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- 18 Mar 2013
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: LEGO
Ole Kirk Kristiansen eventually shifted the business from making houses and furniture to crafting wooden toys. He based the name of his new venture on the Danish words for "play well" (and, as it turned out, the Latin words for...
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Sample Student Projects - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
(2012) California Solar Energy (2011) Silicon Valley (California) Internet-Based Services (2011) Minnesota Medical Devices (2011) Massachusetts Higher Education and Knowledge Cluster (2010) The North Carolina Furniture Cluster (2009)...
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Aldrich Hall | About
finance to Baker Library. They also donated furniture and decorated a room to house the collection in Baker Library. The “Aldrich Library of Finance” was installed the following spring and remained a separate collection until it was...
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- 27 Nov 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
Secrets for Creating a Long-Lasting Brand
maker Ferrari opens up about how it has bucked industry trends to achieve a world class brand. How Wayfair Built a Furniture Brand from ScratchWhat was once a collection of 240 home furnishing sites is now a single, successful brand,...
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Roberto Verganti
Roberto Verganti is in the Technology and Operations Management Unit at Harvard Business School. He teaches Design Theory and Practice for the double degree program MS/MBA conducted jointly by the Harvard Business School and the... View Details
- 18 Oct 2022
- Research & Ideas
When Bias Creeps into AI, Managers Can Stop It by Asking the Right Questions
Startup Marketplace for Used Furniture The Twofold Effect of Customer Retention in Freemium Settings Beyond Pajamas: Sizing Up the Pandemic Shopper Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working Knowledge team at hbswk@hbs.edu. Image:...
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by Rachel Layne
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Curriculum - Business & Environment
In 2018, Swedish furniture maker IKEA was undergoing a significant transformation. Challenged by the rise of online shopping and changing consumer behavior, and mourning the death of its founder, the Company's top executives knew they had...
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Tommaso Ruggeri
stretching from one end of the house to the other, with everyone in my big family helping out, moving over chairs and furniture to make room. It was our own little prehistoric parade, and I loved every minute of it. What is the best thing...
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- 01 Mar 2024
- News
The War Within
which often depicted air raids and destruction. “The children were drawing their nightmares,” she says. (Stanislav Ivanov/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images) In February 2022, Ames had been planning to relocate to Ukraine. She had sold her house in Massachusetts...
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- 24 Apr 2019
- Research & Ideas
The 'Amazon Effect' Is Changing Online Price Competition—and the Fed Needs to Pay Attention
agencies. In 2010, these retailers would keep prices constant for about nine months on average. Today, that timeframe has narrowed to just three months, he says. That acceleration was especially true for categories like electronics and View Details
- 20 Jul 2021
- Research & Ideas
Bankruptcy Spells Death for Too Many Businesses
everything from furniture to the firm itself. “There are some instances where you have a melting ice cube and assets in bankruptcy that are losing value really quickly. It’s ‘if we don't do the sale right now, there's not going to be any...
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by Rachel Layne
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
My First Job
furniture business when a fire started in the factory’s ventilation system. The fire alarms were loud, and every instinct I had learned in school told me to leave the building, but the president of the company grabbed my arm and told me...
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- 18 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
How New Managers Become Great Managers
promoted to vice president and divisional merchandise manager for furniture and decorative supplies. There she had profit and loss responsibility for $350 million and twelve people in an area with poor assortment of merchandise, flat...
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by Linda Hill
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
corridor of Southwest Baltimore. Factories and warehouses supplied the city with everything from furniture to gelato, and people flocked to the strip’s shops, theaters, and saloons. Just to the south, a series of elegant row houses earned...
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- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Fast Lane to Country Lane
TOGETHERNESS: Mark and Kim Lackley based their furniture business in Vermont. Learn on someone else’s dime. That’s a lesson from HBS that served Kim Alley Lackley (MBA ’94) well as she made the leap from software and Internet start-ups to...
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- 14 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World
such an interconnected and uncertain world, entire production networks are at risk of disappearing." Case 1: Involve clients and business associations to develop new standards TurkFurnit, a professional furniture producer based in...
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- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Brand New
contemporize them and make them resonate with people again?” Sundy’s answer? “We have to fall in love with our customers.” Since joining La-Z-Boy in early 2021, he has been on a listening tour, meeting consumers, furniture dealers, and...
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- 21 May 2016
- News
The Age of Consignment
“Ethical elimination” is the necessary corollary of ethical consumption, writes the New York Times, and HBS alumni are leading the way with online resell companies that make it easy to get rid of—and even make a profit from—your old gadgets, outdated fashion, and...
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- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Case Study: On the Table
Philippe Cahuzac (far right) and his Gaia Design cofounders (Photos courtesy of Gaia Design) Philippe Cahuzac (far right) and his Gaia Design cofounders (Photos courtesy of Gaia Design) Gaia Design is a Mexico-based online furniture...
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- 19 Feb 2008
- Research & Ideas
Radical Design, Radical Results
When furniture designer Herman Miller presented a prototype of its sleek, mesh Aeron chair to a consumer focus group, many asked if they could see a finished, upholstered version. Innovative product design can be a risky proposition. Yet...
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