H. Kent, and Courtney Purrington. "Hewlett Packard: Creating, Running, and Growing an Enduring Company." Harvard Business School Case 698-052, December 1997. (Revised February 2000.)