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- 13 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
Small Businesses Are Worse Off Than We Thought
If the COVID-19 crisis lasts four months, 65 percent of small retailers say there’s a good chance they’ll be forced to close permanently by the end of the year. Among restaurants and bars, 70 percent expect to go out of business if... View Details
- 03 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 3, 2015
next stage of growth. How should it balance opportunities to expand retail stores into a new market (Oslo, Norway) with additional growth in its home market—Sweden—with decisions about investments to build out its nascent View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Thomas Stemberg | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
computer printers to pens and paper products, and, yes, staples. Staples launched in 1986 and not only created but also became the leader in its thriving retail sector, with online services from Staples.com... View Details
- 14 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 14
mobilization that can improve labor conditions more broadly. Publisher's link: http://www.bostonreview.net/BR38.3/ndf_jodi_short_michael_toffel_global_brands_labor_justice.php Working Papers The Impact of Supplier Reliability on View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Oct 2009
- Research & Ideas
Why Are Web Sites So Confusing?
Do you sometimes get the feeling that Internet portals, search pages, social networks, e-commerce, and other Web sites are not necessarily designed in order to maximize user convenience and benefits? We do, too. Why—you might ask? For a fundamentally similar reason to... View Details
Keywords: by Andrei Hagiu & Bruno Jullien
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Case Study: Off to a Fine Art
Launched in 2017, Clay is an artisanal ceramics startup for the sharing economy. Founder and CEO Rukmini Giridharadas (MBA 2014) has partnered with potters in the Bay Area to offer their wares online to the chefs, caterers, and florists... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Star Search
Above: photo by Getty/Bloomberg Nobody, says Kate Gulliver (MBA 2009), chooses to work somewhere just because they offer a free lunch. “I think people care far more about being excited about the content of the work they’re doing,” says Gulliver, the global head of... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 28 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
While Waiting for Japan’s Recovery, Let’s Enhance Supplier Competitiveness at Home
Connection is an example of one step in the right direction. Initiated last spring, IBM has brought together an initial consortium of seven major companies, including Caterpillar, Pfizer, Bank of America, Citibank, and AT&T, to develop an View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
A Start-Up with Giddyup
equity until I'd built something." Online sales "That's our focus, and it's made possible by our 'Fit Kit' at-home measuring system. We're now shifting to more ready-to-wear sizes, too." Best-seller "The Honcho, for about $900–$1,200.... View Details
- 14 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 14
the scientists themselves. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52220 January 2017 American Economic Review Are Online and Offline Prices Similar? Evidence from Large Multi-Channel View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Profile
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
- 11 Feb 2008
- Research & Ideas
Does Democracy Need a Marketing Manager?
contributions. For example, on the liberal side of the spectrum, you have Democracy for America, founded by Howard Dean, and also Moveon.org. However, online enthusiasm does not necessarily translate into the superior on-the-ground... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Dec 2006
- First Look
First Look: December 19, 2006
Authors:Liu Yunchuan, Sunil Gupta, and John Zhang Periodical:Management Science 52, no. 11 (November 2006): 1799-1809 Abstract We develop a game-theoretical model to show that in the markets where price consistency across channels is critical, an incumbent... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 18
on practical measures that businesses can implement to create shared value. Originally published in an online forum hosted by Harvard Business Review, it offers valuable advice about how CEOs, other senior executives, and boards of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Career Coach
Connie Walsh
team for $5B Staples Brands Group at Staples, Inc. She was responsible for marketing & developing product lines and brands across retail, contract, online and catalogue businesses and for the packaging strategy and production of over... View Details
- 05 Mar 2014
- What Do You Think?
When Will the Next Dot.com Bubble Burst?
leadership, alumni from Procter & Gamble's online operation, carefully laid out plans in which they estimated they would need a next round financing of $30 million. The representative from Flatiron indicated his partners would like to... View Details
- 25 Jun 2020
- News
Global Centers Broaden Understanding of Business and the Pandemic
Steps,” which consisted of four weekly online discussions for HBS and Harvard alumni in Africa. The series of hour-long webinars featured eight HBS faculty (led by Senior Lecturers John Macomber, Euvin Naidoo, and Hakeem Belo-Osagie and... View Details
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Global - Global Activities 2020
of HBS faculty interviewing business leaders from Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East. The five new videos feature South African business leaders in banking (Cas Coovadia), retail (Shirley Zinn), food (Robbie Brozin),... View Details
- 02 Nov 2015
- News
Making Higher Ed Accessible to Africans
ambitious and bold—both criteria that have framed Royster’s career from the start. His initial break with convention occurred after his first year in college, when he took a year off from Duke to work retail near his hometown, in Newton,... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 05 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
Case 818-079 Chewy.com (A) In late 2013, Ryan Cohen, cofounder and CEO of online pet products retailer Chewy.com, faces a “bet the company decision”—whether to stay with a third-party logistics provider... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman