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- 15 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 15, 2015
pricing decisions on a daily basis. Rue La La is in the online fashion sample sales industry, where they offer extremely limited-time discounts on designer apparel and accessories. One of the retailer's main challenges is pricing and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 17
service. Many of these copycats focus on non-U.S. countries, but others are challenging Birchbox on its home territory. Can Birchbox defend its position? How? Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/912010-PDF-ENG Moda... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 19, 2017
to the inaccuracy of barrel bombs to examine the effect of having one's home destroyed on political and community loyalties. We find that refugees who lose a home to barrel bombing, while more likely to feel... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 31 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking Marketing’s Conventional Wisdom
their parents own. So BMW, knowing that it's a fashion brand, is trying to manage different and multiple brand messages for different audiences, using the Internet and various other forms of distribution. Q: What else about marketing... View Details
- 03 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017
exit is an option? Using a natural experiment owing to the inaccuracy of barrel bombs, we examine the effect of having one's home destroyed on a cluster of attitudes of Syrian refugees in Turkey related to their personal security,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Control Your Inventory in a World of Lean Retailing
inventory needs. Take, for example, a large American manufacturer of men's blazers. As part of our research into lean retailing, we tracked the demand for different sizes of a blue blazer. Far from a trendy fashion item, the blue blazer... View Details
- 17 Mar 2021
- Research & Ideas
Beyond Pajamas: Sizing Up the Pandemic Shopper
When working professionals were shifting to home offices a year ago as COVID-19 was spreading, comedians and pundits predicted that people would no longer need bras and pants that aren’t stretchy. Instead customers would make room for... View Details
- 25 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 25
& Mauritz, 2000 In 2000, Hennes & Mauritz (H&M) was the second-largest and most global player in the fashion retail business. It operated 682 stores, 80% of them outside its home country of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 21
Convexity By: Hanson, Samuel Gregory Abstract—Most home mortgages in the U.S. are fixed-rate loans with an embedded prepayment option. When long-term rates decline, the effective duration of mortgage-backed securities (MBS) falls due to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Homers: Secrets on the Factory Floor
A factory worker uses company time and materials to fashion a lamp he will take home for personal use—an artifact called a "homer." The practice is probably illegal and clearly against written... View Details
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Depression or Euphoria? Navigating the Market’s Mood Swings
the finance industry has been that "they should move from Wall Street to Seventh Avenue and be with the rest of the fashion industry." "We're never going back to the slow and lazy times," he said. From Winner To Loser... View Details
Keywords: by Carrie Levine
- 23 Jul 2024
- In Practice
The New Rules of Trade with China: Navigating Tariffs, Turmoil, and Opportunities
administration and is a reaction to the Chinese Communist Party’s own perception of insecurity at home and in the global economy. Increasing restrictions to transnational commerce in and with China are best understood in terms of security... View Details
- 19 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 19, 2016
markets continued to underperform. Indeed, some analysts had suggested that Walmart retreat to its U.S. home base to improve performance. Many feared that this was the end of the 50+ year inexorable rise of Walmart. However, CEO Doug... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Harvard Business School Faculty Comment on Crisis in Japan
relatively calm, he said. He was also impressed by their patience and resilience. There was no pushing and shoving, Takeuchi reported, no honking of car horns, even in long waits for a tank of gas. On the highway, anxious drivers eager to get View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 19 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 19, 2006
favorite content wherever they are whenever they demand it, consumption patterns will become more, not less uniform, this theory predicts. To shed light on this debate, we study the distribution of revenues across products in the context of the U.S. View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship and Multinationals Drive Globalization
drivers of an international consumer culture. Beauty companies formed an important component of a wider business ecosystem, which included movie studios, pageant organizers, and fashion magazines. Yet the process of homogenization,... View Details
- 16 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 16, 2008
tendency towards negative recency when outcomes are experienced that disappears when the same outcomes are presented all at once. Experiment 2 examines a boundary condition where outcomes are presented sequentially in an automatic fashion... View Details
- 01 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Immigrant Innovators: Job Stealers or Job Creators?
particular industry—both software engineers and fashion models are considered "specialized"—but 60 percent of the visas go to workers who specialize in science, engineering, and high-tech occupations. Top recipients of H-1B visas include... View Details
- 08 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 8, 2016
approaches can be reconciled through the Lean Strategy process, which ensures that startups innovate in a disciplined fashion and make the most of their limited resources by knowing "what not to do." Deliberate strategy sets the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 12, 2009
implementation of radical routines and resource configuration. Structural arrangements, pre-set change routines, and existing decisional priorities are insufficient to fashion relevant capabilities into new core activities. Ad-hoc problem... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace