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FIELD Global Immersion Resources: Rwanda

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Useful for: targeted publications on business and management topics such as strategy, business model, design new services, retail trends, etc.
Africa Confidential Rwanda - The New Times: Comprehensive... View Details

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FIELD Global Immersion Resources: Finland

design new services, retail trends, etc. EMIS (See above) Contact View Details

15 Mar 2016
First Look

March 15, 2016

intelligent software for efficient order delivery, and a customer friendly online interface. Ocado's customer base had expanded beyond the wealthy to include middle-income consumers; even with a delivery charge, grocery shopping through Ocado was, in many cases, as... View Details

06 Nov 2007
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First Look: November 6, 2007

findings to the retailer for comment, but received no response. While Wal-Mart did not respond, the company had taken several steps to strengthen its ethical standards worldwide in recent years. Purchase this case:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Aug 2007
Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Using Investor Relations Proactively

Total focuses on explaining how their cash use is prudent. Similarly, BP has a large base of retail investors but in many ways it treats them as just slightly different versions of its institutional investors. That is, BP assumes the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Energy; Utilities

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Fereshteh Zeineddin

based on facts and reason.' I still have passion," Fereshteh says, "but now I can communicate that passion more effectively." Managing priorities Fereshteh's long-term goal involves managing a leading cosmetics or retail... View Details

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Andrea Nadosy

planted seeds – for entrepreneurship.” Nine months before entering HBS, those seeds already began to bear fruit in Meadowmere Lane, an online retailer of exquisite laptop bags. But as a business-owner in an institution renowned for... View Details

01 Dec 2017
News

Flight Path

Toy State, retails for about $170. Spring 2018 The 2018 season is unveiled, with races scheduled for broadcast by six networks across more than 87 countries. View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Oct 2001
News

Barbara Bry: Business is Blooming

Proflowers, there are no warehouses and no network of retail florists. Orders are transmitted electronically to growers, who cut, pack, and ship, usually within 24 hours. This supply-chain compression allows Proflowers to offer a unique... View Details

Keywords: Thomas Frick; Arts, Entertainment

01 Dec 2004
News

A Life by Design

“They would have been happy if the work of only two of the four groups resulted in new products,” says Ross. Inventing the Future Looking back, Ross, 49, says that Project Platypus represented “an assimilation of all that I have done, of all that I have learned” over a... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; toys; Retail Trade; Retail Trade; Retail Trade; Retail Trade

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

Tatiana Sandino Abstract—Using retail chain data, we study the effects of a tournament incentive plan incorporating objective and subjective criteria. In principle, such plans could motivate employees to perform both at a high level,... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

04 Oct 2016
Blog Post

Why We Recruit: CVS Health

of health. Through its approximately 9,600 retail pharmacies under the CVS, Navarro and Longs Drugs brand names, more than 1,135 walk-in MinuteClinc locations, a leading pharmacy benefits manager with more than 75 million plan members, a... View Details

Keywords: Health Care

12 Apr 2012
News

HBS Welcomes Eleven Alumni Startups

Lema21.com.br will offer fashionable, quality eyewear products for a revolutionary price via an online retail channel. We also will focus on social sustainability to empower less fortunate individuals. mid-atlantic us Knock out!® is a... View Details

Keywords: Bulletin Staff; Alumni New Venture Contest

25 Jul 2005
Research & Ideas

An Organization Your Customers Understand

market-facing units. To answer this question we must recognize that there are several markets that are important to the success of organizations. Let's consider the pharmaceutical firm. In its product and service markets, the list of constituents includes consumers,... View Details

Keywords: by Robert Simons

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

Profile

Tim Nicolette

LEK Consulting in Boston where I gained a lot of basic business, analytical, and strategic skills, and exposure to a wide range of industries from airlines and retail to biotech and P.E. But fundamentally, I wasn’t passionate about the... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit; Nonprofit / Government

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How Student-Proposed Internships Can Create Value - Recruiting

affordable-luxury space, with a global presence across more than 100 markets and strong e-commerce and wholesale businesses. After hearing Anine Bing’s founders speak at HBS’s Retail & Luxury Goods Conference, Jessica Zukhovich (MBA 2024)... View Details

15 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 15

controls, employment at target establishments declines 3% over two years post buyout and 6% over five years. The job losses are concentrated among public-to-private buyouts and transactions involving firms in the service and retail... View Details