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  • 26 Oct 2010
  • First Look

First Look: October 26, 2010

feet of building. Hang Lung Properties has enjoyed success in residential building in Hong Kong but has focused on very limited projects in China, notably two retail properties... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Mar 2015
  • First Look

First Look: March 10

introduces methods for increasing the efficiency of retail store liquidation, which we define as the time-constrained divestment of retail outlets through an in-store sale of inventory. The View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Jun 2024
  • News

Crash Pad

When 4753 North Broadway opened in 1924, the neoclassical tower represented the height of American architectural design, a terra-cotta temple of capitalism at the heart of Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood. Over the next century, a series of banks occupied the spacious... View Details
Keywords: Amy Crawford; illustrations by Kathleen Fu; building coversion; housing crisis; innovation; real estate; Real Estate
  • 01 Sep 2010
  • News

Fair Trade

moral nuisance to a global brand-driven powerhouse offering products essential to daily life is one of the more intriguing stories in modern business history. The origins of beauty products lie primarily in local knowledge of the scents and healing View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Retail Trade; Retail Trade; Retail Trade; Retail Trade
  • 01 Mar 2008
  • News

Reimagining China and India

is unbiased but noisy. In other words, what you get is a cacophony, and it assaults the senses. But nobody is willfully or wantonly distorting the truth. If you piece together different opinions, you will get an approximation of what’s really going on. Do differences... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Retail Trade; Retail Trade; Retail Trade; Retail Trade
  • 15 Apr 2014
  • First Look

First Look: April 15

controls, employment at target establishments declines 3% over two years post buyout and 6% over five years. The job losses are concentrated among public-to-private buyouts and transactions involving firms in the service and retail... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Sep 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Report From Egypt: Studying Global Influences

through their eyes. And we dined with one of my former students, who set up one of the pioneering private equity funds in Egypt and whose wife is bringing high-fashion retailing to a corner of the new Four Seasons Hotel. Q: What did you... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • August 2024 (Revised January 2025)
  • Case

Barbie: Reviving a Cultural Icon at Mattel

By: Elie Ofek, Ryann Noe and Sarah Mehta
The 2023 release of the live-action film Barbie, and its accompanying marketing blitz, incited a worldwide Barbie craze. Suddenly Barbie was everywhere, a celebrated icon reinstated at the forefront of cultural conversation. This goodwill stood in contrast to... View Details
Keywords: Brands and Branding; Media; Intellectual Property; Business Strategy; Entertainment; Gender; Public Opinion; Marketing Strategy; Retail Industry; Retail Industry; Retail Industry; Retail Industry; United States
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  • 14 May 2013
  • First Look

First Look: May 14

the impact of alternative policies governing the creation and use of digital information. This agenda focuses on the development of research to investigate the economics of digitization, to analyze the governance of intellectual property... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Aug 2024
  • Book

Why Competing With Tech Giants Requires Finding Your Own Edge

private-labeled digital devices at competitive prices. Yang credited Amazon for the company’s success. In addition to Amazon’s established infrastructure that helped it save on retail and logistics costs, “the key to building high quality... View Details
Keywords: by Feng Zhu; Technology; Information Technology
  • 22 Sep 2009
  • First Look

First Look: September 22

president and CEO, Margaret Clark, was contemplating the launch of a new, lip-plumping product called "Four Carat Pout." Clark faced many decisions concerning the launch: marketing the product as a luxury brand or a retail item;... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 Mar 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019

effectiveness of groups, how perceivers use group properties to inform their judgment, and the contextual and individual differences that allow some perceivers to be more accurate. Across seven studies, we present consistent evidence that... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 13 Dec 2016
  • First Look

December 13, 2016

Property Rights Protection, Ownership, and Innovation: Evidence from China By: Fang, Lily, Josh Lerner, and Chaopeng Wu Abstract—Using a difference-in-difference approach, we study how intellectual property... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 10 May 2016
  • First Look

May 10, 2016

property (IP) protection to safeguard their competitive advantages. However, the majority of recent patent litigation is driven by nonpracticing entities (NPEs), firms that generate no products but instead amass patent portfolios for the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 04 Dec 2007
  • First Look

First Look: December 4, 2007

retail outlets, such that stores with membership fees are more popular even when they offer the same goods at the same prices as stores without fees. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-029.pdf Dynamics of Platform... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 04 Aug 2006
  • What Do You Think?

What Happens When the Economics of Scarcity Meets the Economics of Abundance?

property to survive "in print" or in circulation. It is a world of non-zero-sum thinking. This is in stark contrast to many of the rest of us who actually read newspapers, watch television, go to the movies, and use the Internet... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 21 Feb 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: February 21

Targeted Firms By: Cohen, Lauren, Umit G. Gurun, and Scott Duke Kominers Abstract—We develop a theoretical model of, and provide the first large-sample evidence on, the behavior and impact of non-practicing entities (NPEs) in the intellectual View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 25 Feb 2020
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2020

application to the U.S. National Park Service (NPS). The framework covers many benefits provided by NPS units and programs, including on-site visitation, carbon sequestration, and intellectual property such as in education curricula and... View Details
  • 07 Dec 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 7

the value of their information intermediation function. The Effect of Product Variety and Inventory Levels on Retail Sales: A Longitudinal Study Author:Zeynep Ton and Ananth Raman Publication:Production and Operations Management 19, no. 5... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Bringing the Next Pandemic Vaccine to Your Doorstep with MIMIX - Blog: Health Supplement

at retail or mail-order pharmacies. The difficulty of access for the general population of all age groups is greatly reduced. There is no delayed rollout, healthy people are not forced to congregate at mass vaccination sites or wait weeks... View Details