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  • 13 Jul 2010
  • First Look

First Look: July 13

ultimatum from Walmart, his largest customer, about his largest and most profitable product line: "We're dropping it." Among its hosiery products, the Kentucky Derby Hosiery Co. produces and sells a branded line of infant socks to View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Jul 2016
  • First Look

July 19, 2016

https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/216078-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 716-426 The Inexorable Rise of Walmart? 1988–2016 In October 2015, Walmart surprised investors by announcing that it expected flat sales growth for 2015... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Hiring Organizations

The VMG Partners Volo Sports Volpi Capital W Wafra Inc. Wagmo Walmart / Walmart eCommerce Walt Disney Company, The Warburg Pincus LLC Warner Bros. Discovery Watertower Ventures Waymo Wegmans Food Markets... View Details
  • 09 Apr 2024
  • Book

Why Work Rituals Bring Teams Together and Create More Meaning

bonds. IDEO, for example, has asked employees to meet for a weekly tea time as a way to encourage workers to collaborate, connect, and deepen relationships. And Walmart founder Sam Walton started leading workers in morning chants to spell... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 20 Nov 2012
  • First Look

First Look: November 20

  PublicationsThe Unbundling of Advertising Agency Services: An Economic Analysis Authors:Mohammad Arzaghi, Ernst R. Berndt, James C. Davis, and Alvin J. Silk Publication:Review of Marketing Science (forthcoming) Abstract We address a puzzle surrounding the shift from... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Apr 2024
  • HBS Case

Deion Sanders' Prime Lessons for Leading a Team to Victory

the water problem became so bad that the team was unable to live in the school’s housing or use its athletic facilities. Sanders moved the team to a hotel and leaned on his business ties—including executives at Walmart and Under Armour—to... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman; Sports
  • 07 Jul 2019
  • HBS Case

Walmart's Workforce of the Future

Any discussion of the future of retail—or how we work—has to include Walmart. As of 2017, 90 percent of the US population lived within 10 miles of a Walmart store; with 11,766 locations worldwide and $514 billion in annual revenues, the... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail
  • 07 Apr 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Giving Back: Consumers Care More About How Companies Donate Than How Much

Harvard Business School finds. For example, in 2015, Walmart donated $301 million, or 2 percent of its profits, compared with Target’s $111.5 million, or 5 percent. Which firm would consumers consider more generous? Given that View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
  • Web

Podcast - Business & Environment

Gigaton 23 FEB 2022 | Climate Rising Kathleen McLaughlin, Chief Sustainability Office at Walmart, Inc. and President of the WalmartFoundation, discusses how Walmart plans to achieve its goal to avoid a gigaton–a billion metrictons–of... View Details
  • Web

Business, Government & the International Economy - Faculty & Research

Those Close to the Regime Get Permits and Oil Revenues, the Educated Get No Jobs: Jeremy S. Friedman Re: Jeremy Friedman 19 Jun 2025 World Unpacked Party-State Capitalism: China's Communist Party and Rule by Market Re: Meg Rithmire 05 Jun 2025 Bloomberg Law Costco,... View Details
  • 11 Apr 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Is Amazon a Retailer, a Tech Firm, or a Media Company? How AI Can Help Investors Decide

Traditional investing classifications consider Walmart a consumer staples retailer, but the company owns more than 6,000 retail and distribution properties around the world—the portfolio dwarfs those of many commercial real estate firms.... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Consumer Products; Real Estate; Financial Services; Retail
  • 24 Mar 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Rituals at Work: Teams That Play Together Stay Together

bonding activity—regular rituals like doing the Walmart Cheer or firing a Nerf toy gun to conclude a project—led to a 16 percent increase in how meaningful employees judged their work to be, according to research by Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • 01 Dec 2023
  • News

Thinking Ahead

As we wind down 2023, there’s talk everywhere of generative AI and how it will fundamentally alter the world as we know it; but how does that translate for your corner of the business world? Is TikTok something you need to take seriously? (Is it time to dance?) We... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Illustrations by Chris Gash; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information
  • Web

Skydeck - Alumni

from eight years of personal data tracking Skydeck Live: The Happiness Equation Author and former Walmart executive Neil Pasricha (MBA 2007) offers lessons from his quest for happiness How Women's Basketball Conquered Europe Bruce Levy... View Details
  • 31 Mar 2022
  • Op-Ed

Navigating the ‘Bermuda Triangle’ in Professional Services

the past two decades by following an approach its founder calls “the Walmartization of healthcare.” The hospital delivers world-class results for cardiac patients, provides an excellent work environment to its medical staff, and has... View Details
Keywords: by Ashish Nanda
  • 09 Jan 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Location, Location, Location: The Strategy of Place

time to enter or exit that location. Reducing your costs might not provide you with a competitive advantage at all." Walmart has been a smart expander since it opened its first store in Rogers, Arkansas, in 1962. Sam Walton slowly... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 21 Aug 2013
  • Research & Ideas

What Went Wrong at J.C. Penney?

available options, from low-end Walmart and discounters like TJ Maxx to Kohl's, Macy's, and Target. Beyond that, there are plenty of specialty stores such as The Gap and Gymboree. Aisner: That's a full plate of problems. What did Johnson... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner; Retail
  • 24 Apr 2019
  • Research & Ideas

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

It’s no secret that fierce competition from Amazon puts downward pressure on prices charged by Walmart and other big multichannel retailers for the same items. However, the bigger “Amazon effect” relates not to the prices themselves but... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Retail
  • 28 Nov 2018
  • HBS Case

On Target: Rethinking the Retail Website

jimkruger In the mid-1990s, Target was a discount superstore behemoth. The retailer had set itself apart from chief rival Walmart with a focus on more upscale but wallet-friendly fashion and lifestyle lines, spurring double-digit growth... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Retail
  • 16 Jun 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Your Customers Have Changed. Here's How to Engage Them Again.

producers, and writers whose jobs are affected by COVID—making Netflix the likely preferred destination for future work by creatives. Walmart is paying suppliers more quickly. Costco, Whole Foods, and Dollar General introduced shopping... View Details
Keywords: by Rohit Deshpandé, Ofer Mintz, and Imran S. Currim; Retail; Service
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