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- 26 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
What Your Competition is Telling You
players—for example, McDonald's in fast food—have the resources that allow them to exhaustively study locations and build at only the most sure-fire of them. Other fast-food outlets and retailers seeking... View Details
Keywords: by David Stauffer
- 10 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 10
introduces methods for increasing the efficiency of retail store liquidation, which we define as the time-constrained divestment of retail outlets through an in-store sale of inventory. The View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 31 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 31
and a 0.4 point (7%) increase in the maximum debt to EBITDA covenant. This translates to as much as a 4 percentage point increase in equity return to the leveraged buyout firm. Download the paper http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1017857 Business View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Bank of America Turned Branches into Service-Development Laboratories
configured as "traditional centers," familiar-looking branches that provided conventional banking services, though often supported by new technologies and redesigned processes. The group unveiled its first redesigned branch—a... View Details
- 02 Nov 2020
- What Do You Think?
Is Antitrust Just a Quaint Notion in the Digital Age?
companies slightly more than $20 million to defend. (I didn’t have to recall these details; I Googled them at no cost.) Even then, however, market definition and monopoly pricing power proved to be complicated issues for regulators to address. View Details
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FIELD Global Immersion Resources: Ghana
Country Report Oxford Business Group Country Reports Useful for: in-depth analysis of broad industry categories within each country (ICT, Retail, Transportation, etc). Ghana Statistical Service News Factiva Useful... View Details
- 17 May 2017
- News
Nisa Godrej Takes Over
chief marketing officer is Anuradha Aggarwal. Nestle India has a woman in its management committee and two on its board of directors. Godrej Group itself recently appointed former Starbucks India CEO Avani Davda to head its gourmet View Details
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FIELD Global Immersion Resources: Peru
Data Tool to download specific indicators of interest, including indicators relating to consumer consumption, income, demographics, etc. Peru EIU Country Report (PDF) Oxford Business Group Country Reports Useful for: in-depth analysis of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Kill Groupthink
field of critical thinking. Just think back to the 2008 financial crisis, when a group of experts ignored the warning signs and arrived at an uncritical consensus. The consequences were disastrous, Bouygues reminds us, but the best... View Details
- 02 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: May 2, 2017
showing a passenger being dragged from a plane. Of all the U.S. air carriers, United should have known the power of social media and public outrage. It had learned years earlier in a prominent case about how fast viral content spreads and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 26 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Grocery Bags Manipulate Your Mind
bags" participants were asked to imagine approaching a supermarket to do their grocery shopping with their own bags. The "without bags" group received nearly identical instructions, but nothing about bags was mentioned. All... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
What I Do: Philippe Hellich (MBA 1996)
ever-present too, be it a customer tripping on a display or an entire country divorcing itself from established trading protocols. “The diversity of risks is what makes this job so exciting,” says the man whose task it is to prevent issues from striking the business... View Details
- 26 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Better Way to Negotiate: Backward
possible alliances and partnerships); manufacturers (for manufacturing set-top boxes); non-U.S. licensees; and wholesale and retail distributors (for sales). With his promising venture running on fumes, Perlman's next obvious negotiation... View Details
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Brand Power from Wedgwood to Dell: Part One
source of competitive advantage. Field's brand was built on the appealing, elegant, retail experience or encounter in a department store defined by quality goods that have Field's name on them.—Nancy F. Koehn How did he do that? He did it... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 09 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
company. Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/719456-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 518-038 Index In December 2017, Marc Freed-Finnegan and Jonathan Wall, the co-founders of retail technology company Index, had to... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- Web
Latin America - Global Activities 2021
headed by Miguel, Margolis sought out a protagonist that was not only charged with developing employees, but was also at a pivotal moment in her own development. That’s a situation in which many PLD students find themselves. Choosing Bruck—a Uruguayan mother of two on... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Kid at Heart — John H. Eyler (MBA 1971)
free that makes the job so appealing to Eyler -- it's also the chance to put to the sternest test yet his 25 years of management experience with retailers such as Federated Department Stores, Hartmarx, and the May Company. When Eyler took... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 23 Jul 2021
- Blog Post
Trends in Consumer Products
simple and often logical but difficult to predict. Jake Kirsch ‘11, VP Innovation, ABinBev Covid had a massive effect on our business. Fifteen percent of our business is in bars and restaurants and they were effectively closed. Some new products scheduled for launch... View Details
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FIELD Global Immersion Resources: Vietnam
Group Country Reports Useful for: in-depth analysis of broad industry categories within each country (ICT, Retail, Transportation, etc). News Factiva Useful for: targeted news search on specific... View Details
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FIELD Global Immersion Resources: Finland
broad business environment. Search tips: go to Data Tool to download specific indicators of interest, including indicators relating to consumer consumption, income, demographics, etc. Finland EIU Country Report (One-click report) Oxford Business View Details