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- 17 Sep 2014
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpen Your Negotiation Skills
satisfying solution. However, argues Mike Wheeler, it's important for students to know that there's still a time and place for old-school haggling. To Read More: ARTICLES Negotiating with Wal-Mart What happens when you encounter the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Mar 2010
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Successful Negotiation
role of communication in multiparty bargaining. Can You Win Against A Non-negotiable Partner? HBS Cases: Negotiating with Wal-Mart What happens when you encounter a company with a great deal of power, like Wal-Mart, that is also the... View Details
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Kristin Brennan
Teach For America (Senior Managing Director, Alumni Affairs); Citizen Schools (Chief Talent Officer); Bridgespan (Consultant); Wal-Mart (Summer Leadership Program); ThoughtBridge (Negotiation Strategist & Mediator) View Details
Keywords: Social Enterprise
- 25 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: July 25, 2017
lowers costs compared to competitors and allows Cotopaxi to offer lower prices, but they face a challenge in positioning their products as high quality. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/717488-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 717-468... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 26 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
What Your Competition is Telling You
employees is "a competitive world, in which you come to work every day just a little bit scared." Making The Pie Bigger If you're an independent operator and an industry giant like Wal-Mart or Barnes & Noble enters your... View Details
Keywords: by David Stauffer
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How the Giants of Enterprise Seized the Future
in the state. But his innate talent kept bursting the bounds of his own vision. After Wal-Mart had made some progress, one of his executives asked: "Well, now, Sam, how big do you really want this company to be?" Replied Walton,... View Details
Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow
- 02 Apr 2010
- What Do You Think?
Why Are Fewer and Fewer U.S. Employees Satisfied With Their Jobs?
Pfeffer asks why, in the face of the evidence of its importance, do so few of these initiatives involve the sustainability of workers in these same organizations? Citing Wal-Mart and BP, he maintains that the same organizations that are... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 18 Apr 2005
- Research & Ideas
Prosper with Multi-Channel Retailing
valuable customers," she said. All three panelists said that while it is important to keep the brand message consistent both in-store and online, retailers must understand that they may need to vary their assortment or make other adjustments. Vobejda had worked... View Details
- 02 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
Four Companies that Conquered America
retailer, to enter the U.S. market with the new Fresh & Easy chain of discount grocery stores. Avoiding geographies where Wal-Mart is entrenched, Tesco has so far opened 50 stores in the growth markets of California, Nevada, and... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 22 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Control Your Inventory in a World of Lean Retailing
implemented what we propose. Yet lean retailers like Home Depot and Wal-Mart already incorporate some SKU-level analysis in their own inventory decision making. Calculating SKU-level variation can be done on a simple spreadsheet, so... View Details
- 06 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 6, 2007
landscape and its accompanying expanding advertising options. Purchase this note: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=707458 Lou Pritchett: Negotiating the P&G Relationship with Wal-Mart (A) Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 May 2008
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Thinking About Global
stock of differences as well. Key concepts include: Some indicators of globalization aren't increasing as many experts have claimed. Toyota and Wal-Mart are examples of companies that understand how to deal with distance in a strategic... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Alumni Books
Odds by Peter D. Johnston (MBA ’90) (Negotiation Press) How do you negotiate with Wal-Mart or with an intimidating boss about an ethical issue? How do you negotiate a capital infusion for a struggling start-up or better health care for... View Details
- 30 Jan 2006
- HBS Case
The Case of the Mystery Writer’s Brand
success if it sold 200,000 copies. Today, the bar has been raised to 1.5 million copies, thanks in part to the dominance of "big-box" retailers (such as Wal-Mart and Costco) that only stock twenty or so bestsellers yet are... View Details
- 19 Dec 2006
- First Look
First Look: December 19, 2006
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-036.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsThe Bollingers: Negotiating with Wal-Mart Harvard Business School Case 907-009 More information and purchase:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Buy the Book
retailers (such as Wal-Mart and Costco) that only stock twenty or so bestsellers yet are responsible for 34 percent of book sales in the United States. “Something hits as a success and dominates the market,” Deighton comments. “It’s... View Details
- 14 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 14
http://hbr.org/product/european-integration-meeting-the-competitiveness-challenge/an/714405-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 114-023 Wal-Mart Lobbying in India? In 2012, as part of a routine disclosure under U.S. law, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Mar 2009
- Research & Ideas
Marketing After the Recession
product in the next period. Use common sense. If the Wal-Mart parking lot looks less crowded, some consumers are probably migrating back to Target and vice versa. Develop scenarios. How long the current recession will last is widely... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Where Are the Innovators in Health Care?
brilliant, effective innovators have forced sluggish U.S. industries to become more productive. Sam Walton’s exquisitely detailed supply chain management, coupled with his daring decision to locate Wal-Marts in rural areas, kick-started... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
include Jacques Nasser, president and CEO of Ford Motor Company, HBS professors Michael Porter and Clay Christensen, and Tom Coughlin, EVP, president, and CEO of Wal-Mart Stores Division. Be sure to visit the Cleveland conference Web site... View Details