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Corporate Training Programs | HBS Online
learning experience, resulting in an 85% completion rate across all courses. Impact 8 out of 10 participants surveyed say taking an HBS Online course impacted their professional lives for the better. Discounted Pricing View Details
John Wanamaker
Wanamaker stores were the first to have a restaurant, electricity, an elevator, and a discount “downstairs” store. Wanamaker was also the first merchant to take out full-page newspaper ads that were written from the consumer’s point of... View Details
Keywords: Retail
Thomas G. Stemberg
Stemberg was a pioneer in the retail industry. By contracting directly with manufacturers of office supplies and eliminating the wholesaler, Stemberg was able to offer discounted supplies to small businesses and individuals through his... View Details
Keywords: Retail
Samuel H. Kress
Kress built a discount chain store based on an economies of scale model. He started offering fewer items than traditional 5- and 10- cent stores, in order to offer bargain prices to a lower-income clientele. Kress’ stores were a great... View Details
Keywords: Retail
Charles S. Woolworth
Taking control of the family discount goods enterprise upon his brother Frank’s death, Charles Woolworth continued to expand the company. In the 1920s, Woolworth began operations in Cuba and Germany, and American operations were extended... View Details
Keywords: Retail
- 21 Jul 2022
- News
How Sumner Feldberg Helped Transform Retail
overly dependent on downtown locations that were losing shoppers to suburban malls. Some New England rivals were opening discount stores in abandoned textile mills, which came with cheap rents and plenty of parking space. Mr. Feldberg,... View Details
- 08 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Everything Must Go: A Strategy for Store Liquidation
often discount heavily at the end of the liquidation process in order to achieve 100 percent sell-through of inventory, with the belief that leftover product is a clear sign of poor performance. But Craig and Raman's research shows that... View Details
Herman G. Fisher
America’s suburban make-up after World War II, and Fisher’s ability to capture this market through discount mass marketing, revenues at Fisher-Price grew sharply reaching over $26 million in 1966. View Details
Keywords: Fabricated Goods
- 18 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 18
To Groupon or Not to Groupon: The Profitability of Deep Discounts By: Edelman, Benjamin, Sonia Jaffe, and Scott Duke Kominers Abstract—We examine the profitability and implications of online discount... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Apr 2005
- Research & Ideas
Tips to Reinvent the Department Store
Here's a snapshot of department stores today: Regional brands have all but disappeared; larger players like Federated and May are merging their multi-brand companies, and consolidation continues. Meanwhile, all sorts of retailers from single-brand stores to big-box... View Details
- 11 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
A Smarter Way to Reduce Customer Defections
Companies spend significant sums to acquire customers. Once hooked, marketers protect those investments by attempting to keep patrons happy, engaged, and most of all, loyal. Reducing customer attrition, or "churn" in marketing parlance, often involves offering... View Details
- 29 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018
empirical investigation of the risk of globally diversified portfolios of stocks and bonds and of optimal intertemporal global portfolio choice for long horizon investors in the presence of permanent cash flow shocks and transitory View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Instilling Production with Principles
clean out their closets and earn some cash or score discounted used clothing and lighten fashion’s carbon footprint. Revitalizing Bricks and Mortar Under the guidance of product manager Soufi Esmaeilzadeh (MBA 2010), Google Maps comes... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Uhlmann Award Winners Focus on French Retailer
that were revolutionary to the French marketplace -- innovations such as "one-stop shopping, self-service, discount prices, quality products, and free parking," the Uhlmann Award winners noted in their 171-page report on the company. In... View Details
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Shaun Miller
& long term career? HBS has done a magnificent job at equipping me with the technical skills necessary to succeed - Discounted Cash Flow's, Five Forces, and leadership models are all nearly instinctual thanks to my MBA studies.... View Details
- 12 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
Ngwe, Donald, Kris J. Ferreira, and Thales Teixeira Abstract— Many online stores are designed such that shoppers can easily access any available discounted products. We propose that deliberately increasing search frictions by placing... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 31 Jan 2016
- News
Studios Back App, Hoping to Fill Cinema Seats
making group sales easier, the new company will allow for dynamic pricing for movie tickets: Theaters set ticket prices, though studios typically set the minimum revenue they will accept per ticket sold, which can make discounts... View Details
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Thomas Stemberg | Baker Library
office supplies, where customers wheeled their own carts through aisles of discounted office offerings from faxes and computer printers to pens and paper products, and, yes, staples. Staples launched in 1986 and not only created but also... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Tap into Valuable Alumni Resources
boards. In addition, there are international job opportunities and reciprocal access to listings posted by Stanford, Kellogg, and INSEAD. Lifelong Learning: This is perhaps the area about which alumni are least aware, but where HBS excels. Did you know that alumni get... View Details
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Kimball Thomas
cousins noticed a brisk market for discounted pool tables made in China. “We flew to China and talked to manufacturers,” says Kimball. “Right then and there, we committed to the minimum order: fifty tables. It wasn’t scary then, but... View Details