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- 18 Apr 2005
- Research & Ideas
Tips to Reinvent the Department Store
balance of power between stores and vendors who provide them with merchandise. "I think obviously the power should be shifting to the retailer," Petsch answered. He believes that with the pricing leverage already being exercised by View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Patrick Moreton
it’s a balancing act? Yes, and it continues to this day. In the media industry, I think we’re seeing something like the Wal-Mart effect on small rural communities. Consumers love Wal-Mart’s low prices and its one-stop shopping. At the... View Details
- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Great American Leaders Teach Us
Are there certain characteristics that all leaders possess? Could Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton be equally successful today running another company? Harvard Business School's Leadership Initiative is attempting to answer these and other... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 08 May 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Cost of Cutting in Line
show, for example, that companies must not try to buy local approval if they plan to open a new facility that the local community does not welcome. If Wal-Mart plans to open a new store and the town does not like it, the worst thing the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Cleveland Global Alumni Conference a Sold-Out Success
lunchtime address peppered with anecdotes and one-liners, Cleveland native Tom Coughlin returned to his hometown to share some of his insights as president and CEO of Wal-Mart Stores Division. When he joined the company in 1978, Coughlin... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Your Taxi Is Waiting
Ronald Cohen (MBA ’69). The pair first learned of the VLJ opportunity as second-year students and partnered on a six-month field study with the supervision of former HBS faculty member John Wells to study the efficiencies that Wal-Mart... View Details
- 10 Nov 2008
- Research Event
Social Media Leads the Future of Technology
number of which offer Internet access. What these statistics suggest is that "the most precious currency today is information," said panelist Jim Breyer, an early investor in Facebook and a director of Wal-Mart Stores.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
arrival of large multinational competitors such as Wal-Mart and Carrefour. The SOEs in particular are feeling threatened. Of the 100,000 that remain, experts maintain that many are near bankruptcy and not prepared to compete head-to-head... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
One-on-One with Carter Roberts
sustainable use of resources. Wal-Mart, for example, just committed to buy seafood only from MSC-certified fisheries. This decision has rocked the industry because Wal-Mart is the second-largest buyer of fish in the United States. We’re... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Globalization Revisited
Salmon. The authors examined the overseas experience of retail giants Carrefour (France), Wal-Mart (U.S.A.), and Royal Ahold (the Netherlands). Occupied with their enormous domestic market, many American companies, like Wal-Mart, tend to... View Details
- 07 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Whatever Happened to Caveat Emptor?
haggling in the market is not for the fainthearted. Few of us would want to return to the world of traditional unregulated consumer markets. But we pay for the convenience of Wal-Mart or Carrefour with a loss of social fabric. Q: Although... View Details
- 21 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The New Math of Customer Relationships
local cultural practices. Early morning group exercises for employees are the Chinese equivalent in some ways to the daily shift huddles at Build-A-Bear Workshop in the United States. Companies like Wal-Mart and UPS have been able, over... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
The Class of 1977
couple of decades. But the transformation only really hits home when you begin to recall the details of the 1977 business landscape. Sears was where America shopped, as was Montgomery Ward and W.T. Grant. Wal-Mart was nowhere on our radar... View Details
Keywords: Desmond Wong
- 11 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 11
revenues, it was still the biggest CE retailer, but sales were flat and profits had collapsed. Meanwhile, Amazon's sales in Best Buy's categories were growing at more than 50% p.a. and its total sales, at $48 billion, were approaching those of Best Buy. As View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
In Praise of Marketing
Second, the ambitions of American inventors and entrepreneurs demanded the broadest possible distribution. The Wal-Mart mission, for example, is to lower the cost of living for everyone everywhere. Third, American society was open to... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
All in the Family
Davis, has only been formally studied by business schools in the last twenty years. That may not seem so remarkable until you realize that "family businesses" include not just the mom-and-pop store on the corner but also the likes of multibillion-dollar corporations... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 23 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Drive to Acquire’s Impact on Globalization
and switching to Chinese firms. Wal-Mart has even hired the owners or managers of its abandoned U.S. suppliers to teach their efficient methods to the Chinese. As a result, many Americans have lost their manufacturing jobs and often have... View Details
Keywords: by Paul R. Lawrence
- 19 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
How Mercadona Fixes Retail’s ’Last 10 Yards’ Problem
Home Depot service at Wal-Mart prices? "For years, I have been preaching that retailers need to invest more in their store processes and in store labor to improve operations," says Ton. "Many retailers tend to overlook... View Details
- 17 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why E-commerce Didn’t Die With the Fall of Webvan
market because we don't have any national supermarket chains. Except for Wal-Mart. That's a very interesting story in itself. Wal-Mart is, I think, the number five grocery retailer in the United States. The great advantage it has is that... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
One-on-One with Jim Breyer
years later, he’s still at Accel and can lay claim to one of the most storied careers in the venture industry: 25 companies that have completed IPOs or successful mergers; directorships with Wal-Mart Stores, Marvel Entertainment, and... View Details