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- 15 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 15
working paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2302589 Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 514-022 Tesco Group Food In 2010, the world's third largest retailer... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Feb 2023
- Blog Post
Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability Series - Closing the ‘Intention-Action’ Gap
by a recent study of U.S. consumer habits published by researchers at First Insight and the Baker Retailing Center at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. The study reported how more than two-thirds of consumers surveyed... View Details
- 15 Dec 2011
- News
An HBS gift guide
its Diaspora is as important as our commitment to generate capital and opportunities with the people connected to this great continent.” Browse their seasonal cellar Previous Next No more cold feet Denny Hanson (OPM 2, 1977) Founder, Apex Ski View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Consumer Finance Makes HBS Debut
we have a rich set of finance electives, including courses on behavioral topics, investment management, financial markets, private equity, venture capital, financial engineering (which I also coteach), and a host of other topics. Retail... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
American Dream
passing motorists. Hustead acquired the T. rex, for example, to drive demand for the fossils, rocks, and dinosaur-related products for sale in the Wall Drug Mining Company, one of 21 separate retail departments that generate over $12... View Details
- 17 Jul 2017
- Blog Post
HBS Summer Interns: Discover Their Career Passions
renewable energy, Molly Middaugh accepted a position at Next Era Energy where she will be on their resource development team working on their battery-storage products. Rebecca Scharfstein, a joint-degree student at the Harvard Kennedy School, is working at The Boston... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Star Search
retailer Wayfair. “They want to know, ‘Do I feel like I can add value and make a difference?’” Gulliver manages a 300-person team at Wayfair dedicated to helping the growing e-commerce company recruit and retain talent. Her role is... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
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
- 05 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Ten Deadly Mistakes of Wanna-Dots
them. Many wanna-dots will ultimately arrive in cyberspace, although not necessarily by the same route, as we will see in the two examples that follow. The story of cookware catalog vendor and retailer Williams-Sonoma shows how barriers... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 25 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health
garment factory owners engaged in cutthroat price competition to secure orders from Western manufacturer and retailer brands. These brands conveniently sourced their requirements at arm’s length through third-party intermediaries to avoid... View Details
- 28 Oct 2009
- Lessons from the Classroom
HBS Begins Teaching Consumer Finance
management, financial markets, private equity, venture capital, financial engineering (which I also coteach), and a host of other topics. Retail financial services are also occasionally the subject of cases in other areas. But we didn't... View Details
- 06 Sep 2005
- What Do You Think?
What are the Lessons of New Orleans?
organizations fail to learn from what happened in New Orleans, that may be the ultimate tragedy of a series of events that evoked feelings ranging from anger to embarrassment from the largest group of respondents to any of these columns... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 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
- 19 Mar 2015
- News
Walter Salmon Remembered
first became interested in marketing and retailing while in college, working part-time at Bloomingdale’s and then in a New York buying office for a large group of department stores. After earning an MBA... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
No Small Beer
market: The Brewers Association trade group reported a 20 percent jump in breweries in the United States last year, up to 2,514 from 2,092 in 2012. Even the mainstream megabrewers have taken notice, with everyone from MillerCoors to... View Details
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A Message from Dean Srikant Datar | About
science and machine learning. And I know I could not have done this work at any other business school. What I have heard from faculty, students, staff, and alumni groups about the challenges we face and the opportunities we see, the few... View Details
- 27 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Horrible Boss Workarounds
fact the boss may not be sure what the solution should be and is just waiting for someone to come forward." In her classes, Kanter teaches the case of the upscale cookware retailer Williams-Sonoma, where the CEO repeatedly eschewed... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 12 Feb 2016
- News
Creating Common Ground in Communities of Conflict
to Saudi Arabia, where they lived in exile for nearly a decade. They eventually returned to Pakistan, and she was given the opportunity to follow her brother to the United States for education and eventually attend Cornell University. After college, she joined... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
March 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
Alumni Books Dress Like a Million from Goodwill: The Ultimate Recycle Store by Jean Kelley (OPM 29, 2000) (JKLA Publishing) Goodwill stores are the ultimate retail location for getting great deals on name brand clothing. In this book, the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- Blog Post
Reflecting and Digesting
Work in an emerging market Do something I have no clue about Explore a new destination Throughout my search and conversations with Kurt Piemonte, an amazing career coach, I reached Global Fashion Group (GFG). A fashion e-commerce company... View Details