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- 20 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 20
Target's general merchandise stores outweigh the associated challenges? Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/510016-PDF-ENG Vale: Global Expansion in the Challenging World of Mining Tarun Khanna, Aldo Musacchio, and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Mar 2023
- News
Supporting Earthquake Victims in Turkey and Syria
the disaster. “Anadolu Group companies have factories, farms, warehouses, stores and a wide network of dealers, suppliers and business partners in the earthquake area,” noted Yazici. “Our first task was to reach our employees and all our... View Details
- 03 Mar 2020
- News
Can This Man Change the American Diet?
sometimes bends the truth to its advantage. Ayr: If you just ask somebody a question about food, and what their perception is and then the reality of the answer. And in our industry that gap is just so large and it’s deliberate, it’s created that way. You go to buy... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Keepers of the Flame
is the prestige and favorable reputation the Games will create for Atlanta and the Southeast," says Frazier. "It will influence people's thinking in terms of where they will choose to locate a business or make an investment." But with so much excitement, pageantry, and... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
$how Me the Money
auto-parts store to buy a new battery. The salesperson offers you a new battery with a receipt for $55, or the same battery with no receipt for $25. Which do you take? The Old Shell Game: How Do They Do That? When unaffiliated companies... View Details
- 10 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Is Groupon Good for Retailers?
higher cost of goods sold, giving them less room to discount. And if they don't sell a product one day, they can hold it in inventory for future sale. So marginal business is less urgent for them. We're not prepared to say Gap's Groupon was a mistake. Getting customers... View Details
- 25 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 25, 2008
introducing retail inventory management, including cost optimization, service-level criteria, and forecasting in single and multiproduct settings. The owner of a single-location paper and paper products store considers the implications of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Post-Office
thought about this. For the asynchronous work, we’ve used our own SaaS product, Stack Overflow for Teams, which allows us to break down silos, store evergreen knowledge internally and share information on the latest products.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Life Lessons
Fertility, a company that is developing medical options to prolong women’s fertility, primarily by freezing viable eggs and storing them for later use. While some may feel uncomfortable with the idea, Jones sees her work as a way to... View Details
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
Caravia—a store remodel that includes a new seating area, for example, or sales and marketing efforts such as branded merchandise and an increased social media presence. Caravia is a sanctuary of sorts, a space where Cognetti can recharge... View Details
- 24 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 24, 2007
being only one of three retailers to outperform Wal-Mart in both revenue and profit growth in that time. Life in a Dollar General store paints a vivid picture of the roots and historical focus of the company. Opportunistic buying has... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
Ngwe, Donald, Kris J. Ferreira, and Thales Teixeira Abstract— Many online stores are designed such that shoppers can easily access any available discounted products. We propose that deliberately increasing search frictions by placing... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 2
was called the Knowledge Management (KM) Appliance, but as Web 2.0 tools came into wider use, this evolved into what the company called "Cognizant 2.0" (C2), which was designed to ensure that the KM Appliance capabilities for View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Times Captures History of American Business
stores and shopping on the Internet. His column takes as its springboard the phenomenon of outlet shopping for entertainment. In fact, the growth and development of the New York Times itself makes for a fascinating business story. As... View Details
- 13 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 13, 2009
thriving economic engine for blacks. With a vision of economic self-sufficiency, she established a newspaper in 1902, chartered the St. Luke Penny Savings Bank in 1903, becoming the first woman bank president in the United States, and opened a View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Aug 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
transformative also make it fiendishly difficult to implement—and almost impossible for anyone but professional physicists to fully understand. The bits that classical computers use to store data and perform calculations have only two... View Details
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
multiuse retail/coworking/residential spaces. Marietta also tirelessly coaches local business owners and entrepreneurs, advising the owner of a crafts store in downtown Harlan on payroll management one day and helping a local high school... View Details
- 21 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 21
ever-growing e-commerce site, and fierce competition, Amoruso wondered what opportunity to tackle next. Should she concentrate on product line expansion into lingerie, swimwear, cosmetics, and fragrances? How would a brick and mortar View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2013
- Op-Ed
Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In
York, Los Angeles, and Denver have worked with private partners to emphasize public transportation and start to de-emphasize single-driver cars. Despite obvious obstacles (e.g., you live in a suburb or own a store that can be accessed... View Details
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Art Nature Business
image of MacArthur Park in Los Angeles. Then, working with a vast archive of digital copies of woodgrain veneers purchased from hardware stores in different countries, he creates a collaged image of that place, fragment by fragment. While... View Details