Furniture - Publications - Faculty & Research

25 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part II]

telephones sometimes resting on the carpet where furniture had not arrived. Things seemed to be moving fast even for the placid Bussgang, who said, "It's a real challenge putting together a group of people who have never worked... View Details

Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg

10 Dec 2014
News

Front-Row Seat

mother, Terry, with office furniture consisting of a few card tables, folding chairs, and Princess telephones. “I found business so much harder than I’d anticipated,” says Bradley, who started the venture while still a law student. “So... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; digital media; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management

26 Jul 2010
Research & Ideas

Yes, You Can Raise Prices in a Downturn

industry. But research at HBS and other places1 shows that within-industry differences in profitability and returns are typically much greater than across industries. Buffett knows this, investing in "bad" industries like View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail; Consumer Products

15 Dec 2015
News

The Year in Ideas 2015

outsource. Initially they outsourced customary household tasks, but now they are outsourcing unconventional tasks, like event help for birthdays, IKEA furniture assembly, city-to-city deliveries, and others. “As clients embrace the... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna, Christine Lejeune, Dan Morrell, and April White

30 Sep 2016
News

Competing Against Luck

the job to be done, you have to organize in a very different way than if you're just selling furniture. And hence, a company that is selling sub-par furniture to the low end of humanity, people we call college students. Nobody can copy... View Details

13 Dec 2017
News

Skydeck Live: What Really Motivates American Voters?

with people. People had long lists going all the way back to Vince Foster and Whitewater and fast forwarding to the Clintons taking furniture out of the White House, and the Benghazi and the emails, and the Clinton Foundation, and Donna... View Details

21 Aug 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018

Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/118074-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 118-066 Steinhoff International: Accounting Irregularities and Financial Markets Steinhoff International Holdings N.V. was a holding company whose subsidiaries manufactured,... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Apr 1996
News

Stewards of the Seventh Generation

offices and factories in the fifty countries where we operate," says the 68-year-old executive, whose company produces well-known household products such as Future floor cleaner, Pledge furniture polish, Glade air freshener, and Raid... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso, Garry Emmons, Linda Goodspeed, and Elaine Gottlieb

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