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March 2016 (Revised May 2018)
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Reinventing Best Buy

By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth

On March 1, 2017, Best Buy Company, Inc., North America’s largest retailer of consumer electronics and appliances, announced a third year of comparable-store sales increases and a 20.8% increase in domestic comparable online sales. These results were in marked contrast... View Details

Keywords: Best Buy; Hubert Joly; Renew Blue; Showrooming; Webrooming; E-commerce; E-Commerce Strategy; Online Retail; Multichannel Retailing; Omnichannel; Marketplaces; Turnaround; Consumer Electronics; Consumer Electronics Accessories; Appliances; Stores-within-stores; Store Experience; Store Size; Store Pickup; Store Management; Delivery; Delivery Models; Amazon; Amazon.com; Pricing Strategy; Business Subsidiaries; Business Units; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; For-Profit Firms; Customer Focus and Relationships; Customer Satisfaction; Entertainment; Film Entertainment; Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Music Entertainment; Television Entertainment; Theater Entertainment; Price; Profit; Revenue; Geographic Scope; Multinational Firms and Management; Business History; Cost; Selection and Staffing; Reports; Technological Innovation; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Human Capital; Leading Change; Business or Company Management; Goals and Objectives; Growth and Development; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Teams; Brands and Branding; Product Marketing; Consumer Behavior; Demand and Consumers; Media; Distribution; Order Taking and Fulfillment; Distribution Channels; Infrastructure; Product; Service Delivery; Service Operations; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Public Ownership; Problems and Challenges; Programs; Groups and Teams; Sales; Salesforce Management; Strategy; Adaptation; Business Strategy; Competition; Competitive Advantage; Competitive Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Expansion; Information Technology; Information Infrastructure; Information Technology; Internet and the Web; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Internet and the Web; Applications and Software; Internet and the Web; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Resource Allocation; Computer Industry; Electronics Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Information Technology Industry; Retail Industry; Service Industry; Technology Industry; Telecommunications Industry; Video Game Industry; United States; Minnesota; Minneapolis; Saint Paul; St. Paul

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19 Nov 2013
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First Look: November 19

http://hbr.org/search/714421-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 514-021 Catalina in the Digital Age No abstract available. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/514021-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 314-034 A Note on Knowledge Management in Professional... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Finance Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

for Excellence in Mentoring. Josh Lerner : Winner of the 2010 Axiom Business Book Award Gold Medal for the Best Book on Entrepreneurship for Boulevard of Broken Dreams: Why Public Efforts to Boost Entrepreneurship and Venture View Details

01 Feb 2022
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Innovation Isn’t Just for Startups: How Big Companies Can Succeed

that come with getting venture capital funding. A corporate explorer also has constraints. But they already have a customer base. They already have a brand. They already often have the very technology and... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

14 May 2008
Research & Ideas

Getting Down to the Business of Creativity

professor Mary Tripsas introduces conceptual models to help students launch and creatively manage new businesses, including both stand-alone start-ups and ventures operating within an established organization. "Whenever a View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion; Entertainment & Recreation

16 May 2024
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On the Job

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. We all have early memories of on-the-job learnings—those moments that had a lasting impact on how we see the world of work and our place in it. This... View Details

Keywords: first job; leadership; life experience; career lessons; Finance; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining; Retail Trade

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Resources for Investment Management and Financial Analysis

Resources and instructional videos for company and industry financial analysis, stock pitching, Business Analysis & Valuation Using Financial Statements (BAV), Investment Management and Capital Markets, Projects in... View Details

21 Jun 2010
Research & Ideas

Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets

firms should create value wherever they are. But when we ask what kind of value and for whom, who are the relevant stakeholders, how is work actually going to be implemented on the ground, there are different answers in different... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Career Re-Entry & Flexible Work - Alumni

break, pivoting careers, starting a new venture or looking to make a change in response to a personal transition. Evolve equips women with the community, mindsets and professional toolkit needed for successful reinvention. We bring... View Details

18 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 18

case:http://hbr.org/search/813020-PDF-ENG The Role of the Government in the Early Development of American Venture Capital Lerner, Josh, and Tom NicholasHarvard Business School Note 813-096 Whether the... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

16 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Restaurant Revolution: How the Industry Is Fighting to Stay Alive

business model for small independents is often elusive. So when a crisis of the magnitude of the COVID-19 global pandemic forces restaurants to close, and their revenue drops to zero overnight, things get particularly dire. Unlike the oligopolistic airline industry,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael S. Kaufman, Lena G. Goldberg, and Jill Avery; Food & Beverage

March 2017 (Revised November 2021)
Case

Floodgate: On the Hunt for Thunder Lizards

By: Rory McDonald, Alix Burke, Emma Franking and Nicole Tempest

Founded in 2008, Floodgate pioneered the “micro-VC” category, a new type of investment firm that raised smaller funds and made earlier, smaller investments in technology startups than traditional venture-capital firms. By 2015, Floodgate had raised three funds totaling... View Details

Keywords: Innovation; Business Models; Angel Investors; Crowdfunding; Incubators; Accelerators; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Business Startups; Information Technology; Business Model; Innovation and Invention; Competitive Strategy

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ARD - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

33 In 1946, Doriot became president of American Research and Development Corporation (ARD), the first publicly funded venture capital firm and one of the first modern View Details

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Climate Impact - Business & Environment

“Piva Capital is an early-stage Venture Capital firm focused on investing in hard-to-decarbonize sectors. We are backing entrepreneurs focused on... View Details

03 Nov 2021
Blog Post

Recent Grad Reflections: From Being Cold Called to Becoming a Case Protagonist

to teach this case for the first time. The case focused on future growth strategies for the oldest active venture capital firm in the US, and how Bessemer had assembled a... View Details

11 Apr 2011
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Teaching a ‘Lean Startup’ Strategy

spend years burning through venture capital while they figured out their strategy. These are the days of the lean startup. "Most startups fail not because they can't build the product they set out to... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology; Computer

28 Aug 2007
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First Look: August 28, 2007

large economies for the 2001 to 2005 period. We investigate reasons why Chinese firms are more diversified than companies elsewhere. Design/methodology/approach—We collect data on the number of business segments in which publicly traded... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

24 Apr 2023
HBS Case

What Does It Take to Build as Much Buzz as Booze? Inside the Epic Challenge of Cannabis-Infused Drinks

which come in flavors ranging from grapefruit rosemary to lemon lavender, as alternatives to alcohol. As queer founders, the duo also committed themselves to inclusive marketing aimed at the LGBTQIA+ community. Initially launched with $1.5 million in seed funds and the... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald; Consumer Products; Food & Beverage

04 Apr 2011
HBS Case

Reinventing the National Geographic Society

behaviors, and values of a legacy organization, changing a business model from paper to digital, capitalizing on huge brand awareness and international presence, and promoting cross-functional and cross-divisional collaboration.... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Publishing

20 Apr 2021
Book

A Simple Question That Can Guide Companies to Epic Success

companies have the potential to create more value and increase their profits. Even modest advances can have dramatic implications. “If a US company that ranked 50th today jumped to 40th next year, its return on invested capital (ROIC)... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

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