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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship
opportunities. He graduated from Kenyon College, has one daughter, and lives in Wellesley, MA. Marla Malcolm Beck (MBA 1998), Bluemercury Marla Malcolm Beck is the co-founder and CEO of Bluemercury Inc., a high-growth luxury beauty View Details
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Commodities, Currencies, and Balancing of the Trade Deficit - A Chronicle of the China Trade
Commodities, Currencies, and Balancing of the Trade Deficit Augustine Heard & Co.’s formation occurred during the First Opium War (1839–1842). The conflict broke out between the United Kingdom and China in part over the transport and sale... View Details
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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
U.S. checks appear to have increased retail buying and share prices of retail-dominated portfolios. The Hong Kong payments increased overall market turnover and share prices in Hong Kong and mainland Chinese markets, especially in... View Details
- 16 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Getting the Message: How the Internet is Changing Advertising
the future. (See "The Medium's Many Messages" for more on the formats and language of Internet advertising.) A Total Marketing Environment Dollar totals for ad purchases, however, tell only part of the story. Martin Sorrell(MBA... View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
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- 03 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
Cut Payroll Costs with Transparency, Fairness, and Compassion
US and Canadian stores, it also announced it had “committed to pay all Starbucks US and Canada retail partners for the next 30 days whether or not their store is closed, or they are otherwise unable, or even uncomfortable, coming to work.... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott
- 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
- 18 Feb 2019
- Book
What’s Really Disrupting Business? It’s Not Technology
to it. Finally, the format clarifies for all interested parties—including advisors, investors, and employees—the incremental value of the proposed business idea relative to the traditional approach. Further, it reveals the hidden... View Details
- 17 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Where Did My Shopping Mall Go?
render their brick-and-mortar formats unable to earn their cost of capital. A few retailers face the challenge of successfully capturing the opportunities ecommerce presents to increase the productivity of... View Details
- 29 May 2013
- Blog Post
Perks of the LVMH Family
within Sephora. Someone should do a case study on branding at Benefit! Then of course, we got treated to amazing brow waxing at their new Brow Bar and boutique on Sutter St. It’s interesting to observe beauty retail in a small, single... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
Clarence Saunders
characteristics of Saunders’ Piggly Wiggly stores. Though this format of grocery market was drastically different from its competitors, the style became the standard for the modern supermarket, and in 1922 Piggly Wiggly had grown into... View Details
Keywords: Retail
- 01 Dec 1999
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A Stitch in Time (Second Edition) by Frederick H. Abernathy, John T. Dunlop, Janice H. Hammond, and David Weil (Oxford University Press) Spurred on by advances in information technology, a retailing revolution has been taking place during... View Details
- 05 Dec 2007
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Marketing
Cannibalizing Direct Sales? Working Paper: Adding Bricks to Clicks—The Effects of Store Openings on Sales through Direct ChannelsConsider a retailer who operates both brick-and-mortar stores and direct channels such as direct mail... View Details
- 11 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 11, 2006
of $27.3 billion, Richfield, Minnesota-based Best Buy Co., Inc., was the leading retailer of consumer electronics, home-office products, and related services in North America. Its operations included the distinct store View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: iPads, Kindles, and the Close of a Chapter in Book Publishing
product based not on what it costs or what people want to pay for it, but based on another format that is completely different, just because you want to keep that format alive," he remarks. So the... View Details
- 30 Jan 2018
- First Look
January 30, 2018
hands of third parties? Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/718401-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 317-097 BIM: Finding New Ways to Grow BIM, Turkey’s giant retailer with a hard-discount model for the popular... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Dec 2006
- Research & Ideas
Fixing Price Tag Confusion
to the previous work in this area? Luc Wathieu: We are the first to propose that price format determines how deeply consumers will think about the offered benefits. We suggest that a "simple" all-inclusive price will lead buyers to focus... View Details
- 03 May 2016
- Blog Post
Working With Organizations That Recruit at HBS: An Interview with Renee Pappastratis
person or virtually, and working with each organization to determine which format will work best in reaching their goals is always a really interesting process. What was the highlight of the year for you? Managing the logistics for... View Details
- 09 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
Starbucks’ Lessons for Premium Brands
conversation with a barista. Starbucks introduced new store formats like Express to try to cater to this second segment without undermining the first. But many Starbucks veterans have now switched to Peets, Caribou, and other more... View Details
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Transforming Health Care Delivery - Course Catalog
understanding the fundamental improvement challenges facing the health care sector and developing strategies for addressing them. Students may have career interests in organizations that provide health care (e.g., hospitals, medical groups, View Details