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- March 2016
- Case
IC Group A/S
By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth
IC Group owned several of Scandinavia's leading premium fashion brands. How should it respond to the decline of its primary wholesale distribution channels (independent fashion boutiques and department stores)? Should it open more physical stores or focus on... View Details
Keywords: IC Group; IC Companys; Carli Gry; InWear; Mads Ryder; Niels Martinsen; Premium Fashion; Fast Fashion; Business Units; Business Divisions; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; Business Organization; For-Profit Firms; Profit; Revenue; Multinational Firms and Management; Business History; Business or Company Management; Acquisition; Growth and Development Strategy; Brands and Branding; Distribution Channels; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Problems and Challenges; Strategy; Product Positioning; Competition; Competitive Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Vertical Integration; Segmentation; Web Sites; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Fashion Industry; Retail Industry; Scandinavia; Denmark; Sweden; Norway
Wells, John R., and Gabriel Ellsworth. "IC Group A/S." Harvard Business School Case 716-446, March 2016.
- 03 Apr 2019
- Book
Fintech's Game-Changing Opportunities for Small Business
spent at the US Small Business Administration beginning in 2009. We were in the midst of a terrible recession. In the first quarter I was in Washington we lost 1.8 million small-business jobs because credit markets froze, causing... View Details
- 16 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 16
investors and entrepreneurs need, optimize both technological sophistication and financial sophistication-approaches designed to attract capital by offering different levels of risk and return, different cash-flow priorities, and... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 19 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 19, 2016
anonymity of buyers and sellers in order to facilitate trust. We demonstrate that this common market design choice results in an important unintended consequence: racial discrimination. In a field experiment... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018
project teams at a prominent design firm revealed two distinct helping processes, both characterized by deep, sustained engagement that far exceeds the brief interactions described in the helping literature. Such deep help consisted of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
Disruptors Sell What Customers Want and Let Competitors Sell What They Don’t
Teixeira, an assistant professor at Harvard Business School in the Marketing unit. But not anymore. The Second Internet Wave A second wave of Internet disruption threatens not only electronics and telecom businesses, but also industries... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 07 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
How “Career Imprinting” Shapes Leaders
career imprints, different career paths. Finally, if we look at the kinds of decisions these newly minted leaders made post their time at Baxter and at Abbott, we can see how some of their early design choices as leaders of young biotech... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- 28 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Online Match-Making with Virtual Dates
an assistant professor at HBS in the marketing unit while Ariely is a professor of management science at MIT. Even when we have well-articulated stories about the kind of person we want to meet, we’re often wrong.—Michael Norton While... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Building Bridges: New Dimensions in Negotiation
pure process focus to substance: the principles of designing agreements that create value and are sustainable. Inexperienced negotiators, says Sebenius, often unconsciously limit themselves to a one-dimensional process of sitting at the... View Details
Keywords: by Anita M. Harris
- 04 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?
the products on that market are designed by the government, which is not exactly my idea of how products ought to be designed. I think what's going to happen is once we have an individual mandate to have... View Details
- 10 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018
guidance on the design of optimal call patterns in route sales. Our analyses reveal that the long-term persistence effect of detailing is more pronounced for specialist physicians, whereas the contemporaneous marginal effect is higher for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 7
psychology of decision making, rather than voters' willingness to compromise and support a bill they weakly oppose when that bill is bundled with one they strongly support. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-147.pdf PublicationsA 'Novel' Approach... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Oct 2017
- Research Event
In an Era of 'Fake News,' What is the Future of Advertising and Publishing?
A year ago, discussions of the business of digital media may have focused on the plateauing ebook market or the diminishing pay for content providers. But after the 2016 presidential election, in which Russian operatives allegedly used... View Details
- 14 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
How Can Start Ups Grow?
intangible resources may be best acquired by following a road of conformity in how your company is organized and presented to the outside world. In start-ups in established industries, conventional business titles such as Marketing... View Details
- 02 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 2
stick with practicing medicine. This essay argues that physicians currently in practice could be equipped over time with the management skill necessary to develop and implement new models of primary care. A Choice Prediction Competition for View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 28
J. Dandrea, Gregg Gordon, and Carl T. Bergstrom Abstract In this paper, we show how the Eigenfactor® score, originally designed for ranking scholarly journals, can be adapted to rank the scholarly output of authors, institutions, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
When CEOs Become Activists
debate about gay rights in Indiana” To investigate, Toffel and Chatterji designed an experiment to gauge whether mentioning Cook’s concerns about the RFRA influenced public support for the law, and whether Cook’s opinion affected... View Details
- 29 Apr 2020
- Book
The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages
Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman