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  • 01 Aug 2002
  • News

HBS Business Plan Contest Keeps Entrepreneurial Spirit Alive

included Aprendo, a service that verifies education and employment data; Empower, a specialty merchandiser of innovative “lifestyle” products for people with disabilities; and Music Games International, a company developing high-quality... View Details
  • 10 Sep 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Long-Tail Economics? Give Me Blockbusters!

and five companion movies. Adding DVD and merchandise sales, theme parks, etc., Advertising Age valued the Potter economy at $15 billion. Sizzle. A blockbuster does not just address an important need. It does so in an exciting and... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch; Entertainment & Recreation; Pharmaceutical
  • 18 Apr 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Prosper with Multi-Channel Retailing

the brand in all major facets of the store experience," he said. "The one thing we pride ourselves on is the presentation of the merchandise in our stores." While many of Abercrombie's customers are Web-savvy teens, Nuzzo... View Details
Keywords: by Julie Jette; Consumer Products; Retail
  • 07 Jul 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Banning Big-box Stores Can Hurt Local Retailers

neighborhoods, and cover approximately 15 percent the size of a general merchandise Target store," reads a company press release. Considering this onslaught of small format chain stores, Sadun believes the subject of big-box... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail
  • 04 Aug 2006
  • What Do You Think?

What Happens When the Economics of Scarcity Meets the Economics of Abundance?

making purchases of merchandise generally thought to be in what Anderson calls "the Short Head" of the item popularity curve. The Short Head accommodates hit recordings, the most popular fashions, best-selling books, and other... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • Profile

Hiroshi Mikitani

hyper-efficient supermarket with standardized offerings,” Rakuten is more like a bazaar “where the owners of many small shops curate the merchandise and interact personally with customers.” Starting out, Rakuten charged... View Details
  • 19 Mar 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Finding Success in the Middle of the Market

at least seven different store formats, from convenient Tesco Express outlets at one end of the spectrum to full assortment hypermarkets at the other. But, within all its stores, Tesco implements the same merchandising principles: Better,... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch; Auto; Retail
  • Profile

Monne Williams

sponsor?" Seeking answers, Monne landed a college internship with Roush Racing, a NASCAR team based in Charlotte, NC. "I got to see how licensing and merchandising worked from the inside," she says. When Monne returned to... View Details
  • 01 Oct 1996
  • News

Kid at Heart — John H. Eyler (MBA 1971)

he says. Eyler initiated a complete renovation of store interiors, added new attractions, and revamped the merchandise so that more than 70 percent of it now features either exclusive or hard-to-find items. Down on the Fifth Avenue shop... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
  • Web

Trade Catalogs - The Art of American Advertising

distinct means of communication and distribution to a mass audience. Trade catalogs, for example, became an integral way of merchandising new industrial products created from the enormous factory output and market demands of the... View Details
  • 26 Jun 2025
  • News

The Vinyl Revival

high quality, fast turnaround, because the problem I had identified from working with so many independent artists is, as digital content moves so quickly, you could suddenly have a hit on your hands and then be waiting to get merchandise... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2005
  • News

One-on-One with Peter Cuneo

related merchandising licenses for toys and other consumer products. The first Marvel-produced theatrical release (Captain America is a likely subject) is scheduled to appear in summer 2008. Marvel, based in New York, with offices in... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; comic books; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management
  • 10 Jul 2018
  • Blog Post

Embracing Entrepreneurship & the Asian American Community

launch Fish Sauce, I took advantage of the Entrepreneurs in Residence (Eir) at HBS to learn about building the podcast. In the summer, I received the Rock Summer Fellowship so we could continue scaling out our operations; from hosting our first live event to launching... View Details
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Media

Media

This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details

  • 25 Jul 2012
  • News

Movie Magic

Kaplan: "Automated retail" dispenses movie magic. Photo courtesy Gregg Kaplan/Redbox If you’ve seen one at your local US grocery store, you know that “vending machine” is an inadequate description for Redbox, the sleek, red (of course) kiosks that dispense new-release... View Details
Keywords: vending machines; General Merchandise Stores; General Merchandise Stores; General Merchandise Stores; General Merchandise Stores
  • 05 Feb 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Can Putin Score Olympic Gold?

merchandise sales, with sales so far topping only $30 million, compared to Vancouver's $51 million. Such lackluster performance spells trouble not only for the Games themselves, but also for all of the brands that hope to ride its bobsled... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Sports; Advertising
  • 25 Aug 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Should You Sell Your Digital Privacy?

competing grocers bid for the right to gather a shopper's data by offering discounts on merchandise to program members and in some cases by offering members non-price benefits such as superior service. Anonymous mass markets are giving... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls & Sean Silverthorne; Advertising
  • 22 Apr 2015
  • Op-Ed

Reforming Greece: Myths and Truths

importantly, these gains were driven entirely by increases in exports, which as a percentage of GDP rose to 30 percent, much higher than the typical 20 percent that was the norm 10 years ago. Merchandise exports rose between 2007 and 2014... View Details
Keywords: by George Serafeim
  • 01 Apr 1997
  • News

Facing the Music

manufacturing, which would allow a store to digitally download from a central facility any CD a customer requested and press it on the spot in a matter of minutes. "This could eliminate the need for inventories and would solve the problem of View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
  • 27 Apr 2010
  • First Look

First Look: April 27

growth track but remains chiefly concerned about its vulnerability to supply disruptions and to increases in merchandise costs from higher input prices. The firm appears quite overvalued based on a multiples analysis but considerably... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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