by Ryan Raffaelli - Publications - Faculty & Research

30 May 2019
News

Lessons All Entrepreneurs Can Learn From the Shop Local Movement

17 Dec 2017
News

Indie bookstores’ surprising revival based on giving customers ‘an experience’

17 Oct 2016
HBS Case

Business Solutions That Help Cut Food Waste

University’s Advanced Leadership Initiative: Doug Rauch: Solving the American Food Paradox. The case was co-authored by Ryan Johnson, research associate with the Global Research Group. Rauch came up with one... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Food & Beverage

November 2020
Case

Truebird—An AlleyCorp Venture

By: Shikhar Ghosh and Shweta Bagai

In December 2018, Kevin Ryan and Wendy Tsu faced an important decision – to finalize the CEO candidate for Truebird, an innovative, automated coffee café concept. Like many of AlleyCorp and Ryan’s companies, Truebird started with the observation of an unmet need – an... View Details

Keywords: Startup; Hiring; Staffing; Recruiting; Business Startups; Finance; Leadership; Management Skills; Management Teams; Jobs and Positions; Job Interviews; Human Resources; Recruitment; Selection and Staffing; Technology Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; United States

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Educators

Purchase

20 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency

approach to the presidency. Their insights follow. Real estate rarely a zero-sum game John D. Macomber, Senior lecturer of business administration You have to start by distinguishing between a branding operation that’s supported View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese

08 Mar 2015
News

Apple Watch could 'win the wrist back'

02 Mar 2020
What Do You Think?

Are Candor, Humility, and Trust Making a Comeback?

Professor Ryan Buell and doctoral student Moon Soo Choi caught my eye recently. Their study of a credit card offering to almost 400,000 customers of Commonwealth Bank, Australia’s largest, found that a typical promotion mentioning only... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

10 Aug 2018
News

The Worm Has Turned: Bookstores Beats Odds in An Amazon World

19 Dec 2016
Research & Ideas

The 10 Most Popular Stories of 2016

offer “precise” bids for company shares yield better outcomes than those who offer round-number bids, according to research by Petri Hukkanen and Matti Keloharju. Bernie Madoff Explains Himself Eugene Soltes phoned convicted felon Bernie... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

01 Aug 2008
What Do You Think?

Has the Time Come for “Stretch” in Management?

be." It raises the question, would we know a stretch goal when we see it? Perhaps the best response to that question was from Sujeet Prabhu, who commented that "Stretch goals are goals (which), if achieved by your competitors,... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

06 Aug 2015
News

How to make your pricing attractive – and fair

June 2023
Case

Barton Malow: Building From the Top-Down

By: Hise O. Gibson and Alicia Dadlani

In 2023, Detroit-based Barton Malow completed the first high-rise building in the U.S. built from the top-down using LIFTbuild, a patented methodology that aimed to make construction safer and more efficient. By completing building work at ground level and then... View Details

Keywords: Growth and Development Strategy; Innovation and Invention; Construction Industry

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Educators

Purchase

07 May 2018
News

Columbus Bookstores Have Independent Spirit

28 Apr 2019
News

How One Independent Bookstore Succeeds in the Amazon Age

07 Sep 2017
News

Faber-Castell Doubles Down on the Pencil

31 Jul 2015
Research & Ideas

The Faculty Reader: Who is Reading What This Summer?

perhaps history’s greatest leader in crisis, The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz by Erik Larson as well as Ryan Holiday’s instant classic The Obstacle is the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Information; Publishing

21 Nov 2021
News

How Retailers Can Improve Self-Checkout

26 Jun 2014
News

Shifting toward Defined Contributions — Predicting the Effects

09 Mar 2018
News

Why Is A Harvard Business Professor Is Studying Independent Bookstores?

24 Oct 2017
Research & Ideas

Tax Reform is on the Front Burner Again. Here’s Why You Should Care

back in vogue in Washington D.C. House Republicans will start to fill in the details on a tax proposal ultimately expected to reach a thousand pages. The goal is to get the bill signed into law by President Donald Trump View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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