Retail Industry - Publications - Faculty & Research

15 Mar 2019
News

A Model of Drive and Impact

experience was not so good and we thought there was a space for a company that provides a more digital experience. And also more transparent. “It's an industry where there's a lack of information. Whenever you try to buy a car, you have a... View Details

Keywords: Retail Trade; Retail Trade

Career Coach

Annette Rodriguez-Ferrer

I Corp (NASDAQ: SDAC). Notable board roles during her tenure at Warburg Pincus include Gabe’s, TriMark, Outset Medical (NASDAQ: OM), Silk Road Medical (NASDAQ: SILK), Glansaol and Wencor Group. She was also actively engaged in portfolio companies Neiman Marcus,... View Details

Keywords: Retail; Retail; Retail; Retail; Retail; Retail; Retail; Retail; Retail; Retail; Retail; Retail; Retail; Retail; Retail; Retail

01 Dec 2005
News

Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper

The commercial real estate business was in a shambles fifteen years ago, but just look at it now. After a complete rehab, the industry has become the darling of investors eager for alternatives to lackluster stocks and bonds. But will the... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Real Estate

14 Oct 2013
Research & Ideas

Blockbuster! Why Star Power Works

publishers, and producers in other sectors of the entertainment industry live by this approach. You might think that spreading resources evenly across product lines is the safest approach, especially because no one seems to know for sure... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Entertainment & Recreation

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

28 Jun 2011
News

Bold Ascent

expand into other offerings, such as clothing and sleeping bags, in the months ahead. Before launching SlingFin, Baka started Mountain Hardwear with fellow SlingFin founder and 33-year industry veteran/gear guru Martin Zemitis. (Columbia... View Details

Keywords: hiking; Retail Trade; Retail Trade

06 Sep 2012
News

Fashion-Forward

be a skill I could use in my career,” Amed says by phone from London. In fact, Amed has developed a worldwide following by employing those very same qualities. Launched in 2007, his website The Business of Fashion attracts more than 200,000 visitors each month for its... View Details

Keywords: fashion; apparel; Retail Trade; Retail Trade; Retail Trade; Retail Trade

01 Sep 2009
News

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

Career Coach

Ellen Harris

interested in coaching across industries and functions. Clients include: Boston Bruins, Biogen, Novartis, Bain Capital, BCG, McKinsey, Harvard departments as well as graduate programs, MIT, INSEAD Business School, Hult International... View Details

Keywords: Retail; Retail; Retail; Retail; Retail; Retail; Retail

03 Mar 2009
First Look

First Look: March 3, 2009

Working PapersAdding Bricks to Clicks: The Contingencies Driving Cannibalization and Complementarity in Multichannel Retailing (revised) Authors:Jill Avery, Thomas J. Steenburgh, John Deighton, and Mary Caravella Abstract This paper... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

23 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 23

other sources of entrepreneurial influence: we find that peer influences are strongest for those who have less exposure to entrepreneurship in other aspects of their lives. Family Control of Firms and Industries Authors: Belén Villalonga... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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

01 Apr 2002
News

Pamela Thomas Graham

Harvard Law School. The two moved to New York after graduation, and Thomas-Graham began her career at McKinsey, consulting on projects for retail and financial-services companies. In the 1990s, as the Internet juggernaut picked up speed,... View Details

Keywords: Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries

15 Feb 2011
First Look

First Look: Feb. 15

hierarchy in interfirm transaction networks in two industry sectors in Japan: automotive and electronics. Our empirical results show that the electronics sector exhibits a much lower degree of hierarchy than the automotive sector due to... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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By: John C. Mulliken

My research involves climate strategy, climate finance, and building climate technology ventures. View Details

Keywords: Climate; Climate Risk; Climate Finance; Governance; Climate Change; Strategy; Retail Industry

December 1980 (Revised February 1981)
Case

Allied Stores Corp. (B)

By: Milton P. Brown and Jay W. Lorsch

Keywords: Retail Industry

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November 1974 (Revised June 1985)
Case

Federated Department Stores

By: Joseph L. Bower and Richard G. Hamermesh

Keywords: Retail Industry

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2001
Teaching Note

Orchard Supply Hardware Stores Teaching Note

By: R. Lal, Jennifer B. Lawrence and Josie Parr

Keywords: Retail Industry; California

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June 1994 (Revised December 1997)
Case

Safeway, Inc.'s Leveraged Buyout (C): Media Response

Focuses exclusively on the controversy by presenting the media responses to the LBO and its aftermath, including full text of Faludi's interview with Safeway CEO Peter Magowan, and her subsequent Journal article. View Details

Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts; Media; Retail Industry; United States

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