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Joyce C. Hall
Hall created the world’s largest greeting card company. Hallmark Cards are sold throughout the world (currently in 100 countries). He pioneered the use of radio and TV advertising for greeting cards and revolutionized the industry with a display case that allowed the... View Details
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William Guthy
Guthy was a pioneer in the use of Infomercials. He was the first to market Infomercials with a brand on the lower left corner of the television screen and he gained success by focusing on quality products and services. His branding and approach helped to differentiate... View Details
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Bernard A. Edison
Taking the helm of the family business from his father and uncle, Edison went on to lead it through its strongest period of growth and financial performance. He dramatically expanded operations, opening new designer footwear stores including Baker’s, Chandler’s, and... View Details
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Justin Dart
Dart transformed United Drug into a profitable firm again. He did this by going with the Rexall banner, which the founder Louis Liggett had made into a household name, and discarding most of the other names in use by the company. Eventually, the company took the name... View Details
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Edward W. Carter
Carter developed the first suburban shopping center in 1947 in Los Angeles and popularized regional chain stores. Carter started with three regional stores in Los Angeles in 1946, and by 1980, had grown that number to 47. Carter expanded the company nationally through... View Details
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- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Fall Reunions
ranging from lessons of the Columbia space shuttle disaster and Enron’s downfall, to the revolution in retailing and elements of effective negotiation. In between sessions, old friends gathered on the Spangler Center lawn for coffee,... View Details
- 01 May 2013
- News
Isik Kececi Asur, MBA 1997
country and culture,” Asur says. In addition to Mustafa’s diversified family oil business, the Asurs are partners in Istanbul-based Aragon Capital, a firm they launched five years ago that manages a variety of investments including commercial and residential... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Ensuring success through education
opened its first campus in 2008 and its second in 2011. “There are many businesses that are born and die. A university is supposed to live forever,” says the founder and chairman of FiBA Group, a multibillion-dollar portfolio of investments that includes shopping... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Mobile robots revolutionize order fulfillment
The brainchild of Mick Mountz (MBA 1996), Kiva Systems, with its army of small, battery-powered, orange mobile robots, offers a game-changing approach to the way e-commerce retailers such as The Gap, Staples, Saks 5th Avenue, Crate and... 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
- 02 Oct 2019
- What Do You Think?
What Grade Would You Give Walmart CEO Doug McMillon?
Andrei Stanescu SUMMING UP Was Walmart’s Leadership Sufficiently Proactive in Meeting Broader Corporate Responsibilities? Several times as many respondents to this month’s column gave CEO Doug McMillon high marks as opposed to low marks for leading Walmart to stop... View Details
- 08 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Return of the Salesman
Throughout history salespeople have come in all sizes and stripes—peddlers, drummers, canvassers, agents, sales reps, and of course the iconic door-to-door salesman. But it's only been relatively recently that historians have focused scholarly attention on salespeople... View Details
- 09 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
Starbucks’ Lessons for Premium Brands
Starbucks' announcement that it will close 600 stores in the United States is a long-overdue admission that there are limits to growth. In February 2007, a leaked internal memo written by founder Howard Schultz showed that he recognized the problem that his own growth... View Details
- 18 Mar 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
Modeling Expert Opinions on Food Healthiness: A Nutrition Metric
- 11 Dec 2006
- Research & Ideas
Fixing Price Tag Confusion
The price tag is evolving. It wasn't long ago that potential buyers had only to contemplate a single figure on a price tag—Mattress $799. But increasingly consumers are being presented with "partitioned" prices. Look at your monthly cable bill, where you might see a... View Details
Charles R. Walgreen, Jr.
As a young purchasing department officer, Walgreen Jr. gained valuable management experience by overseeing a wide variety of the company’s buying operations and by creating several new lines of merchandise. During his tenure as Walgreens' president, he expanded the... View Details
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Charles D. Tandy
Though Tandy Corporation was a successful leather goods company, Charles Tandy’s biggest accomplishment was his revitalization of Radio Shack. Acquiring the company with $4.5 million in debt and almost $1 million in largely uncollectible receivables, Tandy assembled a... View Details
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Bernard Marcus
Marcus and Home Depot co-founder Arthur Blank met while they were both working at a California-based home improvement chain. After a decade of disagreements about that chain's future, Marcus and Blank went out on their own, determined to start a new chain with a... View Details
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