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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 2012
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Shop Talk, Different Avenues
disruptive business model: an online site that requires customers to register, featuring flash sales of discounted luxury goods for men and women in categories including designer clothing, accessories, home goods, food and wine, and...
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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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- 15 Mar 2022
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History’s Future
Courtesy Amr AlMadani Millennia ago, the AlUla region in northwestern Saudi Arabia was a thriving commercial and cultural center, a stop on the trade routes that connected the spices, silks, and other luxuries of Arabia and the East to...
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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 2017
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Starting Lineup: Values Proposition
spice. Rumi Spice saffron is now in top restaurant kitchens, on the shelves at luxury grocers, and in the recipes of meal-delivery company Blue Apron. Grow-Trees Cofounders and directors Pradip Shah (MBA 1981) and his son, Karan Shah (MBA...
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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 Jun 2009
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Crisis and Creativity
JetBlue, and Ryanair all grew during recessions, as did Charles Schwab, Home Depot, and Trader Joe’s. A second customer hook is affordable indulgence. As consumers pare back, they also need ways to entertain themselves and indulge in small View Details
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Bhaskar Chakravorti
- 01 Mar 2004
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Drug Imports a Hot Topic at Alumni Health-Care Conference
Conference Coverage on the Working Knowledge website. European Business Conference Seeks to Understand Differences Americans expect to find luxury goods at the mall. Europeans don’t. American shoppers expect to be waited on. U.K....
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- 29 Jul 2013
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Opening New Markets for Black South African Winemakers
people could understand that luxury goods could come out of Africa." At the wine festival, Cuffe had met Vivian Brutus Kleynhans, one of seven sisters who produced a selection of various wines, aptly named Seven Sisters, each one designed...
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- 01 Mar 2017
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Research Brief: Lost in Translation
have a strong communications strategy, because they aren’t always going to have the luxury or time to prepare, and simply translating your message won’t be enough.” “The Capital Market Consequences of Language Barriers in the Conference...
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Erin Peterson
- 03 Feb 2021
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Power Play
contributed complementary skills from the energy sector—to establish the firm’s leadership team. Advani believes the company’s middle-market private equity investment strategy is better executed and better aligns the firm with its investors and executive teams—a View Details
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Maureen Harmon
- 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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April White
- 01 Oct 1997
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After 27 Years at HBS, Shapiro Shifts Professional Focus
with this last topic, the issues have become so complex that no one in academia has been able to keep up with them," he comments. "It will be a luxury to spend more time studying this area." Shapiro will continue to teach in HBS executive...
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- 01 Dec 2013
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Plugged In
When the 2014 Cadillac ELR—the carmaker's new electric luxury vehicle—rolled onstage at the Detroit auto show earlier this year, Juan Camargo (MBA 2012) sat in the fourth row, beaming. And it wasn't just because, as assistant marketing...
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- 01 Jun 2016
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Up by the Roots
start to finish,” he says. “That’s something I picked up from General Mills: We had to be able to have that kind of traceability and accountability to consumers.” That reputation attracted the attention of the luxury conglomerate LVMH,...
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Francis Storrs
- 26 Jul 2011
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An Entrepreneur of the Arts
moved to the United States in 1993 and settled in Chicago. An early blooming entrepreneur, Efimova founded Russian Pointe, her first company, in 1998 while she was a junior in college. Russian Pointe, a brand of luxury ballet shoes, is a...
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- 01 Jun 1996
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Capitalist Revolutions Analyzed in MBA "Foundations" Course
brand equity after a dramatic breakthrough in the 1760s Rolls-Royce and the Rise of High-Technology Industry From luxury cars to aeroengines German Capitalism How a new country industrialized rapidly using an unorthodox strategy Thyssen...
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Susan Young