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- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Back to School
There are some things you just can’t learn in an HBS classroom—what it takes to jump out of an airplane, for instance, or the experience of playing at the World Series of Poker. Yet those kinds of out-of-office pursuits are important, says HBS assistant professor Jon... View Details
- November 2017
- Teaching Note
Reinventing Best Buy
By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth
Teaching Note for HBS No. 716-455.
On March 1, 2017, Best Buy Company, Inc., North America’s largest retailer of consumer electronics and appliances, announced a third year of comparable-store sales increases and a 20.8% increase in domestic comparable online sales.... View Details
Keywords: Best Buy; Hubert Joly; Renew Blue; Showrooming; Webrooming; E-commerce; E-Commerce Strategy; Online Retail; Multichannel Retailing; Omnichannel; Marketplaces; Turnaround; Consumer Electronics; Consumer Electronics Accessories; Appliances; Stores-within-stores; Store Experience; Store Size; Store Pickup; Store Management; Delivery; Delivery Models; Amazon; Amazon.com; Pricing Strategy; Business Subsidiaries; Business Units; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; For-Profit Firms; Customer Focus and Relationships; Customer Satisfaction; Entertainment; Film Entertainment; Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Music Entertainment; Television Entertainment; Theater Entertainment; Price; Profit; Revenue; Geographic Scope; Multinational Firms and Management; Business History; Cost; Selection and Staffing; Reports; Technological Innovation; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Human Capital; Leading Change; Business or Company Management; Goals and Objectives; Growth and Development; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Teams; Brands and Branding; Product Marketing; Consumer Behavior; Demand and Consumers; Media; Distribution; Order Taking and Fulfillment; Distribution Channels; Infrastructure; Product; Service Delivery; Service Operations; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Public Ownership; Problems and Challenges; Programs; Groups and Teams; Sales; Salesforce Management; Strategy; Adaptation; Business Strategy; Competition; Competitive Advantage; Competitive Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Expansion; Technology; Hardware; Information Technology; Internet; Mobile Technology; Online Technology; Search Technology; Software; Web; Web Sites; Wireless Technology; Resource Allocation; Video Game Industry; Video Game Industry; Video Game Industry; Video Game Industry; Video Game Industry; Video Game Industry; Video Game Industry; Video Game Industry; Video Game Industry; United States; Minnesota; Minneapolis; Saint Paul; St. Paul
- Profile
Andrew Pratt
here is doing, is trying to take it all in. There are so many things I’ve done this year that I wouldn’t have even considered before: getting involved in student government becoming president of the General Management Club leading negotiations traveling to Vietnam to... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing/Energy
- Web
Investment analyst reports (equity research reports) | Baker Library
left to update the Date Range, select Industry, Country/Region, Contributor (investment bank or publisher), etc. and use the Keyword Search fields to enter your search terms Video on Using LSEG Workspace: Retention of reports: To comply... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Giving Live Sports Another Dimension
technology. (The company also has deals with the Erie BayHawks, a National Basketball Hall of Fame and minor league NBA team.) Using your phone, you can home in on a geographic beacon like the pitcher’s mound and watch video highlights or... View Details
- 20 Aug 2024
- Book
Why Competing With Tech Giants Requires Finding Your Own Edge
resources—be it the myriad Amazon product reviews, a rich collection of free videos on YouTube, or Google’s open-source algorithms. Thanks to these tech giants, a significant portion of your ecosystem is already established and readily... View Details
- Web
4.6 HBS Campus Demonstration Policy | MBA
permitted, whether inside or outside an event. Photography, Audio and Video Recording, and Media Capturing content, images, or conversations, including photography, audio, video, and live streaming, must comply with the Photographing and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
The Exchange: Lessons from the Edge
Khanna says. Their shared interest developed into the Creating Emerging Markets project, which launched in 2012 and includes a catalog of interviews with leaders from all over the developing world who have built enterprises that have helped move society forward.... View Details
- 13 Jul 2020
- News
The First Five Years: Meaghan Fitzgerald (MBA 2016)
various team members and stakeholders. We try to regularly use our own products, so right now, while everyone is working from home due to COVID, I often have my Facebook Portal video calling device tuned in to working group meeting, or... View Details
- 16 Jul 2019
- News
The Making of a Movement
joined Professor Das Narayandas in a case discussion around the reasons for Cycle for Survival's spectacular success. HBS alumni are invited to watch the video of this presentation. View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Rich Wilson
feet to cut a line. There is solitude but not loneliness: With modern technology, we can talk to anyone, anywhere, anytime. None-theless, at sea I am reminded that my place in the universe is very, very small. What were some of the good moments? Sunrise. Sunset.... View Details
- September 2017
- Supplement
Actera Group: Investing in Mars Cinema Group (B)
By: Victoria Ivashina and Eren Kuzucu
In summer of 2010, Murat Çavuşoğlu (HBS MBA 1994) led private equity firm Actera Group’s investment in Mars Cinema Group (Mars), the leading movie exhibitor in Turkey. Immediately after acquiring Mars and merging it with the second larger player in the market, AFM,... View Details
- July – August 2008
- Article
Should You Invest in the Long Tail?
By: Anita Elberse
The blockbuster strategy 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... View Details
Keywords: Demand and Consumers; Distribution Channels; Sales; Marketing Strategy; Online Technology; Motion Pictures and Video Industry; Motion Pictures and Video Industry; Motion Pictures and Video Industry
Elberse, Anita. "Should You Invest in the Long Tail?" HBS Centennial Issue Harvard Business Review 86, nos. 7/8 (July–August 2008): 88–96. (HBS Centennial Issue.)
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Innovating in Health Care - Course Catalog
supplemented with optional pedagogical videos (e.g., reimbursement). Course Requirements Students prepare a business plan, which uses the framework of this course, for an organization that is a technology-commercializing, consumer-... View Details
- August 2024 (Revised January 2025)
- Case
Barbie: Reviving a Cultural Icon at Mattel
The 2023 release of the live-action film Barbie, and its accompanying marketing blitz, incited a worldwide Barbie craze. Suddenly Barbie was everywhere, a celebrated icon reinstated at the forefront of cultural conversation. This goodwill stood in contrast to... View Details
Keywords: Brands and Branding; Media; Intellectual Property; Business Strategy; Entertainment; Gender; Public Opinion; Marketing Strategy; Motion Pictures and Video Industry; Motion Pictures and Video Industry; Motion Pictures and Video Industry; Motion Pictures and Video Industry; United States
Ofek, Elie, Ryann Noe, and Sarah Mehta. "Barbie: Reviving a Cultural Icon at Mattel." Harvard Business School Case 525-006, August 2024. (Revised January 2025.)
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Confronting the Challenges that Face Bricks-and-Mortar Stores
checkout counter. Similarly, IBM developed a video camera that could recognize a retailer's best customers as they walked into the store so that salespeople could offer outstanding personalized service. Unfortunately, shoppers felt it was... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Facing the Music
1996, "you develop an ability to spot a quality act when you see it." In the end, however, admits Boberg, "when we decide to sign an artist, it really comes down to somebody's subjective opinion here at the label." Building the bonfire: posters, CD cover designs,... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
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Steven B. Belkin | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
formidable career in business and his mentoring of emerging entrepreneurs in a video interview at his home in Weston, Massachusetts, in June 2001. Interviewer: Amy Blitz, HBS Director of Media Development for Entrepreneurial Management.... View Details
- Web
Carl Sloane | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
insights on his experiences in a video interview from his office in Marblehead, Massachusetts, in November 2000. Interviewer: Amy Blitz, HBS Director of Media Development for Entrepreneurial Management. Carl Sloane died in 2015. James... View Details
- Web
Career Advancement | Research Associates
relationship with faculty members who are generous teachers and mentors is often cited as one of the greatest advantages of a position. Pre-Doctoral Research An opportunity to expand your research resume before pursuing doctoral studies. Play View Details