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- 06 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Technology Re-Emergence: Creating New Value for Old Innovations
renewed competitive identity. "Independent bookstores were founded on the idea of community building," Raffaelli says. "And today they have shifted their sole focus away from the books they sell—Amazon can do that. Rather,... View Details
Leonard S. Riggio
Riggio founded the Student Book Exchange in 1965 and turned this small book store into a leading retailer. He acquired the venerable Barnes & Noble bookstore in New York in 1971 and adopted its name for his expanding company. Through... View Details
Keywords: Retail
- Portrait Project
Juan Felix
flew from South Central Los Angeles to a boarding school in New Hampshire. I was attending on scholarship, a lanky fourteen-year-old boy "from the hood" with beady eyes and a barely noticeable mustache. I visited the bookstore... View Details
- 19 Feb 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
Amazoned: Is Any Industry Safe?
Made-up Holiday The company is throwing itself a party where all its Prime customers get the gifts. How Independent Bookstores Have Thrived in Spite of Amazon.com Independent bookstores managed to survive... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Faculty Q&A: Reemerging Technologies
to the product, as well as the identity of the organizations and community that produce and sell them. For example, the Swiss redefined mechanical watches as luxury goods infused with craftsmanship and beauty. Something I’ve studied recently is the resurgence of the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
The Future of Books
much a reader-centric company. Will bookstores survive in this changing industry? MA: Yes. Our goal is to maintain the most diversified marketplace possible and to strengthen the physical bookstore channel... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
The Life of Ted
‘Leadership Lessons I Learned from Ted Turner,’ and decided to show it to his subject before sending it to a business magazine,” wrote Maine’s Portland Press Herald (December 7, 2008). The boss liked it so much he asked Burke to cowrite his autobiography. Call Me Ted... View Details
- Portrait Project
Marissa Kaplan
We were living a romantic comedy – a young couple in love in Manhattan. Mornings in the park with chocolate croissants, The New York Times in print, sporadic sirens and street performers. Walks to the bookstore with linked arms and fake... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Booth Gardner’s Night at the Oscars
Several festivals are planning to screen the film, and HBO will broadcast it later this year. (Gardner’s auto-biography is also expected in bookstores this summer.) “It’s a slow haul,” says Gardner. “It’s controversial. But nobody has to... View Details
- 05 May 2017
- News
Barnes & Noble Names Demos Parneros CEO
feature full-service restaurants. The changes are in reaction to a market that, as the Times notes, is in flux: After decades of decline, independent bookstores have rebounded. The American Booksellers Association counted 1,775 member... View Details
- Student-Profile
Ryann Noe
meaning-making. Her PhD qualifying paper is a longitudinal study of social resistance to technology in the toy industry. Together with Professor Raffaelli, she has written about how independent bookstores were able to resurge in the... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Jeremiah P. Murphy, Jr.
we were never going to be a chain store with a hundred outlets in the suburbs,” he explains. “Instead of being a department store that happens to sell some books, we needed to become a bookstore that happens to sell some other stuff.”... View Details
- 23 Feb 2011
- News
A Capitalist in China
something,” he explained. “I couldn’t do sculpture or drawing on the road, but I could write.” The idea for a novel came to him one day in a Beijing bookstore when he discovered a paucity of fiction titles about China written for an... View Details
- Profile
Jessica Kramer
online shopping with the appeal of brick-and-mortar browsing.” Throughout April, five different bus stops in Cambridge will carry the team’s posters: a visual simulation of bookstore shelves packed with titles and corresponding QR codes.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
New Magazine Makes Its Mark
from Bookmarks and click to subscribe online at www.bookmarksmagazine.com. For a week in March, Bookmarks was the best-selling magazine on Amazon.com. Word-of-mouth buzz generated by independent bookstores also has worked well. So have... View Details
- 26 Aug 2021
- Blog Post
Baker Library's Latest Collection: Little Black Library
pandemic, Stark says there was no question about funding, and she and her team researched local bookstores for sourcing the 177 volumes in the collection, which also includes Shekeyla Sandore Caldwell’s (MBA 2021) new children’s book, A... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Eight Among Many: Robert F. Diromualdo
DiRomualdo decided to make his passion for books - especially spy stories and historical novels - his business as well. In 1989, he was hired by Tom and Louis Borders to expand the Ann Arbor, Michiganbased $20 million bookstore operation... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 14 Aug 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
The Manager's Guide to Leveraging Disruption
drive disruption—customers do. A recent book argues that successful disruptors spot and serve emerging customer needs faster than larger competitors. How Independent Bookstores Have Thrived in Spite of Amazon.comBook retailers were among... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Laurel without Hardy? A Lesson for Business
in-store reading glasses; bookstores and coffee bars. Identifying and assembling complements is often the best way to compete. Adam Brandenburger is a professor in the Competition and Strategy unit at HBS. Barry Nalebuff is a professor at... View Details
- 14 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
How to Profit from Scarcity
company. It wasn't just direct sales of these two products that benefited from the scarcity illusion, however: The heavy crowds drove sales of related products in Apple stores and bookstores during a relatively slow sales month. But there... View Details