Filter Results:
(1,493)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(1,493)
- People (4)
- News (436)
- Research (942)
- Events (13)
- Multimedia (1)
- Faculty Publications (561)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(1,493)
- People (4)
- News (436)
- Research (942)
- Events (13)
- Multimedia (1)
- Faculty Publications (561)
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Sleight of Hand
Camirand Photo Courtesy Guy Camirand It turns out that sawing ladies in half or pulling rabbits out of hats doesn’t worry professional magicians nearly as much as a bad case of dry hands. High-performance legerdemain, such as palming coins or making cards disappear,... View Details
- 25 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 25
& Mauritz, 2000 In 2000, Hennes & Mauritz (H&M) was the second-largest and most global player in the fashion retail business. It operated 682 stores, 80% of them outside its home country of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Mar 2017
- Research & Ideas
What's the Ideal Frequency for a Sales Quota?
them would just give up in the latter half, because there was no way they could make quota.” An ideal setting for a field experiment The retailer was an ideal setting for a field experiment for a few reasons. One, it View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Reimagining China and India
it’s not really clear what you bring to the table, and that’s a much more difficult sell. The benefits to the host country are far more palatable if you set up manufacturing operations from there because that immediately generates... View Details
- 18 Dec 2018
- News
Nike Korea CEO David Song's Investment in Employees Pays Off
Keywords: Retail Trade
- November 1993 (Revised November 1994)
- Supplement
OfficePro (B)
By: John A. Quelch
Supplements OfficePro (A). View Details
Keywords: Decisions; Globalized Firms and Management; Business Subsidiaries; Supply Chain Management; Retail Industry; France
Quelch, John A. "OfficePro (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 594-054, November 1993. (Revised November 1994.)
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Ready for Takeoff
vacant. "The country stops. The days that Brazil plays, it will be a national holiday," Sender says. This year, though, Sender won't have much time to celebrate. As CEO of TAM Airlines, Brazil's largest, she'll be managing operations at... View Details
- 03 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 3, 2015
Complexity By: Célérier, Claire, and Boris Vallée Abstract—This paper investigates the rationale for issuing complex securities to retail investors. We focus on a large market of investment products targeted exclusively at households:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
A Start-Up with Giddyup
A Start-Up with Giddyup FORD: These boots were made for business. Photo courtesy Sarah Ford Whether you're the real deal or all hat and no cattle, you can cowboy up in style with custom-made boots from Sarah Ford (MBA 2007). Ford founded Texas-based Ranch Road Boots... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Eight Among Many: Robert F. Diromualdo
DiRomualdo decided to make his passion for books - especially spy stories and historical novels - his business as well. In 1989, he was hired by Tom and Louis Borders to expand the Ann Arbor, Michiganbased $20 million bookstore operation... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 28 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
While Waiting for Japan’s Recovery, Let’s Enhance Supplier Competitiveness at Home
Connection on January 31. Other major manufacturers and retailers are soon to join, and IBM intends to find other ways to enhance small business growth. Imagine the possibilities for a national campaign to reduce unemployment and grow the... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
What I Do: Philippe Hellich (MBA 1996)
ever-present too, be it a customer tripping on a display or an entire country divorcing itself from established trading protocols. “The diversity of risks is what makes this job so exciting,” says the man whose task it is to prevent issues from striking the business... View Details
- 28 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 28
connection problems. While out-and-back routing tended to isolate operational issues, more traditional linear routings tended to offer high equipment utilization. The case offers students an opportunity to examine the effects of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jul 2016
- News
Alumni Capture the Essence of Pokemon GO Craze
locations and retailers to provide ‘real world’ ($) rewards to players.” Many alumni see possibilities and potential in other areas: “Augmented reality can definitely revolutionize e-commerce and mobile-friendly brand apps,” said Ameera... View Details
Keywords: Arts, Entertainment
- 04 Aug 2014
- News
The Best and Worst of Family Businesses
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
The Changing Nature of Research
School’s Bureau of Business Research—comprised a comparative examination of the costs of operating a retail shoe business. The resulting report helped companies devise strategies to manage inventories,... View Details
- 24 Aug 2016
- Blog Post
Internship In Action
introducing a new operational strategy for a group of sellers. After a few weeks of investigation my manager and I pushed to initiate the launch of this new operational strategy, which has been super cool.... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
- 16 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 16
Publications 2006 Stanford University Press Wall Street Research: Past, Present, and Future By: Groysberg, Boris, and Paul M. Healy Abstract—Wall Street equity analysts provide research products and services on publicly traded companies to institutional and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
What Your Competition is Telling You
and do it more efficiently, over time. Richard E. Beville should know. The chief operating officer of Lamont Digital Systems, a Greenwich, Conn., provider of digital telecommunications services, Beville started his career in the Bell... View Details
Keywords: by David Stauffer