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Photograph Albums - Photography Collections - Historical Collections
photographs Cotton purchased from Texas and Oklahoma was delivered by rail to the Houston Compress Company in Texas, where it was stored and protected in fire-resistant concrete warehouses. The company’s high-density compress machines... View Details
- 13 Nov 2018
- Blog Post
Leadership Fellow Henry Tsai: Working with City Leadership to Leverage Technology
technology, that makes the stored videos much easier to search. “It’s a huge privilege to be trusted to lead so much important work,” Henry says. “The mayor calls me about my portfolio; the CIO and I sit next to each other. But it’s not... View Details
- Profile
Marla Malcolm Beck
recalled. At that time, drug stores or department stores were the only places to buy cosmetics. No specialty channel yet existed. So Beck and her husband made a fateful choice:... View Details
- 21 Dec 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #12: Vehicle to Everything - Claire Broido Johnson (MBA 2002), Chief Operating Officer of Fermata Energy
project in partnership with Fermata Energy and clean energy developer NineDot Energy to deploy a bidirectional charging system that can both charge electric vehicles (EVs) and discharge those EVs to send energy stored in their batteries... View Details
- 05 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Venture Capital Goes Boom—or Bust?
Ninety percent of new entrepreneurial businesses that don't attract venture capital fail within three years. A software engineer at the government contractor EG&G, Don Brooks had been working on computer systems for the Idaho National Engineering and Environment... View Details
Keywords: by Paul A. Gompers & Josh Lerner
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Road to Recovery
illegal-drug addictions totaled an estimated $700 billion in direct and indirect costs, according to a 2015 report from the National Institute on Drug Abuse. DynamiCare developed an app that provides financial rewards via a debit card (which cannot be used at bars and... View Details
- 28 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 28, 2015
international expansion and in the early 2010s Jimmy Choo had a store network encompassing 150+ stores in 30+ countries and was present in the most prestigious department and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 16 Jul 2024
- Op-Ed
Corporate Boards Are Failing in Their No. 1 Duty
and store managers who had the freedom to source materials unique to their marketplace. In his zeal to increase short-term earnings, Nardelli got rid of the customer advisers and centralized procurement while standardizing View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Q & A: Confronting New Technologies: When Doing Right Is Wrong
technologies include: Automobiles (electric vehicles) Bookstores (Internet sales) Department stores (discounters) Doctors (nurse-practitioners) Health insurance (HMOs) Mainframe computers (desktops)... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Rediscovering America
a path to success in many schools. What business could survive if it didn’t have the resources to buy supplies and attract and retain quality employees? What retail store could motivate customers in a dingy, outmoded building where even... View Details
- 14 Nov 2019
- News
Keeping Red Lobster Fresh
bringing it back to profitability in 100 days. His next stop was Burger King, where he helped relaunch the brand and turnaround same store sales. Lopdrup first joined Red Lobster as president in 2004, and led a company that was facing... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Inside the Revolution
“This is where the action is, in the zeroes and the ones.” While the kids lean forward to catch his next act, Enriquez projects on a screen an image filled with 1s and 0s. “This is digital code, the most powerful language in the world,” he tells the class. “It allows... View Details
- 19 Mar 2015
- News
Walter Salmon Remembered
will be missed. Bob Rosenberg (MBA 1963) As one the few HBS students coming out of the department store business, I was drawn to Walt for his knowledge, common sense approach to business issues, and... View Details
- 26 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 26, 2008
b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=808033 The Home Depot, Inc. Harvard Business School Case 608-093 For its first 20 years, Home Depot was known for its entrepreneurial spirit and focus on customer service. Merchandising, purchasing, and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Growing Home
Robots, the local basketball team. The Ibaraki Robots have now, in five years, grown its revenues eight times, grown attendance five times, and been promoted to a top category league just like the NBA in the US . The second thing we did was address central Mito, where... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
American Dream
passing motorists. Hustead acquired the T. rex, for example, to drive demand for the fossils, rocks, and dinosaur-related products for sale in the Wall Drug Mining Company, one of 21 separate retail departments that generate over $12... View Details
- 18 Apr 2007
- HBS Case
How Magazine Luiza Courts the Poor
an amazing influence on customer behavior. Launched in 1957 with a single department store, Magazine Luiza operated as a family-run business until 1991, when the niece of one of the founders, Luiza Helena Trajano Rodrigues, assumed the... View Details
- 08 May 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Cost of Cutting in Line
show, for example, that companies must not try to buy local approval if they plan to open a new facility that the local community does not welcome. If Wal-Mart plans to open a new store and the town does not like it, the worst thing the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Dec 2016
- News
The Story Behind the Stories
here, we talk about business. No politics. Nothing that happened before. We talk about earning money. Making money for our families. And moving our lives forward. And while, yes, they were making baskets, those baskets being made were being sold at a little shop called... View Details
- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
the company's marketing department into an integral part of product development, product management, and strategic planning after years of relative neglect is considered. The role of Chief Executive Officer Jeff Immelt in initiating and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne