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    Stanley P. Goldstein

    establishments into an industry-focused healthcare company under the CVS name. His restructuring gamble paid off – building the largest drug retail chain in the United States generating over $15 billion in... View Details
    Keywords: Retail

      Alan L. Wurtzel

      Wurtzel took the helm of his family’s electronic retailing business and built it into a major retailer of electronics and appliances. He discontinued the company’s discount operations and invested heavily in... View Details
      Keywords: Retail

        Thomas G. Stemberg

        Stemberg was a pioneer in the retail industry. By contracting directly with manufacturers of office supplies and eliminating the wholesaler, Stemberg was able to offer discounted supplies to small businesses and individuals through his... View Details
        Keywords: Retail
        • 28 Jul 2014
        • Research & Ideas

        Eyes Shut: The Consequences of Not Noticing

        safety of the employees who make the goods that the retailer sells? No need to feel awkward if your answer is no. Most people do not think about the harms created by indirect actions, that is, behaviors that hurt others indirectly, such... View Details
        Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman; Retail

          Joe C. Thompson, Jr.

          Thompson expanded the chain now known as “7-Eleven” in hopes of helping his starving company. Boosted by the end of Prohibition in 1933, the retail chain, along with the temporarily revived ice business,... View Details
          Keywords: Retail

            Julius Rosenwald

            Though Richard Sears was the genius behind his company’s merchandise success, it was Rosenwald who set up the organizational structure necessary to help grow Sears into the largest retailer of the mid 1900s. Rosenwald established separate... View Details
            Keywords: Retail

              Harry B. Cunningham

              Cunningham took over S. S. Kresge with a vision to convert the retail chain into a discounter. Cunningham opened the first K-Mart discount store in a Detroit suburb in 1962. When Cunningham embarked on his... View Details
              Keywords: Retail

                William T. Grant

                Grant had established a chain of 30 stores, the 25 cent-limit on merchandise was raised to one dollar. W. T. Grant Company evolved into one of the largest retailing companies in the nation. By the time of... View Details
                Keywords: Retail
                • 01 Jun 2008
                • News

                Toy Story

                In 2005, a year after the venerable toy retailer FAO Schwartz emerged from bankruptcy, Ed Schmults (MBA ’89) became its CEO. “The company was relying on its glorious past but was without a clear brand direction,” Schmults explained to the... View Details
                Keywords: toys; Retail Trade
                • 03 Feb 2016
                • Research & Ideas

                The State of Customer Service Leadership

                Southwest Airlines, for instance, has continued as a legendary US-based service provider since its inception in 1971, IKEA of Sweden has evolved to teach the world’s retailers about the power of a well- defined and well-executed service... View Details
                Keywords: by Jim Aisner; Retail
                • 30 Jul 2019
                • News

                Turning Around Tesco

                The British-based grocery chain Tesco—the third-largest retailer in the world—recently marked its 100th anniversary with a record-setting, 30-hour dance relay in Wembley Stadium. There were other reasons to... View Details
                Keywords: Tesco; Retail Trade; Retail Trade
                • 15 Dec 2014
                • Research & Ideas

                Deconstructing the Price Tag

                sentiment, the researchers conducted six lab experiments in which participants answered questions about a simulated website of a fashion retailer selling T-shirts. The research also included a field study of sales figures at a real online... View Details
                Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Retail

                  Charles E. Merrill

                  Merrill created the main street brokerage by founding the Merrill-Lynch Company. He was the first investment banker to realize that chain stores would one day dominate retailing and handled underwriting for... View Details
                  Keywords: Finance

                    Edward W. Carter

                    Carter developed the first suburban shopping center in 1947 in Los Angeles and popularized regional chain stores. Carter started with three regional stores in Los Angeles in 1946, and by 1980, had grown that number to 47. Carter expanded... View Details
                    Keywords: Retail
                    • 24 Apr 2014
                    • News

                    Bringing a global perspective to corporate Australia

                    Peter Bohn (MBA 1998), managing director of the retail chain Diva in Eastern Europe, talks about the advantages of having a global business perspective. (Published April 2014) View Details
                    • 22 Feb 2016
                    • Research & Ideas

                    The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist

                    California pharmacist and drugstore owner who balked at the price-slashing practices of chain store competitors and spearheaded a local price-control movement to protect her own bottom line—a crusade that would ultimately gain such... View Details
                    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Retail; Retail; Retail
                    • 15 Jul 2015
                    • Research & Ideas

                    Amazon Prime Day: The Logic Behind a Retailer’s Made-up Holiday

                    revenue for Amazon, in addition to the additional value the online retailing giant gets from the loyalty customers feel once they are enrolled. "THERE IS NO QUESTION THAT PRIME MEMBERS ARE EXTREMELY IMPORTANT FOR AMAZON, AND IT GIVES... View Details
                    Keywords: Re: Sunil Gupta; Retail
                    • 01 Jun 2017
                    • News

                    Case Study: Something New

                    expertise in various parts of a complex supply chain and high efficiency (to keep lead times down and costs manageable). But that is valuable precisely because it is difficult and thus very hard to replicate. —Ankur Daga (MBA 2005) What... View Details
                    Keywords: April White

                      Howard Schultz

                      Not only did Schultz foresee that a large-scale coffee shop chain was a lucrative business, but he maintained Starbucks lead through a combination of customer and employee satisfaction plans. Schultz’s plan to offer part-time employees... View Details
                      Keywords: Restaurants & Lodging
                      • 27 Aug 2014
                      • Lessons from the Classroom

                      Learning From Japan’s Remarkable Disaster Recovery

                      Clinic, a provider of medical services; Fast Retailing Group, which owns a chain of apparel stores; and Lawson's, which operates more than 40,000 convenience stores. The cases underscore disaster recovery... View Details
                      Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail; Retail; Retail
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