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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

17 Oct 2019
Research & Ideas

‘Chick Beer’ for Women? Why Gender Marketing Repels More Than Sells

company released its pink and purple “Pens for Her,” featuring a “thin barrel designed to fit a woman’s hand.” Shoppers blasted Target when a store labeled toys in one aisle “building sets” and those in another aisle “girls’ building... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Consumer Products

27 Feb 2019
Research & Ideas

The Hidden Cost of a Product Recall

Drivers on Interstate 25 in Colorado have been speculating about the fate of hundreds of Volkswagen cars sitting in a lot near Pikes Peak International Raceway. It’s one of 37 sites in the United States where the automaker is storing... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Manufacturing; Consumer Products; Auto; Medical Devices & Supplies

18 Jan 2022
Research & Ideas

How Eliminating Non-Competes Could Reshape Tech

Second, advanced software algorithms and data-based artificial intelligence algorithms account for increasing amounts of trade secrets in technology. These technologies rely on massive stores of distributed computing and data built up... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Technology

19 Sep 2023
Blog Post

2023 Summer Internships in Business & Environment

Development Manager at Amazon Web Services. Vanessa Wu (MBA 2024, Section D), Summer Internship: Business Development Intern, Ebb Carbon Ebb Carbon is an carbon dioxide removal startup that uses an electrochemical ocean alkalinity enhancement method to enhance the... 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

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade

29 Aug 2022
Op-Ed

Income Inequality Is Rising. Are We Even Measuring It Correctly?

distributed. To illustrate why it’s important to consider other measurements, imagine what it’s like to buy trousers. You could go to the store and ask for trousers in size medium if that’s the size you usually wear. And in many cases,... View Details

Keywords: by Jon M. Jachimowicz, Kristin Blesch, and Oliver P. Hauser

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Impact of the New Medium - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

$89.75, the leather-bound Polaroid Land Camera, Model 95, represented a high-end consumer purchase. All 56 cameras brought to the Jordan Marsh demonstration sold out. After its Boston debut, the Land Camera appeared at department stores... View Details

June 2017 (Revised May 2019)
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Kjell and Company: Motivating Salespeople with Incentive Compensation (B)

By: Doug J. Chung

Kjell & Company was a Swedish retail electronics chain founded in 1988 by brothers Marcus, Mikael and Fredrik Dahnelius. The company operated 84 stores, all company-owned, located mainly in the metropolitan areas of Sweden’s most popular cities: Stockholm, Gothemburg... View Details

Keywords: Salesforce Management; Compensation and Benefits; Motivation and Incentives; Change Management; Behavior; Electronics Industry; Sweden

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09 Nov 2022
In Practice

COP27: What Can Business Leaders Do to Fight Climate Change Now?

The US government’s newly passed Inflation Reduction Act will direct $370 billion toward advancing renewal energy and reducing greenhouse gas emissions—the country's largest investment in fighting climate change so far. As business and government leaders around the... View Details

Keywords: by Lynn Schenk and Danielle Kost

Winter 2021
Editorial

Introduction

By: Michael A. Wheeler

This issue of Negotiation Journal is dedicated to the theme of artificial intelligence, technology, and negotiation. It arose from a Program on Negotiation (PON) working conference on that important topic held virtually on May 17–18. The conference was not the... View Details

Keywords: Artificial Intelligence; Information Technology; Negotiation; AI and Machine Learning

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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

17 Jun 2017
Research & Ideas

Amazon, Whole Foods Deal a Big Win for Consumers

Source: 400tmax Editor's Note. Online retailing behemoth Amazon announced June 16 that it would acquire upscale grocery chain Whole Foods Market in a deal valued at more than $13 billion. Though the company has dabbled with the idea of a brick-and-mortar footprint in... View Details

Keywords: by Jose Alvarez and Len Schlesinger; Retail

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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

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

23 May 2018
Research & Ideas

How to Know If Your Neighborhood Is Being Gentrified

though—that neighborhoods with less educated, lower-income residents have fewer grocery store and restaurant choices nearby. “These results seem compatible with the literature on ‘food deserts’ that documents how poorer people live in... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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Leadership Transitions | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

study of women in business through the lens of academia, business, and policy. After 2008, it continued as the Centre for Women in Business at London Business School. Lehman Brothers Family Partners Bankruptcy [ 13] Like Lehman Brothers, Kuhn, Loeb & Co. started in the... View Details

12 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

Pay Workers More So They Steal Less

from chain stores and interviewed managers of nine convenience store chains. The first data set, for the year 1999, came from 76 stores in a midsize retail chain and was used... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Retail

01 Mar 2024
News

Unlocking the Power of Community

When Tara Fung (MBA 2016) explains Co:Create, the company she cofounded in 2022 and now leads as CEO, she doesn’t mention Web3 first. “We help innovative brands and creators unlock the power of community,” she explains. Co:Create does this with a new, gamified approach... View Details

Keywords: April White

20 Apr 2021
Book

A Simple Question That Can Guide Companies to Epic Success

divided three ways (see figure 2). [div class=infogram-embed data-id=_/spzq2im9eljT66uM6p33][/div] The difference between WTP and price is value for the customer. Apple’s products may be expensive, but customer appreciation for the devices is even higher. The happy... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

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