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- 28 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 28
Vision: Clearly Different? Ohio-based optical retailer Pearle Vision, part of the vertically integrated Italian eyewear group Luxottica, sold glasses and offered in-store eye exams. Once the largest U.S. optical retailer, Pearle Vision,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Coffee Economy That Bloomed Out of Nowhere
“The work is all about the difficulty of building an economy where there's nothing.” "The work is all about the difficulty of building an economy where there's nothing: where there are no roads, where there's no reliable labor system, where there are no property... View Details
- 14 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 14, 2009
Publications The Role of Execution in Managing Product Availability Authors: Nicole DeHoratius and Zeynep Ton Publication: Chap. 4 in Retail Supply Chain Management, edited by Narendra Agarwal and Stephen A. Smith. International Series in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Profile
Hiroshi Mikitani
When Hiroshi Mikitani decided, at age 31, to leave a good job at the Industrial Bank of Japan in Tokyo to start a company, he raised more than a few eyebrows. In Japanese culture, where the group is favored above the individual,... View Details
- 21 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets
fills a void by making the market between, on the one hand, thousands of producers of goods and services and on the other, big-box retailers and many others in the United States that want to source from emerging markets. Li & Fung... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 04 Nov 2020
- News
The Long View: Persevering Through Past Crises
opportunity to start my own business. I actually wrote the business plan in one of my HBS courses as the final project. I then took this business plan to the bank and was able to secure a loan to start a real estate investment company... View Details
- 17 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 17
preemption of national banks in 2004 from local laws against predatory lending to gauge the effect of the supply of credit on the real economy. Specifically, we exploit the heterogeneity in the market share of national View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 28, 2009
Chile's largest wine producer faces a price versus value positioning problem. Its highest quality wines are not priced competitively at retail because "Made in Chile" connotes great value and low price. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 16
prospects, and its stock price. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/product/molycorp-issuing-the-happy-meal-securities-b/an/215014-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 215-002 Molycorp: Morgan Brother's Reverse Convertible Notes (C) In August 2011, Morgan Brothers View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Career Coach
Cindy Horowitz
Cindy (HBS ’81) brings 20 years of broad management experience to coaching students interested in general management, finance, operations and other corporate roles. She helps students understand the various roles open to them and the career paths to advancement in... View Details
- 21 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 21
growth was one of the biggest stories in e-commerce, especially when the retailer attracted $50 million in investment from Index Ventures, a top VC firm that funded other successful retailers such as... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne
- 09 May 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 9
promote social equality. He pondered whether public policy could make a difference or whether the market and societal currents, responsible for these trends, were too strong for him and his government to try to contend with. Several prominent figures, including the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Case Study: Your Call Is Important to Us
business by focusing on the small- and mid-sized market across all industries. The question is how to get there. Slang.ai is currently serving clients in three verticals (restaurants and hospitality, ecommerce, and brick-and-mortar retail... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 15, 2015
I show that the scarcity of these coveted assets created by increased bank capital requirements can reduce overall bank funding costs and increase bank lending. I quantify this... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 08 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 8
that your interviewer isn't out to get you. Stay at the table and maintain a sense of perspective. Publisher's link: http://hbr.org/2014/04/15-rules-for-negotiating-a-job-offer/ar/1 August 2013 Harvard Business Review Can an 'Ethical' View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Altruistic Capital: Harnessing Your Employees’ Intrinsic Goodwill
Measuring Social Impact Historically, economists and firms alike have banked on the theory that workers are motivated by earning financial incentives and boosting revenues. And in designing development projects for developing countries,... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 14 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Blockbuster! Why Star Power Works
makes huge investments to acquire, develop, and market concepts with strong hit potential, and then banks on the sales of those titles to make up for the middling performance of their other content. Today's leading film studios,... View Details
- 23 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard
strategy. The strategy map reveals the strategic chain of cause-and-effect relationships that eventually links investment in employee skills to improved financial performance. As the senior executive of a major bank declared: Partnering... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
any of a host of gaps in the marketplace. At a panel in 2016, Shousha remembers bankers droning on about opening bricks-and-mortar retail branches—when only about 10 percent of Egyptians had bank accounts.... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Redefining Success: Women & Work.
sugarcoated: balancing the challenges of a demanding career with motherhood. "You've got three choices," Hunt tells her students at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, where she runs the Women and Public Policy Program. "You can go work at the World View Details