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22 Feb 2022
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March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books

marketplace status quo. Demanding a voice and sometimes a hand in the products they buy, these digitally empowered consumers― “Me’s”―have inverted the traditional power dynamics of retail into metail. To put it simply, your customers are... View Details

01 Mar 2010
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Lords of Strategy

you can’t pronounce . Part of the strategy revolution was the coming of what I’ll call Greater Taylorism, the corporation’s application of sharp-penciled analytics, this time not to the performance of an individual worker — how fast a... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

10 Apr 2007
First Look

First Look: April 10, 2007

School Case 207-084 Following a successful model in Europe, JP Morgan has introduced a set of five U.S. retail mutual funds with an investment philosophy and marketing strategy grounded in behavioral finance. The asset management View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Sara Roedner

the ways you can connect with consumers," Sara says. "It's so much more compelling to have Joe Torre talk about teamwork than the usual CEO." After completing her BA, Sara accepted a position at The Boston Consulting Group... View Details

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Lindsay Hyde

registry idea that bombed, the team found inspiration in their one-on-one research and came up with a mobile retail idea – Nalli on a bus – to overcome consumer objections to traffic as a barrier to shopping. FIELD 3, the entrepreneurship... View Details

31 Oct 2017
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New Research and Ideas, October 31, 2017

heterogeneity in consumer sophistication could explain the prevalence and persistence of misconduct at such firms. Misconduct is concentrated at firms with retail customers and in counties with low education, elderly populations, and high... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

05 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019

organizations to leverage peer effects to improve the performance of their members. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55775 Pre-published online, October 2018 The Oxford Handbook of Group and Organizational... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

29 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 29

http://hbr.org/product/rana-plaza-bangladesh-garment-tragedy-a/an/514034-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 514-035 Rana Plaza: Workplace Safety in Bangladesh (B) In the aftermath of the Rana Plaza building collapse, a group of... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

31 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

The Dow at 20,000: What's That All About?

capital markets, it’s perhaps simply a good time to celebrate the success story that it is the US economy and US capital markets and to reflect on what it took to get to this point in our history. For so-called retail investors,... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

24 Dec 2013
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First Look: December 24

incentives of collateralized loan obligations (CLOs). Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/product/note-on-the-leveraged-loan-market/an/214047-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 214-035 Oaktree and the Restructuring of CIT Group (A) CIT's... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

08 Jun 2009
Research & Ideas

The Return of the Salesman

first generation of forecasters in the early 20th century, including Roger Babson, John Moody, and economist Irving Fisher. And a group at Harvard published an economic forecasting newsletter in the 1920s, the Harvard Economic Service's... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

11 Nov 2013
Research & Ideas

A Smarter Way to Reduce Customer Defections

estimated likelihood that they will flee and then offering incentives to a core group of customers at the top of the churn ranking. Gupta says these traditional methods are flawed. The two steps are not set up to maximize bottom-line... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Retail; Retail

01 Dec 2003
What Do You Think?

Is This the Twilight Era for the Managed Mutual Fund?

representing groups of investors, and from those in the U.S. and other countries—if at all representative—provide what is for me a rather sobering assessment of the future of these funds. At one end of the spectrum are the feelings... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

23 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Psychology, Pathology, and the CEO

market share. Its Mach3 shaving system was a blockbuster product, but the company was suffering the effects of its own reliance on trade loading—the practice of offering discounts to retail customers at the end of a quarter in order to... View Details

Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter

16 Dec 2015
Research & Ideas

Why ‘Sleep on It’ No Longer Sounds Like Great Advice

experiment in which they showed a group of graduate students four laptop bags and had them choose which one they liked the best. All four bags were similar—same price, same color, generally the same quality—but each had different... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Retail

09 Mar 2023
Blog Post

Port Esbjerg: Deploying Offshore Wind

reach capacities well beyond 8 MW–roughly the amount of electricity an average American home consumes in a year. Our group got to step inside one of these nacelles waiting for assembly and installation at Port Esbjerg. Photo source: Prof.... View Details

01 Apr 2002
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HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report

Spring greetings to all HBS alumni! The arrival of April signals the start of intense planning for spring events at HBS. The MBA spring reunions are fast approaching, and plans for the annual Club Officers Roundtable and spring Alumni... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

23 May 2019
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Marla Beck, MBA/MPA 1998

Group invests in Bluemercury 2012 M-61 skincare launched 2014 Appointed Entrepreneur-in-Residence, HBS 2015 Lune+Aster cosmetics launched 2015 Macy’s acquires Bluemercury 2019 Bluemercury opens its 195th store CEO and Cofounder... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

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Cindy Horowitz

experience in a PE portfolio company. Other areas which she enjoys include advising on work life balance and dual career families. Work Experience: CFO of Hollinger International, Group CFO at Primedia, Division CFO and Corporate Staff at... View Details

Keywords: Retail; Retail; Retail; Retail; Retail

29 May 2001
Research & Ideas

Race Does Matter in Mentoring

who eventually became executives—a group I'll henceforth refer to simply as "white executives"—usually entered a fast track in Stage 1, whereas both white and minority professionals who later... View Details

Keywords: by David A. Thomas

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