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- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
Earth Day focuses the world's attention on the both the dangers and opportunities facing the planet. But sustainability and the intersection between business and the environment are issues that need to be addressed all the time, as cities grow, resources diminish, and... 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
- 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
- 23 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018
We show that, on average, the tournament incentive plan was associated with improved store sales. We also find that such plans can be more beneficial for geographically distant participants, where the potential for improving alignment is... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017
objective criteria or on subjectivity unrelated to the stated criteria. On average, the tournament incentive plan was associated with improved store sales. We also find that such plans can be more beneficial for geographically isolated... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Dec 2017
- News
Skydeck Live: What Really Motivates American Voters?
brother-in-law who runs a clothing store downtown or whatever. I really respect that kind of person. But it was a really short list. People who are not in business, they don't read about business. They don't have those same kinds of... View Details
- 15 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: January 15
apparel market, the company started to face intense competition from small and large Indian and foreign retailers. The company's chairman, Dr. Nalli Kuppusamy Chetty, announced a $25 million expansion plan and proposed the opening of 12 new View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 8, 2016
because Patagonia was a private company. The Tompkins dual strategy of exit from business and application of entrepreneurial skills to conservation resulted in large environmental gains, including sequestering and storing an estimated 80... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 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
- 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
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This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... 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
- 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
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
identify the game's new rules and players and switch gears ASAP. Bennie Wiley (MBA 1972), principal, Wiley Group, Brookline, Massachusetts One of my favorite ventures was a toy store I created on Martha's Vineyard. I loved everything... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
From social media to the grocery store to the corner office and all the way to the stratosphere, the research and entrepreneurial adventures HBS faculty, doctoral students and alumni undertook this year have changed the way we understand... View Details
- Web
Past Issues - Alumni
disguise. Eric Schiffer CEO, 99¢ Only Stores Sole Mates At any given moment around the world, some twenty countries and territories are likely to be populated by just one HBS graduate. The Bulletin recently checked in with several such... View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
temporarily revamped its business model to distribute emergency food bags, family resource and learning kits, and book bags each week. Working in a community with sparse e-learning options and grocery stores that is suffering from heavy... View Details