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23 Jan 2013
Research & Ideas

Three-Dimensional Strategy: Winning the Multisided Platform

third party. By contrast, a grocery store also creates a space for consumers and multiple brands to meet—but the store controls the transaction, serving as a reseller. Done... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

31 May 2011
Research & Ideas

Japan Disaster Shakes Up Supply-Chain Strategies

Taiwan, stored in Hong Kong, aggregated in parts, and sent in kits to China for assembly." All the suppliers in this chain are typically operating on very thin margins and... View Details

Keywords: by Dennis Fisher; Electronics; Electronics; Electronics; Electronics

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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship

and marketplaces, including both advertising-supported and fee-based services. Today, CNET Networks' online properties attract more than 66 million Web users each month ranging form C-level executives View Details

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Investing in Emerging Industries | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

mainframes. In the field of defense electronics, Lehman Brothers provided capital to Loral Electronics Corporation and supported entrepreneurs such as Charles “Tex” Thorton, who bought Litton Industries. In... View Details

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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition

into a thin film strip which can be shipped and stored without refrigeration, eliminating the need for the cold-chain. Vaxess strives to not only lower the cost of distribution, but also increase access to... View Details

19 Sep 2023
Blog Post

2023 Summer Internships in Business & Environment

What are the career opportunities in business and environment? In Summer 2023, over 100 MBA students found internships at the intersection of business and the environment. This post provides a sample of some... View Details

18 Feb 2019
Book

What’s Really Disrupting Business? It’s Not Technology

“preemptively decoupling.” Instead of waiting to be disrupted, you just break it. When Amazon started selling electronics online, it created apps that encouraged customers to go to a store View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Beauty & Cosmetics; Insurance; Service; Retail

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1.17 Field Based Learning/Independent Projects - MBA

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26 Oct 2015
News

Ron Johnson’s Post-Penney’s Rebirth

The November issue of Fast Company has a profile of Ron Johnson (MBA 1984)—former Apple retail guru and JC Penney CEO. Johnson’s now at the helm of a consumer electronics startup, Enjoy, that focuses on... View Details

Keywords: Electronics and Appliance Stores; Electronics and Appliance Stores

24 Apr 2019
Research & Ideas

The 'Amazon Effect' Is Changing Online Price Competition—and the Fed Needs to Pay Attention

agencies. In 2010, these retailers would keep prices constant for about nine months on average. Today, that timeframe has narrowed to just three months, he says. That acceleration was especially true for categories like electronics View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Retail

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MBA 2023 Alumni Transition - Alumni

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25 Jan 2024
Blog Post

Climate Stories Episode #15: Hilton Augustine III on Financing Climate Ventures

apart old electronics to learn what makes them tick. Green technologies - solar, batteries, motors - captured his imagination early on. “I’d spend weekends and summers sifting through old toys View Details

02 Apr 2008
Research & Ideas

Four Companies that Conquered America

retailer, to enter the U.S. market with the new Fresh & Easy chain of discount grocery stores. Avoiding geographies where Wal-Mart is entrenched, Tesco has so far opened 50 stores in the growth markets of California, Nevada, View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch

04 Dec 2007
First Look

First Look: December 4, 2007

development and potential consolidation of the household electronic appliance retailing sector. Gome, Suning, and China Paradise, the three... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

Alan L. Wurtzel

Wurtzel took the helm of his family’s electronic retailing business and built it into a major retailer of electronics and appliances. He... View Details

Keywords: Retail

23 Nov 1999
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What’s Your Strategy for Managing Knowledge?

removing client-sensitive information, we develop 'knowledge objects' by pulling key pieces of knowledge such as interview guides, work schedules, benchmark data, and market segmentation analyses out of documents View Details

Keywords: by Morten T. Hansen, Nitin Nohria & Thomas Tierney; Consulting

08 Apr 2009
Research & Ideas

Clayton Christensen on Disrupting Health Care

information accessible and portable, have been talked about for a long time. One hurdle to progress on this relates, again, to the existing business model, which makes it difficult for information stored on... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; Health

Richard M. Schulze

Schulze transformed his small Sound of Music electronic store into an electronics retailing giant – Best Buy. Schulze introduced mass-merchandising techniques to the View Details