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  • 12 Apr 2004
  • Research & Ideas

What Great American Leaders Teach Us

the war ended, Phillips was well positioned to meet the pent-up needs of consumers. His counterpart, Clarence Saunders, who founded Piggly Wiggly, was a consummate Mold-Breaker. He fundamentally revolutionized grocery shopping by converting the local View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Apr 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer

collections, other online stores (such as allofmp3.com), p2p file sharing networks, and other forms of piracy (like sharing between friends). A thriving p2p community acts as an engine for iPod sales. ITunes's 99 cents per song is... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Music
  • 08 Mar 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile

compare each other, both the similarities and differences, especially of their business systems. So we set about using the convening power of the School to bring together the best scholars in business and economic history in both countries, and to View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Dec 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 7

variables are you tracking? How are you creating accountability for performance on those variables? (4) What strategic boundaries have you set? Does everyone know what actions are off-limits? (5) How are you generating creative tension?... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Jul 2016
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July 12, 2016

Landvoigt Abstract—How does the shadow banking system respond to changes in the capital regulation of commercial banks? This paper builds a quantitative general equilibrium model with commercial banks and shadow banks to study the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Dec 2013
  • What Do You Think?

Is Walmart Defying Economic Gravity?

earner happy to have the job ; and (2) wastage (that) seems to abound in the cavernous stores ." Cheri Thomas cited saturation of its markets, especially in the United States, as a concern, adding that "Walmart's fixation on low... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail
  • 07 Aug 2009
  • What Do You Think?

Why Can’t Americans Get Health Care Right?

and digest information, test ideas, define the purpose, and align it to a strategy (Akram Boutros, Jack Slagle, Nikos Mourkogiannis, among others). This all will require more leadership (Paul Karras, Phil Clark). There was general... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Health
  • 04 Apr 2007
  • Research & Ideas

The Business of Global Poverty

materials that enables impoverished Mexican families to build their own housing; or in Brazil, with Kodak's no-frills camera/film packages, or the department store Magazine Luiza's merchandise, payment plans, and customer service, all... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
  • 03 May 2016
  • First Look

First Look, May 3, 2016

operated over 11,500 stores in 40 states at the start of 2015 but had recently been rebuffed in a tender offer for its leading rival, Family Dollar. Though Dollar General had held talks with Family Dollar as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019

Susanna Gallani, and Tatiana Sandino Abstract—We analyze the effects of a field experiment introducing a values-based 360-degree assessment system at an Indian retailer. The director intended to encourage store managers, rewarded based on... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 11 Jun 2001
  • Research & Ideas

E-Commerce Unplugged

after she finishes work. His cell phone beeps: It's a message from the Soda X portal. The Chicago Fire soccer team is playing tonight, and the Guess? store that Tommy is approaching is offering him half-price tickets for the game if he... View Details
Keywords: by Nitin Nohria & Marty Leestma
  • 01 Oct 2008
  • Research & Ideas

How Much Time Should CEOs Devote to Customers?

must get out and meet customers on their home turf—in their homes, on job sites, in their offices. Here the CEO has to set an example. AG Lafley, CEO of Procter & Gamble, reinstituted consumer home visits and store visits for himself... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
  • 23 Sep 2014
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First Look: September 23

implementation: over 70% of shifts generated by the system were receiving manual overrides ("edits") by the store managers. Store managers believed the edits were... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Jul 2010
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First Look: July 20

Target's general merchandise stores outweigh the associated challenges? Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/510016-PDF-ENG Vale: Global Expansion in the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Oct 2006
  • First Look

First Look: October 12, 2006

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=806086 Comergent Technologies Inc.: Enterprise E-Commerce Harvard Business School Case 505-016 BP's IR director has begun a program to use information regarding external views of BP and the industry as part... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018

actions on performance. However, standard regression models estimate only the average effects of these actions across firms. Our paper discusses how random coefficient models (RCMs) may generate new insights about firm heterogeneity and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 20 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 20

General (forthcoming) Abstract Previous research suggests that children develop an increasing concern with fairness over the course of development. Research with adults suggests that the concern with fairness has at least two distinct... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Mar 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Ruthlessly Realistic: How CEOs Must Overcome Denial

lose your bearings. Q: How pernicious a problem is denial in business today? A: Denial has always been a problem. What is different today is that the cost of denial has become so high. We are living in a less forgiving world than we once did. Here's an example. View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Auto; Retail; Technology
  • 07 Dec 1999
  • Research & Ideas

Henry Heinz and Brand Creation in the Late Nineteenth Century

store customers or trading them to urban wholesalers and jobbers for needed supplies. Bartering reduced storekeepers' dependence on currency. It also created informal distribution networks for locally produced goods. For instance,... View Details
Keywords: by Nancy F. Koehn
  • 24 Nov 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Corrupting Silence: Companies Must Speak Up Against Bribes

In a 2012 Harvard Business School case on corruption at German conglomerate Siemens AG, Peter Solmssen —brought in to clean house —reflects on how people approach a business bribe. "The stupid ones say, very simply, what are you going to do for me?" says Solmssen,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
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