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- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Negative Ad Power
side by side on supermarket shelves for the long run. For politicians it is different. What counts is not the size of the market, that is, how many people actually vote. All that matters is winning a plurality on Election Day. The upshot... View Details
- 02 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
‘Retail Revolution’ Excerpt: The Scale of the Ecommerce Threat
fulfillment of basic needs, such as Consumer Product Goods and apparel basics, is growing. With customers increasingly ordering these and other products online, potential shoppers have fewer reasons to leave their homes, and the clothing store collocated with the View Details
- 21 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Loyalty: Don’t Give Away the Store
loyalty programs, and it is possible to get a good sample from them. We sampled one supermarket store and one supermarket chain. Q: I have at least three loyalty shopper cards in my wallet. What percentage... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Capitalizing the Corner Shop
photo by Getty Images photo by Getty Images When Samuel Ejeh decides to open a new location for his Lagos-based supermarket chain Grocery Bazaar, he likes to move quickly. But expansion is capital-intensive, constraining his cash flow,... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 19 Aug 2013
- News
Bees Make a Sweet Deal for African Farmers
on the spot, then processed, packed, and distributed the honey and related products for sale in supermarket chains. To date, the company has helped more than 9,000 small-scale beekeepers (over 45 percent of them women) and its business... View Details
- 01 Jul 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Airbnb Lesson for Startups? Success Takes More Than Technology
money by becoming the supermarket for all your travel needs. That has not been the case in the travel industry. Kost: Why is that? Teixeira: Hotels focus on customers from the time they enter their doors to when they leave. Airlines focus... View Details
- 05 Jun 2000
- What Do You Think?
What’s Happening to Our Patience?
increasing their value. Denise Rickman grabs a magazine from the rack while in the supermarket checkout lane. Imran Jafar rides his scooter to work, enjoying the benefits of close-to-the-road transportation, exercise, and what sounds a... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Building a Network for Social Enterprise in Latin America
two-year research cycle, which focuses on the collaborations between businesses and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). For example, in 1997, the supermarket chain H-E-B expanded its regional base from Louisiana and Texas across the... View Details
- 25 Jun 2020
- News
Global Centers Broaden Understanding of Business and the Pandemic
addressed topics such as financing small and medium businesses during the pandemic, managing through crisis, and understanding the new normal. On June 10, Carlos Mario Giraldo, CEO of Grupo Exito, a leading supermarket chain in Colombia,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Patrick Moreton
So it’s not clear that consolidation necessarily limits consumer choice. But if news or opinion is sold like supermarket cereal, there’s only room on the shelves for what most pleases most people. Ideally, the public interest would... View Details
- 01 Jan 2011
- News
Hüsnü Özyeğin, MBA 1969
services industry that includes supermarket chains, shopping malls, wind energy, and banks. Both his son, Murat (MBA 2003), and daughter, Aysecan (who holds an MBA from Stanford), work closely with him. "I'm still a hands-on manager of my... View Details
- Profile
Hiroshi Mikitani
hyper-efficient supermarket with standardized offerings,” Rakuten is more like a bazaar “where the owners of many small shops curate the merchandise and interact personally with customers.” Starting out, Rakuten charged... View Details
- 26 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Can AI Match Human Ingenuity in Creative Problem-Solving?
When ChatGPT and other large language models began entering the mainstream two years ago, it quickly became apparent the technology could excel at certain business functions, yet it was less clear how well artificial intelligence could handle more creative tasks. Sure,... View Details
- 07 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
Banning Big-box Stores Can Hurt Local Retailers
Tesco shops were replacing independent businesses. "What the politicians did not anticipate was that these large supermarket chains were going to come in anyway, regardless of regulations," Sadun says. "They had reached a... View Details
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Global - Global Activities 2020
Carlos Mario Giraldo, CEO of Grupo Éxito, a leading Colombian supermarket chain, talked about his company’s efforts to help customers, employees, and essential workers. Middle East & North Africa Research Center In May, the Middle East... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
says. This suggests that innercity supermarkets would enjoy a customer base predisposed to be loyal. Crockett found that when they did shop at the local, smaller markets, "consumers were forced to be extra vigilant and inspect their... View Details
- 26 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Grocery Bags Manipulate Your Mind
bags" participants were asked to imagine approaching a supermarket to do their grocery shopping with their own bags. The "without bags" group received nearly identical instructions, but nothing about bags was mentioned. All... View Details
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance
underlying framework that compels such partnerships as between a food bank in Mexico and a supermarket in the United States, providing insights into the DNA of a successful collaboration that are broadly applicable. Our excerpt from the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Good Odds
additional vans and new production lines to keep up with demand and geographic expansion. But beyond the short-term phenomenon, Behn believes there is no going back, because the supermarket concept is 50 or 60 years old and is overdue for... View Details
- 20 Nov 2015
- News
Room to Grow
culling its inventory from the excess food other supermarkets and suppliers typically throw away. The Kendall Foundation also supports CommonWealth Kitchen, which offers food entrepreneurs a place to incubate new businesses without the... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley