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- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
for retail chains,” Wilcox recalls. Along with retail signage, E Ink entered new fields such as watches, even as it worked to develop its futuristic e-reader display. By 2003, it had become clear that the... View Details
- 24 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Building ’Brandtopias’—How Top Brands Tap into Society
consider the life of a guy who was twenty years old and living in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Such a young man was facing a very different reality. Factory jobs had mostly disappeared and now he was looking at a life stocking shelves in franchise View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Capitalizing the Corner Shop
engineering consulting company, and his mother started four businesses, ranging from a video game store to a bakery—Kehinde was exposed early on to the pains of capital constraints. “I grew up seeing how difficult it is,” he says. Working... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
By Invitation Only: How We Built Gilt and Changed the Way Millions Shop by Alexis Maybank and Alexandra Wilkis Wilson (both MBA 2004) (Portfolio) The founders of Gilt Groupe reveal how they built the web’s most famous fusion of high tech and high fashion. Sample sales... View Details
- 06 Sep 2012
- News
Fashion-Forward
Amed “Does this look good on me?” That’s a question Imran Amed (MBA 2002) heard frequently when he was growing up in Calgary, Canada, no doubt because friends and family quickly learned he was often insightful, on target, and honest in his response. “Never in a million... View Details
- 20 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53958 Effects of a Tournament Incentive Plan Incorporating Managerial Discretion in a Geographically Dispersed Organization By: Deller, Carolyn, and Tatiana Sandino Abstract—Using retail... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
These Coronavirus Heroes Show Us How Crisis Leadership Works
of Walmart, faces a different set of challenges. While other retailers are rapidly cutting staff, he and his team need 150,000 temporary workers to keep up with the near-term demand for basic food, beverages, and supplies. With suppliers... View Details
- 21 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 21
Target's faltering performance during an economic downturn led an activist shareholder to initiate a proxy fight. Target Corporation, the second largest discount store retailer in the U.S., had competed... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Where Are They Now?
The first in a series of occasional articles in which the Bulletin catches up with former HBS faculty members. SCHLESINGER: Now doing business at Limited Brands. Len Schlesinger (DBA ’79) certainly walks the talk, as he moves easily back and forth between business and... View Details
- 12 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 12
in 1995 to 185 million in 2011, without producing for store brands in a market in which these offerings were steadily gaining share. The company's leaders wanted to make sure Mutti maintained its position in Italy and further, to move... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 25
over the past decade as one of the most active areas of research in economics and strategy. The literature has constantly struggled, however, with a lack of agreement on a proper definition; for instance, some existing definitions imply that View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Case Study: Moment in the Sun
health benefits—it helps the body store less fat, helps build the immune system, and reduces stress.” Hoskins cofounded the company in 2014, launching a Kickstarter campaign in November 2015 that netted Ario more than $200,000 in 30 days.... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
A. G. Lafley, MBA 1977
battery-powered SpinBrush, now the nation's best-selling toothbrush. Retailing for around five dollars, SpinBrush accounted for $160 million in sales last year and is the subject of an HBS case study. "SpinBrush is a wonderful example of... View Details
- 13 Mar 2019
- News
The First Five Years: Sierra Smith and Taylor Wiegele (both MBA 2017)
in a small, confined space we want to be there too. Trash cans, diaper pails, litter boxes, you name it. Short term, we want to build our retail presence. Look for us in select Target stores this April!”... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
What to Do When Your Organization Has Dueling Missions
$3.94 billion in sales from its more than 3,000 retail stores and its online auction site. Even so, Goodwill’s core mission is to provide job training and placement to people with disabilities, criminal... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- Profile
Hiroshi Mikitani
hyper-efficient supermarket with standardized offerings,” Rakuten is more like a bazaar “where the owners of many small shops curate the merchandise and interact personally with customers.” Starting out, Rakuten charged its merchants $650 per month to... View Details
- 28 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018
maintaining a high level of exploration. Solutions improved most on rounds with social influence after a period of separation. We also show that storing subjects’ best solutions so that they could be reloaded and possibly modified in... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman