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- 04 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 4, 2007
department store chain as well as president and CEO of the Saks Department Store Group (SDSG), an umbrella for seven chains with a total of 182... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Video Management Policy | About
Covert cameras are not permitted unless authorized for a purpose that is limited in scope, for a definite period, and requested by the Harvard University Police Department and/or the Office of the General Counsel (OGC). Decoy, fake, or... View Details
- 10 Jul 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: It’s a Bad Idea to Ban Customers From Recording Videos
discreet—smartphones are easily concealed. A banning policy often itself causes escalation of a conflict. “The video that this store doesn’t want you to see!” is that much more likely to get attention. And when View Details
- 05 Dec 2018
- Blog Post
Leadership Fellow Henry Tsai: Working With City Leadership To Leverage Technology
extract metadata, using artificial intelligence technology, that makes the stored videos much easier to search. “It’s a huge privilege to be trusted to lead so much important work,” Henry says. “The mayor calls me about my portfolio; the... View Details
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Elizabeth "Betsy" Latimer Jaffe Oral History - Business Education For Women At Harvard University | Harvard Business School
a New York career consulting firm, and author of “Altered Ambitions: What's Next in Your Life” (published, 1991). After HBPBA she went on to get her Ed.D at Columbia University. She started her career in retail as a department View Details
- 01 Jan 2009
- News
Jorge Paulo Lemann, A.B. 1961; Carlos A. Sicupira, OPM 9, 1984; Marcel H. Telles, OPM 10, 1985
Anheuser-Busch InBev Chairman, Lojas Americanas In the 1980s, early in his career at Banco Garantia, Carlos (“Beto”) Sicupira agreed to take the helm of a new acquisition, Lojas Americanas, a Rio de Janeiro department store. During his 12... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Nancy Hall (MBA 1974)
understand. My first jobs were in retailing, on the finance side. Thirteen years after HBS, I had a midlife crisis. I was working for a soon-to-be defunct department store in Baltimore and knew it was time... View Details
- 20 Jan 2015
- News
Patient Medical Records, Pocket-sized
the cost of care. The records are secure—encrypted, password-protected, HIPAA-compliant, and not stored on a server. In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Bushkin read of displaced New Orleanians whose paper medical records had been... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Lighten Up
had some fabulous people from day one, but some very uneven teams until recently.” As of September, GoLite had about 25 employees. It plans to boost its development department from four to twelve people this year. Other View Details
- 26 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 26
its stores and its supply chain, lower levels of greenhouse gas emissions, safer products for customers and manufacturers, and better treatment of its workers. The company promoted the idea that its size gave it significant influence in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Forward Thinking
but a study funded by the Department of Energy found that, over a five-year stretch, reality didn’t match predictions. Already AI technology is making progress, Nussey says. He points to the July release of GPT-4o mini, a lightweight... View Details
- 19 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 19
Business School Case 513-036 As a he gets ready to release second quarter 2012 results, Ron Johnson, the new CEO of department store J.C. Penney, is reconsidering the dramatic changes he initiated for the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 8
a large-scale transformation of the iconic department store. Having previously converted the many department stores owned by Macy's to the Macy's names (except Bloomingdale's),... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 23 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 23
scheduling affect operational performance and the quality of labor at the stores. The case describes the tasks (both in-store logistics and customer service tasks) that are carried out by store employees at one Dillard's View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Sep 2019
- News
Skydeck Voices: Finding My Muse
building all these mass stores on,” where I'm like “Is there a way to protect that beauty or even create some harmony between the buildings we build with the environment that we live in.” And so I think that's where I do my best thinking.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Mead Treadwell
changing the way she stores and releases carbon and heat.” Tell us about the Arctic Commission’s mandate and activities. Seven of us are appointed by the President to recommend research goals and to help the United States build... View Details
- 20 Feb 2013
- News
Thanking Veterans Online
members were unwilling to find, and upload, their DD 214, the Department of Defense form that verifies military service, in order to prove their service. They were also reluctant to share their DD 214 because it includes their social... View Details
- 21 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
Making Credibility Your Strongest Asset
power of his idea. But Rovell knew that T.V. and newspaper sports departments are flooded with resumes and demo tapes from thousands of wannabe reporters. To ensure that his material wouldn't be lost in the shuffle, he mailed it in the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Wheeler
- 16 Jul 2024
- Op-Ed
Corporate Boards Are Failing in Their No. 1 Duty
and store managers who had the freedom to source materials unique to their marketplace. In his zeal to increase short-term earnings, Nardelli got rid of the customer advisers and centralized procurement while standardizing View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 08 Jun 2018
- News
My First Job: Selling Shoes, Surviving Black Monday, and Shaped by Chicken Lenses
grown up in the business all of my career, and when I finished college and came back I was a full-time employee for the first time. After a year or so I was promoted to work under my dad as one of the department managers. And within a few... View Details