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  • 05 Dec 2013
  • What Do You Think?

Is Walmart Defying Economic Gravity?

information-driven model by gaining a better understanding of product and customer relationships." Dean Vella cited Walmart's innovation in supply chain management and sustainability as ways in which it is reducing the friction... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail
  • 01 Mar 2014
  • News

Cutting Edge

and bolts: exiting underperforming adjunct businesses (e.g., pickles and fresh poultry); shaking up the management team; improving the supply chain (thereby increasing plant productivity by 50 percent); and developing a sequenced regional... View Details
Keywords: Retail Trade; Retail Trade; Retail Trade
  • March 2007
  • Supplement

IKEA's Global Sourcing Challenge

By: Christopher A. Bartlett
Keywords: Problems and Challenges; Supply Chain; Retail Industry; Retail Industry
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Bartlett, Christopher A. "IKEA's Global Sourcing Challenge." Harvard Business School Video Supplement 907-801, March 2007.
  • 09 Feb 2012
  • Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Online Marketing

ever-improving technology, customer loyalty programs are proving extremely popular among retailers—but merchants are not getting all they should out of them. The reason? Professor José Alvarez says retailers need to see customers as... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty; Technology
  • August 2015
  • Supplement

Sustainability at IKEA Group: Video Supplement

By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Michael W. Toffel
This video contains Q&A with IKEA Group's Chief Sustainability Officer Steve Howard and IKEA Group's Industrial Strategy Manager Per Berggren, the two primary case protagonists. They respond to student questions after the case was taught at an executive education class... View Details
Keywords: Strategy; Operations; Environmental Sustainability; Retail Industry
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Rangan, V. Kasturi, and Michael W. Toffel. "Sustainability at IKEA Group: Video Supplement." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Supplement 616-703, August 2015. (Q&A with IKEA Group's Chief Sustainability Officer Steve Howard and Industrial Strategy Manager Per Berggren.)
  • 01 Oct 1996
  • News

Kid at Heart — John H. Eyler (MBA 1971)

free that makes the job so appealing to Eyler -- it's also the chance to put to the sternest test yet his 25 years of management experience with retailers such as Federated Department Stores, Hartmarx, and the May Company. When Eyler took... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
  • November 2017 (Revised May 2019)
  • Case

Wayfair: Fast Furniture?

By: Janice H. Hammond and Anna Shih
Keywords: Supply Chain; Logistics; Distribution; Web; Retail Industry; United States
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Hammond, Janice H., and Anna Shih. "Wayfair: Fast Furniture?" Harvard Business School Case 618-036, November 2017. (Revised May 2019.)
  • 12 Dec 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Power to the People: The Unexpected Influence of Small Coalitions

have a natural authority." In retail, Trumbull found more evidence that diffuse groups impact outcome, comparing retail policy in France and Germany. Mom-and-pop stores in both countries have faced the threat of large View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
  • 16 May 2016
  • HBS Case

Food Safety Economics: The Cost of a Sick Customer

when more than 50 people in 11 states were sickened by an initial E. coli outbreak. “Do those smaller local organic growers have the experience, resources, and commitment to test their products for various food safety risks?” The chain... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Food & Beverage
  • 01 Jun 2001
  • News

Virtual Plant Tours and Beer Game Dysfunction

exercise, administered in the computer lab. A software program simulates a supply chain from retailer through wholesaler and distributor up to the beer factory. Students take roles as a participant in the... View Details
Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
  • November 1993
  • Supplement

OfficePro (C)

By: John A. Quelch
Supplements OfficePro (A). View Details
Keywords: Decisions; Globalized Firms and Management; Business Subsidiaries; Supply Chain Management; Retail Industry; France
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Quelch, John A. "OfficePro (C)." Harvard Business School Supplement 594-055, November 1993.

    James C. Penney

    Having worked his entire life in retail, Penney bought out his two business partners in 1907, forming the entity that would eventually become the J.C. Penney Company. Under Penney’s leadership the chain expanded rapidly throughout the... View Details
    Keywords: Retail

      George H. Hartford

      Expanding beyond its initial base of imported tea products, Hartford established one of the largest chains of grocery stores, The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company (A&P) in the United States. Hartford was an early proponent of... View Details
      Keywords: Retail
      • 13 Mar 2012
      • First Look

      First Look: March 13

      census. We document a shift to smaller shops following a 1996 regulatory change that increased the costs of opening large stores. Our analysis suggests that total factor productivity (TFP) of multi-store retail View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 17 Apr 2023
      • Blog Post

      Climate Stories Episode #14: Bonita Stewart (MBA 1983) – A Career Devoted to Creating the Future

      Climate Stories Episode #14 – Bonita Stewart (MBA 1983) – A Career Devoted to Creating the Future Climate Story #14 examines sustainable manufacturing and retailing from the corporate board perspective of HBS alumna, Bonita Stewart (MBA... View Details
      • July 2007 (Revised March 2008)
      • Background Note

      Staging Two-Sided Platforms

      By: Thomas R. Eisenmann and Andrei Hagiu
      Firms that aspire to develop two-sided platforms face a formidable challenge. Prospective users on each side will not invest in the platform until they are confident there will be enough users on the other side. Traditional strategies for dealing with this... View Details
      Keywords: Business Model; Risk Management; Two-Sided Platforms; Supply Chain; Strategy; Retail Industry
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      Eisenmann, Thomas R., and Andrei Hagiu. "Staging Two-Sided Platforms." Harvard Business School Background Note 808-004, July 2007. (Revised March 2008.)
      • 01 Dec 2022
      • News

      3-Minute Briefing: Yla Eason (MBA 1977)

      in June, when retailers had made their purchasing decisions in February. Sales is often about education. I asked chain retailers where they were selling dark pantyhose and... View Details
      Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; diversity; leadership; Miscellaneous Manufacturing; Manufacturing
      • August 2005 (Revised March 2007)
      • Case

      Leitax (A)

      By: Noel H. Watson, Rogelio Oliva and Laura Winig
      Leitax, a young digital camera manufacturer selling its cameras mainly through retailers, experienced poor matching of inventory availability with demand for new and existing products in 2002. Describes the implementation and details of a consensus forecasting... View Details
      Keywords: Demand and Consumers; Supply Chain Management; Forecasting and Prediction; Supply and Industry; Retail Industry; Retail Industry
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      Watson, Noel H., Rogelio Oliva, and Laura Winig. "Leitax (A)." Harvard Business School Case 606-002, August 2005. (Revised March 2007.)
      • 29 Oct 2000
      • Research & Ideas

      Building a Powerful Prestige Brand

      committed. Even if they had wanted to sell in chain stores, the Lauders could not afford the large sales force necessary to service such outlets.  Because she wanted to reach women who did not necessarily have much experience with makeup,... View Details
      Keywords: by Nancy F. Koehn; Retail; Retail; Retail
      • 01 Jun 2017
      • News

      Streamlining the Supermarket

      order-fulfillment process at Amazon, which acquired the company for $775 million in 2012. Aguerrevere, who had founded a small-format grocery store chain in his native Venezuela, discussed the talk with Max Pedró (MBA 2002), his close... View Details
      Keywords: Francis Storrs
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