Retail Industry - Publications - Faculty & Research

12 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019

accessible corporate archives in most countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. It also permits a level of nuance that is hard to obtain even if written archives are accessible. Oral histories provide insights into why events did not occur as well as why companies... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

28 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Six Lessons from Mobile Money Ventures in Developing Countries

business strategy 101 for most entrepreneurs, so why have so many mobile money service offerings failed? It’s a question being studied by Rajiv Lal, the Stanley Roth, Sr. Professor of Retailing at Harvard Business School. “You would think... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services; Telecommunications

21 Nov 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53512 Online Network Revenue Management Using Thompson Sampling By: Ferreira, Kris Johnson, David Simchi-Levi, and He Wang Abstract—We consider a price-based network revenue management problem where a View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Riding the WAVE | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

percent have been placed in or found jobs in the retail and hospitality sectors, earning at least twice the minimum wage on average. By 2019, its target goal is to train 25,000 unemployed youth annually. “We want to write the playbook for... View Details

25 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 25

Grupo Beta San Miguel In November 2013, Dr. Jose Pinto, head of Grupo Beta San Miguel (BSM), Mexico's largest private sugar producer, is weighing the future prospects of the Mexican sugar industry as he considers whether BSM should bid on... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2015
Research & Ideas

What to Do When Your Organization Has Dueling Missions

$3.94 billion in sales from its more than 3,000 retail stores and its online auction site. Even so, Goodwill’s core mission is to provide job training and placement to people with disabilities, criminal backgrounds, and other challenges... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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Hiroshi Mikitani

When Hiroshi Mikitani decided, at age 31, to leave a good job at the Industrial Bank of Japan in Tokyo to start a company, he raised more than a few eyebrows. In Japanese culture, where the group is favored above the individual,... View Details

30 Jan 2012
Research & Ideas

Measuring the Efficacy of the World’s Managers

WMS site also features individual policy reports for manufacturing, education, health-care, and retail organizations, providing a management benchmark for executives in any of those fields. On average, based on the evaluation tool, the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

28 Mar 2018
News

Fueling the Future

said yes and immediately asked to also build an energy practice. “Oil prices were soaring, silicon prices were fluctuating, and solar and wind were huge topics at that time. I saw that as an opportunity,” she notes. “So I quickly got View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

15 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 15

controls, employment at target establishments declines 3% over two years post buyout and 6% over five years. The job losses are concentrated among public-to-private buyouts and transactions involving firms in the service and retail... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

04 Dec 2007
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First Look: December 4, 2007

retail outlets, such that stores with membership fees are more popular even when they offer the same goods at the same prices as stores without fees. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-029.pdf Dynamics of Platform... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

23 Oct 2019
News

A Bid for the Future

When Stephen Moret (MBA 2001) first read of Amazon’s search for a second headquarters in the Wall Street Journal, he was certain the newspaper had made a typo. The online retailer couldn’t be talking about creating 50,000 jobs. Moret’s... View Details

Keywords: Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Government

01 Oct 1997
News

Antitrust in Historical Perspective

within the same companies and as these companies grew ever larger. Wholesalers, who had long been powerful players in the American economy, began to see their functions made obsolete as big companies started marketing directly to retailers. View Details

Keywords: Thomas K. McCraw and Richard S. Tedlow

24 Jul 2018
Blog Post

The Global Classroom: From Boston to Jakarta

Stephanie Schwartz (MBA 2019) grew up in Michigan before attending the Ross School of Business at Michigan for her undergraduate degree in Business Administration. Prior to coming to HBS, Stephanie lived in New York City and worked in View Details

28 May 2019
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Ask the Expert: In Security

Illustration by Taylor Callery Remember a decade ago, when the main cybersecurity worry was a retail breach of credit card information? “Obviously that still happens,” says Chris Young (MBA 2003), CEO of the security software company... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; cybersecurity

31 Aug 2010
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First Look: August 31

otherwise dismal retail outlook in 2009. This case gives background pet retail industry information and strategic positioning information for both PetSmart and PETCO to enable... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

11 Jun 2018
Blog Post

Reimagining Fashion For The Good Of All

business school is the perfect one. Hence, my goal for the summer internship was to get out of my comfort zone and test the following hypothesis: Can I thrive in an unstructured, fairly chaotic environment? Is fashion the industry where I... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail

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Michael is interested in research at the intersection of technology and supply chain in corporations, especially retailers. His recent projects have focused on Human-AI collaboration at retailers. View Details

Keywords: Supply Chain Management; Supply Chain; Operations; AI and Machine Learning; Retail Industry