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- 04 May 2024
- News
This Fifth-Generation Department Store Is Winning the Luxury Game
- January 2025
- Supplement
Go Mobile: Aligning District Managers and Store Teams (B)
By: Tatiana Sandino and Samuel Grad
In January 2025, Modi reflects on the past decade of Go Mobile and looks ahead to new growth strategies. View Details
- 2014
- Book
Retail Revolution: Will Your Brick & Mortar Store Survive?
By: Rajiv Lal, Jose B. Alvarez and Dan Greenberg
In Retail Revolution, the authors go beyond the common belief of retail as a monolithic industry and provide a framework that any brick-and-mortar retailer can use to respond to the eCommerce threat. Through six examples, this book demonstrates how this... View Details
Keywords: Business Ventures; Internet and the Web; Marketing Strategy; Distribution Channels; Retail Industry
Lal, Rajiv, Jose B. Alvarez, and Dan Greenberg. Retail Revolution: Will Your Brick & Mortar Store Survive? Independently published, 2014.
- February 2001 (Revised December 2002)
- Case
Marshall Field and the Rise of the Department Store
By: Nancy F. Koehn
Analyzes Marshall Field's efforts to develop a market for mass retailing in late 19th-century Chicago. Examines Chicago's expansion in the 1860s and, within this context, how Field struck out on his own to, build a wholesale and retail business. Concentrates on the... View Details
Keywords: Fluctuation; Industry Growth; Corporate Strategy; Entrepreneurship; Brands and Branding; Society; Distribution Industry; Retail Industry; Chicago
Koehn, Nancy F. "Marshall Field and the Rise of the Department Store." Harvard Business School Case 801-349, February 2001. (Revised December 2002.)
- April 1991
- Teaching Note
Danton's: The Specialty Store Men's Apparel Business, Teaching Note
By: Walter J. Salmon
Keywords: Apparel and Accessories Industry
- 28 Jul 2010
- News
It is not easy to compete with kirana stores
- 23 Mar 2022
- News
Online Brands Try a Traditional Marketing Strategy: Physical Stores
- 27 Apr 2018
- News
Bookstores growing as country celebrates Independent Book Store Day
- 24 Mar 2019
- News
Instacart Exec Fell in Love with Grocery Stores Early
Organizational Design and Control Across Multiple Markets: The Case of Franchising in the Convenience Store Industry
Many companies operate units that are dispersed across different types of markets, serving significantly diverging customer bases. Such dispersion is likely to compromise headquarters' ability to control local managers' behavior and satisfy the needs of different... View Details
- January 2021
- Teaching Plan
Loss Prevention at Mac's Convenience Stores (A) and (B)
By: Francesca Gino, Katherine DeCelles and Olivia Hull
- April 2009 (Revised March 2013)
- Case
Lawson: Becoming the Community Store of 9,000 Japanese Communities
By: Linda A. Hill, Francisco de Asis Martinez-Jerez, Masako Egawa, Emily Stecker and Mayuka Yamazaki
Hill, Linda A., Francisco de Asis Martinez-Jerez, Masako Egawa, Emily Stecker, and Mayuka Yamazaki. "Lawson: Becoming the Community Store of 9,000 Japanese Communities." Harvard Business School Case 409-112, April 2009. (Revised March 2013.)
- February 2001 (Revised September 2002)
- Teaching Note
Marshall Field and the Rise of the Department Store TN
By: Nancy F. Koehn and William Grundy
Teaching Note for (9-801-349). View Details
- December 1991 (Revised March 1995)
- Teaching Note
Private Label at Dayton Hudson Department Store Co., Teaching Note
By: Walter J. Salmon
- June 2020 (Revised August 2020)
- Case
Majid Al Futtaim Retail Geographic Expansion: Brick or Click?
By: Juan Alcácer and Alpana Thapar
This case illustrates the challenges that retailers face when they aggressively pursue geographical growth by expanding both their physical store network and their online presence. It features Majid Al Futtaim (MAF) Retail, a franchisee of Carrefour hypermarkets in the... View Details
Keywords: Stores; Ecommerce; Strategy; Expansion; Geographic Location; Decision Making; Internet and the Web; Digital Transformation; E-commerce; Retail Industry; Middle East
Alcácer, Juan, and Alpana Thapar. "Majid Al Futtaim Retail Geographic Expansion: Brick or Click?" Harvard Business School Case 720-482, June 2020. (Revised August 2020.)
- fall 2007
- Article
Store Manager Incentive Design and Retail Performance: An Exploratory Investigation
By: Nicole DeHoratius and Ananth Raman
DeHoratius, Nicole, and Ananth Raman. "Store Manager Incentive Design and Retail Performance: An Exploratory Investigation." Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 9, no. 4 (fall 2007).
- September 1990 (Revised July 1992)
- Case
May Department Stores Co.: David Farrell's Search for Retailing Excellence
Pearson, Andrall E. "May Department Stores Co.: David Farrell's Search for Retailing Excellence." Harvard Business School Case 391-015, September 1990. (Revised July 1992.)
- 19 Nov 2009
- News
Buyer Beware: Holiday 'Must Haves' Could Fly Off Store Shelves
- 20 Mar 2020
- News
How grocery stores restock shelves in the age of coronavirus
- Research Summary
Bricks and Clicks: The Effect of Store Assortment on E-tail Format (with R. Lal and E. Ofek)
An often neglected aspect in existing studies of the Internet selling process is the high volume of product returns. Such returns reflect a major logistic expenditure on behalf of companies that sell over the net. The problem is reduced when consumers shop in physical... View Details