Retail - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Oct 1998
News

Supplying Demand

When it opens next year, Los Angeles' new state-of-the-art sports complex will bear the name of a $7-billion international retail giant, a newcomer that will join heavyweights such as United Airlines, Anheuser-Busch, and MCI in seeing its... View Details

Keywords: Paul Michelman

01 Sep 2003
News

Sharon Patrick

a magazine and was looking to expand her reach. The two joined forces as partners to build MSO, the well-known “omnimedia” empire for the home that reported revenues of $296 million last year — on $1.5 billion in retail sales, including... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; Finance; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

01 Mar 2015
News

@Soldiers Field

England Patriots owner Robert Kraft (MBA 1965) and president Jonathan Kraft (MBA 1990) suggested an innovation they’d like to see: a way to predict the next Tom Brady. The Retail and Luxury Goods Club brought designer Tommy Hilfiger to... View Details

09 Apr 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019

company. Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/719456-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 518-038 Index In December 2017, Marc Freed-Finnegan and Jonathan Wall, the co-founders of retail technology company Index, had to... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

05 Mar 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019

faced challenges such as data redundancy, missing data, and the presence of irrelevant information. We then apply the model to data from a retail context and illustrate how the focal firm could form customers' first impressions by merely... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

14 Feb 2017
News

Taking the Lead at Wesfarmers

Keywords: career paths; Australia; olympics; conglomerates; leadership; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Miscellaneous Store Retailers

01 Dec 2016
News

Carving a Niche

strategy for building Faction embraces that aura of distinction (“for the few” is one tagline) while leveraging several key retailing trends. “The average size of an interesting, exciting brand is smaller and more premium than it used to... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

Profile

Omowale Casselle

expectations of our consumers, retailers, and brand partners." "In addition to managing our product lines, I also lead our operations team, which means that I make sure that each retail partner (Walmart, Walgreens, Kroger, and... View Details

Keywords: Technology; Consumer Products

Profile

Bei Guo

before starting her own venture. "It's all a matter of timing," she says. Bei's dream business involves design and fashion retail in China. "There are many mature models in the West," says Bei, "but there are lots... View Details

01 Jun 2012
News

Inspiration Is Not Enough

animated screen stars for decades of royalty income. IKEA founder Ingvar Kamprad developed a rigorous vendor-screening process that, though not sexy, provided the furniture retailer with “an impressive supply chain that is virtually... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Apr 1998
News

Deals For Sale

purchase goods from distributors. "A retail chain store with several outlets might bid on these items, for example," he says. Auctions are held daily and are done in real time. "You go to the site, see what other people are offering, and... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

26 Feb 2009
News

Last Look - March 2009

Our thanks to HRPBA ’60-ers Sandy Krickovic Self and Nancy Needham Merrill, who recognized themselves as the second and third models in the photo. Self wrote: “In Malcolm McNair’s Marketing class, we were studying the women’s retail... View Details

Keywords: Keith Larson; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Apparel Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Mar 2011
First Look

First Look: March 1

Strategies of Multichannel Retailers Authors:Elie Ofek, Zsolt Katona, and Miklos Sarvary Publication:Marketing Science 30, no. 1 (January-February 2011) Abstract The Internet has increased the flexibility of retailers, allowing them to... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2004
News

Media, VC Discussed at WSA Conference

something they’ve seen on the Web. And the company’s site is helping to push its brand, she said. Venture capital, success strategies for minorities in business, and fashion retailing were among the other panel topics. Ann M. Fudge (MBA... View Details

Keywords: women in business; women's student association; Arts, Entertainment

22 Feb 2022
News

March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books

marketplace status quo. Demanding a voice and sometimes a hand in the products they buy, these digitally empowered consumers― “Me’s”―have inverted the traditional power dynamics of retail into metail. To put it simply, your customers are... View Details

04 Jul 2011
Research & Ideas

Making the Case for Consumer-Driven Health Care

HBS professor Regina Herzlinger has been the foremost advocate for what she calls "consumer-driven health care." In this video, she argues that just as consumers drive the retail industry, so too should they drive health care.... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

01 Mar 2005
News

Robert Buzzell Remembered

known as the Profit Impact of Marketing Strategies (PIMS), designed to identify and measure the determinants of profits in individual businesses. The author or coauthor of eleven books, Buzzell worked extensively on subjects such as marketing economics; the economic... View Details

Career Coach

Adam Shimer

Adam has a mix of consulting and government experience. He started his career at Bain & Company, during which he worked primarily in the Private Equity Group, retail and telecommunications sectors. Additionally, he volunteered to lead... View Details