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- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Hiroshi Mikitani, MBA 1993
retail stores sell their products online. Rather than rely on outside investors, Mikitani funded Rakuten with his own money, taking a significant personal risk, and recruited his wife, Haruko (an IBJ colleague), to run the back office. In... View Details
- 19 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 19
receiving JCP Cash coupons and circulars advertising the week's specials, were slow to embrace the new pricing format and began leaving the retailer in droves. Under enormous pressure to turn things around as the all-important... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint
at the company. He then turned his attention to the e-commerce platform the firm launched in 2018 to sell products directly to retail consumers. Now, as the case “Digital Transformation at Tata Steel” explains, Narendran had to decide... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 28 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
Unilever: Transformation and Tradition
job."1 It was remarkable that the corporate image of a company whose brands were so well known, and whose operations were so widespread, was so indistinct. There were times between the 1960s and 1990 when Unilever appeared amorphous.... View Details
- 31 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
From SpinPop to SpinBrush: Entrepreneurial Lessons from John Osher
and large retailers including Walmart and Target. Osher had taken for granted from the start that SpinBrush would be copied quickly by other companies. As a result of that planning he had designed Dr. John's to work on a short product... View Details
- 07 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Drives Supply Chain Behavior?
be divided into strategic and operational activities. Strategic activities include, among others, long-term capacity planning and network configuration of warehouses, distributors, and retail stores.... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston
- 23 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
Arla Foods: How Sustainable Can A Dairy Company Be?
occur at the farm level. The remaining emissions come from operations, logistics, packaging and retail and consumer use. On Scope 1 and 2 emissions, Arla explained how they plan to secure 100% green electricity, maximize View Details
- 08 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Creating Value in Your Business Ecosystem
Fundamentally, they aim to improve the overall health of their ecosystems by providing a stable and predictable set of common assets—think of Wal-Mart's procurement system and Microsoft's Windows operating system and tools—that other... View Details
Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien
- March 2023 (Revised May 2025)
- Case
On
By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Karolin Frankenberger and Sascha Mader
Founded in 2010, in just one decade, the Swiss company On had established itself as a main player in global sports footwear and apparel. Based on an unconventional strategy which one of the founders labeled as “obsessively distinct,” On grew its sales with a compound... View Details
Keywords: Brands and Branding; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; Business Startups; Business Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Competitive Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Customer Focus and Relationships; Customer Satisfaction; Digital Marketing; Disruptive Innovation; Distribution Channels; Entrepreneurship; Environmental Sustainability; Global Strategy; Initial Public Offering; Innovation and Invention; Innovation Strategy; Market Entry and Exit; Marketing Strategy; Product Design; Product Development; Product Marketing; Social Media; Strategy; Supply Chain Management; Technological Innovation; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Retail Industry; Sports Industry; Europe; Switzerland; Germany; United States
- 19 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018
million well-off shoppers and 463 grocery stores in key U.S. markets. Whole Foods could absorb Amazon’s technology and process expertise to modernize and reduce its operating costs, which were among the highest in the industry. For... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 04 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
How a Juicy Brand Came Back to Life
unfolds. An Endearing Artlessness Some brands just want to have fun, and from birth Snapple was one of them. Operating from the back of his parents' pickle store in Queens, Arnie Greenberg and his friends Leonard Marsh and Hyman Golden... View Details
- 15 Mar 2017
- Lessons from the Classroom
More Than 900 Examples of How Climate Change Affects Business
This word cloud is composed of blog posts by more than 900 students describing how individual organizations are likely to be affected by climate change. Image by Patrick Clapp Last fall, first-year MBA students at Harvard Business School received a new assignment in... View Details
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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information
Activity & Cash Flows Consolidated Balance Sheet Supplemental Financial Information Supplemental Financial Information Revenues HBS funds its operations with cash from three primary sources: MBA tuition and fees; earned income from... View Details
- 31 Jul 2017
- HBS Case
It’s Hard to Fix the Family Business Without Offending the Family
Le is grappling with a host of operational challenges at Pho Hoa that include poor service and variable food delivery times for the menu’s wide array of 150 items. While his father has stepped aside, Tam’s uncle continues to manage the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Generation Next
grocery. All of the new businesses were unprofitable, though, and the losses from rural retailing threatened to overwhelm the entire company. Even worse, the avian flu had dented the poultry feed business, hitting the pockets of its... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Every Trick in the Book
moment, the model for Barnes & Noble, a venerable but struggling small chain, which that year sold its single remaining location on Fifth Avenue in New York to a bookseller named Leonard Riggio. But the retail landscape was already... View Details
Keywords: April White
- June 2024 (Revised August 2024)
- Case
Revlon India's Turnaround: Navigating Online-Offline Decisions Using a Balanced Scorecard
By: Tatiana Sandino and Samuel Grad
Revlon India was founded as a joint venture in 1995, pairing the industrial conglomerate UMG with the global beauty brand Revlon, Inc. to bring international color cosmetics to India. After growing rapidly and pioneering the Beauty Advisor (BA) model in India, the... View Details
Keywords: Balanced Scorecard; Restructuring; Training; Supply Chain Management; Distribution; E-commerce; Business Model; Business Plan; Decision Choices and Conditions; Marketing Strategy; Alignment; Brands and Branding; Negotiation; Joint Ventures; Strategic Planning; Salesforce Management; Competition; Retail Industry; Retail Industry; Retail Industry; India
Sandino, Tatiana, and Samuel Grad. "Revlon India's Turnaround: Navigating Online-Offline Decisions Using a Balanced Scorecard." Harvard Business School Case 124-107, June 2024. (Revised August 2024.)
- 23 Mar 2023
- News
Winners Crowned in 2023 Alumni New Venture Competition
home the top cash prize of $75,000. Runner Up winner Hue earned a $25,000 prize. Led by cofounders Janvi Shah, Nicole Clay, and Sylvan Guo (all MBA 2022), Hue helps brands and retailers embed TikTok-style shoppable videos on its... View Details
- April 2010 (Revised April 2010)
- Case
Mercadona
This case presents the predicament of a company trying to do right by its customers and its employees as the economic crisis of 2008 hits home. Fifteen years earlier, this Spanish supermarket chain had adopted its own version of total quality management, called the... View Details
Keywords: Customer Satisfaction; Compensation and Benefits; Employee Relationship Management; Service Operations; Business Processes; Retail Industry; Spain
Ton, Zeynep, and Simon Harrow. "Mercadona." Harvard Business School Case 610-089, April 2010. (Revised April 2010.)