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- 08 Jul 2025
- Blog Post
In-Office, Remote, or Hybrid: Strategies for Success
Clarity and Connection Matter Clear, consistent communication is essential for remote team success. Without the ease of daily hallway chats, teams must be intentional about how and when they communicate. Set expectations around preferred View Details
- 21 Mar 2018
- Blog Post
Telling Your Story: How to Create a Powerful Personal Digital Brand
blogs, videos, or podcasts), will need to set aside more time for content creation and distribution. Choose your channels – and leverage a "secret weapon"No one can cover every social media channel. For the business... View Details
- December 2010
- Case
Oral Rehydration Therapy
By: Nava Ashraf and Claire Qureshi
This case highlights the puzzlingly high rate of diarrhea-related child mortality in developing countries despite the existence of a simple, effective treatment: oral rehydration therapy (ORT). ORT treated extreme dehydration caused by diarrhea, which was a leading... View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Innovation Strategy; Problems and Challenges; Developing Countries and Economies; Technological Innovation; Distribution Channels; Emerging Markets; Consumer Behavior; Performance Consistency; Performance Evaluation; Health Industry; Africa; Asia
Ashraf, Nava, and Claire Qureshi. "Oral Rehydration Therapy." Harvard Business School Case 911-035, December 2010. (Request a courtesy copy.)
- 24 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
Managing Alignment as a Process
standard for workers in construction, farming, and other professions that require strenuous outdoor labor. SMI built a successful national sales base from its headquarters in Massachusetts by establishing channels with large department... View Details
- May 2025
- Supplement
On (B): The Cyclon Spins On
By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Karolin Frankenberger, Sascha Mader and Karen Elterman
A follow-up to the On case (723-430), this short case explores how the performance athletic shoe company On expanded its Cyclon subscription and recycling program through 2024, adding two new shoe models to the subscription and a one-time-purchase recyclable T-shirt. View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Business Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Competitive Strategy; Disruptive Innovation; Distribution Channels; Environmental Sustainability; Marketing Strategy; Product Design; Product Development; Technological Innovation; Expansion; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Retail Industry; Sports Industry; China; Europe; Germany; Japan; Switzerland; United States
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, Karolin Frankenberger, Sascha Mader, and Karen Elterman. "On (B): The Cyclon Spins On." Harvard Business School Supplement 725-475, May 2025.
- 04 Dec 2000
- What Do You Think?
Have We Overdone Deregulation and Privatization?
catch-22 situation for supporters. Antidotes were offered to offset the negative perceptions that have arisen from some efforts to deregulate industry. First, consultant Rebecca Lula suggested that a more balanced approach to deregulation at various levels in the View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- Web
In-Office, Remote, or Hybrid: Strategies for Success - Recruiting
when they communicate. Set expectations around preferred channels and response times. Define team goals and check in regularly as priorities evolve. Use simple frameworks—like PPP: Progress, Plans, Problems —in weekly one-on-ones or team... View Details
- Web
Past Projects | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
central planning tool for the project and guides the early development of the project. Research on financial distribution channels for Enterprise solutions to Poverty Spring 2014 | Focus: Financial Inclusion... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 1
channel offers potential benefits in selling to customer segments that value the convenience of online shopping, but it also raises new challenges. These include the higher likelihood of costly product returns when customers' ability to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Blockbuster! Why Star Power Works
that actual data on how markets are evolving tell a much different story than what Anderson predicted. As demand shifts from offline retailers with limited shelf space to online channels with much larger assortments, the sales View Details
- 26 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 26, 2008
Direct Channels Authors:Jill Avery, Thomas J. Steenburgh, John A. Deighton, and Mary Caravella Abstract We assess the effects of opening physical retail stores on direct-to-consumer channel sales. Our data... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Beyond the Plastisphere
schedule. (In 2018, S’well distributed bottles to every public high school student in New York City, where the company is headquartered, displacing as many as 54 million single-use plastic bottles in one fell swoop. The company also... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Broken Link
upgrades—has been ongoing since 2015. One key strategy has been to advocate at the state level to increase funding for broadband and to partner with state governors (49 so far) for the distribution channels... View Details
- 01 Nov 2016
- First Look
First Look - November 1, 2016
design be guided too much by customers’ wants and needs, using off-price distribution channels, and partnering with a mass merchant on a shared collection (e.g., Target and H&M collaborations). Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 13, 2016
channel is selection and market reallocation whereby competition leads to factor reallocation both within and between domestic firms and exits of the least productive firms. We investigate the roles of these different mechanisms in... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 13 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 13
(2006-2011) of distribution rationalization and consolidation at Ford. The financial crisis in the second half of 2008 forced GM and Chrysler into bankruptcy. Having completed the distribution overhaul work... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Facing the Music
look at how the music industry functions. After years of consolidation, the business is now dominated by a handful of major distribution companies (often referred to simply as "the majors") that are responsible for some 80 percent of... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
student-focused initiative has collectively raised more than $30,000 in less than 3 weeks, has mentored more than 350 prospective business school and graduate students, and started a fundraiser to procure oxygen concentrators and channel... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Rapid Response: Inside the Retailing Revolution
trucks unload their just-in-time goods from automated distribution centers on a weekly basis, and the variety of products available is seemingly infinite. A typical department store now stocks some 800,000 items, with that number climbing... View Details
- 02 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
‘Retail Revolution’ Excerpt: The Scale of the Ecommerce Threat
ship-from-store (SFS), to increase their store productivity and expand their integrated presence across multiple retail channels (i.e. brick-and-mortar store, web, and mobile; also known as omnichannel retailing). The Scale Of The Threat... View Details