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Richard M. Schulze
Schulze transformed his small Sound of Music electronic store into an electronics retailing giant – Best Buy. Schulze introduced mass-merchandising techniques to the View Details
Keywords: Retail
- 08 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Clayton Christensen on Disrupting Health Care
information accessible and portable, have been talked about for a long time. One hurdle to progress on this relates, again, to the existing business model, which makes it difficult for information stored on... View Details
- 12 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Rocket Science Retailing: A Practical Guide
of Pennsylvania, is codirector of the Fishman-Davidson Center for Service and Operations Management. An excerpt from their book follows our interview. Martha Lagace: In a nutshell, what is rocket science retailing? Ananth Raman: It means... View Details
- 13 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 13
the reduction in store size was associated with TFP of retail chains falling by 0.4% per annum, or 40% of the post-1995 slowdown in UK retail TFP growth. China's Growing IT Services and Software Industry:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 23
http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/Kiatpongsan%20Norton%20PPS_31f17547-5033-401c-8ed2-ccc9b6a2b433.pdf Working Papers Bitcoin By: Böhme, Rainer, Nicolas Christin, Benjamin Edelman, and Tyler Moore Abstract—Bitcoin is an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 5, 2007
response, Beijing Hualian developed a new "Family Store" format targeted at the nation's growing middle class, made up of younger consumers with more fashionable tastes. Like hypermarkets, Hualian Family Stores include both food... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 14
and research applications, yet little is known about their relation to prices in physical stores where most retail transactions occur. I conduct the first large-scale comparison of prices simultaneously... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Where Does Apple Go From Here?
has Apple had such a difficult job growing beyond the Mac? A: Apple is a computer company, and Jobs has always understood that his core franchise was very closely connected to the core computer franchise. Consumer View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
“Some decent-looking pixels and a really excellent vision.” That’s all it took for Russ Wilcox to fall for the technology that would become E Ink, a company supplying the electronic ink for a new world of... View Details
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third parties for endorsements. Policy on Access to Electronic Information This policy sets out guidelines and processes for University access to user electronic information... View Details
- 19 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 19
case:http://hbr.org/search/513058-PDF-ENG Konys, Inc. Lee, Deishin, and Tunay I. TuncaHarvard Business School Case 613-065 This case describes the sourcing policy for a consumer electronics company. The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 20, 2015
Empirical Analysis of Mobile Money Agents in Africa By: Balasubramanian, Karthik, and David F. Drake Abstract—The use of electronic money transfer through cellular networks ("mobile money") is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Basics of Consumer Marketing in Asia
important." Duan Yongping, the founder, Chairman and CEO of BBK Electronics Corp., a Chinese company that manufactures consumer electronics, also said that Chinese consumers are becoming more concerned... View Details
Keywords: by Julie Jette
- 15 Feb 2000
- Lessons from the Classroom
Delivering Information Services: A 30-Year Perspective
IPO in 1990 to a $10-billion company today, with a market value of close to $140 billion! I'm also doing research for a case on Drugstore.com, which is essentially a drug store "built" on the Internet. It's getting ready to... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 19 Oct 2011
- News
What Job Do You Hire Your Phone to Do?
- 29 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 29, 2015
patients; however, organizations have struggled to obtain outcomes data from electronic health record (EHR) systems. This study describes how Texas Children’s Hospital customized a commercial EHR system and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Archives & Records Management | Baker Library
records, where to store them, and how to keep them organized in your office. We can help with paper and electronic records, including email View Details
- 11 Dec 2014
- News
Revolutionizing digital medical records
millions of Americans each year, kill several hundred thousand, and cost hundreds of billions of dollars annually. The records are secure—encrypted, password-protected, HIPAA-compliant, and not View Details
- 05 Dec 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is Walmart Defying Economic Gravity?
earner happy to have the job ; and (2) wastage (that) seems to abound in the cavernous stores ." Cheri Thomas cited saturation of its markets, especially in the United States, as a concern, adding that... View Details
- 23 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 23
diaspora networks historically provided (e.g., information about potential workers, monitoring, and reputation foundations). Download the paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=43327 Cases & Course MaterialsBoardroom Battle... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne