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  • 01 Jun 2013
  • News

Brick by Brick

founder. Under his management, product demand was so high at times that executives actually found themselves discussing ways to slow sales. That all changed in the early 1990s as seismic shifts pounded the toy market. Big-box toy View Details
Keywords: toys; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Miscellaneous Store Retailers
  • 01 Jun 2000
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Priceline's Jay Walker: The Future is Wow

convenient place to shop ("7-Eleven is more convenient, but it doesn't have the retail share Wal-Mart has"), the discount retailer gained market supremacy by proclaiming, and... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2012
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Sun Dress

Barrow that this cohort often ignores doctors’ recommendations that they use sunscreen. “We wanted to super-focus on this customer, who sort of has this health problem and is not going to want to shop at a discount store,” said Barrow,... View Details
Keywords: skin cancer; Retail Trade; Retail Trade
  • 01 Mar 2014
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Case Study: Gazelle's New Predators

Brightstar and Encore, which act as trade-in white labels for large retail chains and mobile carriers. Sure, these competitors lack Gazelle's brand in the eyes of consumers and Gazelle's website has a great NPS score, but I worry that... View Details
Keywords: ecommerce; Kathy Korman Frey; Retail Trade; Retail Trade; Retail Trade; Retail Trade; Retail Trade
  • 01 Jan 2002
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Marjorie M.T. Yang (MBA '76)

we could send machinery to the Chinese factories we managed. In return, we received shipments of apparel that we then sold to discount retailers in the United States." With an initial focus on high quantity... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2004
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Toy Story

one was surprised. On the retail side, the large discount chains — WalMart and Target in particular — had steadily taken market share from specialty toy stores, in some cases using toys as a loss leader to... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young; toys; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment
  • 01 Jan 2002
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Orin C. Smith (MBA '67)

as low-fat latte and Frappuccino(r). Starbucks, the Seattle-based company that started in 1971 as a retailer of bulk coffee, tea, and spices, is largely responsible for this new state of coffee consciousness. Today, the company operates... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2003
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Books

Great Firms to Fail, which sounded the alarm on how disruptive innovations — such as the personal computer and discount retailers — caused many otherwise strong and healthy companies to fail. The Innovator’s... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg; Margie Kelley; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 01 Sep 2010
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Faculty Books

The New Science of Retailing: How Analytics Are Transforming the Supply Chain and Improving Performance by Marshall Fisher and Ananth Raman (Harvard Business Press) Professor Raman and his coauthor explain how to use analytics to better manage inventory for faster... View Details
Keywords: Retail Trade; Retail Trade; Retail Trade
  • 01 Sep 2016
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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
  • 19 Mar 2015
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Walter Salmon Remembered

first became interested in marketing and retailing while in college, working part-time at Bloomingdale’s and then in a New York buying office for a large group of department stores. After earning an MBA (1954) and DBA (1960) at HBS, he... View Details
Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
  • 01 Apr 1997
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Facing the Music

actually released in 1995. The year brought no major new musical genre to generate album sales the way rap and alternative rock had in previous years. "Product returns from financially pinched retailers were very heavy last year,... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
  • 01 Sep 2011
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Green Day

30 to 40 tons of dry biomass per hectare (just under 2.5 acres). (The energy balance ratio of corn ethanol is around 1 to 1, while sugarcane ethanol stands at about 8 to 1.) None of this was lost on Brazilian native Ana Maria Diniz (OPM 36, 2007). Formerly a high-level... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna;Sarah Auerbach; Agriculture; Manufacturing; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities
  • 01 Apr 2002
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Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City

as its discount prices and large selection of merchandise. As Sprint and Walgreens have shown, Porter notes, companies that invest in the inner city and entrepreneurs who start businesses there are well positioned to take advantage of a... View Details
Keywords: Paul Grogan; Peter Tufano; David Crockett; Diana Barrett; Real Estate
  • 12 Jul 2021
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Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis

get scrubs to nurses on the front lines who really needed them,” Singer told CBS News, noting that they worked through their network of retailers to deliver the donation within ten days APRIL 17 After he and his wife recovered from... View Details
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