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- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
dollar stores to online retailers. What should Wal-Mart do as its traditional markets and core competencies no longer ensured the kind of growth that it had enjoyed for decades in the past? Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
expensive infrastructure we cannot afford. How will we tackle the large-scale changes necessary to reinvent our communities? Physical infrastructure needs a massive overhaul. We must give people the opportunity to be able to walk to View Details
- 19 May 2022
- News
Leading to Salvation
don’t lend money to pay taxes. And they did that. Then we worked out an arrangement with the county where they could pay it over a five-year period. And so they did that. Hennepin County spent $6 million and bought a piece of land across the street. They did all the... View Details
- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
work for CET. “I never feel like I’m working for them,” she says, as we walk in Old Havana, streets awash with uniformed school children and shoppers visiting state stores for rationed food staples and licensed farmer’s markets. “I feel... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Class Acts
their reliability, previous business experience, and bid amount. The duo then went about improving the business, which had three on-campus stores that offered laundry, dry cleaning, and alterations to the HBS community, ultimately... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
New Horizons for Iraq
returning to homeport in Everett, Washington, after a sixmonth deployment, and our stores were almost down to zero. Then, on New Year’s Day 2003, the ship’s admiral announced that the President had asked us to go back to the Persian Gulf.... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
retail store allow her to feed her family, gain equity, and send her children to school. (Carielle Doe/Mercy Corps) McKenna had followed the story as it unfolded in the news. She had long admired the work of Mercy Corps, especially during... View Details
- 21 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Fighting the COVID Blues: Advice from Business Research
boundaries around their workday. “When people typically arrive home from work, they often have a corner or a mudroom where they drop their stuff,” Norton says. “Now many people have work all over the place.” He advises storing laptops and... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman and Danielle Kost
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
leading apparel maker Liz Claiborne Inc. (LC) were coming off a sixteen-year high that had begun to wane in 1992. A combination of factors — the national recession, weak spending on women's apparel, increased competition, department View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 24 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 24
this paper we theorize effects of using the knowledge stored in an organizational repository on performance for teams working in dynamic and challenging conditions. We first examine performance effects of team use, a construct assessed by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 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
- 28 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018
maintaining a high level of exploration. Solutions improved most on rounds with social influence after a period of separation. We also show that storing subjects’ best solutions so that they could be reloaded and possibly modified in... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 27 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 27, 2007
has quality variations, reducing consumption. Five independent growers formed a cooperative to provide quality control and a brand name—Ripe 'N Ready—that enabled retailers to differentiate their stores and producers to differentiate the... 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
- 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