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  • 25 Oct 2016
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October 25, 2016

growing component of many firms' retailing strategies, particularly in the fashion industry. Outlet stores offer attractive prices in locations far from central shopping districts. The main perspectives on why outlet stores exist can be... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

    John C. Mulliken

    Strategy consultant, former CTO & CPO, public & private company board member, retail & climatetech entrepreneur, early stage investor.  Father of two, husband, sailor, hiker, and aspirational road biker.

    John is a senior lecturer in the... View Details
    • 12 Jun 2018
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    New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018

    https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54559 Harvard Business School Case 118-016 Data Science at Target Paritosh Desai joined Target.com in 2013 as VP of Business Intelligence, Analytics & Testing to explore how the retailer... View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • 19 Jun 2018
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    New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018

    Applied Corporate Finance Investors as Stewards of the Commons? By: Serafeim, George Abstract—Over the past few years, there has been a significant increase in the number of initiatives seeking to mobilize View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • April 1996 (Revised May 2000)
    • Case

    Bed Bath & Beyond

    By: Amy P. Hutton and James Weber
    This case examines how accurately investors have incorporated information about the growth strategy of Bed Bath & Beyond (BBBY) into share price, especially given the changing competitive environment in the housewares industry and the recent Barron's article pointing... View Details
    Keywords: Analysis; Valuation; Financial Statements; Retail Industry; Retail Industry
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    • 03 Apr 2007
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    First Look: April 3, 2007

    ability of later matching to produce "championship" games. Are Small Investors Naive About Incentives? Authors:Ulrike Malmendier and Devin M. Shanthikumar Periodical:Journal of Financial Economics (forthcoming) Abstract Security... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 20 Nov 2012
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    First Look: November 20

    Movement to Reduce Obesity in Texas Jose B. Alvarez, Jason Riis, and Walter J. SalmonHarvard Business School Case 512-034 In January 2012, H-E-B Grocery Co., a private retail chain with stores located in Texas and Mexico, was introducing... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • February 2018 (Revised October 2019)
    • Case

    Steinhoff International and the Stock Exchange

    By: Siko Sikochi and Austin Lim
    Nicky Newton-King, the Chief Executive Officer of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE), was put in a difficult position. A scandal had broken out at Steinhoff, a JSE-listed company, under her watch and there were calls to suspend listing of the company securities from... View Details
    Keywords: Accounting; Financial Reporting; Mergers and Acquisitions; Financial Markets; Corporate Governance; Retail Industry; Retail Industry; Retail Industry; Africa; South Africa
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    • Teaching Interest

    Overview

    By: Jill J. Avery
    Creating Brand Value (MBA elective course)

    Overview:

    In the consumer/retail space, brands are often companies’ most valuable assets and sources of their sustainable competitive advantage. But, managing brands to achieve their full value potential... View Details
    • August 2016 (Revised July 2017)
    • Case

    Diageo and Mey Icki: Turkish Delight or Turkish Hangover?

    By: Dante Roscini and Gamze Yucaoglu
    In September 2013, two years after its $2.1 billion acquisition of Mey Icki Sanayi ve Ticaret AS (Mey Icki), the principal spirits company in Turkey specializing in the local beverage, raki, Diageo, the world’s leading premium drinks company, was concerned about new... View Details
    Keywords: Foreign Direct Investment; Emerging Markets; Government Legislation; Taxation; Valuation; Business and Government Relations; Government and Politics; Risk Management; Retail Industry; Retail Industry; Middle East; Turkey
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    • 19 Apr 2011
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    First Look: April 19

    Becker, Zoran Ivkovic, and Scott Weisbenner Publication:Journal of Finance 66, no. 2 (April 2011) Abstract : We exploit demographic variation to identify the effect of dividend demand on corporate payout policy. Retail View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 07 Jul 2022
    • HBS Case

    How a Multimillion-Dollar Ice Cream Startup Melted Down (and Bounced Back)

    and in retail chains with lots and lots of stores, they use what are called co-packers, third-party factories, that will make ice cream to your specifications. That was always an option for Ample Hills.” Hiring a co-packer would have... View Details
    Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
    • 30 Sep 2008
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    First Look: September 30, 2008

    http://papers.nber.org/papers/w14302 The Effect of Labor on Profitability: The Role of Quality Author:Zeynep Ton Abstract Determining staffing levels is an important decision in retail operations. While the costs of increasing labor are... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 10 Apr 2007
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    First Look: April 10, 2007

    School Case 207-084 Following a successful model in Europe, JP Morgan has introduced a set of five U.S. retail mutual funds with an investment philosophy and marketing strategy grounded in behavioral finance. The asset management group... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 09 Dec 2002
    • Research & Ideas

    Unilever—A Case Study

    The issue of control is examined, as is the related question of the "stickiness" of knowledge within large international firms. The discussion draws on a case study of the Anglo-Dutch consumer goods manufacturer Unilever, which has been one of the largest... View Details
    Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Retail; Retail; Retail; Retail; Retail
    • 14 Jan 2014
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    First Look: January 14

    harmful. Specifically, lower consumer surplus and welfare result from inflated retail prices, over-investment in providing benefits to buyers, and excessive adoption of the intermediary's services. Competition among intermediaries... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 02 Sep 2015
    • What Do You Think?

    What's Wrong With Amazon’s Low-Retention HR Strategy?

    service for customers and long-term profits to patient investors but disappointment for some people who have gone to work there.  (In parlance that my co-authors and I used in a recent book that discusses Amazon, it still falls short of... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail; Retail; Retail; Retail; Retail
    • Web

    Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

    from Pension and Insurance companies. Regulatory changes are used to provide collaborating evidence that the curvature of the yield curve is shaped through this demand channel. Related Themes: Credit Markets, Size & Growth of the Financial Sector More Info Crisis of... View Details
    • 20 May 2014
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    First Look: May 20

    aimed at curbing the entry of large retail stores have been introduced in many countries to protect independent retailers. Analyzing a planning reform launched in the United Kingdom in the 1990s, I show that independent View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 01 Jun 2023
    • News

    Pet Project

    beginning was that the only way DTC physical goods make sense, as a venture-fundable, multiple-X return on your investment business, is if you can achieve the strong lifetime value (LTV) to customer-acquisition-cost (CAC) ratio that consumer View Details
    Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Miscellaneous Store Retailers