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- 07 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
Why Online Retailers Should Hide Their Best Discounts
New advice for online retailers suggests bargain items should not be too easy for shoppers to find. (Matjaz Slanic) Retailers have long known where to put the bargain bin—in the back of the store, where... View Details
- 25 Aug 2018
- News
Growth of online retail is changing inflation
- 17 Feb 2015
- News
White-out conditions mean retail blues in New England
- 04 Mar 2015
- News
Retail Reaches a Tipping Point—Which Stores Will Survive?
- Fast Answer
Sustainability in CPG and Retail
2018: Companies must collaborate across the value chain to improve sustainability. Fashion’s new must-have: Sustainable sourcing at scale. McKinsey, October 2019. Highlights the sustainable sourcing targets View Details
- 02 Mar 2015
Retail Sector at HBS Webinar
This webinar will provide an overview of the resources available at HBS to students coming from (or who are interested in pursuing a career in) the retail sector. A member of our Career and Professional Development Office will review... View Details
- December 1981 (Revised October 1985)
- Case
Computer Retailing at Macy's California
By: Hirotaka Takeuchi
Takeuchi, Hirotaka. "Computer Retailing at Macy's California." Harvard Business School Case 582-079, December 1981. (Revised October 1985.)
- 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.
- 01 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Retail Execs Underplay Current Performance to Investors--but Why?
Retail executives aren’t always giving stockholders the straight scoop about the financial standing of their companies in comments around earnings announcements—and some may be providing misleading information, potentially for their own... View Details
- 22 Feb 2016
Retail Sector at HBS Webinar
This webinar will provide an overview of the resources available to students coming from (or who are interested in pursuing a career in) the Retail sector. It will include a brief presentation followed by a current student panel... View Details
- January 2011
- Teaching Note
Online Pet Supply Retailing (TN)
By: Tom Nicholas
Teaching Note for 809-117. View Details
- October 2010
- Exercise
Investor Meets Calendar Retailer (AMP)
By: Ananth Raman, Vishal Gaur and Richard Lai
- 10 Jan 2020
- Blog Post
Know Your Audience - Recruiting HBS Students for Retail
Director and Career Coach Renee Pappastratis – Recruiting Relations Manager Together, Laurie and Renee manage relationships with retailers interested in recruiting HBS students to join their teams. Their combined expertise in the student... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
- 10 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Winners and Losers in the Retail Revolution
The new book Retail Revolution: Will Your Brick-and-Mortar Store Survive? lays out the thesis that traditional store-front retailing is at an inflection point, under tremendous pressure from ecommerce and... View Details
- fall 1991
- Article
Restoring Credibility to Retail Pricing
By: G. K. Ortmeyer, J. A. Quelch and W. J. Salmon
Ortmeyer, G. K., J. A. Quelch, and W. J. Salmon. "Restoring Credibility to Retail Pricing." MIT Sloan Management Review 33, no. 1 (fall 1991): 55–66.
- 15 Jan 2019
- Blog Post
Interning in the Retail Sector
Jasmyn Beausejour, MBA 2019, describes his summer at Wayfair. As a native from Montreal and having worked in management consulting, Jasmyn was excited by the opportunity to analyze Wayfair’s expansion and segmentation into the Canadian market. His role pivoted from... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
- May 2007 (Revised May 2008)
- Teaching Note
CEMEX: Rewarding Egyptian Retailers (TN)
By: Francisco de Asis Martinez-Jerez
Teaching note to 106065. View Details
- March 2006 (Revised January 2011)
- Case
CEMEX: Rewarding the Egyptian Retailers
CEMEX has pursued an aggressive decommoditization strategy focused on its relationship with small Egyptian retailers. In particular, the strategic role and effectiveness of the Rewards Program, a tournament that rewarded the sales performance of the retailers, was... View Details
Keywords: Marketing Strategy; Performance Improvement; Sales; Motivation and Incentives; Construction Industry; Egypt
Martinez-Jerez, Francisco de Asis, Joshua Bellin, and Carole Winkler. "CEMEX: Rewarding the Egyptian Retailers." Harvard Business School Case 106-065, March 2006. (Revised January 2011.)
- March 1979 (Revised June 1983)
- Case
Microwave Ovens: The Retail Brands
Buzzell, Robert D. "Microwave Ovens: The Retail Brands." Harvard Business School Case 579-186, March 1979. (Revised June 1983.)
- January–February 2000
- Article
Patterns of Disruption in Retailing
By: Clayton M. Christensen and R. S. Tedlow
Christensen, Clayton M., and R. S. Tedlow. "Patterns of Disruption in Retailing." Harvard Business Review 78, no. 1 (January–February 2000): 42–45.