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- 19 Jan 2022
- In Practice
7 Trends to Watch in 2022
Kominers: NFTs go mainstream Last year saw a huge spike in the creation and sale of non-fungible tokens (NFTs), digital ownership records stored on distributed ledgers called blockchains. People bought and traded NFTs of everything from... View Details
Keywords: by HBS News
- 27 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Coffee Economy That Bloomed Out of Nowhere
example, the California-based Rogers Family Company exports coffee from its farm, Finca Peru Paris, and sells it at major retail outlets such as Costco stores on the west coast of the United States. Lurtz points out that the most... View Details
- 13 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 13
realization that his products were not meeting the needs of women customers (including particularly his wife). As a result, Lo commissioned his CFO Bonnie Tu to open the first all-women's bicycle store in Taipei (owned by corporate, not... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 2
http://hbr.org/search/713405-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 409-112 Lawson: Becoming the Community Store of 9,000 Japanese Communities No abstract available. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/409112-PDF-ENG Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Marketing Resources Allocation Puzzle
papers about "The Value of a Free Customer" and "The Value of a Customer in a Social Networked World." Thomas Steenburgh: I am spending time thinking of a few different things. I have a working paper with a few graduates from our DBA program and John Deighton on how... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 14
innovation. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-099.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsDoug Rauch: Solving the American Food Paradox José B. Alvarez and Ryan JohnsonHarvard Business School Case 512-022 Doug Rauch, the former president of grocery View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 28 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018
maintaining a high level of exploration. Solutions improved most on rounds with social influence after a period of separation. We also show that storing subjects’ best solutions so that they could be reloaded and possibly modified in... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 27 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 27, 2007
has quality variations, reducing consumption. Five independent growers formed a cooperative to provide quality control and a brand name—Ripe 'N Ready—that enabled retailers to differentiate their stores and producers to differentiate the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
The FDA: What Will the Next 100 Years Bring?
to provide insights. Sean Silverthorne: What has been the impact of the FDA in daily life over the last 100 years? Without the FDA, what would change about how we live our lives? Arthur A. Daemmrich: Picture yourself walking into a grocery View Details
- 20 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
Moving from Supply Chains to Supply Networks
about processing speed. We also have the capacity to store programs in memory without having to access data from the disc. EE: Does a clear-cut strategy exist for achieving success in supply chain management? Raman: To provide a partial... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 13 Nov 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, November 13, 2018
in 1990, describes the history of Walmart and asks what competitive strategies Kmart might adopt in response to Walmart's success. It discusses the strategy and organization of both companies in terms of HR practices, store location,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 27 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 27
improve the lives of the estimated 2 billion people who live on less than $2 a day by facilitating more secure, accessible, and reliable ways to store and transfer money than are currently available. The development of this ecosystem... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 17
Avenue, a luxury department store chain, has been hard hit by the 2008 financial crisis and stock market crash. Speculation about impending bankruptcy is rampant in the press. The CEO, Stephen Sadove, must decide how to respond. Purchase... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 29 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 29
negative trend. For example, to welcome people back to its stores, J.C. Penney ran deep discount sales for Mother's Day and Veterans Day. By November 2013 the retail stores posted positive sales comparisons year over year, the first time... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 31
magic, making them all but destined for success, while other items languish on store shelves? For a better understanding of that, perhaps there's no better place to turn to than the world of magic. Consider that some professional... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 17 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
Advertising Symbiosis: The Key to Viral Videos
Evian's baby&me features several adults dancing with toddler versions of themselves in the reflection of a store window. Only at the end of the 77-second video do we see a bottle of Evian, along with the slogan "Live young." Since its... View Details
- 16 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer
collections, other online stores (such as allofmp3.com), p2p file sharing networks, and other forms of piracy (like sharing between friends). A thriving p2p community acts as an engine for iPod sales. ITunes's 99 cents per song is... View Details
- 16 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
At the Center of Corporate Scandal Where Do We Go From Here?
essence of our problem. I spent a very interesting few hours last fall speaking with two CEOs on campus at HBS about these issues. One of them told me, "I run a cash business that has 6,000 stores all over the world, and the problem... View Details
Keywords: by Kim B. Clark
- 12 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 12
in 1995 to 185 million in 2011, without producing for store brands in a market in which these offerings were steadily gaining share. The company's leaders wanted to make sure Mutti maintained its position in Italy and further, to move... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 6, 2016
https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/817042-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 117-020 Accounting for the iPhone Upgrade Program On September 9, 2015, Apple Inc. announced the “iPhone Upgrade Program,” a new way to purchase iPhone models 6s and 6s Plus in Apple’s... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne