Retail Government Services - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2014
News

Making Big Data Fashionable

from anything so unquantifiable as emotion, Moon values that intuition and wants to “help validate” it. More Retail Revolutions Speeding Up Accessories BaubleBar cofounders Amy Jain and Daniella Yacobovsky (both MBA 2010) apply the... View Details

Keywords: Christine Lejeune; fashion; Market Research, Photo, Translation, Veterinary and Other Services; Market Research, Photo, Translation, Veterinary and Other Services

01 Sep 2014
News

Ask the Expert: Byte-Testing Bitcoin

intend to navigate the regulatory environment? In particular, how could they educate governments and ease concerns about the various types of risk pertaining to payments and currency? —Caleb Reeves (GMP 16, 2014) Even though there are... View Details

Keywords: alumni; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services

14 Dec 2010
Op-Ed

Tax US Companies to Spur Spending

measures relating to government spending, would stem from decentralized actors responding to private information and incentives. Consider the potential effects of a temporary 2 percent tax on corporations' "excess" cash... View Details

Keywords: by Mihir A. Desai

21 Mar 2019
News

Helping Veterans Build Careers

like Watson regularly in the Reserves and has helped the Call of Duty Endowment—the largest private funder of employment for veterans—create a solid path forward for them. “Veterans tend to leave their first jobs after military service... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

20 Mar 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018

investing, bringing transparency to the financial services market, and enabling retail investors to invest their capital in a way that aligned with their values. However, getting to scale and profitability... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

28 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

Shareholders Key to Corporate Reform

voting information accumulates, shareholder organizations such as Institutional Shareholder Services could use the balloting data to create director scorecards. Such objective information, and any accompanying analysis, would serve as a... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia A. Montgomery & Rhonda Kaufman

11 Dec 2006
Research & Ideas

Fixing Price Tag Confusion

The price tag is evolving. It wasn't long ago that potential buyers had only to contemplate a single figure on a price tag—Mattress $799. But increasingly consumers are being presented with "partitioned" prices. Look at your monthly cable bill, where you might see a... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

21 May 2018
Blog Post

Harnessing The Power of Collaboration to Create Opportunity in Chicago

Editor’s Note: The below post is part of our Alumni for Impact series, which features alumni who are making a difference in the social sector, specifically in K-12 education, impact investing, nonprofit supportive services and social... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government

01 Jun 2000
News

Of Dugouts and Sweatshops

New York plant, thus putting pressure on retailers to be more aware of their suppliers' labor conditions. Emphasizing the need for innovative problem-solving in situations that aren't always clear-cut, Reich drew a connection between his... View Details

Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey

27 Oct 2016
News

Paying It Forward

(photo by Neal Hamberg) Ask Malay Kundu (MBA 2003) about StopLift Checkout Vision Systems, and he’s more than happy to talk about his thriving software company, which deploys video and scanning technologies to stop retail theft. The... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

21 Jan 2015
Lessons from the Classroom

Managing the Family Business: Market Basket’s Lessons About Buyouts

One of the highlights of my year is in November, when teams of enterprising families meet for the Executive Education program I founded and still lead at Harvard Business School, Families in Business. One of the thornier problems we discuss concerns family shareholder... View Details

Keywords: Retail

04 Feb 2014
First Look

First Look: February 4

This exercise reveals that international capital flows are mainly shaped by government decisions and sovereign-to-sovereign transactions. Specifically, we show (i) international capital flows net of View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne

26 Sep 2013
Research & Ideas

Behind India’s Economic and Political Woes

conditions, people are scrambling and realizing that it's tough to refinance their debts. For instance, a landlord of an apartment building in Bangalore has a short -term loan in dollars that is being serviced or paid for in rupee... View Details

Keywords: by Zeenat Potia

Profile

Janet Simpson Benvenuti

Caring for her aging parents led Janet Simpson Benvenuti (MBA 1985) to launch a company that helps other families find resources that are right for their own parents’ needs. View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government; Nonprofit / Government; Nonprofit / Government; Nonprofit / Government

Career Coach

Quintin Haynes

Quintin has a public service career that spans over a decade. He has experience navigating some of the most coveted government programs, including the White House Internship. Quintin has also successfully... View Details

13 May 2020
Blog Post

Crisis Leadership with Nikhil Patel: The Critical Importance of Trust

immediately ahead. “I had to figure out how to set up isolation and quarantine sites for two to three thousand homeless people, sheltered and unsheltered,” he says. “I made epidemiological models to estimate the number of rooms we needed, then helped ensure the... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government; Nonprofit / Government

01 Mar 2006
News

Tap into Valuable Alumni Resources

value to a large proportion of alumni: careers, lifelong learning, and networking. Careers: Click on Careers on the Alumni homepage and you will find an array of services and resources, including career counseling, self-assessment tools,... View Details

Keywords: Peter Cooper; Educational Services; Educational Services

November 2009 (Revised January 2010)
Case

Zara: Managing Stores for Fast Fashion

By: Zeynep Ton, Elena Corsi and Vincent Marie Dessain

Pablo Isla, the CEO of Zara, wanted to improve operational efficiencies in managing its store network. In particular, he wanted to improve labor productivity at the stores. He considered outsourcing certain store operations to third parties, changing the way store... View Details

Keywords: Compensation and Benefits; Employees; Managerial Roles; Service Operations; Business Processes; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Performance Efficiency; Performance Productivity; Retail Industry

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01 Mar 2009
News

Model Patient

Co-operation and Development (OECD), Americans pay significantly more per unit of health-care service consumed, even though they see doctors less, take fewer pills, and have shorter hospital stays. Americans are “paying more, despite... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Health, Social Assistance

01 Apr 2019
What Do You Think?

Does Our Bias Against Federal Deficits Need Rethinking?

monetary theory maintains that even if a government can print money to pay for debts, the act itself creates inflationary pressures, increases interest rates, and fuels even greater deficits by increasing interest on the debt. If growth... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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