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- 05 Apr 2004
- What Do You Think?
Should We Brace Ourselves for Another Era of M&A Value Destruction?
in an asymmetrical fashion (for example, through stock options), it is in their financial best interest to do M&A to add volatility to their business." Is M&A part of the natural Darwinian process of business, or is it rigged... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 27 Nov 2023
- Blog Post
Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability Series - Opportunities for Green Entrepreneurship in the Face of Policy Inaction
innovations that can transform adversity and environmental waste into prosperity for climate-impacted communities in Nigeria. Achenyo Idachaba-Obaro is the Founder and CEO of MitiMeth, a company that uses water hyacinth, an invasive aquatic weed, to craft View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Evolution of Modern Pricing Models
led to a pervasive problem: Virtually all e-commerce companies are losing money. So when we started working on a case with Zalora—a Southeast Asian fashion e-commerce company led by Paulo Campos (MBA 2010)—we thought about deliberately... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Getting Personal
consistent brand message. In the United States, BMW is a relatively new brand, some thirty or forty years old in terms of its American presence. Yuppies who bought BMWs in the 1980s now have kids, but kids are never going to buy the car their parents own. So BMW,... View Details
- 05 Dec 2012
- What Do You Think?
Should Managers Bother Listening to Predictions?
least three plans, one based on "best case," one based on "worst case," and one representing "best guess." One could argue that the process itself has a degree of humility built into it. Fashion retailers... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 17 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Business Case for Diabetes Disease Management
Conference on November 7. Beaulieu's research focuses on many aspects of healthcare—including contracting, quality competition in managed care, and human capital management and performance measurement. At the session, she prodded her alumni "students" in... View Details
- 07 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
Rocket Science Retailing
early sales data updated their forecasts in an ad hoc manner when sales greatly exceeded or fell far short of original predictions. Several companies have retailing practices worth emulating, however. Japan-based World Company and Spain-based Zara are View Details
- 16 Jul 2018
- Blog Post
3 Key Take-a-Ways From My Summer at Zalando
geographies it covers. 3. Zalando Lounge Campaign and Content Production Tour Zalando Lounge is Zalando’s shopping club. With +15M registered members, it offers daily sales promotions of fashion and lifestyle products. Once a week,... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
- Profile
Arum Kang
stick With a goal of opening her own business — "I come from a family of entrepreneurs," Arum says — she looked at MBA options. "Initially, I wasn't going to apply to HBS. But when I visited a friend at the school, I sat in on a case about Zara, a View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Dan Fenn
relationships between business, ethics, and religion. The Alumni Association became the engine for the concept of education as a "contin-uous voyage." But such miscellaneous items one can find listed in a much more comprehensive fashion... View Details
Keywords: Dan Fenn
- 11 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Hackathons Help Decide Platform Winners and Losers
have nobody else show up,” he says. “Developers want to identify and join fashionable platforms that other developers are joining as well.” Some hackathon advice Given the size of the effects they identified, Wu concludes companies could... View Details
- 07 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
Why Online Retailers Should Hide Their Best Discounts
high-value customers.” It would almost be as if a high-end retailer such as Louis Vuitton or Gucci told people to go their outlet store first, Ngwe says. Huge gain in sales In a series of experiments involving a real online fashion and... View Details
- 03 Aug 2016
- What Do You Think?
How Can We Hold the “Leadership Industry” Accountable?
example, Pilgrim commented that the need for leadership is highly overrated. “We build structures with a slot at the top and the result is an implied need for leadership.” If our organizations were more fashioned like a networks,... View Details
- 15 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019
designing focused experiments to test hypotheses in a capital-efficient fashion in order to achieve product-market fit. But ICOs substantially limit the benefits associated with such staged experimentation for three reasons. Publisher's... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 19, 2016
this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/716426-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 716-446 IC Group A/S IC Group owned several of Scandinavia's leading premium fashion brands. How should it respond to the decline of its... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
being brought on by the board at Liz Claiborne as vice chairman and COO in 1994. Founded in 1976 by fashion designer Liz Claiborne, her husband, Arthur Ortenberg, and two other partners, the tiny shop had rocketed to success in its first... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Closing the 'Network Gap'
longer underrepresented,” says Hu. “This is an opportunity to get the whole community involved and help change minds as well as create the seeds of more equitable systems in the long term.” STUDENTS READY TO MAKE AN IMPACT Empowering Entrepreneurially Minded Students... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 12 Apr 2011
- News
Twelve Global Finalists Compete at HBS
shared mobile-based longitudinal Electronic Health Records via mobile phone. AVA is an invitation-only shopping platform. The company addresses the gap between the growing market demand for fashion and the lack of availability of branded... View Details
Keywords: Multiple alumni
- 10 Nov 2014
- HBS Case
How Restaurants in Lima and Copenhagen Became Best in the World
a high margin. That's similar to a fashion brand like Chanel (though fashion brands have higher margins). Acurio is following a portfolio logic, similar to, say, Penguin, which has Penguin Classics and all... View Details
- Profile
Minal Mehta
effective workout, but you also walk out of the class literally feeling like a rock star. "It's incredible to fashion a fitness program based on Bollywood music and dance because the category itself is one that people of different... View Details