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- 29 May 2013
- Blog Post
It’s going to be a beautiful summer…
two worlds and two languages that manage to coexist so nicely. Lastly, because Sephora is always working on very exciting, innovative things, there are often fun events to attend! Today I spent an hour painting new nail designs as part of an event to celebrate the new... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
- 17 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 17, 2015
perhaps unlikely leader, Edna Gleason, organized California’s retail pharmacists and coordinated trade networks to monitor and enforce Resale Price Maintenance (RPM) contracts, a system of price-fixing, then known as “fair trade.”... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
Will the “Long Tail” Work for Hollywood?
long-tail view suggests that consumers will purchase an increasing number and a wider variety of videos, everything from Hollywood classics to obscure foreign films. Long-tail proponents believe that consumers have very different tastes, and online View Details
- 17 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #14: Bonita Stewart (MBA 1983) – A Career Devoted to Creating the Future
Climate Stories Episode #14 – Bonita Stewart (MBA 1983) – A Career Devoted to Creating the Future Climate Story #14 examines sustainable manufacturing and retailing from the corporate board perspective of HBS alumna, Bonita Stewart (MBA... View Details
- 15 Feb 2000
- Lessons from the Classroom
Delivering Information Services: A 30-Year Perspective
IPO in 1990 to a $10-billion company today, with a market value of close to $140 billion! I'm also doing research for a case on Drugstore.com, which is essentially a drug store "built" on the Internet. It's getting ready to... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Capitalist Revolutions Analyzed in MBA "Foundations" Course
economic miracle (1920s); cars in the second (post-World War II) Convenience Store Retailing in Two Countries: Southland and Seven-Eleven Japan How Japanese managers learned from their American counterparts,... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 14 Oct 2015
- News
Blue Apron's Got Big Plans For Dinner - But So Do Its Hungry Rivals
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Lighten Up
established market channels. Many top-notch sales reps balked at taking on a new company that would compete with the brands they were used to selling. Similarly, many retail outlets weren’t interested in adding a new brand to their... View Details
- 02 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018
on the job, Sportun had to tailor his message for change carefully to his colleagues, many of whom had worked for Mac’s for decades. The case provides an overview of the convenience store industry and examines the challenges of crime... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Sun Dress
Barrow: Offering a line of clothing that provides protection from the downside of solar energy. A native of sun-splashed Australia who now resides in Minneapolis, John Barrow (MBA 1989) has a fashion tip for Americans: cover up, mates. Seriously. Skin-cancer awareness... View Details
- 20 May 2020
- News
A Winning Team at TB12
- 04 Jun 2015
- News
Can Silicon Valley Fix Women's Fashion?
- 12 May 2011
- News
A Game Plan in Trying Times
- 17 Jul 2020
- News
Support System
elements that give shea butter its gold status in Africa. “The next time you’re at the grocery store or a beauty store, flip over one of the containers that says ‘shea butter’ on the front,” says Akuete. “A lot of products will have a... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Jan 2009
- News
Jorge Paulo Lemann, A.B. 1961; Carlos A. Sicupira, OPM 9, 1984; Marcel H. Telles, OPM 10, 1985
grown the concern into one of Brazil’s largest nonfood discount retailers with some 500 stores and a powerful Internet presence: Today, half of Lojas’s sales take place online. In 1993, Sicupira, Jorge Paulo... View Details
- 23 Jul 2008
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Balanced Scorecard in Action
at Store24 To what extent do Balanced Scorecards provide useful information for testing and validating an organization's strategy? Analyzing Balanced Scorecard data from Store24—a privately held convenience store View Details