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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
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- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Sole Mates
expect we haven’t seen the last of it. When it comes to corruption here, the bad guys don’t even have to be clever. But, to her credit, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, who is Africa’s first elected female head of state and a graduate of Harvard’s... View Details
- 02 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Shareholders Need a Say on Pay
"Say on Pay Vote and CEO Compensation: Evidence from the UK," Ferri and coauthor David Maber (HBS DBA '09), assistant professor at University of Southern California, analyzed the provision, which has been available to United... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Mickey Herbert (MBA 1969)
Services Inc. — and play fast-pitch softball for the defending national champions, the Raybestos Cardinals. That team drew me to Connecticut as much as the fact that the state was a good place to start a health plan. Those of us who set... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Innovation Takes Center Stage
multiplying its impact on management education, explained Nohria. Last year for the first time, over half of the new cases were about companies outside the United States. “These cases are being used not just here at Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 06 May 2008
- News
Small World? Read Nil about It
only vaguely aware of, the larger world. Today in the United States, I see the opposite happening, a closing-off of the world, in this the most media-intensive society in the world. If by “globalization,” we infer engagement with the rest... View Details
- 13 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 13, 2007
observations to analyze problems facing the United States in recent years and to create an agenda for renewing American strengths through returning to core American principles—but in new ways suitable to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
granted in the United States that there are people you can turn to for advice about entrepreneurship,” says Cindy Ko, vice president of international expansion at Endeavor, a nonprofit economic-development... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
The Class of 1977
others. I view my volunteer efforts as a way to perpetuate the University as a renewable resource that will benefit others for generations to come.” is partner and national director of China for Ernst & Young. Born and raised in Hong Kong, Wong, who is fluent in... View Details
Keywords: Desmond Wong
- 05 Jan 2011
- Op-Ed
Funding Unpredictability Around Stem-Cell Research Inflicts Heavy Cost on Scientific Progress
a new research stream, and there is a low probability you will get funded in a new area. You may be fired. In short, your career is in danger of total meltdown. That is the real cost of our randomized model of research support in the View Details
- 03 Jan 2017
- First Look
January 3, 2017
United States began to use standardized color, achieved by synthetic dyes, as part of their marketing strategies. The emergence of the synthetic dye industry paralleled the growth of mass production and mass... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 08 Oct 2021
- Research & Ideas
How Newspaper Closures Open the Door to Corporate Crime
violations Heese, who researches corporate misconduct, decided to examine company violations in light of the rapid deterioration of the newspaper industry. The circulation of local newspapers in the United View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Sherman Baldwin: Leadership under Fire
conditions and often with extraordinary and unheralded courage -- to fulfill the mission they have been given by the President and the American people as the nation's first line of defense. When the safety of the United View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Building a Network for Social Enterprise in Latin America
H-E-B and the Monterrey Food Bank, a program administered by the Mexican branch of the nonprofit organization Caritas. The outcome? The nonprofit, which received sporadic support in the past, suddenly had access to the organizational expertise of H-E-B's long history... View Details
- 25 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
MNCs in Asia: Investing in the Future
shareholders in both state and private enterprises." No Single Asian Market Mark Newman, vice president and CFO for GM Shanghai, the largest Sino-U.S. joint venture, presented statistics that clarified the corporation's significant... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- Web
A Marketing Revolution - The Art of American Advertising
Advertising media in antebellum America paved the way for all that followed—from magazine ads and giant billboards to television campaigns and internet marketing—and forever changed the nation’s consumer consciousness as the United View Details
- Web
Private Equity Finance - Course Catalog
on closely related investing strategies such as distress and private debt. Students will examine a wide variety of investment settings: from lower middle market companies to mega-cap, from the United States... View Details
- 09 Apr 2019
- News
Finding a Fix for Food Allergies
and provide incentives for scientists to work together within food allergy and across disease states to solve specific problems such as diagnostics and reducing the allergic response.” The couple hopes their advances can offset the... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Meal Plan
at a white-tablecloth restaurant. This year is looking a little different. On May 8, as some states loosened dining-in restrictions and others maintained strict guidelines for takeout and delivery only, the Bulletin held a virtual... View Details
- 24 Aug 2017
- News
Unlocking Potential
governments on the cost savings her program can provide. She says Reset is working to scale up toward a cost structure that is more affordable than prison {which in some states can cost more than $100,000 per year per inmate), with... View Details