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  • September 2017
  • Teaching Note

Dick's Sporting Goods

By: Jose B. Alvarez and Matthew G. Preble
This is the teaching note to accompany Rajiv Lal, Jose B. Alvarez, and Matthew G. Preble, “Dick’s Sporting Goods,” HBS No. 517-007 (Boston, Massachusetts: Harvard Business School Publishing, 2017). View Details
Keywords: Sporting Goods; Retail; Employees; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Product Marketing; Demand and Consumers; Consumer Behavior; Product; Service Delivery; Service Operations; Partners and Partnerships; Business Strategy; Competition; Corporate Strategy; Expansion; Internet and the Web; E-commerce; Retail Industry; United States; Pennsylvania
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  • February 2017
  • Case

Dick's Sporting Goods

By: Rajiv Lal, Jose B. Alvarez and Matthew G. Preble
Edward Stack, chairman and CEO of Dick’s Sporting Goods (DKS), faced a rapidly changing sporting goods landscape in October 2016. Two large competitors—The Sports Authority and Sport Chalet—had folded earlier that year, and DKS had to contend with increasingly robust... View Details
Keywords: Sporting Goods; Retail; Employees; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Product Marketing; Demand and Consumers; Consumer Behavior; Product; Service Delivery; Service Operations; Partners and Partnerships; Business Strategy; Competition; Corporate Strategy; Expansion; Internet and the Web; E-commerce; Retail Industry; United States; Pennsylvania
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Physical Disabilities & Learning Differences | MBA

Physical Disabilities & Learning Differences Support Services Justin Ernest MBA 2019 "It's my hope that by raising my hand in an Aldrich classroom, I am promoting awareness for stutterers everywhere." Lindsay Rosenblum MBA 2019 "I finally... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2011
  • News

Gift for MBA Global Reach

activities overseas,” stated Rubenstein, who has ties to the School through his wife, Alice Rogoff Rubenstein (MBA ’78), and through service on the Board of Dean’s Advisors. Said Dean Nitin Nohria, “This extremely generous and important... View Details
Keywords: Educational Services; Educational Services; Educational Services; Educational Services
  • 01 Jun 2025
  • News

Alumni Achievement Awards 2025

Vittorio Colao (MBA 1990) Vice Chairman of EMEA, General Atlantic; Italian Minister for Innovation, Digital Transition, and Space, 2021–2022 Sticking point: “After college, my military service was with Italy’s Carabinieri, a sort of cross... View Details
Keywords: leadership; Alumni Achievement Awards
  • 31 Mar 2002
  • What Do You Think?

Is This the Decade of the Investor?

to take a longer view. One such view is provided by a recent Business Week analysis of Bureau of Labor Statistics and other data. ("Restating the '90s," by Michael J. Mandel, Business Week, April 1, 2002, pp. 51-58.) It... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 29 Feb 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Whence IT Value?

we started to get good at interconnecting them (outside universities and research labs) only about 10 to 12 years ago. Of course, we've become a lot better at it over the past five years, with the explosion of the Internet, intranets, extranets and other offspring of... View Details
Keywords: by Andrew McAfee
  • 01 Mar 2007
  • News

Winter Break Just Got Educational

IMMERSION EXPERIENCES: Students who traveled to New Orleans spent time working on Habitat for Humanity redevelopment projects. Winter break this year gave some 200 MBA students an opportunity to participate in one of three pilot, noncredit Immersion Programs created to... View Details
Keywords: immersion; Educational Services; Educational Services; Educational Services; Educational Services; Educational Services; Educational Services
  • 12 Jul 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Solving COVID'S Mental Health Crisis

limitations, Genoa is offering assistance setting up telemedicine services free of charge until July 15, 2020 at a minimum. Theobald is impressed by how quickly many providers have switched almost entirely... View Details
Keywords: by Howard Stevenson and Shirley Spence; Health
  • Fast Answer

Open access business & economic journals

Where can I find a list of open access journals in business and economics? Directory of Open Access Journals, is a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed... View Details
  • March 2021
  • Supplement

CashDrop (B1)

By: Rembrand Koning, Paul A. Gompers and Sarah Gulick
After the events in CashDrop A, Flores-Martinez received two concrete offers from VC funds for his startup business, CashDrop. This case describes the tensions between the two funds: a traditional VC fund who would offer Flores-Martinez a prestigious platform, and a... View Details
Keywords: Small Business; Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Venture Capital; Internet and the Web; Decision Choices and Conditions; Financial Services Industry; Financial Services Industry; Chicago; Illinois
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  • September 2016 (Revised September 2017)
  • Case

Collage.com: Scaling a Distributed Organization

By: Christopher Stanton and Shikhar Ghosh
Kevin Borders and Joe Golden, co-founders and co-CEOs of Collage.com, must decide how to grow their custom photo-products startup in the face of fierce competition. From 2011 through 2016, the business evolved from a hobby to a startup with $22 million in revenue and... View Details
Keywords: Remote Work; Internet and the Web; Organizational Structure; Competitive Strategy; Employees; Business Startups; Growth and Development Strategy; Consumer Products Industry; Service Industry
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Sustainable investing and ESG resources

Responsible-Investor
News service reporting on responsible investment, ESG (environmental, social, and governance), and sustainable finance. Includes news and analysis targeted to the global institutional investor community. ... View Details
  • 17 Feb 2011
  • News

Field Report: Rwanda

a private media company and Karisimbi client. The group worked with Tele-10 to identify ways to improve its advertising sales process for radio advertising and to help improve customer service for its satellite television business. “We... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Educational Services; Educational Services; Educational Services; Educational Services
  • 01 Dec 2013
  • News

Double Vision

found that TV ads not only can spur web traffic—the browser is at the ready, after all—but can drive sales, too. But which ads push the most? As part of the study, Teixeira and his colleagues collected thousands of ads hawking products frequently purchased... View Details
Keywords: Arts, Entertainment
  • 23 Feb 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Creative Entrepreneurship in a Downturn

higher risk projects and new ventures. This has a domino effect on the venture capital providers and subsequently on the angel investor community. Each group is concerned that there will not be an investor willing to fund or buy into a... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 01 Sep 2008
  • News

Faculty Books

A Sense of Urgency by John P. Kotter (Harvard Business Press) Most organizational change initiatives fail spectacularly (at worst) or deliver lukewarm results (at best). In his 1996 book, Leading Change, Professor Emeritus Kotter revealed why change is so hard and... View Details
Keywords: Educational Services; Educational Services; Educational Services
  • 12 Apr 2011
  • News

Twelve Global Finalists Compete at HBS

is an exclusively Canadian service that helps savvy consumers save money on gift cards and provides a secure environment to exchange unwanted gift cards into cash. Superdome offers the first Building... View Details
Keywords: Multiple alumni
  • 01 Dec 1999
  • News

EMC's Ruettgers Finds Gold in Data Storage

providing an unglamorous but essential (and lucrative) support service. EMC stores, safeguards, organizes, and makes instantly accessible the currency that, in the information age, constitutes companies' inherent wealth: their corporate... View Details
  • 03 Apr 2019
  • News

Finding Common Ground

Cicero’s “journey-mapping” studies show that agencies sometimes inadvertently provide contradictory services to the vulnerable populations they support. The firm’s findings have led to “improved coordination... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg