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  • 08 Jul 2014
  • News

Harvard Alumna and Milli Millu Founder in Her Own Words

Keywords: Retail Trade

    Fred R. Lazarus, Jr.

    Through acquisitions and organic growth, Lazarus, Jr. created the largest department store operation in the United States (including Filene’s, Bloomingdale’s, and Bullocks). Lazarus targeted the middle class through attractive store... View Details
    Keywords: Retail
    • 26 Jul 2010
    • Research & Ideas

    Yes, You Can Raise Prices in a Downturn

    customers willingly pay higher prices. The relevant readers are general managers responsible for a P&L, marketing and sales managers responsible for making product and selling decisions (including pricing), and people in operations... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail; Retail
    • 29 Apr 2013
    • News

    The Fastest Rowers Don't Always Make the Fastest Boat

    Keywords: Retail Trade; Retail Trade
    • 02 Feb 2018
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Last Place Aversion in Queues

    Keywords: by Ryan W. Buell; Retail
    • 01 Apr 2002
    • News

    Stocking Up Can Build Customer Value

    papers (and miss one or more possible sales) once a week, or one-seventh of the time. What's ignored in this equation, though, according to HBS professor David Bell, is that customers care how often a retailer runs out of stock. "The... View Details
    Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
    • 01 Mar 2025
    • News

    On The Case: The Base Factor

    In her research as a marketing modeler, Professor Eva Ascarza focuses on understanding customers—and predicting, in particular, who will be a good one and how best to retain them. Without customers, obviously, there is no business. That could also be the tagline for... View Details
    Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
    • 11 Jun 2020
    • In Practice

    Are Digital Organizations Better at Overcoming COVID?

    chains and people analytics to artificial intelligence-based models and automated biotechnology research, organizations further along the digital curve are responding differently than those still wondering how to evolve. The digital technology embedded throughout their... View Details
    Keywords: by Danielle Kost
    • 15 Oct 2013
    • First Look

    First Look: October 15

    Retail Inventory: Managing the Canary in the Coal Mine! By: Gaur, Vishal, Saravanan Kesavan, and Ananth Raman Abstract—Retail inventory is a statistic that is closely watched by retailers as well as their... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 07 Nov 2007
    • Op-Ed

    How Marketing Hype Hurt Boeing and Apple

    production delays (the Airbus 380 is two years behind schedule) and customers know this when they place their orders. They will simply operate their existing 747s and 777s a little longer. In addition, no airline manufacturer ever wants... View Details
    Keywords: by John Quelch; Aerospace; Consumer Products
    • 01 Jun 2006
    • News

    One-on-One with Tom Oreck

    Katrina knocked out operations at the New Orleans headquarters and the Long Beach plant, pushing the business to the brink. Advanced planning saved vital data and operations, but Oreck credits employees with actually saving the company.... View Details
    Keywords: Roger Thompson; Retail Trade; Retail Trade
    • March 2007
    • Supplement

    IKEA's Global Sourcing Challenge

    By: Christopher A. Bartlett
    Keywords: Problems and Challenges; Supply Chain; Retail Industry; Retail Industry
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    Bartlett, Christopher A. "IKEA's Global Sourcing Challenge." Harvard Business School Video Supplement 907-801, March 2007.
    • December 2019
    • Case

    Walmart Ecommerce (A): Picking up the Pace

    By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Karen Elterman
    This case is an abridged version (part 1 of 2) of "Walmart's Omnichannel Strategy: Revolution or Miscalculation?" HBS Case No. 720-370. The (A) case discusses Walmart's early forays into online retail, as well as improvements made under Doug McMillon beginning in 2014.... View Details
    Keywords: Acquisition; Strategy; Internet and the Web; Distribution; Distribution Channels; Competitive Strategy; Retail Industry; Bentonville; Arkansas; United States
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    Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, and Karen Elterman. "Walmart Ecommerce (A): Picking up the Pace." Harvard Business School Case 720-425, December 2019.
    • June 1998 (Revised August 2000)
    • Case

    Microsoft CarPoint

    By: Jeffrey F. Rayport
    CarPoint.com was Microsoft's Web-based entry into on-line automobile retailing. While it could not, in fact, "sell" or deliver any cars, it could shift much of consumer search, comparison, and decision-making, including pricing, the traditional car dealer to the Web.... View Details
    Keywords: Internet and the Web; Service Operations; Market Entry and Exit; Consumer Behavior; Retail Industry; Retail Industry
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    Rayport, Jeffrey F., Avnish S. Bajaj, Steffan Haithcox, and Michael V. Kadyan. "Microsoft CarPoint." Harvard Business School Case 898-280, June 1998. (Revised August 2000.)
    • 09 Oct 2014
    • News

    Meet Art Peck, Gap Inc's New CEO, the Man Modernizing Retail's Old-Timer

    Keywords: Gap; Banana Republic; Retail Trade; Retail Trade
    • 07 Oct 2010
    • News

    Why Wal-Mart Went Shopping in Africa

    Keywords: Professor Rajiv Lal; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Miscellaneous Store Retailers
    • 20 Mar 2018
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018

    https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54214 forthcoming Operations Research Online Network Revenue Management Using Thompson Sampling: Demand Forecasting and Price Optimization By: Ferreira, Kris J., David Simchi-Levi, and He... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • March 2010
    • Article

    I'll Have the Ice Cream Soon and the Vegetables Later: A Study of Online Grocery Purchases and Order Lead Time

    By: Katherine L. Milkman, Todd Rogers and Max Bazerman
    How do decisions made for tomorrow or two days in the future differ from decisions made for several days in the future? We use data from an online grocer to address this question. In general, we find that as the delay between order completion and delivery increases,... View Details
    Keywords: Time Management; Service Delivery; Internet and the Web; Decisions; Customers; Retail Industry
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    Milkman, Katherine L., Todd Rogers, and Max Bazerman. "I'll Have the Ice Cream Soon and the Vegetables Later: A Study of Online Grocery Purchases and Order Lead Time." Marketing Letters 21, no. 1 (March 2010): 17–35.
    • 01 Dec 2010
    • News

    How to Survive Past Start-up

    from the MBA Class of 1998: Marc Cenedella, founder of the Internet job search site TheLadders; Marla Malcolm Beck, cofounder of national cosmetics retailer bluemercury; and Chris Michel, cofounder of early professional social networks... View Details
    Keywords: Bill Murphy Jr.; Retail Trade; Retail Trade; Retail Trade; Retail Trade
    • Profile

    Ricardo De Armas

    Ricardo De Armas leapt into business at an early age, cofounding a computer-hardware retail operation in his second year of college. After graduation, he sold his stake in the business and worked full-time... View Details
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