Brand - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2022
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A Sustainable Solution for Fashion

demand shifts by season. Brands and retailers must correctly stock items in their customers’ preferred color, pattern, style, fit, and price without much historical data. “Most of the software out there is backward looking and purely... View Details

Keywords: April White

25 Feb 2020
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Task Force

Monroy can make that claim. Based in Mexico City, Zubale crowdsources the expensive and inefficient task of merchandising, using its app to connect independent contractors with major brands looking for the on-the-ground help needed to get... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; gig economy; Retail Trade

01 Aug 1998
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High Honors

Johnson & Johnson in 1973 and in 1977 joined Standard Brands Incorporated. There she rose to become vice president of marketing for the margarine division. Standard merged with Nabisco in 1981, and in 1987 she was named president of... View Details

22 Feb 2022
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Breaking News

for—titles and papers, revenue mix, staff strength, audience strength, and brand strengths—to be able to identify promising opportunities. “And at the intersection between the two—impact and investment—our aspiration is to build a pooled... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; illustration by Dana Smith; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

01 Sep 2003
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Larry Murphy

a $1.5 billion operation — as chief strategic officer. Responsible for strategy, acquisitions, business development, and the Disney brand on a global basis, Murphy helped grow the firm to a $60 billion enterprise by the time he and the... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Accommodation; Hospitality

24 May 2017
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Ilene H. Lang, MBA 1973

within three months became one of the most successful brands of its day. When the company abandoned its plan to take AltaVista public, Lang left. “I didn’t agree with the strategy,” she says matter-of-factly. “I wasn’t going to stick... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Jun 2024
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Alumni and Faculty Books

commerce experience. He’ll teach you how to become your own Chief Friction-Reduction Officer and reignite customer growth and engagement. The Power of Instinct: The New Rules of Persuasion in Business and Life By Leslie Zane (MBA 1986) PublicAffairs Award-winning... View Details

01 Jun 2022
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The Exchange: Same Great Price, Now with Fewer Chips

what might lead a brand to try to disguise a price hike.—JMF John, can you give us some historical context to explain this phenomenon? John Gourville: The first instance of shrinkflation that I found was in 1988, when Chock full o’ Nuts... View Details

Keywords: Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade

29 Aug 2023
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Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. In this episode, we’re going to be highlighting an episode of another HBS podcast: Climate Rising, which focuses on what businesses are doing, can do, and should do... View Details

01 Dec 2022
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Full Court Press

delivers down the road.” Video Embed Victor Williams on the personal meaning of his work with NBA Africa Forging local business partnerships also can offer the league singular insight into new markets that a global corporation might not have. Of course, global View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

20 Jan 2023
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Free Spirits

Island, Golden Road Brewing, and Omission, also offer low or no-alcohol beers. But the company’s flagship is Bud Zero, which arrived on the scene in 2020, in a splashy partnership with the retired NBA player Dwayne Wade. “We saw that as an interesting way to bring the... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality

01 Apr 2002
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Dean Clark Visits Alumni in Europe

European Research Center, on the rue François 1er in Paris’s eighth arrondissement. In London, he met with recent HBS graduates for an informative breakfast where he discussed the School’s expanding Global Initiative. The Dean’s Frankfurt agenda... View Details

Keywords: Alumni outreach; European Research Initiative; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Oct 1999
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Q & A: Jeanne P. Jackson: A New Regime at Banana Republic

President and CEO of Banana Republic since 1995, Jeanne Jackson (MBA '78) has been credited with transforming the faltering safari clothing brand into one of the nation's leaders in - and definers of - casual attire. In 1998, Business... View Details

01 Jun 2025
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Barbie: Reviving a Cultural Icon at Mattel

Like countless others in the summer of 2023, HBS professor Elie Ofek went to the theater to see the blockbuster film Barbie and found himself enveloped by the pink-drenched marketing blitz that had all but taken over the world. To Ofek, who teaches in the Marketing... View Details

Keywords: Christine Speer Lejeune; Illustrations by Miguel Porlan; Educational Services

01 Dec 2017
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A Safer—and Speedier—Way to Name Your Startup

trademark lawsuit, or spending money on a domain name or logo that turns out to be unusable. As head of Master-McNeil, a Berkeley-based naming and branding agency behind names like Ariba, PayPal, Athlon, Affirm, and over 60 projects for... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

04 Sep 2019
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Clicks and Mortar

has to create a branded experience that goes beyond the purely transactional—one that aims to build a relationship with the customer and communicate the brand in an experiential way. There’s still a purpose... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade

18 Jan 2018
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Making a Mark in Multicultural Marketing

Sheila Marmon (MBA 1999) has built her career by breaking down barriers. The founder and CEO of Mirror Digital, a technology-enabled media and advertising company, Marmon has executed more than 350 interactive campaigns, connecting Fortune 500 View Details

01 Mar 2017
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Lego Stays on Script

fanatics. “Getting under the skin of the brand made it much easier to understand the right stories to tell and the right people to bring on to our team,” he says. The movie’s success was “gratifying on both a personal and a View Details