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- 12 Mar 2021
- News
My Favorite Case
a fintech unicorn that spans multiple verticals. After another sales record during the 2016 Global Shopping Festival with Alibaba, Ant Financial’s chief strategy officer contemplates the various opportunities and challenges associated... View Details
- 17 Sep 2018
- Research & Ideas
Welcome to Retirement. Who Am I Now?
reinvented identity. One man opened a handyman shop more as a hobby than a business, yet he said the business cards he created gave him “a new sense of purpose.” “These are important findings because they can make people more aware of the... View Details
- 11 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
Fix This! Why is it so Painful to Buy a New Car?
(Editor’s note: Fix This! is a series of occasional stories about industries that provide bad consumer experiences and how they can be fixed.) Consumers routinely list buying a car as the worst shopping experience imaginable. So it may be... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint
Since taking over as CEO of Tata Steel in 2013, T. V. Narendran had sought to transform India’s oldest steel manufacturing firm to ready it for a rapidly evolving business world. He instilled financial discipline, acquired new businesses, and launched digital... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- Blog
Inside the Learning: Wellness on Campus
area, with its unique shopping and restaurants, as well as the historic Harvard Yard. Discover Shad Hall HBS offers excellent athletic facilities. The award-winning Shad Hall Fitness Center is the HBS hub for fitness. This three-story... View Details
- Web
Commodities, Currencies, and Balancing of the Trade Deficit - A Chronicle of the China Trade
China and also became a major source of currency. 16 Millions of dollars’ worth of opium were imported into the country, distributed into the interior, and sold at retail shops and smoking houses. “Apart from criticizing the negative... View Details
- Web
Climate Impact - Business & Environment
CEO, thredUP “Buying and wearing secondhand clothing instead of new reduces carbon emissions by an average of 25%, making resale a powerful solution to the fashion industry’s wastefulness. As one of the largest online resale platforms, thredUP is changing the way... View Details
- 16 Dec 2022
- Research & Ideas
Why Technology Alone Can't Solve AI's Bias Problem
However, the researchers found smaller increases when using fair ranking for the shopping and event staffing tasks—with jumps between 2.5 and 13 percent—and they say that might be because participants associated these tasks with women.... View Details
- 06 Oct 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
18 Tips Managers Can Use to Lead Through COVID's Rising Waters
shopping hours for senior citizens while Woolworths Supermarket in Australia closed a number of stores with less traffic to better enable deliveries to seniors, those with disabilities, and those in quarantine or self-isolation. To learn... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Dec 2019
- Research & Ideas
Identify Great Customers from Their First Purchase
customers, and with richer data, companies could learn even more. For example, companies that use cookies to collect browsing data could incorporate the type of device and search engine a person used to shop online, or the number of... View Details
- 06 Aug 2021
- Book
Steve Jobs and the Rise of the Celebrity CEO
marketing was dreadful, and its finances would have collapsed had it not been for CFO Fred Anderson’s work. The world of computers was dominated by Microsoft, especially after the introduction of its breakthrough product, Windows 95, in August of 1995. Apple went View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 16 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Getting the Message: How the Internet is Changing Advertising
University, who has written extensively on issues facing new media. "If you don't allow yourself to be tracked and to be personalized, if you turn off the cookies on your machine, then you're not going to have shopping baskets that... View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
- 28 Jun 2022
- Book
The Moral Enterprise: How Two Companies Profit with Purpose
How can government and business work together in this fractious political moment, when finding solutions to pressing problems like inequality and climate change are more urgent than ever? Rebecca Henderson, Harvard University’s John and Natty McArthur University... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
The Exchange: Same Great Price, Now with Fewer Chips
this period, allowing firms to keep the benefits of cost reductions for themselves. I think there’s also a lot to be said for changes in consumer behavior over this period, and, John, I’d love to get your thoughts on that, too. In the past 20 years, to what extent have... View Details
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Hiroshi Mikitani, MBA 1993
owners of small businesses, as well as Japanese society as a whole, Mikitani began working on a web-based shopping mall. “At the time, the Internet was at an early stage,” he notes. “No one was buying things online in Japan.” Working with... View Details
- 30 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Real Estate: The Most Imperfect Asset
Debates on urban sprawl and so-called new urbanism are the rage among developers and academics. Grayfield debates concern what to do with all of those old shopping malls and parking lots in infill locations. (One friend told me the... View Details
- 04 Jun 2018
- Blog Post
Reapplying to HBS
time, however, my perspective was much different. Since graduation, I had spent significant time in more than a dozen manufacturing facilities working with both plant management and shop floor employees. I had presented a recommendation... View Details
- 25 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Beauty Entrepreneur Madam Walker
all cities for women to shop by themselves, to be out on the streets actively spending money. So this is one important aspect of a sea change," says Koehn. "Madam Walker was part and parcel of that evolution and can't really be... View Details
- 21 May 2015
- Blog Post
3 Ways to Fund Your HBS MBA
for before applying. StudentLoans.gov is the one-stop shop for all things related to Federal student loans, from learning more to ultimately applying (and paying back down the road). A final recommendation is to do your best to maintain a... View Details
- 13 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
Want to Be Happier? Spend Some Money on Avoiding Household Chores
healthier campers if we eased up on the cooking, scrubbing, and grocery shopping and instead threw a little money at these problems. “We feel like we don’t have enough time to do everything we want to do, and that makes us feel like we’re... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman