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- 08 Jun 2018
- News
My First Job: Selling Shoes, Surviving Black Monday, and Shaped by Chicken Lenses
grown up in the business all of my career, and when I finished college and came back I was a full-time employee for the first time. After a year or so I was promoted to work under my dad as one of the department managers. And within a few... View Details
- 26 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 26, 2008
b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=808033 The Home Depot, Inc. Harvard Business School Case 608-093 For its first 20 years, Home Depot was known for its entrepreneurial spirit and focus on customer service. Merchandising, purchasing, and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
A Life by Design
the team first has a chance to take in a variety of new ideas.” With that thought in mind, Ross created a stealth, twelve-person team with members drawn from several Mattel departments and a variety of disciplines. Working nights,... View Details
- 08 May 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Cost of Cutting in Line
show, for example, that companies must not try to buy local approval if they plan to open a new facility that the local community does not welcome. If Wal-Mart plans to open a new store and the town does not like it, the worst thing the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Feb 2023
- News
Can We Really Engineer a Climate Fix?
help address the climate change crisis by removing excess carbon dioxide right out of the atmosphere. The promise of this approach has launched a raft of companies that not only capture but also store and even reuse the carbon—creating an... View Details
- 02 Dec 2016
- News
The Story Behind the Stories
here, we talk about business. No politics. Nothing that happened before. We talk about earning money. Making money for our families. And moving our lives forward. And while, yes, they were making baskets, those baskets being made were being sold at a little shop called... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Rural Renewal
native of Wayland, Massachusetts, Reade never thought much about gardening as a kid. After earning her MBA and living in New York City for a few years, however, she went looking for geraniums for her window boxes. At the garden store in... View Details
- 09 Mar 2009
- Research & Ideas
How to Revive Health-Care Innovation
in creating the personal computer industry; the department store Dayton-Hudson launched Target; and Hewlett-Packard created and grew to dominate the disruptive ink-jet printer business. When they follow the... View Details
- 28 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 28, 2015
international expansion and in the early 2010s Jimmy Choo had a store network encompassing 150+ stores in 30+ countries and was present in the most prestigious department and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Rediscovering America
a path to success in many schools. What business could survive if it didn’t have the resources to buy supplies and attract and retain quality employees? What retail store could motivate customers in a dingy, outmoded building where even... View Details
- 19 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 19, 2016
boutiques and department stores)? Should it open more physical stores or focus on e-commerce? Where should the Group focus its international expansion? How could it best leverage its operating platform to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Aug 2014
- Research & Ideas
Climbing Down from the Ivory Tower
In the late 1970s, the Chicago Police Department noticed that the city's crime rate increased when cops stopped walking the beat and started driving around in patrol cars instead. They wondered why, and asked the political scientist... View Details
- 11 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 11
by inventory shrinkage and cash shortage. Using two store-level datasets from the convenience store industry, we find that relative wages are negatively associated with employee theft after we control for each store's employee... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Baker’s back
School’s Department of Operations, several internal HBS committees, and teams of outside experts. “One of the things we did really well was hire the right people,” says Frank Hayes (PMD 75, 2000), who oversaw the project for Operations.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
High Honors
administration at Cornell and then joined Loews in the marketing department of one of its subsidiaries. When Loews acquired the Bulova Watch Company in 1979, Tisch visited the company to assess it. “The place is a disaster,” he told his... View Details
- 04 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Global Poverty
materials that enables impoverished Mexican families to build their own housing; or in Brazil, with Kodak's no-frills camera/film packages, or the department store Magazine Luiza's merchandise, payment... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
American Dream
passing motorists. Hustead acquired the T. rex, for example, to drive demand for the fossils, rocks, and dinosaur-related products for sale in the Wall Drug Mining Company, one of 21 separate retail departments that generate over $12... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Reality to News Biz: Drop Dead
Good luck with that. Industry fundamentals are corroding so rapidly that they will eat through even the noblest of cross-financing oblige. Newspapers, for one, are seeing the wholesale kneecapping of each ad driver, from classifieds to inserts to View Details
- 25 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 25
over the past decade as one of the most active areas of research in economics and strategy. The literature has constantly struggled, however, with a lack of agreement on a proper definition; for instance, some existing definitions imply that retail firms such as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Return of the Salesman
aims to make a one-time sale and hence can be quite insistent. This is the door-to-door salesman and the canvasser. Then there is the relationship-oriented salesperson. The classic instance of this was the traveling salesman who worked for a New York or Chicago View Details