Retailing - Publications - Faculty & Research

18 Apr 2015
News

Women in Business Q&A: Umaimah Mendhro, Founder & CEO, VIDA

Keywords: mindfulness; Dreamfly; Retail Trade; Retail Trade; Retail Trade; Retail Trade

04 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 4

Circuit City was forced into liquidation. Unable to meet creditors' demands, and with no acquirer in sight, Circuit City began the process of liquidating its remaining 567 U.S. stores. Circuit City had been the leader in consumer electronics View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

05 Jul 2011
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First Look: July 5

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1590245 Cases & Course MaterialsBook Publishing in 2010 Stephen P. Bradley and Nancy BartlettHarvard Business School Note 711-419 Legacy book publishers wrangled with e-book View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

14 Dec 2009
Research & Ideas

Can Entrepreneurs Drive People Movers to Success?

installations. Q: What are you working on next? A: These days, online shoppers face deceptive offers that promise discounts ("$10 off your next order") while they attempt to check out at ordinary retail Web sites. Because an... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Transportation

19 Dec 2017
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New Research and Ideas, December 19, 2017

a new luxury brand specializing in cashmere garments. It describes how this venture emerged organically out of a combination of manufacturing and retail expertise with the ambition of creating the first pure Chinese luxury brand. The... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

22 Jan 2013
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First Look: Jan. 22

political establishment. Purchase this case:http://hbr.org/search/113026-PDF-ENG Ahold versus Tesco-Analyzing Performance Srinivasan, Suraj, and Penelope RossanoHarvard Business School Case 113-040 The case relates to understanding and comparing the performance of two... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

16 Nov 2010
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First Look: November 16, 2010

wholesalers. Going forward, its two main strategic challenges are 1) deciding how much to rely on partnerships with large retailers for growth and 2) deciding whether to continue as a "merchant," i.e., buying and reselling goods... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

13 Apr 2010
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First Look: April 13

MaterialsNote on Direct Selling in Developing Economies Michael Chu and Joel SegreHarvard Business School Case 310-068 Informal and formal direct selling play a particularly important role in developing countries characterized by markets with limited View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 1, 2008

Moderna to be the leading electronic retailer in 20 countries in and around Central and Eastern Europe, evolving an unusual multi-channel strategy, organizational structure, and IT systems. Serious conflicts cause Cesko to question his... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

09 Jan 2006
Research & Ideas

Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate

Students of recent United States real estate history can't help but notice unsettling parallels between the red-hot commercial market of the late 1980s and today. Then, as now, money gushed into the market, driving office and retail... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Construction; Real Estate

04 Nov 2020
News

The Long View: Persevering Through Past Crises

Fienning, MBA Class of 1970, Section C. Five years after graduation, I was a partner in a mobile-home retailing company in Greensboro, North Carolina. I was a bachelor, living in a mobile home, and trying to create a manufactured housing... View Details

01 Sep 2016
News

The Taxi Wars of Jakarta

customers amid an explosion of online retail options. Grab users can also courier parcels or order food delivery through its app. Go-Jek’s app does those things too, and also lets users order concert tickets and even a beautician to their... View Details

Keywords: Jeffrey Hutton; Illustrations by Josh Cochran

09 Jul 2018
Research & Ideas

Overcoming the Challenges of Selling Brand New Technology (Hey, Need a 3-D Printer?)

SeventyFour Few phrases in business are more seductive than the one attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson in the 19th century: “Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.” Unless, of course, what you are selling is something totally new, like 3-D... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Retail; Retail; Retail; Retail; Retail; Retail; Retail; Retail

01 Sep 2011
News

Taking That Hill

Niekamp “Honestly I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about being a woman in a male industry,” Cynthia Niekamp (MBA 1983) told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (April 27, 2011). “It’s just my life; it’s been my life.” Niekamp, who as a student worked during summer... View Details

Keywords: Retail Trade; Retail Trade; Retail Trade; Retail Trade; Retail Trade

30 Jun 2015
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First Look: June 30, 2015

Business School. Guerra was vice president of Operations at Evans Food, a $100 million company, which produced pork rinds-salty snacks made out of pork skin-sold at some of the largest U.S. retailers such as HEB, Meijer, ALDI, and... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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2023 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

studies of men and masculinity on offshore oil platforms, the impact of racial diversity on retail bank performance, and the design and delivery of women’s leadership development programs. For the past several years, Professor Ely has... View Details

01 Mar 2008
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Innovation, Inc.

found is that around the same time the industry in India was getting off the ground, other entities were being formed, such as fashion magazines, new kinds of retail outlets, and the National Institute of Fashion Technology, an... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Mary Tripsas; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management

01 Jun 2014
News

Screen Saver

take a company rooted in its history, in one kind of business, and develop a strategy and execution around migrating that experience from the traditional venue of our retail stores into new business areas and channels of distribution,"... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Arts, Entertainment

01 Dec 2013
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Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL

under a helmet. Retailing for about $150, the cap records head blows and lights up when a significant hit occurs. Sales, Kacyvenski notes, have been "very encouraging." "The CheckLight reinforces smarter playing technique," says... View Details

Keywords: Finance; Management; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

August 2024 (Revised January 2025)
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Barbie: Reviving a Cultural Icon at Mattel

By: Elie Ofek, Ryann Noe and Sarah Mehta

The 2023 release of the live-action film Barbie, and its accompanying marketing blitz, incited a worldwide Barbie craze. Suddenly Barbie was everywhere, a celebrated icon reinstated at the forefront of cultural conversation. This goodwill stood in contrast to... View Details