Publications

April 2007 (Revised January 2010)
Supplement

Tom Muccio: Negotiating the P&G Relationship with Wal-Mart (B)

By: James K. Sebenius and Ellen Knebel

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Negotiation; Relationships; Retail Industry; Retail Industry

September 2001
Teaching Note

adM@rt (A) and (B)TN

By: F. Warren McFarlan

Teaching Note for (9-301-046) and (9-301-083). View Details

Keywords: Retail Industry; Retail Industry; Hong Kong

April 2001 (Revised November 2009)
Teaching Note

(TN) Amazon.com (A), (B), (C), and (D)

By: Jeffrey F. Rayport, Dickson Louie and William A. Sahlman

Teaching Note for (9-897-128), (9-898-084), (9-901-021), and (9-901-022). For book only. View Details

Keywords: Retail Industry; Retail Industry

October 2000 (Revised October 2001)
Case

adM@rt(A)

By: F. Warren McFarlan, Carin-Isabel Knoop and David Lane

Describes the complex policy alternatives facing an online Hong Kong grocery company as it tries to apply Webvan-type concepts in the Hong Kong marketplace. Captures the extraordinary process of adaptation the company is going through as it tries to find the right... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Markets; Marketing; Business Strategy; Business Model; Decisions; Problems and Challenges; Retail Industry; Retail Industry; Hong Kong

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September 1999 (Revised June 2001)
Case

eBay, Inc.

By: Stephen P. Bradley and Kelley Porter

eBay was the world's largest and most popular person-to-person trading community on the Internet. In early 1999, the company was doing very well and seemed to have solved many of its early problems. However, on March 30, 1999, Amazon.com announced that it was entering... View Details

Keywords: Technological Innovation; Growth and Development Strategy; Marketing Strategy; Planning; Competition; Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Retail Industry; Retail Industry

05 Jun 2014
Blog Post

Learning to fail at HBS

I’ve spent Friday, Saturday, and Sunday reflecting on my first year at HBS. In that process, I wrote an email to a few close friends updating them on my time here. As I started to write this post, I realized that the content of that email fit exactly what I wanted to... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail; Consumer Products / Retail

21 Mar 2014
Blog Post

East Asia MBA Market Update

Over the past several months I have engaged with organizations across East Asia regarding job opportunities for MBA candidates. While economic growth has slowed in the region, the job market is still good overall for MBA graduates and there are excellent opportunities... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail; Consumer Products / Retail

23 Aug 2019
Blog Post

A Summer of Peaks and Swells: Interning at Patagonia

Before arriving to Harvard Business School, I had built my career around bringing crazy ideas to life at Google in a variety of operations, strategy, and design roles. I was surrounded by incredible people, learned from world class leaders, and worked on sticky... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail; Consumer Products / Retail

24 Jul 2019
Blog Post

Growing the Seeds of an Early-Stage Startup

It all started with a cold LinkedIn mail to Aaron Gailmor, the founder of Brass Roots, an early-stage startup that I happened upon while tracking Expo West 2019 (World's largest natural, organic and healthy products event) with a classmate. I had no expectation that I... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail; Consumer Products / Retail

03 May 2016
Blog Post

Working With Organizations That Recruit at HBS: An Interview with Renee Pappastratis

Tell us about your role at HBS. As a Recruiting Relations Manager in Career and Professional Development, I engage daily with organizations looking to develop and refine their recruiting strategy at HBS. The industries I work with include Investment Banking,... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail; Consumer Products / Retail

Clubs

Marketing Club

Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail; Consumer Products / Retail

25 May 2014
News

"Unmentionable" Innovation

Keywords: Retail Trade; Retail Trade; Retail Trade

29 Mar 2013
News

How Twitter Got a Nigerian Online Store a Multi-Million Dollar Investment

Keywords: Retail Trade; Retail Trade

September 2020 (Revised March 2022)
Case

JOANN: Joannalytics Inventory Allocation Tool

By: Kris Ferreira and Srikanth Jagabathula

Michael Joyce, Vice President of Inventory Management at JOANN, championed an effort to develop and implement an inventory allocation analytics tool that used advanced analytics to predict in-season demand of seasonal items for each of JOANN’s nearly 900 stores and... View Details

Keywords: Analytics; Machine Learning; Optimization; Inventory Management; Mathematical Methods; Decision Making; Operations; Supply Chain Management; Resource Allocation; Distribution; Technology Adoption; Applications and Software; Change Management; Retail Industry; Retail Industry; Retail Industry; United States; Ohio

April 2019
Case

GE Appliances: Implementing Haier's Made-In-China Management System

By: Dennis Campbell, Marshall Meyer, Bonnie Yining Cao and Dawn H. Lau

Keywords: Business or Company Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Retail Industry; Retail Industry; Retail Industry; China; United States

June 2013
Supplement

Studio Moderna - Sandi Cesko, CEO, Video Supplement

By: Jim Sharpe

This is the Video Supplement for Studio Moderna - A Venture in Eastern Europe (HBS Case #808110). View Details

May 2013
Supplement

Studio Moderna—A Venture in Eastern Europe

By: Jim Sharpe

This is the Spreadsheet Supplement for Studio Moderna—A Venture in Eastern Europe (HBS Case #808110). Includes Exhibit 3a, Exhibit 3b, Exhibit 5, and Exhibit 6. View Details