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- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2019
no.” Fast money: “My husband, Barry, and I raised a million dollars in two weeks to start Bluemercury in 1999. The initial idea was to build an e-commerce company, but then we changed course and focused on freestanding beauty stores where... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Design Fair
Second-year students in Associate Professor Stefan Thomke's elective MBA course Managing Product Development presented their final projects at the tenth annual Design Fair in December. Among those who displayed their wares at the Spangler... View Details
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’ View Details
Keywords: Retail
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Five Honored for Missions Accomplished
Investment Counsel, which became the largest privately owned, independent asset management firm in southern Africa. In 1988, he left Cape Town to start an international investment firm, launching Orbis Investment View Details
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- 03 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why Fierce Competitors Apple and Amazon Became ’Frenemies’ Over eReaders
Technology and Operations Management unit at Harvard Business School. And why would Apple ever allow a Kindle app in its App Store in the first place? "We all know historically Apple often says no to apps... View Details
- 04 Feb 2022
- News
Hour by Hour
application to connect employers and former workers in good standing, and allow employers to automate and manage their interactions with former employees. HourWork’s model—pooling and then nurturing former talent for future permanent and... View Details
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Using Cloud Storage & Services at HBS | Information Technology
discuss with your manager whether storing HBS data in a personal drive is appropriate. When Traveling Some people have expressed concerns about data security when traveling abroad. If you feel that this is a... View Details
Charles R. Walgreen, Jr.
As a young purchasing department officer, Walgreen Jr. gained valuable management experience by overseeing a wide variety of the company’s buying operations and by creating several new lines of merchandise. During his tenure as Walgreens'... View Details
Keywords: Retail
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
of hundreds and perhaps thousands of dogs and cats (the numbers remain unclear, as there is no centralized database of such information). While the situation was uncertain, there was some concern that a production run of SmartPak’s LiveSmart Weight View Details
- 17 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017
difference-in-differences analyses to examine the effects of a switch from decentralized to centralized hiring at our research site. We find that, on average, centralized hiring does not increase the quality of employee-company matches, except when View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Negotiating with Wal-Mart
are numerous media accounts of the corporate monolith riding its suppliers into the ground. But what about those who manage to survive, and thrive, while dealing with the classic hardball negotiator? In “Sarah Talley and Frey Farms... View Details
- 07 Mar 2019
- News
Smart Marketing Brings Rapid Growth to Latino Brands
accomplish that was to create their own distribution network. Therefore, we are able to control how the brand should look like, how the brand should be able to be established in the marketplace, and how that brand could revolutionize context in any given market or any... View Details
- 23 Jul 2008
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Balanced Scorecard in Action
The Office of Strategy Management Many organizations suffer a disconnect between strategy formulation and its execution. The answer? HBS professor Robert S. Kaplan and colleague Andrew Pateman argue for the creation of a new corporate... View Details
- 29 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
Building a Powerful Prestige Brand
generally worked with the advertising managers. In its early years, the cosmetics company could not afford a large, mass media campaign. Instead, Estée and department store managers sent mailings to targeted... View Details
- 12 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Rocket Science Retailing: A Practical Guide
identify ways to improve its production processes. Retailers, too, must recognize that to excel at execution, they must empower their people, including in their stores and distribution centers. A few years ago, we visited a Toyota factory... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
After the Revolution: Putting the Internet in Perspective
paramount. "When you went to Harvard Business School, we really knew what we were talking about," he told alumni. "But in the new economy, just about everything we accepted about business is being questioned." Nolan, an expert on general View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Kresge’s Afterlife
University’s associate manager of recycling and waste. “That’s especially true when recycling allows needy organizations to receive goods they couldn’t afford otherwise.” Below, we track a few of the donations to see where Kresge Hall... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 25 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Will Machine Learning Make You a Better Manager?
increasingly using ML to manage many aspects of their business operations. “There’s been an explosion,” Teodorescu says. “It’s becoming less of a field in itself and more and more of a tool for people in other fields to use.” In a new... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Elevator Pitch: Dress Code
Video Embed Animation by Drue Wagner and Troubadour Image + Sound The Yes Julie Bornstein (MBA 1997), cofounder and CEO; former COO, Stitch Fix Jennifer Koen-Horowitz (MBA 1997), head of brand marketing and PR Vision: The Spotify of fashion Concept: The Yes builds a... View Details
- 06 May 2019
- News
Are You Ready for Veggie Fast-Casual?
Alive shops in three Boston suburbs, and over time he befriended and then bought out the owner, who had been struggling to manage her far-flung eateries. “I had this great run with [Panera],” says Shaich. “What I love as much as anything... View Details