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- 16 Jul 2018
- Blog Post
3 Key Take-a-Ways From My Summer at Zalando
I am now on the halfway point of my internship and I would like to use this post to share three of the most relevant experiences I have had in the last few weeks at Zalando. 1. Management Board speaks about Diversity As I mentioned on my previous post, Zalando fosters... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
- 25 Jun 2018
- Blog Post
The Internship Search: “Is this just a personal interest, or is there a real professional opportunity here?”
Aaron Scheinfeld, MBA 2019, did not launch a formal search for his summer internship. Yet he found an opportunity he is excited about, largely by pursuing the interests that come naturally to him. After two years with Morgan Stanley’s investment banking division and... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
- 02 Feb 2016
- Blog Post
A Summer Internship in General Management
Like many of his classmates, Andrew Ling (MBA 2015) decided to use the summer between his first and second year to try out something new. Formerly a consultant at McKinsey, he spent his summer working in a marketing and general management role at General Mills –... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
- 25 Mar 2022
- Blog Post
ClimateCAP 2022
These included addressing food waste throughout the entire supply chain, working with farmers, suppliers, and big retailers on innovation, and using ESG metrics effectively. Finally, as Klaus Weber from Kellogg shared, “Climate change is... View Details
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A Marketing Revolution - The Art of American Advertising
for consumer goods.” James D. Norris, Advertising and the Transformation of American Society , 1865—1920, 1990 52 Advertising reached consumers through wholesalers and retailers as well as traveling salesmen who operated as middlemen... View Details
- 26 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019
Retail Chain By: Deller, Carolyn, 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... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Ingredients of a Deal Disaster
often buttress the existing social contract. When the wrong minds meet. Sometimes problems arise not because of cultural differences but instead because the right people are not involved in negotiations. For example, when two CEOs negotiate a strategic partnership—say... View Details
- 30 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Tracks of My Tears: Reconstructing Digital Music
or even whether to sell their products via those channels at all if online retailers impose certain bundling policies. I thought the music industry would be an ideal research setting because it is a sector strongly associated with bundled... View Details
- 25 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part II]
being able to put the team in place," as she put it, Polished could not take root. But by last December, Polished seemed closer to its initial destination. Rhyne had secured a lease at Boston's Logan Airport, begun building the first Polished center, added an... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
- 29 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 29
story of how mission and finance can play out over a very long period. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/product/dana-hall-funding-a-mission-d/an/114031-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 513-103 Ron Johnson: Retail at Target, Apple,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Brand Power from Wedgwood to Dell: Part One
source of competitive advantage. Field's brand was built on the appealing, elegant, retail experience or encounter in a department store defined by quality goods that have Field's name on them.—Nancy F. Koehn How did he do that? He did it... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 08 Jun 2011
- News
Alumni News: Judy Gehrke
http://www.alumni.hbs.edu/bulletin/alumni-news/story-gehrke.html View Details
- Profile
Akshay Ghulati
Akshay Ghulati's career has been a hybrid of continuity and the conquest of new territory. After graduating from Wharton, he initially returned home to New Delhi to work in his family's real estate business. "I started a new division focused on View Details
- 21 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 21
case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/616052-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 217-037 Deutsche Bank: Structured Retail Products Describes how Deutsche Bank, a leading European bank, is deciding whether or not to launch a new... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Action Plan: Brewing Awareness
bitterness of an IPA. To change that, Murad launched White Owl Brewery in his hometown of Mumbai in 2014. A few years later, contract manufactured at plants in northern and southern India, White Owl currently offers four different brews in bottles and cans at View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Star Search
retailer Wayfair. “They want to know, ‘Do I feel like I can add value and make a difference?’” Gulliver manages a 300-person team at Wayfair dedicated to helping the growing e-commerce company recruit and retain talent. Her role is... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Merton Discusses Risk Management at Dean's Seminar
processing), while a few continue to offer diversified products and services. Many, he noted, are becoming global retail or wholesale businesses. "Time will tell which strategy will succeed," Mendoza concluded. View Details
Keywords: Elizabeth McNair
- 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
- 25 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 25
& Mauritz, 2000 In 2000, Hennes & Mauritz (H&M) was the second-largest and most global player in the fashion retail business. It operated 682 stores, 80% of them outside its home country of Sweden, and achieved revenues of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne