Education and Retail - Publications - Faculty & Research

May 1993
Teaching Note

Alexander Hospital Gift Shoppe TN

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Retail Industry; Retail Industry

02 Apr 2015
Research & Ideas

Digital Initiative Summit: Companies Must Forget—and Borrow

school's new online education program. "We often think of ideas in the visual space arising through creative genius. But they actually are shaped through experience," Anand said during a summit session called "Transforming Giants: Forget... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Education; Education

October 1999
Article

What Netscape Learned from Cross-platform Software Development

By: M. A. Cusumano and D. B. Yoffie

Keywords: Applications and Software; Research and Development; Learning; Web Services Industry

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November 2011 (Revised February 2012)
Case

Khan Academy

By: William A. Sahlman and Liz Kind

Keywords: Education; Teaching; Internet and the Web

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Educators

11 May 2020
Op-Ed

Immigration Policies Threaten American Competitiveness

It is no secret that immigration has reshaped American innovation. Immigrants are the backbone of America’s most innovative industries, provide a quarter of our patent applications, and are numerous among our science and engineering superstars. Taken from World... View Details

Keywords: by William R. Kerr

24 Jun 2002
Research & Ideas

Building ’Brandtopias’—How Top Brands Tap into Society

anxieties about masculine identity by providing an affirmative, if sassy, alternative. These ads increased sales by 40 million cases. From 1993 onward, said Holt, Mountain Dew has led the carbonated soft drinks category in share growth, View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

March 2005
Teaching Note

7-Eleven, Inc. (TN)

By: David E. Bell

Teaching Note to (9-504-057). View Details

Keywords: Food and Beverage Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Japan; United States

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18 Oct 2004
Research & Ideas

The Bias of Wall Street Analysts

entirely in the future. However, because stock research is a time-intensive effort, and we all have limited time, the more likely outcome is that educated investors like our students will consume sell-side... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services

2008
Case

Centennial of Harvard Business School 'HBS in 2008' case

By: Julie Battilana

Keywords: Business Education; Boston

Citation

18 Oct 2011
First Look

First Look: October 18

112-029 Hassina Sherjan was born in Afghanistan but grew up and was educated in the United States. A trip to Afghanistan when she was an adult inspired her to move back to her home country with two missions.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

05 Jul 2011
First Look

First Look: July 5

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1590245 Cases & Course MaterialsBook Publishing in 2010 Stephen P. Bradley and Nancy BartlettHarvard Business School Note 711-419 Legacy book publishers wrangled with e-book View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

August 2009
Case

Life Stories of Recent MBAs: Motivations

By: Nitin Nohria, Matthew D. Breitfelder and Daisy A Wademan Dowling

Keywords: Business Education; Motivation and Incentives

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06 Apr 2015
Research & Ideas

After Germanwings, More Attention Needed on Employee Mental Health

members to use it." To remove the stigma, employers need to educate workers about mental illness and distinguish it from normal levels of stress. At the same time, managers must learn the legal restrictions... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health; Air Transportation

1999
Chapter

On the Role of Reinforcement Learning in Experimental Games: The Cognitive Game Theory Approach

By: Ido Erev and A. E. Roth

Keywords: Game Theory; Cognition and Thinking; Learning

Citation

October 2003 (Revised October 2003)
Teaching Note

Electric Maze Exercise, The (TN)

By: Amy C. Edmondson and Hanna Rodriguez-Farrar

Teaching Note for (9-604-046). View Details

Keywords: Learning; Problems and Challenges; Social Psychology; Employees

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21 Jan 2014
First Look

First Look: January 21

http://hbr.org/product/gap-inc-2000/an/713508-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 713-511 Gap, Inc., 2012 Between 2000 and 2012, Gap, Inc. ceded its world leadership position in specialty fashion retailing... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

05 Mar 2007
Research & Ideas

Risky Business? Protecting Foreign Investments

investors; they evolved toward more friendly approaches. Many countries created new incentives for investors and built investment promotion agencies to attract new companies. The causes were several: Better View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Energy; Utilities