Richard B. Fisher - Publications - Faculty & Research

April 2019
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Walmart Update, 2019

In 2019 Walmart was still the world's largest company, with over $500 billion in annual revenue and operations around the world. Although it had mostly vanquished its rival discount retailers in the U.S., it was struggling to find the right growth strategy. Facing a... View Details

Keywords: E-Commerce Strategy; Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Business Growth and Maturation; Growth and Development Strategy; Global Range; Business Strategy; Corporate Strategy; E-commerce; Retail Industry

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Strategy Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Research in 2013. Raffaella Sadun : Named Harvard Business School Richard Hodgson Fellow in 2013. David B. Yoffie : Elected 2013 Fellow of The International Academy of Management due to outstanding... View Details

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Faculty - Race, Gender & Equity

Assistant Professor of Business Administration in the Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Unit at Harvard Business School. He teaches Inclusion in the MBA required curriculum and Negotiations in the MBA elective... Katherine B. Coffman... View Details

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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition

Founder Mousumi Shaw, discovered a new market opportunity for a new jewelry & lifestyle brand appealing to changing demographics of women-self purchasers in the $53 billion dollar industry. Travelguru.com Ashwin Damera Vonkata Jarad View Details

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HBS Entrepreneurship Summit - Alumni

Service Challenges Mitchell B. Weiss (MBA 2004), Richard L. Menschel Professor of Management Practice Five Technologies Changing the Future Shikhar Ghosh (MBA 1980), MBA Class of 1961 Professor of Management... View Details

06 Mar 2006
Research & Ideas

Four Strategies for Making Concessions

Richard E. Walton and Robert B. McKersie's book A Behavioral Theory of Labor Negotiations: An Analysis of a Social Interaction System (ILR Press, 1991). The head of a manufacturing firm was preparing to... View Details

Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra

01 Dec 2023
News

A Continuum of Innovation

courses and understand how quickly the curriculum should evolve. “You want to be current, but you don’t want to chase fads—there’s that tension between the static and dynamic,” explains Weinzierl, who co-leads the project with Mitch Weiss, the View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

01 Mar 2024
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Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts

for Freedom By Richard B. Levine (MBA 1990) Fidelis Publishing The maintenance of liberty rests upon America’s faith, its founding, families, and commitments to uncorrupted education and science, writes... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

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Finance Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Finance Overview Faculty Curriculum Seminars & Conferences Awards & Honors Doctoral Students 2025 Samuel B. Antill : Winner of the 2025 Rising Scholar Award from The Review of Financial Studies for "Are Bankruptcy Professional Fees... View Details

January 2014 (Revised December 2014)
Case

GenapSys: Business Models for the Genome

By: Richard G. Hamermesh, Joseph B. Fuller and Matthew Preble

GenapSys, a California-based startup, was soon to release a new DNA sequencer that the company's founder, Hesaam Esfandyarpour, believed was truly revolutionary. The sequencer would be substantially less expensive—potentially costing just a few thousand dollars—and... View Details

Keywords: DNA Sequencing; Life Sciences; Business Model; Innovation ＆ Entrepreneurship; Health Care and Treatment; Genetics; Business Strategy; Biotechnology Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; Technology Industry; Health Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; United States

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K–12 Education | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

B. Fuller (Professor of Management Practice); William R. Kerr (Dimitri V. D'Arbeloff - MBA Class of 1955 Professor of Business Administration Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Research) 10 Oct 2024 | Making A Difference... View Details

01 Jun 2024
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Leveraging Generative AI

Four decades after HBS became the first business school in the country to require the use of personal computers in the MBA Program, the School is undergoing a different kind of technological transformation, one that leverages generative artificial intelligence (GenAI)... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

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Entrepreneurial Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Entrepreneurial Management Overview Faculty Curriculum Seminars & Conferences Awards & Honors Doctoral Students 2024 Jeffrey J. Bussgang : Named one of the Boston Globe 's Tech Power Players 2024. Zoe B. Cullen : Recipient of a 2024 Sloan... View Details

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Helping and harnessing business to address society’s greatest challenges. | Institute for Business in Global Society

gratefully acknowledge the following donors who, through their generous support, are helping to harness business to address society’s greatest challenges. Founder Level Woods Staton Partner Level Richard W. Edelman, MBA 1978 High Meadows... View Details

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General Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

2021 Case Centre Award in the Production and Operations Management category for “Ant Financial (A)” with Feng Zhu, Ying Zhang, Anthony K. Woo, and Nancy Hua Dai (HBS Case 617-060). George A. Riedel : Named a Henry B. Arthur Fellow in... View Details

20 Oct 2010
Op-Ed

Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic

Economic Forum: 2008. Porter, Michael E., H. Takeuchi, and M. Sakakibara (2000), Can Japan Compete?, Basic Books and Perseus Publishing, New York: 2000. Rodríguez, F. and D. Rodrik. 2000. "Trade Policy and Economic Growth: A Skeptic's Guide to the Cross-National... View Details

Keywords: by Christian Ketels

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Organizational Behavior Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Lumumba B. Seegars : Recipient of the 2021 Doctoral Programs Dean’s Award for Service to the School and Society. Monique Burns Thompson : Received the 2021 Greenhill Award for Outstanding Service to the HBS Community for creating and... View Details

01 Mar 2018
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Every Trick in the Book

opened its first standalone location in a suburban Pittsburgh mall in 1962; by 1971, it had more than 60 stores. Its main rival, B. Dalton Bookseller, founded in 1966 in a suburban Minnesota shopping center, had expanded in just five... View Details

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Technology & Operations Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Projects” (October 2015) with Anant Mishra. Edward McFowland III : Winner of the 2016 Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics Best Paper Award for "Penalized Fast Subset Scanning" (2016) with Skyler Speakman, Sriram Somanchi, and Daniel View Details

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HBS Entrepreneurs Collection | Baker Library

opportunity, and leadership. Paul Baier MBA 1994, PurchasingCenter.com Excara Frank Batten MBA 1952, Weather Channel Steven B. Belkin MBA 1971, Trans National Group (TNG) Hakeem Belo-Osagie MBA 1980, United Bank for Africa Scott D. Cook... View Details

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