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  • Portrait Project

Shardule Shah

create generational wealth. But soon after starting, I was increasingly drawn to the idea that it was important for my kids to see that their beloved daddy works hard. I never want them to think that there is a tradeoff between being a success in the boardroom and a... View Details
  • 17 Oct 2019
  • Research & Ideas

‘Chick Beer’ for Women? Why Gender Marketing Repels More Than Sells

company released its pink and purple “Pens for Her,” featuring a “thin barrel designed to fit a woman’s hand.” Shoppers blasted Target when a store labeled toys in one aisle “building sets” and those in another aisle “girls’ building... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Consumer Products
  • 05 Oct 2020
  • Book

Want to Be Happier? Make More Free Time

goes on. We have started to acknowledge these truths, and we’re toying with interventions, at both the individual level and the policy level to overcome time poverty. Some places are trying four-day workweeks (the United States, as with... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 01 Mar 2024
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts

Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books You Got This! A Straightforward, No-Nonsense Playbook for Crushing 130+ Workplace Challenges By Heidi Abelli (MBA 1993) Palmetto Publishing Stepping into the corporate world can feel like navigating a labyrinth, especially when... View Details
Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 06 Aug 2021
  • Book

Steve Jobs and the Rise of the Celebrity CEO

that he was the father of Lisa Brennan-Jobs, although the mixture of cruelty and kindness with which he treated her would have driven a less innately well-grounded person crazy. Pixar was a screaming success. Those who viewed Toy Story... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 31 Mar 2011
  • Research & Ideas

From SpinPop to SpinBrush: Entrepreneurial Lessons from John Osher

was his foray into energy conservation and baby products in the 1970s and '80s, followed by Cap Toys, offering toys and candy, in the 1980s and '90s. The latter venture, which produced the uniquely American and insanely popular SpinPop... View Details
Keywords: by Dennis Fisher; Consumer Products
  • Web

The Idea of Instant Photography - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

toying with the idea and dreaming about a new photographic camera in which you simply photograph a subject and from that same camera roll out a finished picture. He told me that he now knew how to make such a camera." 45 The required... View Details
  • 10 Oct 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Retailing Revolution: Category Killers on the Brink

2011. In the early 2000s, e-commerce was seen as a threat to entire store formats such as grocery, music, and toy stores. But as consumer behavior evolved over the last decade and as supply chains improved, it became apparent that the... View Details
Keywords: by Rajiv Lal & Jose B. Alvarez; Retail
  • 12 Dec 2011
  • HBS Case

HBS Cases: Clocky, the Runaway Alarm Clock

"Most fad items don't have a functional element," Ofek says. "A Pet Rock doesn't have a functional element. A Tickle Me Elmo toy does not have a functional element. With Clocky, even if the cuteness factor wears off, it... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Consumer Products
  • 04 Nov 2015
  • What Do You Think?

Why Does Gender Diversity Improve Financial Performance?

only on paper.” There were several criticisms of the fact that the research identified correlations, not causes. Norman Toy made the point by stressing the especially mischievous nature of the use of correlation in this case. In his... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 25 Jan 2024
  • Blog Post

Climate Stories Episode #15: Hilton Augustine III on Financing Climate Ventures

apart old electronics to learn what makes them tick. Green technologies - solar, batteries, motors - captured his imagination early on. “I’d spend weekends and summers sifting through old toys and electronics in the house to find the... View Details

    Charles Lazarus

    Lazarus revolutionized the toy industry with his chain’s “cookie-cutter” uniformity, one-price discount policy, and deep inventory of 18,000 individual items. Toys “R” Us was one of the fastest growing and... View Details
    Keywords: Retail

      Herman G. Fisher

      In 1938, Fisher introduced a new toy named “Snoopy Sniffer,” which was an instant hit with the public. By the end of the 1930s, Fisher-Price, the first toy company licensed to make Disney toys, was producing... View Details
      Keywords: Fabricated Goods
      • Portrait Project

      Nvalaye Kourouma

      I was seven and I was dreaming of a toy car. I made my own out of wood. I looked at my new toy and it made me very happy. I was fifteen and I was dreaming of a holiday full of parties. I convinced some... View Details

        Stephen D. Hassenfeld

        Hassenfeld built Hasbro Toys into the fastest-growing, best-managed and most profitable company in the toy industry. Hassenfeld increased profitability from 1979 to 1986 by 85% annually. Only two Fortune 500... View Details
        Keywords: Fabricated Goods
        • 28 May 2013
        • Research & Ideas

        Can LEGO Snap Together a Future in Asia?

        As one of the largest toy makers in the world, the LEGO Group has been riding high in America and Western Europe. To grow, however, LEGO recently faced a decision familiar to many other multinationals: should the company shift from... View Details
        Keywords: by Kim Girard; Entertainment & Recreation
        • 07 May 2016
        • News

        Retail in the Blood

        As a boy, Simon Belsham (MBA 2007) hung out on the shop floor of Scally Wags Fun Factory, the toy shop his parents ran in the English town of Ashford. The shop closed with the arrival of Toys R Us, but “it... View Details
        Keywords: Retail Trade

          Milton Bradley

          history. In addition to games, Bradley designed jigsaw puzzles, wrote and published children’s books, and created model houses and other components for toy railroads. He was also an early prominent advocate for the establishment and... View Details
          Keywords: Fabricated Goods
          • 11 Dec 2006
          • Research & Ideas

          Fixing Price Tag Confusion

          can firms do to prevent it? A: When you go buy a toy at the store, the only cost that stands out is the price you pay for the toy, not the coins you put in the parking meter near the store's window. If you buy View Details
          Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail
          • 01 Mar 2017
          • News

          Lego Stays on Script

          exposed to many different properties and have a strong affinity for characters,” he says. Characters like Superman, Scooby-Doo, and Shaquille O’Neal can be a great way to engage new Lego users on or off the big screen, Moynihan adds, with one caveat: “We cannot just... View Details
          Keywords: Julia Hanna
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