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  • 01 Mar 2015
  • News

Fıelds of Gold

expensive foods, retailing at $4,000 or more a pound. Iran is the largest producer of this highly prized spice, which stains food a brilliant golden hue, but David Luo (MBA 2011) believes that Afghanistan could become the world’s... View Details
Keywords: April White; Support Activities for Agriculture and Forestry; Agriculture
  • 25 Aug 2022
  • News

Open Market

idealistically writing my admission essay on this,” says Howard. That particular vision didn’t materialize, in part because of the dotcom crash that began during her time at HBS. After graduation, she worked as VP at Fidelity Investments, growing their View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Keith Negley; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance
  • 01 Mar 2014
  • News

Cutting Edge

than when he took over, those outlets are mostly regional players. He looks for the company to penetrate major, nationwide retailers this year on the strength of a national marketing effort, a broader innovation agenda, and Smith... View Details
Keywords: Retail Trade; Retail Trade; Retail Trade
  • 01 Jun 2002
  • News

In VMI Partnerships, the Devil is in the Data

decade, however, influential manufacturers such as Procter & Gamble and Campbell Soup initiated such partnerships to help smooth production cycles and improve profits. Retailers were wooed by the potential efficiencies of better inventory... View Details
Keywords: Laura Singleton (MBA 1988)
  • 27 Oct 2016
  • News

Paying It Forward

(photo by Neal Hamberg) Ask Malay Kundu (MBA 2003) about StopLift Checkout Vision Systems, and he’s more than happy to talk about his thriving software company, which deploys video and scanning technologies to stop retail theft. The... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • 27 Nov 2017
  • Blog Post

Joining a Start-up: 10 Lessons Along the Way

generalizations on these macro-trends and think top-down, HBS classes like The Entrepreneurial Manager train us to think bottom-up. We learn how to test hypotheses quickly, and how to use new tools to solve old problems. 5. Skills are transferable.I came from the View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail; Consumer Products / Retail
  • 01 Apr 2001
  • News

William Fung: E-Commerce and Efficiency

managers are able to e-mail a digital picture of any questionable item to Hong Kong for an instant assessment. But it is Li & Fung’s StudioDirect service that has investors buzzing. For a long time, the company has built a solid reputation among big multinational... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes; Retail Trade; Retail Trade
  • 15 May 2012
  • News

Finally Finding the Right Fit

Heffernan: From one who's tried on many hats, a tip of the cap to HBS. Photo courtesy Andrew Heffernan As a young man in Dublin, Ireland, Andrew Heffernan (MBA 2006) worked in a variety of summer jobs with the family business, the country’s largest retailer. But View Details
Keywords: fashion; apparel; Apparel Manufacturing; Manufacturing
  • 05 Jun 2019
  • Research & Ideas

If Your Customers Don't Care What You Charge, What Should You Charge?

An estimated 60 percent of retail gasoline customers return to the same gas station to refuel, without comparison shopping, according to a recent study. Driven by factors such as habit, brand loyalty, switching costs, and search (which... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Energy
  • 26 Jul 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Yes, You Can Raise Prices in a Downturn

industry. But research at HBS and other places1 shows that within-industry differences in profitability and returns are typically much greater than across industries. Buffett knows this, investing in "bad" industries like furniture View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail; Retail
  • 01 Mar 2007
  • News

Avon CEO Jung on Leadership

leadership, the company introduced new lines and products, repackaged old standbys, invested heavily in research and development, and expanded overseas. Redubbed “the company for women,” Avon now operates in more than 100 countries, generating some $8 billion in annual... View Details
Keywords: makeup; grooming; Retail Trade; Retail Trade; Retail Trade; Retail Trade
  • 01 Mar 2023
  • News

Case Study: Power Nappy

late at night, now that she’s up in the wee hours feeding her baby and scrolling Amazon on her phone, Saigal starts to question the exclusive direct-to-consumer route. “Are we losing out by not being on Amazon—and in retailers like Whole... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Miscellaneous Manufacturing; Manufacturing
  • 04 May 2009
  • Research & Ideas

What’s Next for the Big Financial Brands

credibility you place in the bank's valuation of its assets). Why then has there not been a run on the bank? Being too big to fail is hardly a solid basis on which to build brand equity. The true answer to the question is that retail... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch; Banking; Financial Services
  • 01 Oct 1998
  • News

Short Takes

new working paper, "How Promotions and Stockpiling Affect Brand Competition," HBS assistant professor Samuel S. Chun looks at the ways in which retailers influence competition among manufacturers when they take advantage of special deals... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
  • 14 Aug 2019
  • Sharpening Your Skills

The Manager's Guide to Leveraging Disruption

on digital platforms./p> Everyone Knows Innovation is Essential to Business Success—Except Your Board of Directors In a recent survey of 5,000 board members, innovation was not ranked high on their list of priorities. What are they not seeing? On Target: Rethinking... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Feb 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Marketing Wine to the World

than corporate managers who are trying to move money from "cash cows" to "growth businesses." Q: It sounds like supermarkets and chain stores are starting to dominate wine distribution—Costco is one of the largest wine View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation; Food & Beverage
  • 24 Apr 2014
  • News

Bringing a global perspective to corporate Australia

Peter Bohn (MBA 1998), managing director of the retail chain Diva in Eastern Europe, talks about the advantages of having a global business perspective. (Published April 2014) View Details
  • 01 Dec 2020
  • News

Steady as She Goes

for the community was a profitable strategy: The company saw a 7.1 percent year-over-year increase in retail profits for the fiscal year that ended in June. Weckert isn’t going to predict that the coming year will bring the stability she... View Details
Keywords: April White; COVID-19; change management; leadership; women; grocery stores; Retail Trade; Retail Trade
  • Web

Related Resources - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center

addition to course related materials, faculty papers from pioneers and leaders in the fields of marketing and advertising education include Malcolm P. McNair Papers Malcolm Perrine McNair was a pioneer in marketing, retailing and... View Details
  • 28 May 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Can LEGO Snap Together a Future in Asia?

Asia," as one LEGO executive put it. Uncertainties of Asian retail. Many Asian countries lack a developed retail network. And while big chains like Walmart and Tesco are growing in China, the country still relies on many small... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard; Entertainment & Recreation
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