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- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Crowning Achievement
BAZEY: An advocate for burn victims. One day in 1994, Sarah Bazey (OPM 32, 2003), the owner, president, and CEO of Minnesota-based Simplex Construction Supplies, chartered a helicopter for an aerial view of one of her company's projects. When the aircraft crashed and... View Details
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Globalization - Faculty & Research
Faculty Research This case traces the history and growth of the Magic: The Gathering trading card game. From its development in 1993 by tiny studio Wizards of the Coast, to Wizards’ acquisition by toy giant Hasbro in 1999, to its... View Details
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US Business Immigration Overview - Alumni
cards. If you have questions, please email our office. Common US Business Visas + – H-1 Temporary Specialty Occupation This is the most common business visa classification. However there is a quota on the number of new H-1B visas issued... View Details
- 07 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
4+2 = Sustained Business Success
provide quality products at a low price to low- and fixed-income consumers. Kmart, by contrast, couldn't seem to decide whether it was focusing on low- or middle-income consumers. What's more, it got distracted by a major foray into View Details
- 16 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business
consumer brands that rely on traditional retailing for the bulk of their sales—have already been demonstrably affected. So will industries that revolve around large gatherings, such as many forms of popular entertainment—sports, cinema, concerts—to business conferences... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Commodity Busters: Be a Price Maker, Not a Price Taker
customers are encouraged to trade down to lower margin merchandise or services, or just become so confused that they won't buy. It is difficult enough to compete with others; do not compete with yourself! By and large, simple product... View Details
Keywords: by Benson P. Shapiro
- 17 Nov 2010
- News
Putting the Customer First
- 19 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?
Like many business leaders, Donovan Neale-May routinely seeks out information on business innovation and management trends. He reads reports from market analysis firms, white papers from companies in his field, and articles in online View Details
- Profile
Paul Scharfman
In a small, undercapitalized cheese manufacturing operation in rural Wisconsin, Paul Scharfman (AB 1976, MBA 1979) saw the opportunity to develop a variety of specialty cheeses that would appeal to the palates of the growing population of... View Details
Fair Competition
I began researching the topic of fair competition in graduate school, where I became fascinated with Louis Brandeis’s advocacy for so-called fair trade laws. These laws looked a lot like price-fixing to me, but Brandeis and others... View Details
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Timeline - Race, Gender & Equity
Alexander Graham Bell patents telephone with the help of Thomas A. Watson 1877 Thomas Edison and a team of engineers create the phonograph 1879 Edison perfects the incandescent lightbulb 1882 Federation of Organized Trades and Labor... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Q&A: Orin Smith
the quintessential entrepreneur." When Schultz purchased the Starbucks name and assets in 1987 for $3.8 million, the company, founded in 1971, had six retail stores that sold whole bean coffee, tea, and spices. Three years later, there were forty-five Starbucks stores... View Details
- 26 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 26, 2007
include positioning strategies, choosing the proper channel, potential partnerships, manufacturing issues, market analysis, and PR management. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=507016 Demand and Supply Forecasting at Air... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Mar 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #2: Sam Steyer, Greenwork
Now that jobs for electricians, plumbers and carpenters are expanding into green job specialties like HVAC retrofitting, Sam has been pleased to see how helpful and friendly the trade unions have been and... View Details
- 02 Nov 2020
- What Do You Think?
Is Antitrust Just a Quaint Notion in the Digital Age?
merger of Office Depot and Staples, ending a marriage that would have reduced the number of big box office supply specialty chains to two, the other being Office Max. In seeking to stop the merger, the Federal View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail; Technology; Telecommunications; Communications; Consumer Products; Service
- 13 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
From Turf Wars to Learning Curves: How Hospitals Adopt New Technology
approaches. When multiple specialty groups converge on the treatment of a particular patient population—as is the case with cardiac surgeons and cardiologists—turf wars can emerge. Very often, these turf wars are created because hospitals... View Details
- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Big Companies, Big Opportunities—Big Questions
financial officer of Grupo Elektra, Latin America's leading specialty retailer and consumer finance company. Global banks are decreasing their positions in Latin America. Last year alone, he said, major banks reduced investments in Latin... View Details
Keywords: by Julie Jette
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
specialty grocers. The farm also has a booth at the weekly farmer's market in Charlottesville. "This obviously differs a great deal from my tech career," Whiteside says. "Technology pursues an ever-larger and more integrated global... View Details
- 19 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Ground-Floor Opportunities for Retail in India
have made goods more attainable and enticing to a larger portion of the population. At the same time, trade liberalization and more sophisticated manufacturing techniques create goods that are less expensive and higher quality. A panel... View Details
- 27 Jul 2019
- Op-Ed
Does Facebook's Business Model Threaten Our Elections?
unconcerned. Engagement on various applications on the Facebook platform is up. Users appear comfortable with the trade they make to give up privileged information in exchange for a range of convenient and free services. Without a push by... View Details
Keywords: by George Riedel