Miscellaneous Store Retailers - Publications - Faculty & Research

09 Mar 2015
News

Professor Emeritus Walter J. Salmon Dies at 84

Keywords: Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Miscellaneous Store Retailers

21 Aug 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018

accuracy of daily sales forecasts. We collaborated with an online apparel retailer to assemble a dataset that combines (1) detailed internal operational information, including data on sales, advertising, and promotions, as well as (2)... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

06 Dec 2016
First Look

December 6, 2016

https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/817042-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 117-020 Accounting for the iPhone Upgrade Program On September 9, 2015, Apple Inc. announced the “iPhone Upgrade Program,” a new way to purchase iPhone models 6s and 6s Plus in Apple’s... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

23 Aug 2006
Op-Ed

The Real Wal-Mart Effect

retailer destroyed more jobs in 2005 than it created. Indeed, from low wages to limited healthcare coverage, the company has a number of employee-related issues to tackle, as well as many nonmarket ones. (Wal-Mart announced August 8 an... View Details

Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat & Ken A. Mark; Retail

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Adding a Social Dimension to Strategy - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

their value proposition, they tap into the potential for a competitive advantage that is more sustainable versus competitors than conventional cost and quality advantages. Whole Foods, the most economically successful food retailer in... View Details

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Entrepreneurship - Faculty & Research

Competition ; Technology Industry ; Financial Services Industry ; Retail Industry ; Latin America ; Mexico ; Brazil ; Argentina Citation Educators Related Palepu, Krishna G., Fernando Fragueiro, Carla Larangeira, and Mariana Cal. "Mercado... View Details

06 Jun 2016
Research & Ideas

Skills and Behaviors that Make Entrepreneurs Successful

that increase confidence in a person’s entrepreneurial abilities. Like the conviction of Marla Malcolm Beck and husband Barry Beck that high-end beauty retail stores and spas, tightly coupled with online... View Details

Keywords: by HBS Working Knowledge

09 Dec 2019
Research & Ideas

Identify Great Customers from Their First Purchase

Testing data on 13,000 shoppers To show how the model works, Ascarza and Padilla fed it some customer data supplied by an international retailer that sells its own brand of beauty products exclusively in its View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Retail; Retail

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Faculty & Researchers - Managing the Future of Work

Strategy Unit. He teaches the Corporate Strategy course in the MBA elective curriculum. His research has focused on multiunit firms, such as large retail chains, quick-service restaurant franchises, and banks. Through a series of studies,... View Details

28 Jun 2021
Research & Ideas

Keep or Cut Workers? How Companies Reacted to the COVID-19 Crisis

increase during the pandemic. During the pandemic, Amazon hired as many new workers as all other Standard and Poor’s 500 companies combined. Online retailer Wayfair also prospered. Where the axe fell On the other hand, shopping malls and... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

16 Feb 2010
Research & Ideas

The Outside-In Approach to Customer Service

example of a company that has been on this journey? A: Best Buy, the largest dedicated consumer electronics retailer in the United States, provides a good example of a company that developed an outside-in orientation by tackling its own... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Consumer Products

09 Jan 2012
Research & Ideas

Location, Location, Location: The Strategy of Place

time to enter or exit that location. Reducing your costs might not provide you with a competitive advantage at all." Walmart has been a smart expander since it opened its first store in Rogers, Arkansas, in 1962. Sam Walton slowly... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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Profiles - MBA

shed light on donations at the corporate level, I discovered that technology and the power of making information widely accessible can bring us one step closer to a more safe, just, and verdant world. In particular, by building a Google Chrome extension reviewed and... View Details

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Investment Banking & Securities Underwriting | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

creation of department store groups such as Federated Department Stores, Allied Department Stores, and Interstate Department Stores. In 1927, Mazur published Principles of Organization Applied to Modern View Details

01 Jun 2024
News

Alumni Achievement Awards 2024

Photographed by Susan Young; Edited by Julia Hanna MORE ON THE RECIPIENTS Read more about the 2024 recipients, and learn about past recipients. ALUMNI ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS SITE MORE ON THE RECIPIENTS Read more about the 2024 recipients, and learn about past recipients.... View Details

19 Jul 2016
First Look

July 19, 2016

announced that it had passed Walmart in global sales to become the biggest retail platform in the world. To add to Walmart’s woes, in the United States traditional dollar discount stores and convenience... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship

opportunities. He graduated from Kenyon College, has one daughter, and lives in Wellesley, MA. Marla Malcolm Beck (MBA 1998), Bluemercury Marla Malcolm Beck is the co-founder and CEO of Bluemercury Inc., a high-growth luxury beauty View Details

26 Jun 2017
Research & Ideas

How Cellophane Changed the Way We Shop for Food

oxygen that touched a product, thus preventing discoloration. “Cellophane played a big part in how the color of food started to be controlled and standardized,” she says. The rise of self-service grocery stores Through the turn of the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail; Retail; Retail

04 Apr 2023
Book

Two Centuries of Business Leaders Who Took a Stand on Social Issues

While shareholders still reign supreme at many companies, a widespread shift toward more responsible business practices is driving more leaders to take a stand on social and environmental issues today, says Harvard Business School Professor Geoffrey Jones. Jones... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Consumer Products; Fashion; Retail; Green Technology

26 Apr 2022
Book

What Does Your Business Stand For? Why Building Trust Starts with Purpose

were waiting for a business meeting and were wrongly accused of loitering at a Starbucks store. “We work to create a warm, welcoming environment in our stores for every customer that visits Starbucks, and on that day in Philadelphia, we... View Details

Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati

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