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    Samuel H. Kress

    Kress built a discount chain store based on an economies of scale model. He started offering fewer items than traditional 5- and 10- cent stores, in order to offer bargain prices to a lower-income clientele. Kress’ stores were a great... View Details
    Keywords: Retail

      Charles R. Walgreen III

      Rico, owned nearly 300 restaurants, most of which were adjacent to the drugstores, and manufactured over 400 Walgreens branded products. Walgreen’s became the first drug-store chain to earn revenues of a billion dollars. View Details
      Keywords: Retail
      • 01 Sep 2010
      • News

      Faculty Books

      The New Science of Retailing: How Analytics Are Transforming the Supply Chain and Improving Performance by Marshall Fisher and Ananth Raman (Harvard Business Press) Professor Raman and his coauthor explain how to use analytics to better... View Details
      Keywords: Retail Trade; Retail Trade; Retail Trade

        Bernard H. Kroger

        Kroger is responsible for many innovations in grocery store operations. He was the first to place grocery ads in daily newspapers and was the first grocer to bring meat departments into the store. Starting with one store, he created a View Details
        Keywords: Retail
        • May 1999 (Revised August 1999)
        • Case

        Victory Supermarkets: Expansion Strategy?

        By: David E. Bell and Ann Leamon
        Jay DiGeronimo, president of a 16-store supermarket chain, is trying to decide the timing and method for expanding his chain. The family-owned company could continue in a maintenance mode, with each family member running one store. It could expand slowly using a new... View Details
        Keywords: Budgets and Budgeting; Cost vs Benefits; Trade; Investment; Market Entry and Exit; Supply Chain Management; Private Ownership; Competition; Expansion; Retail Industry
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        Bell, David E., and Ann Leamon. "Victory Supermarkets: Expansion Strategy?" Harvard Business School Case 599-054, May 1999. (Revised August 1999.)
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        Kresge Way | About

        Foundation, the philanthropic organization established by his father, Sebastian S. Kresge. The elder Kresge was a legendary retailing entrepreneur who founded a chain of five-and-ten-cent stores in the... View Details
        • 26 Sep 2024
        • Blog Post

        Syngenta Tomato Vision

        Product Development & Marketing, where Product Development Specialists and Breeders explained the process for developing new tomato varieties. Many different factors (e.g., consumer preferences such as taste and shape, disease resistance, supply View Details
        • 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.)
        • 01 Jun 2016
        • News

        Up by the Roots

        its wine, but inferior product from Canada and China had begun flooding the market, driving down retail prices from $50 a pound that year to $12 a pound by 2006. Instead of joining the family business, Hsu went to work for General Mills... View Details
        Keywords: Francis Storrs

          Bernard Marcus

          Marcus and Home Depot co-founder Arthur Blank met while they were both working at a California-based home improvement chain. After a decade of disagreements about that chain's future, Marcus and Blank went out on their own, determined to start a new View Details
          Keywords: Retail
          • 28 Apr 2008
          • HBS Case

          Negotiating with Wal-Mart

          Like Muccio, Talley confronted some of the same hardball price challenges, and like Muccio, she acquired a deep understanding of the Wal-Mart culture while finding "new money" in the supply chain through innovative tactics. For... View Details
          Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail
          • 01 Jun 2016
          • News

          Case Study: On the Table

          (PMD 58, 1989) Gaia Design should use an already established logistics company such as UPS, FedEx, or DHL. Although the e-commerce infrastructure as a whole is not good in Mexico, these organizations are large enough to drive world-class supply View Details
          • 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
          • 01 Jun 2015
          • News

          The End of Cows?

          When Senior Lecturer José B. Alvarez was the CEO of Stop & Shop, he heard a recurring complaint from customers: The meat quality, they said, seemed to vary by the day. That’s the nature of meat: Nobody in the supply chain can guarantee... View Details
          Keywords: Jason Feifer; Retail Trade; Retail Trade; Retail Trade
          • 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.
          • 02 Nov 2020
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          The First Five Years: Julianne White (MBA 2017)

          job was in grocery retail and I knew the food space was where I wanted to be long-term. Food forms such a foundational part of life and I immediately found it meaningful to be part of the industry providing for people’s basic needs.” What... 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.)

            James E. Davis

            family enterprise, Davis was a major architect of the acquisitions, and of the company’s profitability in general. The work of Davis and his brothers created the largest grocery store chain in the South and the 5th largest in the nation,... View Details
            Keywords: Retail
            • 25 Feb 2020
            • News

            Beyond the Plastisphere

            works in developing countries to prevent ocean-bound plastic from entering the water in the first place and channels it into recycled products. OceanCycle builds and certifies supply chains for recycled ocean-bound plastic, partnering... View Details
            Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; Plastics and Rubber Products Manufacturing; Manufacturing
            • 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
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