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  • March 2023 (Revised August 2023)
  • Case

Majid Al Futtaim: Adapting the Shopping Mall to the Digital Era

By: Antonio Moreno and Gamze Yucaoglu
The case opens in August 2022, as Ahmed Galal Ismail, CEO of Majid Al Futtaim Properties and Fatima Zada, digital and omnichannel director at Majid Al Futtaim Shopping Malls, go over the plans to roll out the omnichannel mall offering for the Mall of the Emirates they... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Strategy; Information Technology; Technology Adoption; Value Creation; Competition; Expansion; Profit; Corporate Strategy; Retail Industry; Retail Industry; United Arab Emirates
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  • 11 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 11, 2018

Conference Proceedings More Amazon Effects: Online Competition and Pricing Behaviors By: Cavallo, Alberto Abstract—I study how online competition, with its shrinking margins, algorithmic pricing technologies, and the transparency of the web, can change the pricing... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 19 Sep 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19

September 2017 Management Science Channel Integration, Sales Dispersion, and Inventory Management By: Gallino, Santiago, Antonio Moreno, and Ioannis Stamatopoulos Abstract—We study the effects of the introduction of cross-channel functionalities on the overall sales... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Jan 2007
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First Look: January 23, 2007

wealth of case studies, in diverse settings, based on actual implementations. Store Manager Incentive Design and Retail Performance: An Exploratory Investigation Authors:Nicole DeHoratius and Ananth Raman Periodical:Manufacturing and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 21 Jul 2009
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First Look: July 21

name was threatened by the intellectual property rights provided by GIs. The case focuses on what should be the legal outcome of the WTO dispute, as well as possible business strategies by Alexandra in the event of an adverse outcome to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 13 Jul 2016
  • HBS Case

How Uber, Airbnb, and Etsy Attracted Their First 1,000 Customers

a better job of making apartments appealing than the online classified site, but first they had to siphon away its customers. To do that, Chesky and Gebbia created software to hack Craigslist to extract the contact info of property... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Retail; Retail; Retail
  • 07 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 7

liquidation, and class-level as well as overall recovery rates. Publisher's link: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1573311 April 2015 Harvard Business Review Second Thoughts About a Strategy Shift By: Ofek, Elie, and Jill Avery Abstract—A View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Marketing - Faculty & Research

proving to be more challenging than expected and the team had needed to make changes to the brand's name and positioning, price points, and its product quality, styles, and fits to accommodate the needs of retailers and consumers in the... View Details
  • 19 Sep 2006
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First Look: September 19, 2006

earnings on a more timely basis than "good" news using a regression of earnings on returns. We examine the asymmetric timeliness estimation procedure and identify properties that result in biased test statistics used to test... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Jun 2015
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First Look: June 30, 2015

uncertainty, and macroeconomic shocks affect the risk properties of U.S. Treasury bonds? The exposure of U.S. Treasury bonds to the stock market has moved considerably over time. While it was slightly positive on average over the period... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 23 Jun 2015
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First Look: June 23, 2015

important technical problems to be solved. Once the problem is solved, the solution in combination with organizational boundaries and property rights can be used to capture a stream of rents. The tools a firm can use to manage bottlenecks... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 May 2014
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First Look: May 20

aimed at curbing the entry of large retail stores have been introduced in many countries to protect independent retailers. Analyzing a planning reform launched in the United Kingdom in the 1990s, I show that independent View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 29

  Working PapersLocal Dividend Clienteles Authors:Bo Becker, Zoran Ivkovich, and Scott WeisbennerNBER Working Paper Series, No. 15175, July 2009 Abstract We exploit demographic variation to identify the effect of dividend demand on firm payout policy. View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 May 2012
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First Look: May 15

but related through their connection with an underlying, evolving technical system. In the future, I believe the key problem for organization design will be the management of distributed innovation in such dynamic systems. Organization designers must think about how to... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 16 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 16, 2018

strong complementarity, but it can arise for other reasons as well. Transaction cost economics and property rights theory advise that strong complements should be placed under unified governance, for example, through common ownership.... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 11 Apr 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Is Amazon a Retailer, a Tech Firm, or a Media Company? How AI Can Help Investors Decide

Traditional investing classifications consider Walmart a consumer staples retailer, but the company owns more than 6,000 retail and distribution properties around the world—the portfolio dwarfs those of many... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Retail; Retail; Retail; Retail
  • 23 Sep 2014
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First Look: September 23

design principles and properties for a non-technical audience; reviews its past, present, and future uses; and points out risks and regulatory issues as Bitcoin interacts with the conventional financial system and the real economy.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Feb 2020
  • Research & Ideas

What We Learned from Reading Jeff Bezos’ Patents

From an early age, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos had a passion for inventing. In The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon, journalist Brad Stone wrote that even as a child, “Bezos had dreams of becoming an inventor like Thomas Edison, so his mother patiently... View Details
Keywords: by Tricia Gregg and Boris Groysberg; Retail
  • Web

Accounting & Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Accounting & Management Overview Faculty Curriculum Seminars & Conferences Awards & Honors Doctoral Students 2024 Jonas Heese : Winner of the Best Paper Award at the 2024 Review of Accounting Studies Conference for “Variable Leases Under ASC 842: First Evidence on... View Details
  • 14 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 14

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/13-010.pdf IP Modularity: Profiting from Innovation by Aligning Product Architecture with Intellectual Property Authors:Joachim Henkel, Carliss Y. Baldwin, and Willy C. Shih Abstract Distributed value... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne