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- 23 Sep 2014
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First Look: September 23
software to be significant. But unlike other retailers who took an iron hand approach to push compliance, Belk's implementation permitted store managers to "edit" the system to "fix" the "bugs" in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
New HBS Alumni Board Members
former U.S. naval officer, Mendell was a Baker Scholar at HBS. He and his wife, Andrea, have two children. Linda S. Oubré (MBA '84), a native of Los Angeles, is director and division president of BriteSmile, Inc., a specialty retailer... View Details
- 23 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
Will the “Long Tail” Work for Hollywood?
long-tail view suggests that consumers will purchase an increasing number and a wider variety of videos, everything from Hollywood classics to obscure foreign films. Long-tail proponents believe that consumers have very different tastes, and online View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
3-Minute Briefing: David Perpich (MBA 2007)
I interned at a lot of different places in high school and college—a hospital, a retail store, a magazine, an ad agency. At Duke, I was part owner of a student-run food-delivery service. In Clay Christensen–speak, it was the “emergent strategy,” exploring as I went and... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Agenda: Amanda E/J Morrison (MBA 2014)
the ground, and knowledge coming from the local communities up to us about what’s happening, since early 2022.” “We’re 18 months old and we’re in 13,000 CVS, Target, and Walmart stores right now. The goal is to one day have this Julie ‘medicine cabinet’ that any woman... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Fashionable Fundraising
Thirty-five HBS students and partners took to the runway in mid-April for the Retail & Apparel Club’s 7th annual HBS Fashion Show. The sold-out event packed a Boston restaurant, with the proceeds going to the Harris Center for Education... View Details
- 15 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 15, 2016
intelligent software for efficient order delivery, and a customer friendly online interface. Ocado's customer base had expanded beyond the wealthy to include middle-income consumers; even with a delivery charge, grocery shopping through Ocado was, in many cases, as... View Details
- 06 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 6, 2007
findings to the retailer for comment, but received no response. While Wal-Mart did not respond, the company had taken several steps to strengthen its ethical standards worldwide in recent years. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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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
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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
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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
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Steven Rogers
William Sahlman, one of Rogers' mentors, has written a case about the purchase.) In 1991, they purchased a second lampshade company and then, two years later, a retail store. "I found I liked doing the deals more than running the... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Design Fair
of Pinball, pictured at far right. The team, in collaboration with the Design Continuum and the MIT Media Lab, created a system for fashion retail stores that utilizes weight-sensitive floor tiles in order to know where shoppers are... View Details
- 14 Feb 2017
- News
Taking the Lead at Wesfarmers
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How Student-Proposed Internships Can Create Value - Recruiting
affordable-luxury space, with a global presence across more than 100 markets and strong e-commerce and wholesale businesses. After hearing Anine Bing’s founders speak at HBS’s Retail & Luxury Goods Conference, Jessica Zukhovich (MBA 2024)... View Details