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  • 05 Jun 2007
  • First Look

First Look: June 5, 2007

response, Beijing Hualian developed a new "Family Store" format targeted at the nation's growing middle class, made up of younger consumers with more fashionable tastes. Like hypermarkets, Hualian Family Stores include both food... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 14

and research applications, yet little is known about their relation to prices in physical stores where most retail transactions occur. I conduct the first large-scale comparison of prices simultaneously... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Jun 2015
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First Look: June 23, 2015

Demoulas by his cousin, Arthur S. Demoulas, and directors affiliated with him set off employee protests throughout the grocery store chain. Industry specialists estimated that Market Basket was losing close... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Jan 2015
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First Look: January 27

The Effect of Service Quality and Competition on Demand By: Balasubramanian, Karthik, and David F. Drake Abstract—The use of electronic money transfer through cellular networks... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Nov 2016
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First Look - November 1, 2016

the increasing role of technology (digital and mobile) as well as the use by consumers of alternative signals of status, such as wearing less prominently branded apparel, being less conformist (e.g., entering a luxury View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 15

hierarchy in interfirm transaction networks in two industry sectors in Japan: automotive and electronics. Our empirical results show that the electronics sector exhibits a much lower degree of hierarchy than... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 5, 2008

done on managing the organizational and political dimensions of generating and improving forecasts in corporate settings. We examine the implementation of a supply-chain planning process at a consumer View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Dec 2013
  • What Do You Think?

Is Walmart Defying Economic Gravity?

earner happy to have the job ; and (2) wastage (that) seems to abound in the cavernous stores ." Cheri Thomas cited saturation of its markets, especially in the United States, as a concern, adding that... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail
  • 14 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 14

integrated, but also (2) they allow both downstream units to purchase intermediate inputs from and upstream units to sell intermediate goods to other sector firms. We demonstrate that the 10 largest View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 24 Aug 2010
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First Look: August 24

Canada—grow its own retirement business, find a joint venture partner, or sell the business. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/311023-PDF-ENG Delta Electronics Hybrid Power Train Willy Shih View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 11

by inventory shrinkage and cash shortage. Using two store-level datasets from the convenience store industry, we find that relative wages are negatively associated with employee theft after we control for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 2

was called the Knowledge Management (KM) Appliance, but as Web 2.0 tools came into wider use, this evolved into what the company called "Cognizant 2.0" (C2), which was designed to ensure that the KM Appliance capabilities for... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 16, 2008

examples drawn from take-back regulations promulgated in Europe, Japan, and the United States governing waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE). Download the paper:... View Details
  • 06 May 2008
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First Look: May 6, 2008

its historic status as a vendor of the Macintosh personal computer (PC) line. Mac sales remained vital to Apple's future, but they now accounted for less than half of its total revenue. The company's line of iPod media players, its iTunes online content View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 Nov 2015
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November 3, 2015

balance the short- and long-term? Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/516013-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 116-009 Kjell & Company: Electronics Accessories Retail in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 May 2015
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First Look: May 19

server or set of servers to store transactions and also avoiding any single party that can ban certain participants or certain types of transactions. Bitcoin is of interest to economists in part for its... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Apr 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Financial Services 24/7

them, and the notion of writing a check at the corner store to get money in a pinch suggests a scene from a Norman Rockwell painting. It is only a matter of time, online banking enthusiasts say, before the... View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
  • 17 Mar 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Navigating Tradeoffs: How Purpose Becomes a Company's ‘Lighthouse in the Storm’

example by refurbishing electronic products and selling them in stores to contribute to the recycling effort. “Purpose becomes your lighthouse in the storm,” Barry says.... View Details
Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati
  • 12 Oct 2006
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First Look: October 12, 2006

assumptions and attentive to ways reason and emotion shape their own behavior and those of others around them. Purchase this note:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Nov 2016
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November 8, 2016

because Patagonia was a private company. The Tompkins dual strategy of exit from business and application of entrepreneurial skills to conservation resulted in large environmental gains, including sequestering View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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