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- 21 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 21, 2015
Case 515-033 Sustainability at IKEA Group By 2014, IKEA Group was the largest home furnishing company, with EUR28.5 billion of sales and a plan to reach EUR50 billion by 2020, mainly from emerging markets.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 May 2017
- Sharpening Your Skills
10 Harvard Business School Research Stories That Will Make Your Mouth Water
Food used to be just sustenance, but now it's news. The president of the United States falls for McDonald's and KFC. In Portland, resentment is growing over white street vendors who sell ethnic foods. Ikea is starting a food incubator for... View Details
- 30 Sep 2016
- News
Competing Against Luck
the problem. And so we had to inch our way towards this, and it took longer than we thought. Morrell: Why don't we talk about the IKEA example, and how that's a good illustration for this theory in action? Christensen: So, I wondered--... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Inspiration Is Not Enough
animated screen stars for decades of royalty income. IKEA founder Ingvar Kamprad developed a rigorous vendor-screening process that, though not sexy, provided the furniture retailer with “an impressive supply chain that is virtually... View Details
- 05 Dec 2023
- Blog Post
Taking Learning Beyond the Classroom
to meet like-minded students, as well as a chance to connect over cases outside of the classroom and section. Since its start in 2020, students have explored cases like “Project Helios: Harvesting the Sun”; “JetBlue: Relevant Sustainability Leadership (A)”;... View Details
- 18 Sep 2017
- Blog Post
Applying HBS Lessons in an African Context
team spent several days in Casablanca interviewing local consumers about their furniture shopping experience and helped the client create a strategy to compete against IKEA in Morocco. This experience allowed me to learn about the... View Details
- 20 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 20
analyses of all bank acquisitions in the U.S. from 1990 to 2000 largely support these hypotheses. Read the paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/cmarquis/Marquis_Guthrie_Almandoz_State_Activism-2011.pdf The IKEA Effect: When Labor Leads to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Oct 2018
- Blog Post
Moving to the U.S. With a Family
didn’t hesitate to lend a hand. One classmate was kind enough to rent a van and drive me to IKEA for furniture. Another classmate insisted on helping with some of our DIY furniture – he built our bed! I will never forget how indebted I... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
adapt pieces of it to meet their reality. For instance, both Nike and IKEA are working on designing products that can be easily disassembled and recycled. “When you start seeing this approach not as a threat to the organization, but as an... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Meyers
- 03 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The State of Customer Service Leadership
Southwest Airlines, for instance, has continued as a legendary US-based service provider since its inception in 1971, IKEA of Sweden has evolved to teach the world’s retailers about the power of a well- defined and well-executed service... View Details
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
The Climate Needs Aggressive CEO Leadership
Corporations are facing great uncertainty. For the world to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, the United States eventually will have to put a price on carbon dioxide emissions, as has been done by Europe, parts of Canada, and California. To plan for the... View Details
- 02 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2011
customers to design their own shoes to IKEA asking customers to assemble their own furniture. In this paper researchers Michael I. Norton (Harvard Business School), Daniel Mochon (University of California at San Diego), and Dan Ariely... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
$how Me the Money
measures, such as acquiring one’s own generators to circumvent bribe-seeking electricity authorities, may not be enough, as Ikea recently found out in Russia. (The company has admitted kickbacks were paid to acquire the generators.) If a... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Laurel without Hardy? A Lesson for Business
to click your knitting needles if there is no demand for sweaters. You should get out of your rocking chair and prod the market. Managing complements is a smarter way of doing business, and there are endless possibilities: Michelin tires and Michelin guides; View Details
- 09 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 9, 2018
Another option was to deepen penetration within Seattle by recruiting caregivers with less experience and by broadening the range of services caregivers could provide, e.g., driving children to appointments. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Who Is the Chief Sustainability Officer?
than biting off more than they can chew at once. And they should keep in mind that sustainability goals will change over time. Edelman says his approach is "evolutionary, not revolutionary." IKEA CSO Steve Howard says, "You... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
outsource. Initially they outsourced customary household tasks, but now they are outsourcing unconventional tasks, like event help for birthdays, IKEA furniture assembly, city-to-city deliveries, and others. “As clients embrace the... View Details
- 08 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 8
the way, this award-winning teacher and scholar draws on lessons from her research, her case studies on companies such as IKEA and Google, and her experiences in the classroom to weave stories of iconoclasm and nonconformity, of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace