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Thomas Stemberg | Baker Library

office supplies, where customers wheeled their own carts through aisles of discounted office offerings from faxes and computer printers to pens and paper products, and, yes, staples. Staples launched in 1986 and not only created but also became the leader in its... View Details

01 Jun 2012
News

Noted & Quoted

“J.C. Penney is in a very tough spot. If you ask people today what it stands for, you don’t get a particularly compelling answer.” —HBS professor Rajiv Lal, commenting on the challenge facing retailing guru Ron Johnson (MBA 1984) as the... View Details

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

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The General Shoe Company, 1921 | Baker Library

the situation with the information available to them, determine what questions still needed asking, and decide on a possible course of action. Harvard University. Bureau of Business Research. Depreciation in the Retail Shoe Business.... View Details

Charles E. Mitchell

Under Mitchell’s presidency, National City Bank was converted into a modern retail banking organization and a world-wide banking empire with offices from London to Singapore. He popularized checking accounts for individuals and pioneered... View Details

Keywords: Finance

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Alex Nelson

solve complex problems and meet people's needs — I could do more effectively as a business person." Finding meaningful roles After just over two and a half years with Boston Consulting Group (BCG), where Alex worked on a variety of marketing and View Details

30 Jan 2018
First Look

January 30, 2018

Sandino Abstract—Many service organizations rely on information sharing systems to boost employee creativity to meet customer needs. We conducted a field experiment in a retail chain, based on a registered report accepted by Journal of... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Introduction | Baker Library

consistently showed foresight in its ability to recognize the potential of emerging industries, from retail to aviation to high tech. In the early 2000s, Lehman Brothers increasingly invested in derivatives and subprime mortgages; losses... View Details

18 Jul 2019
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A Category Leader

Marla Beck (MBA 1998) is founder of Bluemercury, a retailer of high-end beauty products, and a 2019 recipient of the HBS Alumni Achievement Award. In this interview, she talks about building her business model around providing... View Details

01 Sep 2005
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Allston Options Up for Discussion

and adding retail kiosks and bike paths, and construction of a tunnel extension from the MBTA station in Harvard Square under the Charles to Allston. In addition, the report identified possible Allston sites for the graduate schools of... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

04 Mar 2009
Op-Ed

Credit is Not the Bogey

to loan Americans money. In the housing sector, an explosion of subprime lenders gave borrowers deals that were truly too good to be true, trapping them in impossible loans. In the retail sector, credit card agencies flooded mailboxes,... View Details

Keywords: by Nicolas P. Retsinas & Eric S. Belsky; Construction; Real Estate; Financial Services

09 Dec 2013
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In Japan, Red Sox Have a Championship Soul Mate

Keywords: Rakuten; e-commerce; Retail Trade; Retail Trade; Retail Trade

01 Dec 2022
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3-Minute Briefing: Yla Eason (MBA 1977)

in June, when retailers had made their purchasing decisions in February. Sales is often about education. I asked chain retailers where they were selling dark pantyhose and makeup for brown skin, then... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; diversity; leadership; Miscellaneous Manufacturing; Manufacturing

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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

24 Nov 2009
First Look

First Look: Nov. 24

Data Authors:Jonathan Haskel and Raffaella Sadun Publication:Chap. 7 in Producer Dynamics: New Evidence from Micro Data, edited by Timothy Dunne, J. Bradford Jensen, and Mark J. Roberts. The University of Chicago Press, 2009 Abstract The paper investigates the U.K.... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

Lucio A. Noto

Noto first concentrated on consolidating and improving efficiency in Mobil's oil, gas and chemical businesses, including trimming bureaucracy at the corporate level. Noto also revamped Mobil's retail gasoline business, being one of the... View Details

Keywords: Utilities & Energy

Thomas S. Monaghan

Monaghan founded the second largest pizza retailer in the United States. He discovered an effective new formula for Domino’s pizza, simplified the menu, limited toppings and pizza sizes, and concentrated on making deliveries in record... View Details

Keywords: Food & Tobacco