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- 01 Apr 2000
- News
The World at a Click
potential for further expansion seems to be a virtual certainty. "Our gross bookings have gone from zero to $400 million in four years," says James J. Hornthal (MBA '78), Preview Travel's founder, chairman, and director and now vice chairman of Travelocity. The company... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelly
- 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
Howard Schultz
Not only did Schultz foresee that a large-scale coffee shop chain was a lucrative business, but he maintained Starbucks lead through a combination of customer and employee satisfaction plans. Schultz’s plan to offer part-time employees stock options and health benefits... View Details
Keywords: Restaurants & Lodging
- 25 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health
garment factory owners engaged in cutthroat price competition to secure orders from Western manufacturer and retailer brands. These brands conveniently sourced their requirements at arm’s length through third-party intermediaries to avoid... View Details
- 28 Oct 2009
- Lessons from the Classroom
HBS Begins Teaching Consumer Finance
management, financial markets, private equity, venture capital, financial engineering (which I also coteach), and a host of other topics. Retail financial services are also occasionally the subject of cases in other areas. But we didn't... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Fall Reunions
academic program filled classrooms with alumni eager to sample the latest in faculty research covering more than two dozen topics, ranging from venture capital and health care to retailing and globalization. LINK TO PHOTO GALLERY Read... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Harvard to Restart Allston Development
apartments and a retail center at Barry’s Corner, located at the intersection of Western Avenue and North Harvard Street, is also part of phase one. The second phase will focus on planning for an enterprise research campus, including a... View Details
- 02 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Where Does Apple Go From Here?
to shrink, with iPod and iTunes driving their current revenue growth. Q: What do you think of Apple's mall store retail strategy? A: I think of their retail strategy as part of their brand advertising. I... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 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
- 20 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
How Much Is Freedom Worth? For Gig Workers, a Lot.
pointing to the mobile shift-swapping app used by employees of clothing retailer The Gap. The company piloted the app in its Old Navy stores and expanded it to all brands in 2018. The app “creates value,” says Oberholzer-Gee, by helping... View Details
- 04 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Predictions, Prophets, and Restarting Your Business
Bezos was still working on Wall Street. After decades of tax-free sales, ecommerce was just 11.4 percent of US retail sales in 2019, according to the Department of Commerce. Meanwhile, social media usage on the major platforms had been... View Details
Keywords: by Frank V. Cespedes
- 16 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Earnings Calls That Get Lost in Translation
transcripts, Yu says the team encountered plenty of bad calls, and it was "mind-boggling" how poorly some CEOs and CFOs communicated. Take the CFO of one of the largest retail banking groups in Europe, who was asked about a... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Feb 2009
- What Do You Think?
Why Can’t We Figure Out How to Select Leaders?
leaders of our largest financial institutions worldwide struggling to justify decisions that have placed their organizations in jeopardy. I was reminded, too, of the CEO of a well-known retail organization who, I believe, would be... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 20 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 20, 2007
Working PapersIncorporating Price and Inventory Endogeneity in Firm-Level Sales Forecasting Authors:Saravanan Kesavan, Vishal Gaur, and Ananth Raman Abstract As numerous papers have argued, sales, inventory, and gross margin for a View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
How Much is Freedom Worth? For Gig Workers, a Lot.
pointing to the mobile shift-swapping app used by employees of clothing retailer The Gap. The company piloted the app in its Old Navy stores and expanded it to all brands in 2018. The app “creates value,” says Oberholzer-Gee, by helping... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products
- 27 Aug 2019
- Blog Post
Meet the PRIDE Club
Washington, DC and London offices, where he worked in the aerospace & defense and retail practices. A native of New Rochelle, New York, he graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 2015 with a B.A. in Near Eastern Languages and... View Details
- 09 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Incentives and Operational Excellence
to customers but also a problem for both stores and studios. Studios sell videocassettes to video rental stores at forty-five dollars, which are then rented out for around four dollars. Tapes are disposed of for five dollars after three months, so the View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 09 May 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 9
U.S. consumers. Despite years of offering samples to consumers, modifications to the naming and packaging design, the addition of new flavors, changes in the supermarkets where it placed its product, and offering retailers slotting... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Developing Insight that Has Power in Practice
The commitment to research that influences pedagogy, theory, and practice is inherent to HBS’s identity. The first field study, conducted in 1911 under the School’s Bureau of Business Research, comprised a comparative examination of the costs of operating a View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Eight Among Many: Antoinette J. ("Toni") Rapone
and then worked at a computer consulting firm in Boston. When the firm closed during the recession of the early 1970s, her boss steered her toward an MBA, and Rapone, ever fearless, landed at Harvard. A twenty-year career in retailing... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso