Retailers - Publications - Faculty & Research

Fortunately for my stress level, I came into HBS with two parts of my career vision crystallized already: a role in the retail & consumer products realm, and something that would allow me to see a project beyond the recommendation... View Details

June 2019
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Brokers vs. Retail Investors: Conflicting Interests and Dominated Products

By: Mark Egan

I study how brokers distort household investment decisions. Using a novel convertible bond dataset, I find that consumers often purchase dominated bonds—cheap and expensive versions of otherwise identical bonds coexist in the market. The empirical evidence suggests... View Details

Keywords: Brokers; Fiduciary Standard; Consumer Finance; Structured Products; Household; Investment; Decisions; Motivation and Incentives; Conflict of Interests

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Most companies assume that the easiest way to grow is by investing overseas and that the developing world offers the best opportunities for boosting revenues and profits today. However, success abroad varies widely, and research shows that it's often tough to increase... View Details

01 Oct 1996
News

Uhlmann Award Winners Focus on French Retailer

(Belarus), all members of the MBA Class of 1996 and students in Professor Ray A. Goldberg's Agribusiness Management Research elective, conducted a study of Carrefour, the French mass-market food retailing giant. Founded in 1959 by two... View Details

29 Jul 2013

HBS Retail & Luxury Goods Sector Webinar

This online information session will highlight the resources available to students coming from or who are interested in pursuing a career in the Retail & Luxury Goods sector. There will be a brief presentation followed by a panel... View Details

November 1990
Article

Manufacturer Trade Deals and Retail Price Promotions

By: R. Lal

Keywords: Trade; Sales; Price

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23 Jun 2015
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Innovation and the Retailization of Health Care

July 1991
Supplement

Retail Promotional Pricing: When Is a Sale Really a Sale? (B)

Provides the court's decision in the May D&F case, and updates the controversy surrounding high-low retail pricing. View Details

Keywords: Courts and Trials; Price; Judgments; Retail Industry

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07 May 2014
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Hopscotch Acquires Online School Supplies Retailer SkoolShop

Keywords: Retail Trade

2019
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Real Exchange Rate Behavior: New Evidence from Matched Retail Goods

By: Alberto Cavallo, Brent Neiman and Roberto Rigobon

We use a dataset containing daily prices for thousands of matched retail products in nine countries to study tradable-goods real exchange rates. Prices were collected from the websites of large multi-channel retailers and then carefully matched into narrowly-deﬁned... View Details

Keywords: Purchasing Power Parity; Online Prices; Real Exchange Rate; Macroeconomics; Currency Exchange Rate; Price; Internet and the Web

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Retail & Luxury Goods Club | MBA

Retail & Luxury Goods Club RLGC serves to educate its members and the entire HBS community about retail and luxury goods concepts, challenges, and opportunities in the industry. The club also helps with... View Details