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- November 2017
- Teaching Note
Reinventing Best Buy
By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth
Teaching Note for HBS No. 716-455.
On March 1, 2017, Best Buy Company, Inc., North America’s largest retailer of consumer electronics and appliances, announced a third year of comparable-store sales increases and a 20.8% increase in domestic comparable online sales.... View Details
Keywords: Best Buy; Hubert Joly; Renew Blue; Showrooming; Webrooming; E-commerce; E-Commerce Strategy; Online Retail; Multichannel Retailing; Omnichannel; Marketplaces; Turnaround; Consumer Electronics; Consumer Electronics Accessories; Appliances; Stores-within-stores; Store Experience; Store Size; Store Pickup; Store Management; Delivery; Delivery Models; Amazon; Amazon.com; Pricing Strategy; Business Subsidiaries; Business Units; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; For-Profit Firms; Customer Focus and Relationships; Customer Satisfaction; Entertainment; Film Entertainment; Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Music Entertainment; Television Entertainment; Theater Entertainment; Price; Profit; Revenue; Geographic Scope; Multinational Firms and Management; Business History; Cost; Selection and Staffing; Reports; Technological Innovation; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Human Capital; Leading Change; Business or Company Management; Goals and Objectives; Growth and Development; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Teams; Brands and Branding; Product Marketing; Consumer Behavior; Demand and Consumers; Media; Distribution; Order Taking and Fulfillment; Distribution Channels; Infrastructure; Product; Service Delivery; Service Operations; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Public Ownership; Problems and Challenges; Programs; Groups and Teams; Sales; Salesforce Management; Strategy; Adaptation; Business Strategy; Competition; Competitive Advantage; Competitive Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Expansion; Technology; Hardware; Information Technology; Internet; Mobile Technology; Online Technology; Search Technology; Software; Web; Web Sites; Wireless Technology; Resource Allocation; Computer Industry; Electronics Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Information Technology Industry; Retail Industry; Service Industry; Technology Industry; Telecommunications Industry; Video Game Industry; United States; Minnesota; Minneapolis; Saint Paul; St. Paul
- 27 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 27
effects, we look within multinational firms and show that higher levels of bilateral trust between the multinational's country of origin and subsidiary's country of location increases decentralization, even after instrumenting trust using... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 11 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 11, 2016
October 2016 Harvard Business Review Competing with a Goliath By: Avery, Jill Abstract—A Peruvian apparel company struggles to position itself against a global brand. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51646... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- May 2018
- Case
Inditex: 2018
By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth
In 2018, Inditex, based in Spain, was the largest specialist fashion retailer in the world, generating sales of $31.5 billion in 2017 from a portfolio of eight retail brands selling through a total of 7,475 stores located in 96 countries and from websites in 49... View Details
Keywords: Fashion; Succession; IPO; Competition; Initial Public Offering; Multinational Firms and Management; Management Succession; Growth and Development Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Retail Industry; Fashion Industry
Wells, John R., and Gabriel Ellsworth. "Inditex: 2018." Harvard Business School Case 718-515, May 2018.
- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
associated with anti-dumping petitions among upstream companies. It also weakens downstream companies lobbying in favor of the general protection of highly integrated conglomerates. In the steel industry, by contrast, national industrial... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
A Modern-Day Classic
the exception of some work done on multinational corporations by HBS professor emeritus Chris Bartlett. It’s only recently that there’s been a resurgence of interest. We wanted to capture that moment.” Lawrence and Lorsch’s book... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Ideas: Books
the best location to start a business, assemble the necessary resources, adapt to local environments, and execute for success. Creating Value through International Strategy edited by Africa Arino, Pankaj Ghemawat, and Joan E. Ricart (Palgrave Macmillan) Every day, more... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
The New Global Business Manager
There is no such thing as a universal global manager, concluded HBS professor Christopher A. Bartlett in a 1992 article for Harvard Business Review. Rather, multinational corporations require three kinds of specialists: country managers,... View Details
Keywords: Management
- 16 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Historical Perspective: Levitt Shaped the Debate
to view global markets. For example, Levitt's work underscores the difference between internationalization and globalization, between a multinational and global corporation. Internationalization reflects the dominance of traditional... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
James H. Rand, Jr.
Rand grew his father’s small ledger company into a multinational conglomerate that made a wide array of office products, including filing systems, typewriters and adding machines. Under Rand’s leadership,... View Details
Keywords: Fabricated Goods
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Ideas: Books
Bananas and Business by Marcelo Bucheli (New York University Press) Based on research in the archives of the United Fruit Company in Colombia, Bucheli, a Newcomen Fellow in Business History at HBS, disproves the idea that the firm was... View Details
Daniel K. Ludwig
Ludwig created the largest shipping company in the United States (the world’s third largest) and one of the world’s biggest private multinational corporations. His operations spanned 23 countries, employed... View Details
Keywords: Transportation
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Finding sustainable solutions for humanitarian crises
over $460,000 for Haitian communities. He also encouraged companies to invest, and Marriott will open up its first Port-au-Prince hotel in 2014. In parallel, Goodwin worked with the US Chamber of Commerce and major View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Faculty Research Online
property rights (IPR) to entice international corporate investment. But who really benefits from IPR? Should multinationals feel secure that their secrets will be protected? A Q&A with Assistant Professor Fritz Foley. The Regional Slice... View Details
- Profile
Mengwen Zhao
Before Mengwen Zhao (MBA 2019) arrived at HBS, she had worked for six years with two giant multinational corporations, Johnson & Johnson and Nestle. In a way, HBS represented a chance to think smaller. "In China, there are lots... View Details
Harold S. Geneen
Geneen diversified International Telephone and Telegraph through acquiring shares of companies ranging from the Sheraton Hotel Chain to the Hartford Insurance Company. Geneen grew his firm from $765 million to $8.5 billion in revenues to... View Details
Keywords: Communications
Thomas B. McCabe
McCabe transformed Scott Paper from a sleepy 500 person paper mill company in Chester, Pennsylvania, into a multinational concern with over 60 manufacturing plants throughout the world employing over 40,000... View Details
Keywords: Wood, Paper & Forestry
Abe Plough
In 1908, with $125 borrowed from his father, Plough formed Plough, Incorporated by selling Antiseptic Heating Oil door to door. Over the next 65 years, Plough transformed his company from a small manufacturer of toiletries to a View Details
Keywords: Healthcare
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Capturing Human Capital
Confronted with the fundamental changes that are transforming today's global business environment, a number of firms are finding it necessary to reevaluate their organizational priorities. "These are turbulent times for business as many View Details
- 06 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 6
sample of 180 U.S. companies, we find that corporations that voluntarily adopted sustainability policies by 1993-termed as High Sustainability companies-exhibit by 2009 distinct organizational processes compared to a matched sample of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne