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- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Negotiating with Wal-Mart
Wal-Mart, the world’s largest retailer, sold $315.6 billion worth of goods in 2006. With its single-minded focus on “EDLP” (everyday low prices) and the power to make or break suppliers, a partnership with Wal-Mart is either the Holy Grail or the kiss of death,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
recall of 450,000 tires missing a key safety feature that a U.S. importer had purchased from a Chinese manufacturer and distributed to retail outlets. “I don’t think there is a strong culture of adherence to regulations in China right... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Ask the Expert: Human Intelligence
(PLDA 15, 2013) SESERI: E-commerce—and retail, more broadly—is one of the areas that will benefit the most from AI. It will enable retailers to provide much better experiences to consumers. For instance, AI will be able to predict what I... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jan 2009
- News
Jorge Paulo Lemann, A.B. 1961; Carlos A. Sicupira, OPM 9, 1984; Marcel H. Telles, OPM 10, 1985
was a senior partner for more than 25 years before selling the firm to Credit Suisse First Boston in 1998. At Garantia and later at GP Investimentos, Lemann invested in management talent and diverse acquisitions, including a retail chain,... View Details
- 14 Jun 2019
- News
Are You Clueless About Clothes? Stitch Fix Has an Algorithm for That
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Capitalist Revolutions Analyzed in MBA "Foundations" Course
born in the first industrial revolution in England has survived for two hundred years. Another case, on Southland Corporation and Seven-Eleven Japan, examines retailing in the third industrial revolution in two very different... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 15 Nov 2013
- News
25 Influential Women in the Boston Tech Community
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Barbara Bry: Business is Blooming
Proflowers, there are no warehouses and no network of retail florists. Orders are transmitted electronically to growers, who cut, pack, and ship, usually within 24 hours. This supply-chain compression allows Proflowers to offer a unique... View Details
- 29 Apr 2021
- News
Equal Partner
working in the fashion and retail industry—as the director of Global Strategy at Donna Karan (a division of LVMH), the general manager of Shop Your Way and the founder of Mintbox, a flash sale and loyalty... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Case Study: Moment in the Sun
too.” Soon, Ario was installing its lights in Stanford’s student housing. The retail market, in comparison, was capital-intensive, requiring big ad pushes for consumer education about the benefits of Ario’s technology. Now completing a... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Brick by Brick
Case Study Illustration by Corbis/Matthias Kulka Sometimes, a company's history contains more drama than a Russian novel. A recent case, "LEGO," explores how the toy maker grew to global dominance from humble beginnings, the mistakes that led it near bankruptcy, and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Consumption Is America’s Competitive Advantage
develop a technology that helps retailers reduce inventories. The exceptional companies to use it, such as Wal-Mart, will lead to greater increases in productivity and living standards in the United States than in countries — possibly... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
the threat, with analysts predicting it will grow to $170 billion by 2020. (In his proposed fiscal 2017 budget, President Obama requested a $5 billion increase in federal cybersecurity spending, up to $19 billion annually.) Money is one thing, View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
Chappell Russ Wilcox (MBA ’95) was two years out of HBS, married to classmate Gina Wilcox and working as a strategy consultant following a stint as a product manager at a Boston-area technology firm. But he had always wanted to launch and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Innovation, Inc.
uncertainty — not just the uncertainty surrounding the survival of their own firm, but that of the industry itself. The implications of this are that pioneer-entrepreneurs have to adopt specific strategies to overcome the uncertainty with... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
social impact. And the way to magnify that impact is to give away valuable knowledge to anyone who can use it. Bridgespan is unique in another equally important way. It is a pioneer in the application of data-driven strategy and... View Details
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Orin C. Smith (MBA '67)
as low-fat latte and Frappuccino(r). Starbucks, the Seattle-based company that started in 1971 as a retailer of bulk coffee, tea, and spices, is largely responsible for this new state of coffee consciousness. Today, the company operates... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Sustaining Business And Society For The Long Term
industry at large, the new owners implemented a transparent strategy to identify and solve the problems, ultimately leading to improved effi ciency, reduced costs, and an expansion of clientele. The course... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Deals For Sale
purchase goods from distributors. "A retail chain store with several outlets might bid on these items, for example," he says. Auctions are held daily and are done in real time. "You go to the site, see what other people are offering, and... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 06 Feb 2015
- News