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- 21 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 21
Target's faltering performance during an economic downturn led an activist shareholder to initiate a proxy fight. Target Corporation, the second largest discount store retailer in the U.S., had competed successfully against industry... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Aug 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 14, 2018
Armarium would need to charge for its one-of-a-kind pieces with retail values that could reach as high as $15,000. The two founders faced significant scaling challenges, from how to establish guardrails around curation of the collection... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 10 May 2016
- First Look
May 10, 2016
Ozik, and Ronnie Sadka Abstract—We develop real-time proxies of retail corporate sales from multiple sources, including approximately 50 million mobile devices. These measures contain information from both the earnings quarter (within... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 21 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 21
http://hbr.org/product/gap-inc-2000/an/713508-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 713-511 Gap, Inc., 2012 Between 2000 and 2012, Gap, Inc. ceded its world leadership position in specialty fashion retailing to Inditex of Spain and H&M... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Want to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part I]
faculty, Hart, MBA '81, DBA '95, had direct knowledge of her course material: in 1985, she was one of the four founding officers of Staples Inc., the office-products retailer whose sales now exceed $10 billion per year. Hart wanted her... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
- 09 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
Overcoming the Challenges of Selling Brand New Technology (Hey, Need a 3-D Printer?)
SeventyFour Few phrases in business are more seductive than the one attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson in the 19th century: “Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.” Unless, of course, what you are selling is something totally new, like 3-D... View Details
- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
Circuit City was forced into liquidation. Unable to meet creditors' demands, and with no acquirer in sight, Circuit City began the process of liquidating its remaining 567 U.S. stores. Circuit City had been the leader in consumer electronics View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- January 2016 (Revised February 2016)
- Course Overview Note
The Sustainable Core: Operations Management
By: Michael W. Toffel and L. Beril Toktay
This note is designed to help faculty embed environmental sustainability content into their core Operations Management course at the MBA or undergraduate level. It can also be used to identify cases with environmental content that can be used in operations electives... View Details
Keywords: Environmental Management; Operations Management; Sustainable Operations; Environmental Regulation; Operations; Supply Chain; Supply Chain Management; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Biotechnology Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Construction Industry; Forest Products Industry; Retail Industry
Toffel, Michael W., and L. Beril Toktay. "The Sustainable Core: Operations Management." Harvard Business School Course Overview Note 616-022, January 2016. (Revised February 2016.)
- 21 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 21
managed. Firms in developing countries, such as Brazil, China, and India tend to be poorly managed. American retail firms and hospitals are also well managed by international standards, although American schools are more poorly managed... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 10
are the best managed. Firms in developing countries, such as Brazil, China, and India, tend to be poorly managed. American retail firms and hospitals are also well managed by international standards, although American schools are more... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 27, 2007
has quality variations, reducing consumption. Five independent growers formed a cooperative to provide quality control and a brand name—Ripe 'N Ready—that enabled retailers to differentiate their stores and producers to differentiate the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 30, 2015
Business School. Guerra was vice president of Operations at Evans Food, a $100 million company, which produced pork rinds-salty snacks made out of pork skin-sold at some of the largest U.S. retailers such as HEB, Meijer, ALDI, and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 13 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 13, 2016
Harvard Business School Case 217-016 Financial Services at Falabella (A) In 2010, the board and senior management team of Falabella, a leading retailer with operations throughout Latin America, faced choices about what to do with its... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 30 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 30
listed company and the largest telecom provider in New Zealand, was being divided into two publicly traded companies, Chorus, a telecom infrastructure company, and new Telecom, a telecom retail services provider. In connection with this... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 04 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018
the Largest Bank in the U.S.? When Jamie Dimon took over as CEO of JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPMorgan Chase) in 2005, he reaffirmed the commitment to pursue a "universal bank" strategy—providing a full range of products and services to both View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 30 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 30
(July-August 2009) Abstract What if the current recession turns out to be like the Great Depression of 1929-1933? Four years from now, the United States might find itself with a still-shrinking economy, half as many banks as in 2009, a third as many hedge funds, and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 23, 2008
b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=609027 Kmart and ESL Investments (A) Harvard Business School Case 209-044 A major bankrupt retailer is poised to emerge from Chapter 11. Two activist hedge funds ("vulture investors") will own... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 5
KindredHarvard Business School Case 513-052 Patrick Coveney, CEO of Greencore, one of the top producers of private label prepared foods sold through UK grocery retailers, was assessing Greencore's growth options. Growth potential was limited in the UK, a mature market... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 18
has begun to grow kiwifruit outside of New Zealand in order to have the product on retail shelves year round. Is this the right strategy for the future? Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/511001-PDF-ENG Asian Agri... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 8, 2008
is a time-honored approach, particularly in media and entertainment. When space is limited on store shelves and in traditional distribution channels, producers tend to focus on a few likely best sellers, hoping that one or two big hits will carry the rest of their... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace