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- 11 Mar 2021
- News
Leading with Heart
maybe 10,000, 15,000 people. And a third example, I think is ... And I have to tell you this, this kind of really impacted me. I felt terrible and responsible for the 37,000 people. And I was asking myself, "So how do we do it in a way that softens the blow?" I reached... View Details
- 28 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
Eyes Shut: The Consequences of Not Noticing
shopped at Walmart at least once or twice, and you likely are aware of their "Everyday low prices" tagline. Have you ever thought about the connection between their everyday low prices and the safety of the products View Details
Anthony Soohoo
he has helped enterprises embrace technology and thrive against both incumbents and new disruptive competitors. Anthony was most recently an Executive Vice President at Walmart where he was responsible for the multi-billion dollar home... View Details
- 10 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Winners and Losers in the Retail Revolution
provides a wide array of in-aisle treats and accessories to drive impulse purchases. At the same time, they've maintained a strategy of exclusivity with pet food so that they are not stocking all of the same items that Walmart and the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Inside the Bestseller List with Neil Pasricha
Neil Pasricha (MBA 2007) (photo via LinkedIn) Neil Pasricha (MBA 2007) (photo via LinkedIn) Neil Pasricha (MBA 2007) didn’t plan to become a writer. He was happy in his role as director of leadership development at Walmart Canada. But the... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 19 Feb 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
Amazoned: Is Any Industry Safe?
obvious—igniting a revolution in retail—to the more subtle—how Amazon's web development services resulted in more startups receiving VC funding. What will be the next shoe to fall? Can Amazon Do What Walmart Couldn’t, Stop the 'Wheel of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- What Do You Think?
Will Challenged Amazon Tweak Its Retail Model Post-Pandemic?
items. Meanwhile, Target and Walmart smartly deployed their formidable power over suppliers and the more than 7,000 large format retail stores between them to out-compete and out serve Amazon’s fewer than 200 North American fulfillment... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Reinventing perceptions of Africa through wine
winery Seven Sisters, produced the first South African wine served on American Airlines. The South African government helped to negotiate a land purchase for Seven Sisters, which, until that point, owned no vineyards and had to contract farmers and a winery to grow... View Details
- 13 Nov 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, November 13, 2018
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54793 Harvard Business School Case 418-026 Babcom: Opening Doors No abstract available. Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/418026-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 718-431 The Rise and Rise (?) of... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
2017 in Retail: Voice-Activated, One-Hour-Delivery Shopping
devices. And this year, we started using our voice to shop. Amazon launched that trend with Alexa, and recently Google and Walmart announced they are teaming up to do the same thing. We are in the early days of this digital commerce—it... View Details
- 13 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
3 Ways Firms Can Profit From Environmental Investments
In the course of her work, Rebecca Henderson meets business executives who don't address the threat of climate change because they don't believe that it exists. Her recommendation: They should consider investments in environmental sustainability anyway, assuming that... View Details
- Career Coach
Kelsey Holland
Kelsey an email. Work Experience: Product @ One Kings Lan, Jet.com, Corporate Venture and M&A @ Walmart / Store No. 8, Launching new ventures @ Equinox, and Chief Digital Officer @ Made by Nacho View Details
- 01 Jul 2021
- Office Hours
Readers Ask: Which Companies Are Transforming Work?
affected by COVID positively—namely, Walmart and Amazon. "I know those are not always companies that people view favorably in terms of work, but in the last 10 years, Walmart has been an amazing innovator in... View Details
- 19 Nov 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
E-Santa: Is Retail Ready for Digital Christmas?
brick-and-mortar shops: Shove your best deals to the back of the store. Should Retailers Match Their Own Prices Online and in Stores? For multichannel retailers, pricing strategy can be difficult to execute and confusing to shoppers. Can Amazon Do What View Details
- 18 Feb 2021
- News
Jumping In, Fighting Bias
to leadership roles at Quidsi, Jet.com, and Walmart. “My gender, ethnicity and faith compelled me to be ambitious in a way that I don’t know if I otherwise would have been,” Balbale told the Wall Street Journal. Last June, Balbale left her position at View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
It’s a Small World
now, with the past few years having been so all-consuming, Pasricha is happy to slow down a bit, focus on his day job—he’s an executive at Walmart Canada—and devote more time to the awesome things in life. View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Agenda: Amanda E/J Morrison (MBA 2014)
RIPPLE EFFECT “A woman gets a period around age 12 to 14, and then we tell her to go off in the world and not get pregnant.” “A woman gets a period around age 12 to 14, and then we tell her to go off in the world and not get pregnant.” For 15 years, the morning-after... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Action Plan: Whole Sale
Jet.com, and then, when Walmart acquired the young company, as vice president and general manager of the retail giant’s health and beauty e-commerce business. In that role, he saw the potential for the beauty category to be a pioneer of... View Details
- 15 Feb 2000
- Lessons from the Classroom
Delivering Information Services: A 30-Year Perspective
Nolan: H.E. Butt, as we learn, was not taking full advantage of the information gleaned from its scanning technology, as Walmart does. Walmart has built a huge database from which it can identify right down... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 02 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
Digital Initiative Summit: Big Messages, Small Screens, Many Choices
doing mobile video, we saw that the ads need to be shorter to get people to the content," he said. Asked about the shortest advertisement to appear before a video on Twitter Amplify, Brown cited a one-second holiday-themed ad in which an elf briefly dangled in front of... View Details