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FIELD Global Immersion Resources: Rwanda
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Africa Confidential Rwanda - The New Times: Comprehensive... View Details
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- 22 Feb 2022
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marketplace status quo. Demanding a voice and sometimes a hand in the products they buy, these digitally empowered consumers― “Me’s”―have inverted the traditional power dynamics of retail into metail. To put it simply, your customers are... View Details
- 11 Jun 2020
- In Practice
Are Digital Organizations Better at Overcoming COVID?
solved by technology, no matter how good. Anybody in retail or entertainment or education has a difficult situation to handle. Anybody delivering medical services faces an entirely different and unprecedented set of problems. For business... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 28 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
While Waiting for Japan’s Recovery, Let’s Enhance Supplier Competitiveness at Home
Connection on January 31. Other major manufacturers and retailers are soon to join, and IBM intends to find other ways to enhance small business growth. Imagine the possibilities for a national campaign to reduce unemployment and grow the... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 09 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Challenge of the Multi-site Nonprofit
Why is it more difficult for nonprofit organizations than, say, retail chains, to run efficient multi-site operations? A recent Harvard Business Review story concluded that nonprofits waste $100 billion a year through inefficient... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
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Class Profile | MBA
Average GPA (based on US schools that use a 4.0 grading system) Undergraduate Majors Arts / Humanities 5% Business / Commerce 24% Economics 19% Engineering 22% Math / Physical Sciences 18% Social Sciences 12% 5 Years Average Work Experience Pre-MBA Industry Consulting... View Details
- 29 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles and Research Papers of 2014
language it uses to communicate. Why Do Outlet Stores Exist? Created in the 1930s, outlet stores allowed retailers to dispose of unpopular items at fire sale prices. Today, outlets seem outmoded and unnecessary—stores have bargain racks,... View Details
- 11 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
E-Commerce Unplugged
behavior. Good examples of such companies are leaders in the consumer packaged-goods industry such as Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, Procter & Gamble and Kraft Foods—or retail organizations such as Wal-Mart and Best Buy. Consider the following... View Details
Keywords: by Nitin Nohria & Marty Leestma
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Making Eco Easy
products are sold directly to consumers and will be available at a national retailer by summer of 2020. In starting Blueland, Paiji Yoo and Mascari aimed to help reduce up to five billion cleaning-product bottles used per year. “We share... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 08 Jun 2011
- News
Alumni News: Judy Gehrke
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- 30 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Do Mergers Hurt Product Quality?
comparative consumer product reviews since 1936. The publication ranks competitive brands according to quality, based on in-house testing and customer surveys, and publishes the products' retail prices. "Decades of data, just staring... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Capitalist Revolutions Analyzed in MBA "Foundations" Course
born in the first industrial revolution in England has survived for two hundred years. Another case, on Southland Corporation and Seven-Eleven Japan, examines retailing in the third industrial revolution in two very different... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 23 Sep 2014
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First Look: September 23
software to be significant. But unlike other retailers who took an iron hand approach to push compliance, Belk's implementation permitted store managers to "edit" the system to "fix" the "bugs" in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2024
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3-Minute Briefing: David Perpich (MBA 2007)
I interned at a lot of different places in high school and college—a hospital, a retail store, a magazine, an ad agency. At Duke, I was part owner of a student-run food-delivery service. In Clay Christensen–speak, it was the “emergent strategy,” exploring as I went and... View Details
- 15 Mar 2016
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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
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FIELD Global Immersion Resources: Thailand
target="_blank">EMIS (See above) Additional Resources: ABI/ProQuest Useful for: targeted publications on business and management topics such as strategy, business model, design new services, retail trends, etc. Kanopy... View Details
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FIELD Global Immersion Resources: Taiwan
such as strategy, business model, design new services, retail trends, etc. Nikkei Asian Review Useful for: news relation to tensions in Taiwan, deals in Asia, as well as economic and political updates Search tips: the menu ribbon is... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Stocking Up Can Build Customer Value
papers (and miss one or more possible sales) once a week, or one-seventh of the time. What's ignored in this equation, though, according to HBS professor David Bell, is that customers care how often a retailer runs out of stock. "The... View Details