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- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Ron Shaich’s Café Society
myself as a quarterback. I try to figure out where the receiver will be before I release the ball. I knew we had a phenomenal opportunity to build a significant brand in Panera Bread, but years of experience... View Details
- 01 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 1, 2008
of Boca Junior's business model and how it differs from that of the richer soccer clubs in Western Europe. Also enables an assessment of successful talent and brand management strategies in the context of a sports franchise with a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018
easily build and deploy chatbots, fueled by artificial intelligence, to interact with their customers. Before unleashing bot-building technology to its B2B customers, HubSpot first needed to develop some best practices for the use of... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 17
dealer of loose gemstones in 1969 in Jaipur, India. By the 2000s, it was headquartered in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and had expanded into diamonds and retail. The family business was now in its second generation of leadership and aimed to become a top global jewelry... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could
$28,000, still well beyond Rogers’ reach. Concurrent with the Charterhouse negotiations, Rogers invited his former restaurant business partner, Rick Cronk, to join him in the Dreyer’s deal. “I figured that building the company was going... View Details
- 04 Oct 2016
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October 4, 2016
Abstract—We build a tractable growth model where multi-product incumbents invest in internal innovations to improve their existing products, while new entrants and incumbents invest in external innovations to acquire new product lines.... View Details
- 19 Jul 2016
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July 19, 2016
boutiques and department stores)? Should it open more physical stores or focus on e-commerce? Where should the Group focus its international expansion? How could it best leverage its operating platform to drive the profitability of its brands? Should it acquire... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Developing-World Companies Teach Us About Innovation
than already-mixed concrete delivered by trucks. A more significant finding was that do-it-yourself projects have a special significance for this demographic. Building projects, the team learned, provided more than the functional benefits... View Details
- Profile
James Reinhart
brands across countless clothing, shoes and accessory categories. In 2014, thredUP sold nearly 2 million items and up-cycled over one million pounds of clothing. By the end of 2014, thredUP had become a $25 million business. Sellers can... View Details
- 13 Jun 2017
- News
Finding Common Ground
departments—with the goal of improving the health of honey bees in general and especially in production agriculture. Building trust is crucial to the relationships CollaborateUp fosters. Activists fear business executives will take... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
hippie just out of college, borrowed $5,000 to open a photocopy shop near the University of California, Santa Barbara, campus. He called it "Kinko's" after the nickname given to him by his college buddies because of his curly, reddish hair. The first store was situated... View Details
- 12 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 12
their portfolio of brands. Results show firms shifting display promotions away from smaller revenue brands toward larger ones following periods of poor financial performance. This indicates the behavior is determined by parties above... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ‘Talk, Inc.’
within their company, and it helps them to solidify buy-in among employees for new strategic initiatives. In short, it allows them to build trust through talk. Interactivity: Talk is a two-way affair—an exchange of comments and questions,... View Details
Keywords: Re: Boris Groysberg
- 05 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 5, 2010
Demand: Model and Estimation Methodology Authors:Nathan Craig, Nicole DeHoratius, and Ananth Raman Abstract To set service levels, firms must understand how changes in service affect customer demand. Supply learning is a process whereby customers use past supplier... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Dec 2018
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New Research and Ideas, December 11, 2018
partners to build her fashion business and legendary luxury brand based on understated elegance. Chanel’s famous “little black dress” was accompanied by many other innovations including the use of jersey as... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: Judgment Calls
had always been the Tweezerman destiny, while others saw very clearly the risks and headaches that would come with trying to sell their distinctively branded professional products to the likes of CVS or Walgreens. Earlier in his career,... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Skydeck Voices: For My Next Act
been a faculty member for 33 years after a career on Wall Street. And now I'm taking over a brand new university that’s just been established. Find your core mission. Find the thing that you're passionate about and throw yourself into it... View Details
- 20 Mar 2007
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First Look: March 20, 2007
in frequent contact with department stores to help them present her clothing in display and to customers. In the 1980s, after building up her designer brand name, Claiborne expanded her business through... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Leslie Gold
weeknights on www.shovio.com, with podcasts at www.radiochick.com. Tell us about life before RadioChick. I grew up in Bridgeport, Connecticut, where my dad ran a construction-related business, which is probably how I got business in my blood. I went to Syracuse... View Details
- 03 Jun 2008
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First Look: June 3, 2008
$60 million foundation operates through a range of networks, among funders and grantees, to achieve broad impact. Funder networks and foundations that work through a network approach are relatively uncommon in the philanthropic sector. Eric Heitz, EF's president, seeks... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace