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- 14 Oct 2014
- News
Financial Services Support Mexico’s Most Underserved Communities
Alvaro Rodriguez-Arregui (MBA 1995), cofounder and managing partner of Ignia, explains how his organization’s impact investing has brought personal finance services to residents of the largest slum in Mexico City while also strengthening... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Kid at Heart — John H. Eyler (MBA 1971)
chain's 38 similarly decorated stores -- is a fantasyland of whirling gizmos, blinking lights, talking bears, and singing clocks. The mazelike layout of the Fifth Avenue shop spans two levels and is filled from floor to ceiling with toys,... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Uhlmann Award Winners Focus on French Retailer
(Belarus), all members of the MBA Class of 1996 and students in Professor Ray A. Goldberg's Agribusiness Management Research elective, conducted a study of Carrefour, the French mass-market food retailing giant. Founded in 1959 by two... View Details
- 16 Jul 2024
- Op-Ed
Corporate Boards Are Failing in Their No. 1 Duty
and store managers who had the freedom to source materials unique to their marketplace. In his zeal to increase short-term earnings, Nardelli got rid of the customer advisers and centralized procurement... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 19 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Why Innovations Sit on the Shelf
not with him. He then deduced that plenty of managers a few layers below him had insight into the situation, information that he should be hearing. But those conversations were occurring behind closed doors. So any information that might... View Details
- 23 May 2019
- News
Marla Beck, MBA/MPA 1998
decision to buck the industry standard and invest in employees. “Our business model gives employees a career path,” she says, noting that half of the company’s top managers started as sales associates. As she expanded Bluemercury beyond... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 17 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Where Did My Shopping Mall Go?
not all equal in facing these threats. While some retailers will manage through this revolution, many will perish. The old strategy of containing shrink and growing incremental store traffic two percent per... View Details
- 19 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Ground-Floor Opportunities for Retail in India
diversified from there. Now, as CEO and managing director of Pantaloon Retail (India) Limited, he oversees thirty-two department stores in fifteen cities. "Ordinary people are buying what the rich can... View Details
- 27 Nov 2013
- News
No Bologna, Please
risks where the payoff wasn't obvious. After HBS, he opened a cookie shop in downtown Boston—and watched commuters stream by in the morning until he added fresh croissants and baguettes, both novelties at the time. That store would become... View Details
- 12 May 2016
- News
Food Rescue Is on a Mission
forensic accounting, the ability to adapt to clients’ needs, especially on such an enormous scale, is crucial. He points to SecondBite’s relationship with Coles, one of Australia’s largest supermarket chains, which joined the food-reuse effort. The grocery View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 15 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Find Your Pragmatic Path through Radical Uncertainty
activities. These days, we need to plan more carefully because small decisions can have dire consequences for ourselves and for others. Consider the newly stressful task of grocery shopping. Should I order groceries online for home delivery or go to the store? If I do... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Avon CEO Jung on Leadership
Jung Andrea Jung, chairman and CEO of Avon Products, Inc., knows a thing or two about reinvention. After taking over the venerable beauty-products firm in 1999, she helped it shed the last vestiges of its “Ding-dong, Avon calling” image and morph into a glamorous... View Details
- 23 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 23
software to be significant. But unlike other retailers who took an iron hand approach to push compliance, Belk's implementation permitted store managers to "edit" the system to "fix" the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 20
potential. Without the larger firm investing again in Maricopa, the business was at risk of going under. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/product/maricopa-inc-finding-the-right-treatment-for-growth/an/314065-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 114-034 Go Mobile:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jul 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: It’s a Bad Idea to Ban Customers From Recording Videos
discreet—smartphones are easily concealed. A banning policy often itself causes escalation of a conflict. “The video that this store doesn’t want you to see!” is that much more likely to get attention. And when View Details
- 19 Mar 2015
- News
Walter Salmon Remembered
will be missed. Bob Rosenberg (MBA 1963) As one the few HBS students coming out of the department store business, I was drawn to Walt for his knowledge, common sense approach to business issues, and wonderful sense of humor. He was... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Rediscovering America
for more companies to practice “values-based capitalism.” Could you cite any examples? There is a growing number of well-run, profitable companies that have values at the center of their management strategy. One outstanding example is... View Details
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- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Fast Lane to Country Lane
feel like everything I’ve done has been leading to this,” says Lackley, who manages business operations for Mark Lackley Furniture Maker (www.lackley.com), a high-end furniture company in Quechee, Vermont. Lackley began her “training” for... View Details
- 17 Oct 2016
- HBS Case
Business Solutions That Help Cut Food Waste
As much as 40 percent of food grown in the United States for human consumption is wasted. Source: Eivaisla After decades of wasteful food practices, where perfectly good food is discarded even as poverty keeps many families hungry, solutions are starting to come... View Details