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  • May 2022
  • Case

Grupo Big Exit: Options for Advent and Walmart

By: Victoria Ivashina, Ruth Costas and Pedro Levindo
After conducting an impressive turnaround in Walmart’s subsidiary in Brazil, Private Equity firm Advent International has to decide how to exit this investment: through an IPO or selling the business to Carrefour. View Details
Keywords: Turnaround; Divestiture; Finance; Strategy; Private Equity; Brazil; Latin America
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Ivashina, Victoria, Ruth Costas, and Pedro Levindo. "Grupo Big Exit: Options for Advent and Walmart." Harvard Business School Case 222-086, May 2022.
  • 24 Apr 2017
  • News

Rent the Runway Cofounder Joins Walmart Tech Incubator

Keywords: Retail Trade
  • November 2022 (Revised March 2023)
  • Teaching Note

Walmart Chile After the Unrest: Doubling Down or Pulling Out?

By: Vincent Pons, William Mullins and Ruth Costas
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 722-012. View Details
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Pons, Vincent, William Mullins, and Ruth Costas. "Walmart Chile After the Unrest: Doubling Down or Pulling Out?" Harvard Business School Teaching Note 723-014, November 2022. (Revised March 2023.)
  • August 2021 (Revised June 2022)
  • Case

Walmart Chile After the Unrest: Doubling Down or Pulling Out?

By: Vincent Pons, William Mullins, Ruth Costas and Pedro Levindo
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Pons, Vincent, William Mullins, Ruth Costas, and Pedro Levindo. "Walmart Chile After the Unrest: Doubling Down or Pulling Out?" Harvard Business School Case 722-012, August 2021. (Revised June 2022.)
  • 05 Jun 2025
  • News

Costco, Walmart Seek Strategies to Keep Lid on Tariff Hikes

  • 07 May 2020
  • News

Perspectives in Health: How Walmart Health is Addressing the Pandemic

  • 19 Jun 2014
  • Blog Post

Exploring the World of Retail as an Intern at Walmart

on-campus recruiting. After going through the joy that is HBS Dedicated Interview Period for 1st year students, where over 100 organizations interview students over a three day period in Boston, I ended up with the choice between a finance & strategy role at View Details
  • 31 May 2017
  • What Do You Think?

Can Amazon Do What Walmart Couldn’t, Stop the 'Wheel of Retailing'?

startups, thus spinning the wheel of retailing again. The concept fell out of favor with the ascendancy of big box retailers, especially Walmart. Walmart gained such a dominant share, driving so many higher-priced, higher-margin... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail
  • 04 Apr 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Attention Medical Shoppers: What Health Care Can Learn from Walmart and Amazon

comparison held strong throughout the panel discussion. "In the end what we're looking for is the first community that actually lowers health care costs without harming a soul," Gawande said. "If we have the first, the rest will follow. It's like when... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health
  • 01 Sep 2015
  • News

State of the Unions

broken. Wages don’t move with productivity, and they haven’t in any sustained way for decades.” While these new labor movements are promising, Silvers says the adjustment in wages paid to fast-food workers and Walmart employees are too... View Details
Keywords: Janelle Nanos; McDonald's; Walmart
  • September 19, 2019
  • Article

Walmart CEO’s Decision on Guns Is the Kind of Corporate Courage We Need

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Corporate courage is in short supply. CEOs generally avoid controversial public issues lest disgruntled groups strike back. That’s why Walmart’s actions to limit ammunition sales and advocate for new gun safety legislation mark a significant milestone. CEO Doug... View Details
Keywords: Gun Policy; Gun Violence; Social Issues; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Leadership; Change; Policy
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Kanter, Rosabeth Moss. "Walmart CEO’s Decision on Guns Is the Kind of Corporate Courage We Need." CNN.com (September 19, 2019).
  • 30 Apr 2024
  • News

In a Big Reversal, Walmart to Shut down Medical Clinics and Online Care

  • October 2021 (Revised November 2021)
  • Case

Bodega Aurrera: eCommerce at the Base of the Pyramid

By: Michael Chu, Álvaro Rodríguez Arregui, Carla Larangeira and Jenyfeer Martinez Buitrago
Bodega Aurrera, serving the base of the pyramid and Walmart’s main Mexican format, is considering launching a full eCommerce channel as Covid-19 has erupted in the country. In 2019, Bodega Aurrera accounted for 45% of revenues and 2,748 of Walmex’s 3,416 stores. Having... View Details
Keywords: Bottom Of The Pyramid; Digitalization; Omnichannel; Walmart; Business Model; Internet and the Web; Marketing Channels; Technology Adoption; E-commerce; Retail Industry; Latin America; Mexico
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Chu, Michael, Álvaro Rodríguez Arregui, Carla Larangeira, and Jenyfeer Martinez Buitrago. "Bodega Aurrera: eCommerce at the Base of the Pyramid." Harvard Business School Case 322-059, October 2021. (Revised November 2021.)
  • May 2019
  • Teaching Note

Walmart's Workforce of the Future

By: William R. Kerr and Jordan Bach-Lombardo
Teaching Note for HBS No. 819-042. It provides a detailed lesson plan for the case study discussion, including assignment questions and sample board and slide plans. View Details
Keywords: Walmart; Omnichannel; Strategy; Transformation
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Kerr, William R., and Jordan Bach-Lombardo. "Walmart's Workforce of the Future." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 819-126, May 2019.
  • 06 Sep 2019
  • News

Walmart CEO's decision on guns is the kind of corporate courage we need

  • 01 Nov 2023
  • News

Walmart Is at Work on a New Degree-Free Message about Getting Hired at Its Corporate Headquarters

  • 01 Jun 2015
  • News

Alumni Take Action to Improve US Competitiveness

Skills”—has generated much interest nationally in the role of business in closing the skills gap. The Walmart Foundation, for example, cited the research in its recent decision to grant $100 million over the next five years to... View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson; Walmart; Health, Social Assistance; Retail Trade
  • March 2015
  • Article

Business Model Evaluation: Quantifying Walmart's Sources of Advantage

By: Humberto Brea-Solís, Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Emili Grifell-Tatjé
We develop an analytical framework on the basis of the economics of business performance to provide quantitative insight into the link between a firm's business model choices and its profit consequences. The method is applied to Walmart by building a qualitative... View Details
Keywords: Business Models; Quantitative Analysis; Walmart; Production Theory; Business Model; Competitive Advantage; Profit
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Brea-Solís, Humberto, Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, and Emili Grifell-Tatjé. "Business Model Evaluation: Quantifying Walmart's Sources of Advantage." Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal 9, no. 1 (March 2015): 12–33.
  • 30 Jan 2020
  • News

‘A Supercenter for health’: Walmart places a big bet on cheaper, less intimidating primary care

  • May 2019 (Revised July 2019)
  • Case

Walmart's Workforce of the Future

By: William R. Kerr and Jordan Bach-Lombardo
Faced with intense competition from Amazon, Walmart began a transformation of its operations and workforce in 2015. The goal was to create an omnichannel retail experience for customers that seamlessly joined online and offline shopping. This case explores Walmart's... View Details
Keywords: Walmart; Managing The Future Of Work; Workforce; Automation; Ecommerce; Omnichannel Retail; Operations; Transformation; Employees; Training; Information Technology; Infrastructure; Disruption; Competitive Strategy; E-commerce; Information Infrastructure; Retail Industry
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Kerr, William R., and Jordan Bach-Lombardo. "Walmart's Workforce of the Future." Harvard Business School Case 819-042, May 2019. (Revised July 2019.)
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