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- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Faculty Research Online
in the number of “functional” managers for crowding in the C-suite. Is J.C. Penney’s Makeover the Future of Retailing? The stuffy department store chain has become emboldened under new CEO Ron Johnson (MBA... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Perfection’s Price
Ultimately, the Kaplans settled on a 3,500-square-foot shop in the Palisades Center mall in West Nyack, New York, and opened the flagship store last October. “We thought the plus-size market had evolved so... View Details
Charles S. Woolworth
expansion. Though Frank Woolworth’s original one-price limit was eventually lifted, Woolworth stores continued to remain profitable under Charles Woolworth’s leadership, with stores growing to 2,000 by the... View Details
Keywords: Retail
Millard S. Drexler
Drexler helped to transform The Gap from a “me-too” retailer of Levi’s and private label jeans into a fashion icon. He simplified the brand’s product line and invested heavily in provocative advertising which made The Gap a recognizable worldwide brand. During the... View Details
Keywords: Fabric & Apparel
- 19 Dec 2008
- News
WHBS, 820 on Your Dial
several times over the years, depending on available personnel. The hours were filled the first year with a series of faculty speakers, roundtable discussions, a “Connoisseur’s Corner” musical series, occasional recorded comedy, an HBS Sports Roundup, a late-night... View Details
Bernard Marcus
Marcus and Home Depot co-founder Arthur Blank met while they were both working at a California-based home improvement chain. After a decade of disagreements about that chain's future, Marcus and Blank went out on their own, determined to start a View Details
Keywords: Retail
- 15 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: January 15
apparel market, the company started to face intense competition from small and large Indian and foreign retailers. The company's chairman, Dr. Nalli Kuppusamy Chetty, announced a $25 million expansion plan and proposed the opening of 12 View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Dec 1999
- Research & Ideas
Henry Heinz and Brand Creation in the Late Nineteenth Century
efficiently as possible. Increasing the company's product line was a potentially quick, inexpensive way to shape a nascent market for processed food. It was also a means, Heinz reasoned, of building the brand. In the 1870s, branding was a View Details
Keywords: by Nancy F. Koehn
Ben Cohen
non-profit organizations. What began as a small ice cream stand in Burlington, Vermont in 1978 became a $100 million operation with national distribution and franchise stores in 20 states. View Details
Keywords: Food & Tobacco
- 01 Apr 2008
- News
“Let Us Now Praise Famous Women”
at a time could use it), and one time it managed to spill all its cards on the floor. Val remembers that it took most of a week to put them back in order. How were changes in alumni data recorded back in those days? The staff filled in the alum’s View Details
- 04 Feb 2008
- News
After Twenty Years, Rankings Remain Controversial
and scholarly reputations of faculty, writes HBS professor Rakesh Khurana in his new book, From Higher Aims to Hired Hands. BusinessWeek had the audacity to base its rankings on the view of the schools’ two main “customers,” students and... View Details
- 02 Aug 2024
- HBS Case
How a Mission to Cut Food Waste Launched a Multimillion-Dollar Venture
more than 2,000 supermarkets, including 700 Loblaws stores in Canada and 300 Stop & Shop supermarkets in New England, New York, and New... View Details
- 14 Feb 2017
- News
Taking the Lead at Wesfarmers
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Making A Difference: HBS Club of Puget Sound Reaches Out to Young Alumni
Tracy E. Kwiker (MBA 1995) arrived in Seattle three and a half years ago when she was promoted to manage store operations for a Toys “R” Us region in the Pacific Northwest. Eager to establish contacts in her View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Shop Talk, Different Avenues
supply. In 2009 we started shaping the kind of inventory we needed and partnered with brands in the same way department stores do to make sure that we’re not left empty-handed when we have surges in demand. MT: How are you responding to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Cutting Edge
an executive at several food companies, Silk had revived other century-old brands such as Jell-O, Lea & Perrins, Hebrew National, and Armour. Based on those successes, New York–based hedge fund York Capital Management asked Silk to become... View Details
Linda J. Wachner
Wachner’s first success in fashion came in the mid-1970s while she was working in Warnaco’s lingerie division, Wagner’s. Perceiving that it was their uncomfortable and unfeminine design that made women “burn their bras,” Wachner redesigned softer, free form bras that... View Details
Keywords: Fabric & Apparel
- 07 Jul 2016
- News
Rescuing Fresh Food to End Hunger in Australia
Australia’s largest supermarket chains, as evidence of success. The grocery giant makes weekly food donations from 550 of its stores and enjoys significant employee engagement. “What we do with Coles is the best example in Australia—and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Where Conservation Means Business
19th-century New England textile mill records, volumes of R.G. Dun & Co. credit reports, business archives from Lehman Brothers and Polaroid, and HBS historical records. (Read about all the collections.) Not everything in the historical... View Details
Keywords: Roger thompson
- 23 Jan 2008
- Op-Ed
A House Divided: Investment or Shelter?
country, they yearned for shelter, a sanctuary in a new land. That shelter could be a tenement, a farmstead, a ramshackle cottage. For families, home had a connotation of safety and stability. Banks did not lend with 30-year amortizing... View Details