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- 16 Apr 2020
- News
Is This the End of the Indie Bookstore?
- 12 Aug 2018
- News
As Barnes & Noble Struggles to Find Footing, Founder Takes Heat
- 23 Jul 2019
- News
Barnes & Noble Sold. Now what?
- 22 Feb 2024
- News
Combat-Tested Cancer Coaching
nearby Borders bookstore revealed a three-year life expectancy with no available treatment options. And trying to navigate the complexities of the American health care system—bouncing from pathologist to a medical oncologist to... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
What Makes a Good Leader
slickness. Simple and clear go a long way." On Jack Welch: "His is the most astonishing story of a business leader. It's unbelievable." Photo courtesy of HBS Communications A stroll through the business section of any large bookstore... View Details
Keywords: Management
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Every Trick in the Book
smell, would go. Behind the brown paper that covered the store’s windows for several months that year, Brody was building a new kind of brick-and-mortar bookstore for the age of Amazon. When BookHampton opened its doors in 1971, it wasn’t... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Booth Gardner’s Night at the Oscars
Several festivals are planning to screen the film, and HBO will broadcast it later this year. (Gardner’s auto-biography is also expected in bookstores this summer.) “It’s a slow haul,” says Gardner. “It’s controversial. But nobody has to... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Jeremiah P. Murphy, Jr.
we were never going to be a chain store with a hundred outlets in the suburbs,” he explains. “Instead of being a department store that happens to sell some books, we needed to become a bookstore that happens to sell some other stuff.”... View Details
- 23 Feb 2011
- News
A Capitalist in China
something,” he explained. “I couldn’t do sculpture or drawing on the road, but I could write.” The idea for a novel came to him one day in a Beijing bookstore when he discovered a paucity of fiction titles about China written for an... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Faculty Q&A: Reemerging Technologies
to the product, as well as the identity of the organizations and community that produce and sell them. For example, the Swiss redefined mechanical watches as luxury goods infused with craftsmanship and beauty. Something I’ve studied recently is the resurgence of the... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Laurel without Hardy? A Lesson for Business
in-store reading glasses; bookstores and coffee bars. Identifying and assembling complements is often the best way to compete. Adam Brandenburger is a professor in the Competition and Strategy unit at HBS. Barry Nalebuff is a professor at... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
The Future of Books
much a reader-centric company. Will bookstores survive in this changing industry? MA: Yes. Our goal is to maintain the most diversified marketplace possible and to strengthen the physical bookstore channel... View Details
- 05 May 2017
- News
Barnes & Noble Names Demos Parneros CEO
feature full-service restaurants. The changes are in reaction to a market that, as the Times notes, is in flux: After decades of decline, independent bookstores have rebounded. The American Booksellers Association counted 1,775 member... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
The Life of Ted
‘Leadership Lessons I Learned from Ted Turner,’ and decided to show it to his subject before sending it to a business magazine,” wrote Maine’s Portland Press Herald (December 7, 2008). The boss liked it so much he asked Burke to cowrite his autobiography. Call Me Ted... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
New Magazine Makes Its Mark
from Bookmarks and click to subscribe online at www.bookmarksmagazine.com. For a week in March, Bookmarks was the best-selling magazine on Amazon.com. Word-of-mouth buzz generated by independent bookstores also has worked well. So have... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Eight Among Many: Robert F. Diromualdo
DiRomualdo decided to make his passion for books - especially spy stories and historical novels - his business as well. In 1989, he was hired by Tom and Louis Borders to expand the Ann Arbor, Michiganbased $20 million bookstore operation... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 05 Feb 2019
- News
Protecting the Power Grid
Tom Popik was just looking for a Christmas present, not a cause. Browsing through a bookstore looking for a gift for his oldest son almost a decade ago, he started thumbing through a copy of William Forstchen’s novel One Second After. The... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Q & A: Confronting New Technologies: When Doing Right Is Wrong
technologies include: Automobiles (electric vehicles) Bookstores (Internet sales) Department stores (discounters) Doctors (nurse-practitioners) Health insurance (HMOs) Mainframe computers (desktops) Motorcycles (dirt bikes) Network... View Details
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
Ann S. Moore, MBA 1978
such as Fortune, Sports Illustrated, and People before being named to the top spot in 2002. Walk into most bookstores or approach any kiosk on a city street and you will encounter a wide array of magazines whose mix of news,... View Details