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- 31 Jul 2010
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Learning to Discount All Those Juicy Discount Offers
- 29 Nov 2005
- News
It's the Purpose Brand, Stupid
- 18 Jun 2019
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How to Scandal-Proof Your Company
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Thinking Ahead
for advertising, targeting, and pricing decisions in his research, is more broadly interested in the “creator economy” ecosystem that includes influencers like Li; platforms like TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube; and the brands whose... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Money Does Grow on (Family) Trees
For 17 years, Andre Kearns (MBA 1999) has been tracing his family tree. One by one, he has added branches, grounding himself in a long and sometimes complicated lineage. Through family stories, forgotten heirlooms, and vital records, Kearns has traveled back through... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
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Rounding the Bend
2009) founded ThredUp in 2009, the sectionmates wanted to make it easier to buy and sell used clothing. Now one of the world’s largest resale platforms, ThredUp has processed more than 130 million items. Each article arrives by mail before being sorted using visual... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
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The Exchange: Same Great Price, Now with Fewer Chips
taking a less transparent route by selling less product in the same package and perhaps hoping the consumer doesn’t notice. Here, HBS faculty members John Gourville and Alex MacKay discuss the ups and downs of the practice of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
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Case Study: Bionic Banking
in index funds. Go with the 0.25 percent pricing. Returns will lag the index, and higher pricing will cause that lag to increase dramatically. The “secret sauce” Alpha Architect hopes to create are ETFs that... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Too Much of a Good Thing?
it's supposed to." Bower continues: "Theoretically, when an industry has excess capacity, prices fall and the least efficient producers can't survive." But, Bower adds, that doesn't always happen. "In many countries, for all sorts of... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2023
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Buy Big, Sell Small
least 75 percent of India’s consumer goods sales despite the significant inefficiencies of an outdated business model. “Kiranas are limited-inventory, 2,000- to 5,000-square-foot shops that don’t always get on-time deliveries or access to... View Details
- 12 Mar 2021
- News
My Favorite Case
the facts as they were known a week after the incident occurred and raises a wide range of questions regarding consumer behavior, corporate responsibility, and competitive reaction. I recall only two cases that we spent more than one... View Details
- 12 Nov 2021
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Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
inspired the PBS documentary Built to Last?. RAF initiatives include the Buyer’s Guide to Resilient Homes, Building Resilience Index with World Bank/IFC, and Resilience Youth Network. Some predict that a “Great Repricing” looms ahead for... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
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Every Trick in the Book
environment its original owners never envisioned. As other independent booksellers before her had discovered, Brody realized that the store could never compete with its bigger rivals on price or—with just 1,000 square feet of space—on... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
a wide assortment of consumer durables. Two years later, Barford took Beatty into the big time, buying up a larger competitor, General Steel Wares, Inc. (GSW). As head of the new concern, Barford reorganized GSW and developed it into the... View Details
- 12 Feb 2021
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How Dunkin’ Donuts Took Over the World
and chips chain, figuring that if I could grow earnings of 50 percent compounded with a donut shop chain, just imagine what I could do with several other franchise businesses. Bad idea. It did not work and earnings stagnated. Stock price... View Details
Keywords: brands; leadership; management; strategy; operations; career; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Year in Review 2017
edited by April White; illustrations by Jonathan Carlson RETAIL: Voice-Activated, One-Hour-Delivery Shopping MANUFACTURING: The Supply Chain Goes High Tech ENERGY: A Future of Lower Energy Prices MEDIA: Courting the Cord-Cutters... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
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Addressing roadblocks to innovation in health care
convenes health care management educators to develop and implement new curricula for health care management education. She also recommends policy changes, such as standards for health care IT and transparency to consumers on the View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New News
exciting. Michael Aft: We exist because traditional media is struggling. There are perverse incentives tied to the ad-revenue model that have made it challenging to consume high-quality content, and that’s true for everything from general... View Details