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01 Jun 2013
News

Brick by Brick

Case Study Illustration by Corbis/Matthias Kulka Sometimes, a company's history contains more drama than a Russian novel. A recent case, "LEGO," explores how the toy maker grew to global dominance from humble beginnings, the mistakes that led it near bankruptcy, and... View Details

Keywords: toys; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Miscellaneous Store Retailers

18 Sep 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018

of products and sell each product infrequently. At the same time, consumer browsing information is typically tracked by online retailers and is much more abundant than purchase data. We propose a demand model that caters to this type of... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

31 May 2023
Research & Ideas

With Predictive Analytics, Companies Can Tap the Ultimate Opportunity: Customers’ Routines

than customers who don’t use the service as part of a routine, the authors find. “Services from streaming video to online retailing might profit from using the model because detailed data can be closely tracked and parsed to detect... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Transportation

01 Jun 2016
News

Case Study: On the Table

consider a partnership with a bank, building your own payment gateway, or taking cash on delivery. A lot of e-commerce companies in India take cash on delivery for online orders. —Kiran Brahmandam (GMP 15, 2013) Partner with home goods View Details

02 Nov 2015
News

Making Higher Ed Accessible to Africans

ambitious and bold—both criteria that have framed Royster’s career from the start. His initial break with convention occurred after his first year in college, when he took a year off from Duke to work retail near his hometown, in Newton,... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

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01 Dec 2017
News

2017 in Real Estate: A Local Business Goes Global

we need less office space; e-commerce will mean we will need less retail space and new kinds of industrial buildings. Autonomous vehicles—if the ethical, legal, and technical issues can be resolved—may reduce the need for roads and... View Details

Keywords: Real Estate

01 Jun 2001
News

Virtual Plant Tours and Beer Game Dysfunction

exercise, administered in the computer lab. A software program simulates a supply chain from retailer through wholesaler and distributor up to the beer factory. Students take roles as a participant in the chain, seeing only the orders... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

17 Dec 2018
Blog Post

Thinking of Joining a Board? Christiana Smith Shi (MBA 1986) Shares Her Experience

San Francisco after graduation, and stayed there for 24 years, retiring as a senior partner in 2010. Along the way I had my son, Tim, who is about to graduate from HBS himself. After McKinsey, I joined Nike in Portland, Oregon, and had the joy of running global View Details

03 May 2016
First Look

First Look, May 3, 2016

116-007 Dollar General Bids for Family Dollar In spring 2015, Dollar General's CEO Rick Dreiling was looking ahead to retiring at year's end but worried about ensuring continued growth for the company he had built since 2008 into a market leader in the U.S. discount... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

14 Jul 2015
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First Look: July 14, 2015

we find that a candidate's own advertising is more effective than outside advertising, and that advertising and retail campaigning work more favorably towards Republican candidates. In contrast, we find field operations to be more... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Jul 2015
Research & Ideas

Globalization Hasn’t Killed the Manufacturing Cluster

all chairs sold in the world in the 1990s to hardly any production today. The workforce dropped by 44 percent from 2006 to 2012. One firm has succeeded by moving downstream, establishing a global network of retail stores and showrooms,... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Manufacturing; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion

15 Feb 2000
Lessons from the Classroom

Delivering Information Services: A 30-Year Perspective

Internet to market its products or services? Nolan: I do, albeit it's a different experience for the consumer to buy a book from Amazon.com, let's say, than it is from a retailer such as Barnes & Noble. The value added by the Internet... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

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Elizabeth "Betsy" Latimer Jaffe Oral History - Business Education For Women At Harvard University | Harvard Business School

a New York career consulting firm, and author of “Altered Ambitions: What's Next in Your Life” (published, 1991). After HBPBA she went on to get her Ed.D at Columbia University. She started her career in retail as a department store... View Details

22 Feb 2022
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Case Study: Welcome Aboard

invented an entirely new one. While that meant restarting their R&D efforts, it also means that they now own the IP. Finally, after navigating pandemic-related setbacks to their product-testing and manufacturing plans, the company was planning to launch (rebranded as... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

01 Sep 2006
News

Street Singer

your classmates’ experiences. That’s part of the value of HBS. It’s huge.” At Morgan Stanley, which she joined right out of HBS, Harris leads the equity private placements effort in global capital markets and covers the retail and... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Finance

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Tuce Zengin Van den Eynde

menu that would help facilitate rapid growth through a drive-in retail model. FIELD 3, Tuce observes, “pushes you to see how entrepreneurs work. It gives you a sense of what it would be like to build a business from scratch, and teaches... View Details

Keywords: Other Financial Services; Entrepreneurship

01 Jun 2016
News

Rethinking Housing in the Motor City

adjacent Kahn building, part of the redevelopment project, will be transformed into apartments. With planned public transit, the neighborhood has the potential to become the Detroit Rhea envisions, a thriving, walkable mix of residential, office, and View Details

Keywords: April White

November 2012
Case

New Balance Athletic Shoe, Inc. (Abridged)

By: H. Kent Bowen, Robert S. Huckman, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Matthew Preble

Considers whether New Balance, one of the world's five largest manufacturers of athletic footwear, should respond to Adidas' planned acquisition of Reebok—a transaction that would join the second- and third-largest companies in the industry. Highlights the unique... View Details

Keywords: Production; Competitive Strategy; Supply Chain; Brands and Branding; Retail Industry; Retail Industry; Retail Industry; Asia; United States

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21 Feb 2014
Blog Post

Cautious Optimism: A Recap of the Harvard India Conference

over 100 speakers and 650 attendees. On the day of a snowstorm, we were heartened to see participation from all across the US and India. The discussions at the conference covered a wide range of topics, from individual sectors like retail... View Details

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