Target - Publications - Faculty & Research

24 Jul 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018

on Snap: two with buy recommendations, six with holds, and six with sells. When the “IPO quiet period” expired three weeks later, 16 more analysts—who worked at firms that were underwriters for the IPO—issued recommendations: 10 with buy and six with hold, with price... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

28 Oct 2014
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First Look: October 28

"food deserts"-areas with limited access to affordable and nutritious food. In pursuit of these initiatives, the company's rapid entry into a heterogeneous set of new markets necessitated a reexamination of its store format, View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

02 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 2

and goad managers. This response assesses Caesars Entertainment's CodeGreen scorecard, advocates a more comprehensive environmental assessment to target subsequent improvement efforts, and describes how the company can leverage and scale... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

30 Sep 2016
News

Competing Against Luck

provide to you so that these experiences will sum up to nailing the job perfectly? And when I have to decide whether I'm going to hire Target to get this job done, or IKEA to get the job done, the way I decide who to hire depends on these... View Details

03 Oct 2017
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First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017

overrule clients' specifications (or biases) about the competencies they should be targeting in their ideal hires? Accompanying the case are the (anonymized) data one of these companies used to make its hiring decision so that students... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

04 Apr 2017
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First Look at New Research, April 4

political participation and interest while improving representation of all groups. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52460 December 2016 Strategic Management Journal Through the Mud or in the Boardroom: Examining Activist Types and Their... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 Jun 2005
Research & Ideas

Microsoft vs. Open Source: Who Will Win?

Unix and threatened Linux users with lawsuits over infringement of those rights unless they agree to pay substantial licensing fees. IBM, which was one of the prime corporate sponsors of Linux as well as the target of a lawsuit by SCO... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology

01 Apr 2002
News

Back in Business

some of that will be directed to the state and city for expenses already incurred. The LMDC has received an initial $2 billion, targeted for infrastructure needs, such as rebuilding the subway and commuter train lines destroyed at Ground... View Details

Keywords: 9/11; NYC; New York City; Government

20 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency

media, notably Twitter, to generate grassroots support around his call to make America great again. Effective communications and wise targeting of resources against key voter segments, notably in swing states, were equally important in... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese

14 Mar 2019
News

The Merchant of Osaka

would knock on doors and say, ‘Would you be interested in talking with Nippon Life?’ ” She targeted fitness clubs and nursing homes, given the direction of the country’s demographics. Any new business Oishi brought on was passed along to... View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance

28 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 28, 2009

environmental regulations, and about challenges in markets for tradable pollution permits. Purchase this case: http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=709030 Targanta Therapeutics: Hitting a Moving Target Harvard... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

16 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 16, 2008

private entities, as well as those whose features may proxy for higher quality. Larger entities are disproportionately targeted in litigation. I discuss how the findings are in large part consistent with the theoretical literature on the... View Details

06 Dec 2021
News

Rescue & Recovery

permitted to continue working, whether they would be targeted for their ties to an American organization, or even if the funding could get through. The team paused programming at the height of the upheaval but McKenna hopes they’ll be... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photographed by Stephen Voss; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

12 Apr 2010
Research & Ideas

One Report: Better Strategy through Integrated Reporting

good results, particularly if financial and other incentives are tied to these results and commitments are in terms of future goals and targets. This was the case at Natura and UTC; both companies were candid about whether or not past View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

16 Dec 2020
Blog Post

Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement

right side of racial and social justice, and we are more resolved than ever to take that commitment to another level. Our goal is to do everything we can to achieve progress on each of the targeted pillars, and we will work tirelessly to... View Details

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negotiating "externally" with the other side(s) as well as "internally" within each side. Beyond doing individual deals, the course will explore how great negotiators often envision and carry out effective multi-front, sequential “negotiation campaigns” that culminate... View Details

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