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- 17 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
Amazon, Whole Foods Deal a Big Win for Consumers
Source: 400tmax Editor's Note. Online retailing behemoth Amazon announced June 16 that it would acquire upscale grocery chain Whole Foods Market in a deal valued at more than $13 billion. Though the company has dabbled with the idea of a brick-and-mortar footprint in... View Details
- 09 Dec 2019
- Research & Ideas
Identify Great Customers from Their First Purchase
Testing data on 13,000 shoppers To show how the model works, Ascarza and Padilla fed it some customer data supplied by an international retailer that sells its own brand of beauty products exclusively in its stores and on its website.... View Details
- 09 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Organizations
balancing the acquisitive and bonding drives sets up the second guiding principle for the leader: such a balance needs to be struck in every key relationship in the firm—within each primary work group, between all primary groups that are... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Lawrence & Nitin Nohria
- 25 Apr 2024
- News
Origin Stories
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Where we come from and how we were raised has a profound effect on who we become. The recipients of this year’s Alumni Achievement Award grew up... View Details
- 22 Aug 2022
- Research & Ideas
Can Amazon Remake Health Care?
at Harvard Kennedy School. Chandra spoke to the Gazette about Amazon’s latest gamble and what it may mean for consumers. Harvard Gazette: Given the size of its investment, what could Amazon’s recent acquisition of One Medical mean for the... View Details
- 05 Feb 2019
- News
The First Five Years: Karan Shah (MBA 2016)
vehicles in the long term.” What are your short- and long-term goals for this work? “In the short term, I am working on integrating our latest acquisitions into the PCL group, introducing new products into our existing setup, establishing... View Details
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Judges - Alumni
with a strong focus on beauty and personal care, health and wellness, e-commerce, and creators. She founded CXT Investments in 2016 to support purpose-driven entrepreneurs building the next generation of great consumer companies, including View Details
- 10 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
Globalization: The Strategy of Differences
acquisitions to build up scale because, for the leading global competitors, an R&D-to-sales ratio of at least 8 percent represented a significant source of scale economies. But he also implemented a production strategy that was... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Breaking News
the Colorado Sun. The acquisition was backed by a mix of national and local impact investors. “While impact capital has made a huge difference in other social-problem areas, there has been no front door for impact capital in the news... View Details
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Courses by Faculty Unit - Course Catalog
Raymond Kluender Spring 2026 Q3 1.5 Field Course: Entrepreneurship through Acquisition (Application Only) Richard Ruback Royce Yudkoff Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0 Field Course: Field X (also listed under Entrepreneurial Management) Randolph... View Details
- 25 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 25
their career, want to run their own companies. This note looks at the funded search as a means to entrepreneurship through acquisition and describes the path to buy and run a business using debt and equity as a means of financing the... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
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Harvard Business School
president of Bestfoods, where was responsible for commercial management of branded food products (Knorr, Hellmann's, Mazola). He went on to help lead the turnaround of the Home & Office Papers division of International Paper. Vernon... View Details
- 30 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Upside of Highlighting a Product's Downsides
Administration. “Those who choose the offering will engage with it more.” Equally important, the researchers found that in this context, identifying negatives prominently had an “insignificant effect” on customer acquisition rates.... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 18 Jan 2018
- News
Making a Mark in Multicultural Marketing
Sheila Marmon (MBA 1999) has built her career by breaking down barriers. The founder and CEO of Mirror Digital, a technology-enabled media and advertising company, Marmon has executed more than 350 interactive campaigns, connecting Fortune 500 View Details
- 16 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Marketing Wine to the World
addition, the supermarkets offer private label wines in Europe, while they generally do not in the United States. (The exception is Wal-Mart, which recently introduced a private label wine through an alliance with E&J Gallo.) The View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Clicks and Mortar
will move your purchasing to the digital space after visiting the pop-ups, so it’s not meant to be a channel of distribution; it’s an acquisition engine and a way to make a brand splash in a particular... View Details
Sanford I. Weill
At Travelers, Weill focused on growing the company’s assets with a particular emphasis on global expansion, a mission that led to the creation of Citigroup Inc., following the acquisition of Salomon Brothers in 1997 and the famous... View Details
Keywords: Finance
Nathan Cummings
By 1966, Cummings had grown Consolidated Foods into the nation’s fastest growing food processor, with sales of $830 million. Cummings’ most significant acquisition was Sara Lee, which he purchased in 1956 and grew into the nation’s... View Details
Keywords: Food & Tobacco
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Case Study: Glass Half Full
limited upside (no chance of brand extension, no reselling to existing customers), but you have to pay for customer acquisition even inside Amazon. Shopify requires you to invest in many things beyond... View Details
John H. Bryan, Jr.
When Bryan took over Consolidated Foods, later renamed the Sara Lee Corporation, the company was a $2.5 billion dollar conglomerate. Bryan made significant acquisitions including the Hanes Corporation, which experienced a doubling of... View Details
Keywords: Food & Tobacco