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- 09 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Location, Location, Location: The Strategy of Place
time to enter or exit that location. Reducing your costs might not provide you with a competitive advantage at all." Walmart has been a smart expander since it opened its first store in Rogers, Arkansas, in 1962. Sam Walton slowly... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 16 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restaurant Revolution: How the Industry Is Fighting to Stay Alive
returning to work have found working conditions, including wearing masks, to be difficult. On Cape Cod in Massachusetts, an ice cream store shut down after one day after teenage staff members were verbally harassed by customers frustrated... View Details
- 28 Nov 2018
- HBS Case
On Target: Rethinking the Retail Website
fruitful streak came to an abrupt halt with the United States financial crash in the fall of 2008. Target was hit hard—much harder, in fact, than Walmart. Five years later the company was still struggling. With more than 1,800 stores and... View Details
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Stata Temporary Files and Stata Tmp - Research Computing Services
possible; others not. Another unsure guarantee. Our additional solution is to redirect where Stata stores its temporary files. The shell environment variable STATATMP , which must be set before Stata launches, can be set to any location,... View Details
- 19 Dec 2022
- Research & Ideas
What Motivates People to Give Generously—and Why We Sometimes Don't
behaviors we see out there is to remember that people can express their prosociality in different ways. Some people might be more willing to give at a grocery store when they ask you to donate at the checkout counter. Other people might... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
“This is the first new kind of computer in 75 years,” says John Levy (MBA 1979), CEO of the quantum computing startup SEEQC. “And we’re building it on a chip!” Strolling through his company’s design and testing facility in Elmsford, New York, Levy looks less like a... View Details
- 26 Jun 2013
- News
How a Trivial Pursuit Became a Significant Case
negotiating licensing and royalty agreements. One key move involved persuading TV Guide, in exchange for increased royalties from additional sales, to carry free ads for stores that would sell the game. Drawing on his trusted contacts in... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
End Game
Illustration by James Steinberg In the 1960s and 1970s, as the environmental movement dawned in the United States, a new generation of activist-minded entrepreneurs appeared. Among them were companies like Body Shop, Aveda, Tom’s of Maine, and Whole Foods—all founded... View Details
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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship
double digit comparable store and delivery sales growth. In 1998, Todd left Staples to co-found dry cleaner Zoots with Staples founder, Tom Stemberg (who remained Staples C.E.O.). Todd was C.E.O. of Zoots for five years, building the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Case Study: Testing the Waters
Illustration by Christina Spano Endurance training was nothing new to Lauren Picasso (MBA 2014), who’d raced through her younger years as a cross-country runner and swimmer. In 2017, when she was director of marketing at Jet.com and looking for a physical challenge,... View Details
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Information Technology | About
Commercial Enterprises and Other Outside Activities Harvard University Policy on Access to Electronic Information Effective March 31, 2014, Harvard established a policy that sets out guidelines and processes for University access to user electronic information (pdf)... View Details
- 04 Jun 2020
- Book
It’s Not About You: Why Leaders Need to Look Outward
not in the room. The more trust that accumulates between us, the better this works. How do you build up stores of this essential leadership capital? Here’s the basic formula: people tend to trust you when they think they are interacting... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
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Investment Banking & Securities Underwriting | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
creation of department store groups such as Federated Department Stores, Allied Department Stores, and Interstate Department Stores. In 1927, Mazur published Principles of Organization Applied to Modern Retailing . Commissioned by the... View Details
- 07 Nov 2022
- News
Victoria’s Secret Buys Alumni-Founded Adore Me
Morgan Hermand Waiche Morgan Hermand Waiche The Wall Street Journal reported last week that startup lingerie retailer Adore Me was bought by Victoria’s Secret for $400 million. Launched soon after Hermand Waiche graduated, Adore Me aimed to upend the industry. "My... View Details
- 20 Dec 2017
- Lessons from the Classroom
How to Design a Better Customer Experience
about meeting customer expectations, providing value, or generating good functionality. Instead, they are more often about encountering an unexpected problem: A consumer heads to an Apple store with a broken iPhone. An airline customer... View Details
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Events - Business History
(Read the full publisher’s description .) Learn more about the book at deeplyresponsible.com . Deeply Responsible Business is now available! You can order the book at Harvard University Press , Amazon , Bookshop , Barnes and Noble , and the Harvard Book View Details
- 19 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
The History of Beauty
on the outside but beautiful and respectable on the inside, too. That was a big change for people until recently regarded as barely above prostitutes. Max Factor's store in Los Angeles also began to make wider sales. In 1916 he introduced... View Details
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Investing in Emerging Industries | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
financial advisory capacity in U.S. and foreign transactions. By 1966, Lehman Brothers, described by Time magazine as “a diversified department store of high finance,” ranked among the nation’s top investment banks in total dollar volume.... View Details
- 02 Nov 2016
- Blog Post
The Benefits of a Residential Campus
next time I was in class. You get to store five boxes over the summer for free. The second fear I had about living on campus is the lottery system. Frankly, I did not pay enough attention to the rules of the lottery system when entering... View Details