Retailers - Publications - Faculty & Research

12 Jan 2010
First Look

First Look: Jan. 12

of the situation. A resilience regimen of questions that managers can use to reframe negative events and understand their thought processes is explained. Read an excerpt: http://hbr.org/2010/01/how-to-bounce-back-from-adversity/ar/1 Crafting Integrated Multichannel... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

21 Nov 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53512 Online Network Revenue Management Using Thompson Sampling By: Ferreira, Kris Johnson, David Simchi-Levi, and He Wang Abstract—We consider a price-based network revenue management problem where a View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

04 Oct 2016
Blog Post

Why We Recruit: CVS Health

of health. Through its approximately 9,600 retail pharmacies under the CVS, Navarro and Longs Drugs brand names, more than 1,135 walk-in MinuteClinc locations, a leading pharmacy benefits manager with more than 75 million plan members, a... View Details

Keywords: Health Care

12 Apr 2012
News

HBS Welcomes Eleven Alumni Startups

Lema21.com.br will offer fashionable, quality eyewear products for a revolutionary price via an online retail channel. We also will focus on social sustainability to empower less fortunate individuals. mid-atlantic us Knock out!® is a... View Details

Keywords: Bulletin Staff; Alumni New Venture Contest

23 Jul 2021
Blog Post

Trends in Consumer Products

simple and often logical but difficult to predict. Jake Kirsch ‘11, VP Innovation, ABinBev Covid had a massive effect on our business. Fifteen percent of our business is in bars and restaurants and they were effectively closed. Some new products scheduled for launch... View Details

25 Jul 2005
Research & Ideas

An Organization Your Customers Understand

market-facing units. To answer this question we must recognize that there are several markets that are important to the success of organizations. Let's consider the pharmaceutical firm. In its product and service markets, the list of constituents includes consumers,... View Details

Keywords: by Robert Simons

Profile

Darrin Rahn

first first-place finish, and was honored by NAMA as its National Student of the Year. Taking food and beverages into the future Through the NAMA experience, Darrin "developed an interest in the demand side—how does food marketing work in a View Details

Keywords: CPG

Web

Buy Now, Pay Later: Pre-Industrial Credit in Practice

and places like colonial America where hard currency was scarce. Resourceful merchants and retailers devised clever instruments and institutions of credit that made possible large, complicated transactions even without a fungible means of... View Details

04 Sep 2019
News

Action Plan: A New ’Cue

sketch out Pork & Mindy’s—the fast-casual barbecue brand that will have 65 locations in the West and Midwest by the end of 2019, along with a growing retail line. On that white board Corsello identified three obstacles. Two were... View Details

Keywords: April White

18 Jul 2019
News

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
News

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

01 Jan 2008
News

John Doerr, MBA 1976

a dramatic impact on life in the 21st century, from online retail giant Amazon.com to Internet behemoth Google to synthetic biology leader Amyris. Doerr has become a leading advocate of innovation and investment in green technologies.... View Details

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Nielsen data: access?

addition, only certain Nielsen data sets are included: consumer panel, retail scanner, and ad intel data. Contact data-licensing@hbs.edu if you are an HBS faculty member or doctoral student interested in using this resource. View Details

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FIELD Global Immersion Resources: Peru

title="http://english.chosun.com/"> Additional Resources: ABI/ProQuest Useful for: articles on business concepts such as strategy, business models, new product or... View Details

24 Jul 2007
First Look

First Look: July 24, 2007

General Corporation (DG) operates one of the leading chains of extreme value retailers in the United States. 2006 revenues reached $9.2 billion, making DG the 6th largest mass retailer in the country. With... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Jun 2022
News

Sunny Side

kids); another is Arrive, a venture powering the circular economy that allows any brand or retailer to rent their inventory. No place is perfect, Berardi concedes. Yet he’s optimistic the local public-private discourse is healthy enough... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Mar 2018
News

What I Do: Philippe Hellich (MBA 1996)

ever-present too, be it a customer tripping on a display or an entire country divorcing itself from established trading protocols. “The diversity of risks is what makes this job so exciting,” says the man whose task it is to prevent issues from striking the business... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustrations by Peter and Maria Hoey