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03 Nov 2009
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economic downturn. The sharing of customer information across units and its use in the creative process are key initiatives analyzed in the case. CEO Robert Polet joined the high-end fashion Gucci Group in 2004, after 26 years at one of... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

02 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018

shopping environment. We build a demand model in which consumers choose how to allocate their spending over different product categories to maximize their direct utility under contingent free shipping. We estimate model parameters using transaction data from a pure... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

10 Mar 2015
News

Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling

fashion e-commerce company, Peach. It’s also a challenge to an industry where a company’s potential is often predicted based on its similarity to other successful ventures, most often led by CEOs who look a whole lot like Mark Zuckerberg.... View Details

Keywords: April White

16 Nov 2009
Research & Ideas

The Times Captures History of American Business

larger forces that, taken together, have helped fashion business and society today. Overarching themes of her book tackle the corporation writ large, the changing nature of work, and defining moments in technology. What can business... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Journalism & News

16 Dec 2002
Research & Ideas

Mentoring—Using the Voice of Experience

the recognition that no matter how much technology we have, how many PowerPoint slides we have, how many knowledge management systems we have, the fact of the matter is that people learn from experience. Simulation probably helps, but trying to transfer knowledge and... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

12 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 12, 2008

Coty. When Beetz was hired as chief executive, it was still a fragmented collection of recently acquired brands. The case describes how Beetz re-ignited the dormant celebrity fragrance business with the successful launch of a new Jennifer Lopez fragrance line. View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

27 Feb 2018
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developments in the Bangladesh ready-made garment industry after the fire at Tazreen Fashions factory, including formation of the Bangladesh Fire and Building Safety Accord (“Accord”) and the Alliance for Bangladesh Worker Safety... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

08 Mar 2016
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March 8, 2016

approaches can be reconciled through the Lean Strategy process, which ensures that startups innovate in a disciplined fashion and make the most of their limited resources by knowing "what not to do." Deliberate strategy sets the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

04 Nov 2008
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First Look: November 4, 2008

Fashionable Opportunity Harvard Business School Case 209-012 Roberto Charvel is a young MBA graduate making his first personal real estate investment in his native Mexico City. Charvel is planning to purchase and renovate a nine-unit... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

05 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 5, 2008

Yet, why do gray zones persist and why are they unlikely to disappear? In Moral Gray Zones, Michel Anteby shows how these spaces function as regulating mechanisms within workplaces, fashioning workers' identity and self-esteem while... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

08 Jul 2014
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First Look: July 8

moving "downmarket" without diminishing their prestige or alienating existing customers. The authors suggest various ways to cater to new, non-core customers in a way that differentiates the newcomers from a brand's core clientele. Examples are cited for... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

19 Nov 2007
Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching The Moral Leader

25-year business career that included 10 years in fashion retailing; 12 years in mutual fund and brokerage financial services; serving as a director on nonprofit and corporate boards; and chairing the Better Business Bureau here in... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Education

30 Mar 2010
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fashion without intervening predictions. Subjects were yoked so that the same history of outcomes was observed in all conditions. The results revealed the Gambler's Fallacy when outcomes were experienced (with or without predictions).... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

15 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 15, 2008

relationship formation based on the characteristics of 'settings', or the places and times where actors meet. We argue that bridging relations form when organizations participate in two types of settings: unusually popular or fashionable... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Sep 2010
News

Fair Trade

of prestige skin care brands in East Asia, where a preference for lighter skin led to its incorporation into global brands. As in India, these preferences were rooted historically, but they have grown stronger over the recent past .A striking feature of the whitening... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Chemical Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Health and Personal Care Stores; Retail Trade

September–October 2022
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Should Your Company Sell on Amazon?: Reach Comes at a Price

By: Ayelet Israeli, Leonard A. Schlesinger, Matt Higgins and Sabir Semerkant

Selling on Amazon allows brands to reach millions of consumers—but that exposure comes with costs. They include smaller margins, more competition, the risk of commoditization, and less knowledge about customers. In this article, the authors present a scorecard to... View Details

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May 25, 2016
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How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health

By: John A. Quelch

Healthcare and education are two issues in which citizens around the world, rich and poor, are passionately interested. It has long been appreciated that the way that a society treats its youngest and oldest members says much about its moral maturity. Economic... View Details

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01 Jun 2015
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Vessel, a service that offers subscribers early access to new content from YouTube and more mainstream celebrities for a monthly fee of $2.99. (Subscribers can view online original content such as Alec Baldwin’s Love Ride or the latest videos from “next generation”... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; HBO; Netflix; Hulu; Vimeo; YouTube; Telecommunications; Information; Arts, Entertainment

28 Jan 2014
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Harvard Business School Case 713-510 Benetton Group S.p.A., 2000 In 2000, Benetton was one of the leading mass fashion competitors in the world with approximately $1.9 billion in sales across 5,500 stores in 120 countries. But the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

15 Sep 2011
Research & Ideas

High Ambition Leadership

fashion and execute against a higher-ambition agenda. Q: Many companies in your book have a global reach. At the same time, however, they are often connected to a local identity or home base. How do higher-ambition leaders view culture?... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018

Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling

The Times Captures History of American Business

Mentoring—Using the Voice of Experience

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First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018

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Teaching The Moral Leader

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Fair Trade

Should Your Company Sell on Amazon?: Reach Comes at a Price

How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health

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High Ambition Leadership