Retail - Publications - Faculty & Research

13 May 2021
News

Paying with Cash? Retailers Must Take Your Dollars in These States

August 2008 (Revised March 2010)
Case

Finland's S Group: Competing with a Cooperative Approach to Retail

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Tarun Khanna, Samuli Skurnik and Jordan Mitchell

The case looks at the two dominant Finnish retailers: S Group and Kesko. S Group is a customer-owned cooperative, which has a unique holding structure whereby 1.7 million residents (or 70 percent of Finnish households) own 22 regional cooperatives. In turn, the... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Cooperative Ownership; Public Ownership; Competitive Advantage; Retail Industry; Finland

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04 Mar 2013
News

Young entrepreneurs sell Pushpins app to retail giant

Keywords: Retail Trade; Retail Trade; Retail Trade; Retail Trade; Retail Trade; Retail Trade

03 Dec 2015
Cold Call Podcast

Planning Change: Lessons from the World of Retail

Keywords: Re: Das Narayandas

12 Jun 2019
News

Busy IPO Market Offers Lifeline to Troubled Retailers

19 Jun 2018
HBS Conference

Consortium For Operational Excellence in Retailing (COER) 2018

29 Jun 2021

Women in Industry Series: Retail & Consumer Goods

Please join faculty member Dr. Jill Avery as she moderates a panel of HBS women making a difference in the retail and consumer goods space. Learn about their experiences and how HBS has played a role in their journeys. View Details

24 Jan 2013
News

What can foreign retailers bring in which India doesn't already have?

16 Oct 2018
Working Paper Summaries

Shipping Fees and Product Assortment in Online Retail

Keywords: by Chaoqun Chen and Donald Ngwe; Retail

September 2006
Supplement

CEMEX: Rewarding the Egyptian Retailers - Video Supplement

Keywords: Retail Industry; Egypt

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February 1992 (Revised December 1992)
Case

European Retail Alliance: (Ahold--The Netherlands, Argyll--United Kingdom, Casino--France)

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter

Keywords: Alliances; Retail Industry; Netherlands; United Kingdom; France

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Innovations in Retail Operations: Thirty Years of Lessons from Production and Operations Management

By: Marshall Fisher and Ananth Raman

We review papers published in Production and Operations Management (POM) during its thirty-year history that deal with retail operations issues with an empirical approach. The papers span a range of issues, from traditional ones like forecasting and inventory... View Details

Keywords: RFID; Innovation and Invention; Technology Adoption; Operations; E-commerce; Strategy; Retail Industry

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February 2013
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Commercial Property Rent Dynamics in U.S. Metropolitan Areas: An Examination of Office, Industrial, Flex and Retail Space

By: Maria Ibanez and Anthony Pennington-Cross

This paper is concerned with the market rental rate for space offered by commercial property and how that rental rate evolves over time. Rental rates reflect the value of the services provided by the property and can have a significant impact on the ability of its... View Details

Keywords: Commercial Real Estate; Rent Dynamics; Office Property; Flex Property; Retail Property; Industrial Property; Property; Real Estate Industry; United States

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30 May 2018
Research & Ideas

Should Retailers Match Their Own Prices Online and in Stores?

The line gets blurry for shoppers when retailers won't honor their online prices in-store. (Kwangmoozaa) While shopping for my 10-year-old daughter’s Halloween costume last October, I pulled out my smartphone and hopped online to see if... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Retail

October 2011 (Revised September 2014)
Case

Moda Operandi: A New Style of Fashion Retail

By: Mukti Khaire

Moda Operandi is a startup in the fashion industry. The firm organizes online trunk shows of designers' collections, allowing its members to directly order clothes from the collections shown in Fashion Weeks all over the world. Moda Operandi conveys the preorders to... View Details

Keywords: Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Order Taking and Fulfillment; Distribution Channels; Internet and the Web; Design; Retail Industry; Retail Industry

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