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Jeanne Lewis, after six years with Staples, Inc., is promoted to senior vice president of marketing. She is to work for fifteen months alongside her predecessor, a legacy in the organization, "learning the ropes" before he moves on. This case is set nine months after... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Management Style; Change Management; Marketing Strategy; Management Succession; Competitive Advantage; Problems and Challenges; Management Teams; Retail Industry; United States

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March 1999
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H.E. Butt Grocery Company: A Leader in ECR Implementation (A) & (B) (Abridged) TN

By: F. Warren McFarlan

Teaching Note for (9-196-061) and (9-198-016). View Details

Keywords: Retail Industry

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May 1994
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Kathryn McNeil (A) & (B) TN

By: Joseph L. Badaracco Jr. and Jerry Useem

Teaching Note for (9-394-111) and (9-394-112). View Details

Keywords: Retail Industry

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November 1992 (Revised December 1994)
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Northridge and Southridge Malls

By: William J. Poorvu

Keywords: Retail Industry

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June 1991 (Revised January 1996)
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Marks and Spencer Ltd. (A), (B), and (C), Teaching Note

By: David J. Collis

Teaching Note for (9-391-089), (9-391-090), and (9-792-007). View Details

Keywords: Retail Industry; United Kingdom; Europe; Canada

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June 1991 (Revised January 1996)
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Tysons Corner, Teaching Note

By: Donald A. Brown and William J. Poorvu

Teaching Note for (9-390-052). View Details

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01 Sep 2011
News

Green Day

Erica Diamond demo the "modlet" View a list of alumni working in green industry What does it mean to be green? It’s a trendy color these days, but over the years HBS alumni have demonstrated a long-standing commitment to environmental... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna;Sarah Auerbach; Agriculture; Manufacturing; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

26 Jan 2004
Research & Ideas

How Women Can Get More Venture Capital

hypothesis that if there were more women who were venture capitalists then there would be more points of intersection with women entrepreneurs. In our research using information from 1995 and 2000, we documented all the women in the venture capital View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace

07 Feb 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research: February 7

2017 New York: Oxford University Press Managing Risk in Reinsurance: From City Fires to Global Warming By: Hauter, Niels Viggo, and Geoffrey Jones, eds. Abstract—This is the first book to provide a comprehensive history of the reinsurance View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

19 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 19, 2007

FDI" in several different ways. First, we look at the possibility that the effects of FDI differ by sector. Second, we differentiate FDI based on objective qualitative industry characteristics including the average skill intensity... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Sep 2009
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E Ink’s Wild Ride

for retail chains,” Wilcox recalls. Along with retail signage, E Ink entered new fields such as watches, even as it worked to develop its futuristic e-reader display. By 2003, it had become clear that the... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; e-books; e-reading; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

October 2017
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Shift Technologies, Inc.

By: Thomas Eisenmann and Nicole Tempest Keller

In 2017, management at Shift, an online marketplace that uses a “high touch,” concierge approach to buy and sell used cars, was formulating plans for the San Francisco–based startup’s next phase of expansion. One option was to preserve Shift’s current business model... View Details