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- 24 Nov 2015
- Research & Ideas
Developing Your Next CEO for the Family Business
industry, such changes are more common. The Family Outsider Family Outsiders who make good CEO candidates can be entrepreneurs like Alejandro Birman, whose startup was so successful that it added more than $200 million to the sales of his family’s View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
A World of Difference
understand them instead of trying to guess their feelings. Frei: Or, in our language, “center” on them. Putting yourself in someone else’s shoes might be a natural instinct for someone trying to understand a person who is different than... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 19 Oct 2021
- Research & Ideas
Fed Up Workers and Supply Woes: What's Next for Dollar Stores?
publicly in their last earnings call that they’re not getting the shoes that they need. Vietnam is a major source for footwear and garments. Southeast Asia and China are a major source for toys. If you think about all the... View Details
- 14 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
Understaffed and Overworked: What Now?
for the next shoe to drop," Zimmerman notes. "Worse, many have buried their heads in the sand like ostriches. When you do that, another part of your anatomy is uncovered." View Details
Keywords: by Paul Michelman
- 10 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Retailing Revolution: Category Killers on the Brink
example, the success of Gilt Groupe and other high-fashion flash sale sites has proven that younger shoppers are willing to buy these categories online. They are also comfortable purchasing high-fashion designer shoes on the web, given... View Details
- 09 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Leadership Lessons of the Great Recession: Options for Economic Downturns
performance during a recovery” A search for leaders who have taken alternative approaches to managing their workforce during economic downturns led us to Honeywell CEO Dave Cote, and drives the narrative of our new case study, Honeywell and the Great Recession. The... View Details
- Web
Frequently Asked Questions | HBS Online
to let you step into the shoes of decision-makers, gain insight into your leadership style, and practice techniques taught in the course. In these exercises, you'll have an opportunity to watch and reflect on your approach. For some of... View Details
- Blog
What Black Executives Really Want
say, "Yes, my company is trying, but ." This was one of the most emotional research projects I have ever done. I rarely tear up in an interview. But on multiple occasions, I really had tears in my eyes hearing people's stories. It was amazing. I tried to walk in other... View Details
Ward Melville
After mass-producing shoes for soldiers in World War I, Melville and an associate opened Thom McAn’s in New York as a low cost, high quality shoe retailer. The chain eventually encompassed over 1,200 stores.... View Details
Keywords: Retail
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Booting Up
SELLING SHOES on the Internet was pretty far from Barbara Thornton's mind when she enrolled at HBS at the age of 45. The city planner and international consultant figured that opening power plants in Southeast Asia would best challenge... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
Sidney W. Winslow
With the insight he gained while working in his father’s shoe factory, Winslow started his first shoe machine company in 1893, producing leather-buffing machines. With the profits from this business, Winslow... View Details
Keywords: Fabric & Apparel
George F. Johnson
Johnson built a successful shoe company, but his most striking contributions to American capitalism were the progressive labor policies introduced at Endicott-Johnson. His company was the first in the shoe... View Details
Keywords: Fabric & Apparel
Sidney W. Winslow, Jr.
Following the death of his father, Sidney Winslow Jr. took an increasingly important role in the family company, which had been consolidated into the holding company, United Shoe Machinery Corporation. Winslow went on to expand the... View Details
Keywords: Fabric & Apparel
Paul Fireman
By successfully tapping the market for women’s “fashionable” athletic shoes during the nation’s aerobics craze, Fireman took Reebok from $13 million in sales in 1983 to $1.4 billion in sales just five years later. In 1986, Reebok overtook... View Details
Keywords: Fabric & Apparel
- 08 May 2019
- Blog Post
Discover the Case Method
of learning, and the real-world application. Professor Bob White leads the discussion and shares his perspective on how faculty approaches multiple cases a day. View Video Where it All Began Putting yourself in the shoes of the case... View Details
- Profile
Jeremy Burnham
information.” Out of the comfort zone and into...shoes “Limited information” would be understating the situation Jeremy and his team faced on their FIELD 2 mission to Buenos Aries, Argentina, where the six HBS colleagues were assigned to help Paez, a small View Details
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From Inquiry to Action | Baker Library
profession—and the teaching of management—were new. The General Shoe Company, 1921 The Bureau of Business Research was founded as the research division of HBS under Dean Gay. The Bureau’s first case study, "The General View Details
- Profile
Whitney Wilson
business idea centered on high-end shoes for the female professional. “Heels wear down fast,” she explains. “I was spending $200 to $300 for shoes that wore down in a month. Our business would design View Details
- 20 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
Globalization Hasn’t Killed the Manufacturing Cluster
clusters," Pisano says. "What we came to is it really depends. It's not all or one." The four clusters used in the field study had differing fates. Two—sports shoes and wooden chairs—declined while the other two—high-end women's View Details
- 24 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
Managing Alignment as a Process
standard for workers in construction, farming, and other professions that require strenuous outdoor labor. SMI built a successful national sales base from its headquarters in Massachusetts by establishing channels with large department and specialty View Details