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- 01 Dec 2010
- News
How to Survive Past Start-up
Art by Craig Frazier Related Links Alumni New Venture Contest Opens Webinar series (ongoing) Entrepreneurship at HBS (video) Harvard Launches Innovation Incubator Why is it that even when smart, educated, well-networked people launch new companies, a few strike gold,... View Details
- 07 Mar 2012
- News
Fashion Tech Startups Emerge from HBS
Keywords: online retail; online shopping; fashion; Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores
- 27 Jul 2023
- Blog Post
Buy Big, Sell Small
If you live in a rural village or small city in India and run low on toothpaste, rice, or cooking oil, you’ll likely visit your local kirana, the equivalent of a US neighborhood variety store and a mainstay of the country’s $932 billion... View Details
- 19 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018
million well-off shoppers and 463 grocery stores in key U.S. markets. Whole Foods could absorb Amazon’s technology and process expertise to modernize and reduce its operating costs, which were among the highest in the industry. For... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 3
Customers could pay to access the database for research, to create genetic tests, or for many other purposes. GenapSys would also build an online store with the genetic tests customers created. Esfandyarpour's and Rastegar's decision... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Oct 2013
- Op-Ed
Response to Readers: Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking
around shale gas and tight oil would allow the US access to such huge stores of secure, domestic energy so rapidly. Things change and often quickly. I think we all need to keep our minds open to change, while urgently pushing for... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
The Exchange: The Road Ahead for Crypto
So you need some people treating the currency as a store of value as well. And, incidentally, these sorts of dynamics don’t just play out with general-use cryptocurrencies. They also show up in individual tokens, like NFT projects. If a... View Details
- 17 Jun 2020
- News
Toronto Copes with COVID-19 Via Webinars; Alumni Respond to Pandemic in Philippines
store personnel.” Vicente Co (OPM 26) President, Philippine Plastic Industry Association “We converted our plastics plant into a manufacturing facility for Personal Protective Equipment (PPEs) and partnered with a logistics company to... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 25 Jul 2012
- News
Movie Magic
Kaplan: "Automated retail" dispenses movie magic. Photo courtesy Gregg Kaplan/Redbox If you’ve seen one at your local US grocery store, you know that “vending machine” is an inadequate description for Redbox, the sleek, red (of course) kiosks that dispense new-release... View Details
- 19 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 19, 2016
announced that it had passed Walmart in global sales to become the biggest retail platform in the world. To add to Walmart’s woes, in the United States traditional dollar discount stores and convenience outlets were gaining ground, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Where Does Apple Go From Here?
to shrink, with iPod and iTunes driving their current revenue growth. Q: What do you think of Apple's mall store retail strategy? A: I think of their retail strategy as part of their brand advertising. I guess I would say two things about... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 26
its stores and its supply chain, lower levels of greenhouse gas emissions, safer products for customers and manufacturers, and better treatment of its workers. The company promoted the idea that its size gave it significant influence in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Dec 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is Walmart Defying Economic Gravity?
earner happy to have the job ; and (2) wastage (that) seems to abound in the cavernous stores ." Cheri Thomas cited saturation of its markets, especially in the United States, as a concern, adding that "Walmart's fixation on low... View Details
- 21 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Are We Thinking Too Little, or Too Much?
still be stymied if they try to consider every single laptop on the market. (In the article, Norton and Ariely cite a study by social psychologists Sheena Iyengar and Mark Lepper, who showed that grocery store shoppers who were offered... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
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Related Resources - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center
years and played a key role in the development of marketing and retailing courses. The collection contains teaching records and includes memorandum, notes and lectures for such classes as Retail Distribution, Retail Store Management,... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Sister Soldier
like to travel to Syria? It becomes a home away from home, in its own way. You’re there every few months and you notice which stores and restaurants have opened or closed. You become connected to the feel and the smells. The book works to... View Details
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Oral Histories | Baker Library
she went on to get her Ed.D at Columbia University. She started her career in retail as a department store buyer, and has used her experiences to consult, teach, and write on career management issues. Betsy Jaffe also worked for Catalyst,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
A Life by Design
As a girl growing up in Riverdale, New York, Ivy Ross (PMD 68, 1994) was surrounded by modern design — and disliked it. The home she lived in and the furniture she sat on reflected the avant-garde sensibilities of her father, an industrial designer who worked for the... View Details
- 01 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 1, 2006
students to debate the company's concept, its strategic decision on how quickly it would like to grow, and some key decisions on its supply chain. At the time of the case (2006), small "mom-and-pop" stores still dominated Indian... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne