retail industry - Publications - Faculty & Research

February 2002 (Revised March 2004)
Case

Volvo Trucks (B): Acquisition of RVI

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Market Entry and Exit; Competitive Strategy; Five Forces Framework; Truck Transportation; Global Strategy; Globalized Markets and Industries; Manufacturing Industry; Manufacturing Industry; United States; Europe

Citation

Educators

Purchase

01 Dec 2005
News

Buy the Book

retailers (such as Wal-Mart and Costco) that only stock twenty or so bestsellers yet are responsible for 34 percent of book sales in the United States. “Something hits as a success and dominates the market,” Deighton comments. “It’s... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Market Research, Photo, Translation, Veterinary and Other Services; Professional Services

14 May 2008
Research & Ideas

Getting Down to the Business of Creativity

around the same time the industry in India was getting off the ground, other entities were being formed, such as fashion magazines, new kinds of retail outlets, and the National Institute of Fashion... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail; Retail; Retail; Retail

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Lehman Brothers - Introduction | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Introduction 1840s – 1880s General Merchants to Commodities Brokers 1880s – 1920s Investment Banking & Securities Underwriting 1920s – 1960s Investing in Emerging Industries 1850–1968 Lehman Brothers Family Partners 1960s – 2000s... View Details

14 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Rewriting the Rules of Service Competition

Editor's Note: Harvard Business School professors James Heskett, W. Earl Sasser, and Leonard A. Schlesinger literally wrote the book on service industry management with The Service Profit Chain. Now the trio is back with What Great... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett, W. Earl Sasser & Leonard A. Schlesinger; Retail

25 Aug 2022
News

Comfort Zone

comfortable, that task has to fall to the airports. “Travel was stressful already, and even more so after COVID. The airports need to respond by making this time as relaxing as possible,” says Fraser, who is also a trained architect, serves on View Details

01 Jun 2017
News

Streamlining the Supermarket

whom he’d known since high school. They were equally intrigued. “We thought, why don’t we use that technology to disrupt the grocery industry by bringing the same type of efficiencies to the supermarket?” Aguerrevere says. Last November,... View Details

Keywords: Francis Storrs

01 Mar 2012
News

Where Innovation Rules

computing to social impact bonds, from industrial robots to personal finance, from Internet retailing to Internet radio—a plethora of products and services that could well bear the stamp “Made by HBS.” View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg;Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Corporate Services; Educational Services; Management

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Student Clubs | MBA

Finance Club FinTech Club First Generation Students Club Food and Agriculture Club Football/Soccer Club Formula One Club French-Speaking Club Future of Mobility Future of Work Club G Gaming and Game Industry Club General Management &... View Details

15 Mar 2016
First Look

March 15, 2016

transparency and weak governance in resource rich countries. However, we document that industry self-regulation has generated information to substitute for the gap in voluntary company disclosure. We also find some evidence that these... View Details

02 Feb 2015
Research & Ideas

Disruptors Sell What Customers Want and Let Competitors Sell What They Don’t

Over the past two decades, entire industries have been disrupted by Internet competitors who "unbundled" their content and delivered it to consumers in new ways. Newspapers lost out to Google and Craigslist, record companies to iTunes and... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

15 Oct 2013
First Look

First Look: October 15

Retail Inventory: Managing the Canary in the Coal Mine! By: Gaur, Vishal, Saravanan Kesavan, and Ananth Raman Abstract—Retail inventory is a statistic that is closely watched by retailers as well as their... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 Mar 2015
First Look

First Look: March 10

introduces methods for increasing the efficiency of retail store liquidation, which we define as the time-constrained divestment of retail outlets through an in-store sale of inventory. The View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

16 May 2016
Blog Post

Career Resources for International Students

international students and the global job search outside of the U.S. While we are based in Boston, we continually build our global network of organizations that would like to hire HBS MBAs, from a mid-market private equity firm in Singapore, to tech start-up in Dubai,... View Details

22 Jan 2018
Blog Post

"Luxury, Technology, Integration"

managed to integrate the two in an industry characterized by heritage and craftsmanship, luxury goods. Since their inception, YOOX and Net-A-Porter revolutionized this space selling luxury and fashion products online, a business that was... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail

09 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Incentives and Operational Excellence

to customers but also a problem for both stores and studios. Studios sell videocassettes to video rental stores at forty-five dollars, which are then rented out for around four dollars. Tapes are disposed of for five dollars after three months, so the View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Leading with Creative Problem Solving: Ron Kurtz (MBA 1967) - Recruiting

Insights & Advice 10 Sep 2024 Leading with Creative Problem Solving: Ron Kurtz (MBA 1967) Ron Kurtz Author Alumni tag All Industries All Locations Alumni Student & Alumni Stories As a youngster, I used to create “stores” in my driveway,... View Details

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Career Journey | MBA

context. Job Locations Asia 5% Canada < 1% Europe 5% Latin America 1% Middle East / North Africa < 1% United States 88% Class of 2024 who actively sought and accepted full-time roles after graduation. Industry Consulting 18% Consumer... View Details

01 Mar 2019
News

Action Plan: Fruit of the Vine

built, even as she and her brothers look ahead. With ambitious plans for the future—including a combined public tasting room and retail outlet set to open in 2020—the next generation is finding ways to put their own stamp on the... View Details

Keywords: Ryan Jones

01 Dec 2006
News

2006 MBAs Go to Work

Western U.S. 18.1% (Bay Area: 10.4%) Central & Southwest U.S. 12.4% Southeast U.S. 5.1% Europe 8.7% Asia/South Pacific 4.8% Latin America 2.3% Other 3.2% Industry Choices Financial Services 41.6% (Investment Banking/Sales & Trading: 12%)... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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