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  • 02 Sep 2015
  • What Do You Think?

What's Wrong With Amazon’s Low-Retention HR Strategy?

Comparison of Costco to Wal-Mart’s Sam’s Club,” Academy of Management Perspectives, August  2006. David Glass, in a comment confirmed by email on April 10, 2002. James L. Heskett, Earl W. Sasser, Jr., and Leonard A. Schlesinger, What... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Web Services; Retail; Apparel & Accessories; Consumer Products; Fashion
  • October 1995 (Revised March 1996)
  • Case

Executive Shirt Company, Inc.

By: Janice H. Hammond and Sylvie Ryckebusch
The Executive Shirt Co. is contemplating a move into custom-made shirts. The company's general manager has charged two of his managers to come up with plans for incorporating production of custom shirts into the existing manufacturing process. View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Production; Strategic Planning; Expansion; Apparel and Accessories Industry; United States
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Hammond, Janice H., and Sylvie Ryckebusch. "Executive Shirt Company, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 696-071, October 1995. (Revised March 1996.)
  • October 1998 (Revised March 1999)
  • Case

US Office Products (A)

Growth by acquisition (rolling up or consolidating an industry) results in questions about integrating operations, corporate form, financial structure, and management for this company. View Details
Keywords: Integration; Business or Company Management; Acquisition
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Hallowell, Roger H. "US Office Products (A)." Harvard Business School Case 799-029, October 1998. (Revised March 1999.)
  • 21 May 2001
  • Research & Ideas

From Tigers to Kaleidoscopes: Thinking About Future Leadership

people whom most see as only ordinary." Rejecting The Market's Rules "In business circles, a story is often told of two hikers who wake up one night to find a tiger lurking near their tent," goes the opening line of Chapter 9 in View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • September 2014 (Revised February 2017)
  • Case

Belk: Towards Exceptional Scheduling

By: Ethan Bernstein, Saravanan Kesavan, Bradley Staats and Luke Hassall
With 24,000 staff and over 300 stores, Belk Inc. sought to replace its entirely manual labor scheduling system with an automated software solution from Reflexis. Belk hoped the upgrade would simplify scheduling, reduce time employees spent in non-customer-facing roles,... View Details
Keywords: Retail; Scheduling; Local Autonomy; Automation; Metrics; Organizational Change; Human Resource Management; Process Improvement; Performance Measurement; Transparency; Southern United States; Retailing; Department Stores; System Outsourced Services; Employee Relationship Management; Selection and Staffing; Change Management; Governance Controls; Resource Allocation; Service Operations; Organizational Culture; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Performance Evaluation; Performance Improvement; Applications and Software; Family Business; Retail Industry; Technology Industry; United States
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Bernstein, Ethan, Saravanan Kesavan, Bradley Staats, and Luke Hassall. "Belk: Towards Exceptional Scheduling." Harvard Business School Case 415-023, September 2014. (Revised February 2017.)
  • 20 Apr 2021
  • Cold Call Podcast

What Went Wrong with the Boeing 737 Max?

Keywords: Air Transportation
  • 03 Jun 2015
  • What Do You Think?

Is the Time Right for Self-Management?

been ripe for self-management and there are always people who will poke up their heads and insist on managing themselves. But it isn't a quick fix." Others cited its long-time application in the London... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail
  • 12 Apr 2022
  • Book

Racism, Colonialism, and Britain's Legacy of Violence

Britain’s 20th century empire was the largest in human history, with a quarter of the world’s land and nearly 700 million people. Yet the empire drew its strength from violence. That’s the conclusion Harvard Business School Professor Caroline Elkins draws in her new... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
  • 02 Dec 2015
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What Will It Take to Achieve Gender Equality in Leadership?

Are Investors the Ultimate Antidote to Gender Inequality in Leadership? Once respondents came to terms with my use of “gender equality” in the title of this month’s column they described several ways in which it might be achieved in our discussion of gender inequality... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 08 Aug 2016
  • Blog Post

CS50 for MBAs: Coding at HBS

working with our Director of IT on a number of infrastructure upgrade decisions, to communicating out technological decisions in plain business terms with management and Board members. HBS has taught me to be very open minded about what I... View Details
  • 21 Mar 2019
  • HBS Case

The Ferrari Way

in 2015 (ticker symbol RACE). Meanwhile, the automotive industry has been shifting through its biggest changes in decades, with companies scrambling to keep up with the pace of innovation—including drivetrain electrification, wireless... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Auto
  • 2007
  • Book

A Concise Guide to Macroeconomics: What Managers, Executives, and Students Need to Know

By: David A. Moss
Now more than ever before, executives and managers need to understand their larger economic context. In The Concise Guide to Macroeconomics, David Moss leverages his many years of teaching experience at Harvard Business School to lay out important macroeconomic... View Details
Keywords: Macroeconomics; Money; Investment; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques
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  • 28 Mar 2016
  • Research & Ideas

What's a Boss Worth?

We all have our boss horror stories. The underminer. The bad communicator. The credit hog. The snake. Then again, if we’re lucky, we’ve all had those amazing bosses as well—the supervisor who encourages all employees to take their work up... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Service

    Kris Johnson Ferreira

    Kris Ferreira is the Edgerley Family Associate Professor of Business Administration in the Technology and Operations Management (TOM) Unit. She teaches the Supply Chain Management course in the MBA elective curriculum and analytics in numerous Executive Education... View Details

    Keywords: retailing
    • 11 May 2016
    • Research & Ideas

    Fix This! Why is it so Painful to Buy a New Car?

    half its value the moment it is driven off the lot? In a recent roundtable interview at HBS, Avery and Schlesinger joined Ryan Buell, an assistant professor in the Technology and Operations Management Unit, to discuss what’s wrong with... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Auto
    • 10 Apr 2014
    • News

    Look out, Human Resources departments

    • 07 Jun 2023
    • HBS Case

    3 Ways to Gain a Competitive Advantage Now: Lessons from Amazon, Chipotle, and Facebook

    makes Birkin bags hard to get. The ultra-lux handbag designer limits how many Birkin bags it sells, driving up customers’ willingness to pay. While that increases the company’s competitive advantage, says Karp, that doesn’t necessarily... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding
    • 05 Jul 2013
    • News

    Women at the Auto Repair Shop: Better at Haggling, Yet More Likely to Get Ripped Off

    • 15 Jul 2015
    • News

    Micron Technology Is Said to Be Takeover Target of Chinese Company

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    Neurodiversity as a Competitive Advantage

    By: Robert D. Austin and Gary P. Pisano
    Many people with neurological conditions such as autism spectrum disorder and dyslexia have extraordinary skills, including those in pattern recognition, memory, and mathematics. Yet they often struggle to fit the profiles sought by employers. A growing number of... View Details
    Keywords: Competitive Advantage; Diversity; Competency and Skills
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    Austin, Robert D., and Gary P. Pisano. "Neurodiversity as a Competitive Advantage." Harvard Business Review 95, no. 3 (May–June 2017): 96–103.
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