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- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
Sam Walton: Great From the Start
Street had to close its doors. You can't say we ran that guy—the landlord's son—out of business. His customers were the ones who shut him down. They voted with their feet." Perhaps Walton did not have revenge uppermost in mind. But odds are it was there somewhere.... View Details
- 02 Mar 2007
- What Do You Think?
What Is the Government’s Role in US Health Care?
their skills" in providing basic healthcare. And Hakan Hillerstrom implied that consumer education and choice may be an important response to many of these challenges. In spite of the issues' complexity, Richard Fallis offered the observation that "Reform is coming... View Details
- 12 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
New Research Explores Multi-Sided Markets
transactions it conducts with members of the two groups—suppliers and consumers—are largely independent of each other and there is nothing particularly interesting in a two-sided sense. But Wal-Mart has grown quite sophisticated. It also... View Details
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Reconceiving Products & Markets - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
more companies are pursuing market strategies that fit the shared-value model—and reaping the rewards of innovation and growth. General Electric, Google, IBM, Intel, Johnson & Johnson, Nestlé, Unilever, and Wal-Mart are examples of... View Details
- 25 Oct 2010
- HBS Case
Tesco’s Stumble into the US Market
Tesco PLC is the third-largest retailer in the world, just behind Wal-Mart and Carrefour. But that didn't make the UK-based chain immune from many costly mistakes as it entered the US market in 2006. For example, it opened some of its... View Details
- 07 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
4+2 = Sustained Business Success
the same time, Kmart was trying to compete with Wal-Mart on price—a losing battle and in direct conflict with the organization's effort to go upmarket. The eight essential management practices we cite are not new, nor is their importance... View Details
- 08 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Creating Value in Your Business Ecosystem
delivery of a company's own offerings. Like an individual species in a biological ecosystem, each member of a business ecosystem ultimately shares the fate of the network as a whole, regardless of that member's apparent strength. From their earliest days, View Details
Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
When Benchmarks Don’t Work
not a meaningful, let alone actionable, comparison. Similarly, although the cost of serving a customer who is purchasing clothing from a Wal-Mart store is likely far below the same cost for an Armani store, Armani would probably not... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- What Do You Think?
Are We Ready for Self-Management?
high wage, high benefits, and high involvement policies of Costco with those of Wal-Mart. Both organizations, of course, have been highly successful. (One might argue that Wal-Mart has achieved high involvement through less expensive... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Real Conflict
Indeed, from low wages to limited health-care coverage, the company has a number of issues to tackle. But to characterize Wal-Mart’s success simply in terms of its exploitation of its workforce, as many of the company’s most ferocious critics do, is flawed for two... View Details
David D. Glass
Glass is credited with leading Wal-Mart through an aggressive expansion program – increasing sales ten-fold (from $16 billion to $165 billion), developing the SuperCenter concept combining groceries and general merchandise, and opening... View Details
Keywords: Retail
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Sarah Talley’s Key Negotiation Principles
When you have a problem, when there’s something you engage in with Wal-Mart that requires agreement so that it becomes a negotiation, the first advice is to think in partnership terms, really focus on a common goal, of getting costs out,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Priceline's Jay Walker: The Future is Wow
determines whether or not they get the items in their market basket for the price they are willing to pay. The e-commerce companies that consistently deliver savings to their users will be the biggest leaders. "If it works, you havea Wal-Mart," Walker said. Although... View Details
- 28 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
Eyes Shut: The Consequences of Not Noticing
product safety expert, and we have a shared interest in what keeps safer products from reaching the market and what keeps less safe products on store shelves. In 2002 she wrote: As the world's largest retailer and the nation's largest toy seller, View Details
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Kristin Brennan
Teach For America (Senior Managing Director, Alumni Affairs); Citizen Schools (Chief Talent Officer); Bridgespan (Consultant); Wal-Mart (Summer Leadership Program); ThoughtBridge (Negotiation Strategist & Mediator) View Details
Keywords: Social Enterprise
- 20 Dec 2016
- Research & Ideas
The 10 Most Popular 'Cold Call' Podcasts
What do Stella McCartney, Apple, Netflix, and Wal-Mart have in common? They were all subjects of the most popular episodes of Harvard Business School's Cold Call podcast in the last year. Twice monthly, host and Chief Marketing and... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Taking the Long View
huge national debt. He prefers shares of companies such as Canada’s EnCana, Wal-Mart de Mexico, and Petróleo Brasileiro. “At least three-quarters of whatever I own is foreign stocks,” Gordon revealed. Former Goldman Sachs cochairman John... View Details
Samuel M. Walton
1987, Wal-Marts numbered over 1,000 and had sales of $14 billion. Gaining momentum from the success of Wal-Mart, Walton created the highly successful bulk food store chain, Sam’s Wholesale Club, which also earned revenues in the billions.... View Details
Keywords: Retail
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Jeanne Jackson
strengths. “During the go-go Internet years, there was pressure at Gap and Wal-Mart to treat the online operation as a separate business,” she recalls. “What we learned is that our e-commerce function needed to be an extension of what we... View Details