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May 2013 (Revised March 2014)
Case

Gap, Inc., 2012

By: John R. Wells and Galen Danskin

Between 2000 and 2012, Gap, Inc. (Gap) ceded its world leadership position in specialty fashion retailing to Inditex of Spain and H&M of Sweden. These two companies, each less than a quarter of Gap's size in 2000, were now setting the pace in the global mass fashion... View Details

Keywords: Strategic Change; Fashion; Multinational; Brands; Competition; Multinational Firms and Management; Performance Improvement; Strategy; Brands and Branding; Change Management; Fashion Industry; Fashion Industry; Fashion Industry; Sweden; Spain; United States

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July 2020 (Revised July 2023)
Case

Live Nation and Pharrell Williams

By: Anita Elberse and Kate Christensen

“We’re in business together, and whether we lose a few million dollars or make a few million dollars, let’s do this. If you think you can pull it off, I’m behind you.” Michael Rapino, chief executive officer of Live Nation, the world’s leading live entertainment... View Details

Keywords: Music; Entertainment; Superstars; Talent; Labor Economics; General Management; Music Entertainment; Media; Talent and Talent Management; Joint Ventures; Marketing; Strategy; Music Industry

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28 Oct 2008
First Look

First Look: October 28, 2008

the online, Chicago-based t-shirt company, was not your typical fashion apparel company. The company, run by Jake Nickell, Jacob DeHart, and Jeffrey Kalmikoff, turned the fashion business on its head by... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

16 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Breaking the Code of Change

corporate leaders about the purpose of and means for change. In effect these two approaches to organizational change represent theories in use by senior executives and the consultants and academics who advise them. By "theory in... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Beer & Nitin Nohria

28 Mar 2012
What Do You Think?

Are Factory Jobs Important to the Economy?

which the directors toured a newly-created "beauty park" in the US, where companies cooperating to create and manufacture new fashion beauty products are located together in one light industrial park. It is a reflection of colleagues Gary... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Manufacturing

22 May 2017
Lessons from the Classroom

A Luxury Industry Veteran Teaches the Importance of Aesthetics to Budding Business Leaders

angel investor in fashion tech; Vanessa Kay, senior vice president at Moët Hennessy USA, who heads up the Veuve Clicquot, Krug, and Ruinart champagne brands; Edda Gudmundsdottir, a fashion designer and style... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Beauty & Cosmetics; Apparel & Accessories; Auto; Tourism

28 Nov 2005
Research & Ideas

Unilever: Transformation and Tradition

of any business that it wished. This proved to be an illusion, but it was one widely shared within the business world at the time. Diversification was the fashion of the moment, which managers were constantly under pressure to follow from... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Consumer Products

26 Mar 2006
Research & Ideas

The Office of Strategy Management

surrounding the success that organizations have in executing strategy is low. Our article, "The Office of Strategy Management," using data from a Bain Consulting study, notes that seven out of eight companies in a global sample... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

21 Feb 2005
Op-Ed

Is Business Management a Profession?

requirement of passing a standard exam before being admitted to practice, nor are senior managers, investment bankers, or consultants required to participate in continuing education. There is no explicit obligation, for example, for... View Details

Keywords: by Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria & Daniel Penrice

September 2013 (Revised August 2015)
Background Note

Leadership and Teaming

By: Ethan Bernstein

Small differences in the leadership of teams can have large consequences for the success of their efforts. Many initiatives fail not because of a fatal error in judgment or insufficient ideas, knowledge, motivation, or capabilities to deliver a solution. They fail... View Details

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20 Mar 2000
Research & Ideas

Incubators: The New Venture Capitalists?

get a startup successfully off the ground in the electronic economy. Venture Capital as a Commodity "We definitely see a major shift occurring in the venture capital community," said Corey, who co-founded the Web consulting firm... View Details

Keywords: by Kenneth Liss

03 Oct 2017
First Look

First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017

Charles C.Y. Wang Abstract—Relative TSR (rTSR) is increasingly used by market participants to judge and incentivize managerial performance. We evaluate the efficacy, reasons, and implications of firms' benchmarks in rTSR-based contracts. Although compensation View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2004
What Do You Think?

Are Customer Loyalty Initiatives Worth the Investment?

profitability? When several of us first began researching these relationships, findings such as these were news. Today we take them for granted. Fred Reichheld, among others, has fashioned a career as a View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

13 Apr 2016
Research Event

What Does 'Diversity' Really Mean?

Many male business leaders have the right intentions when it comes to tackling the sticky issue of gender inequality in the workplace. But try as they might to be more sensitive and inclusive with their language, men are quite simply bound to mess up sometimes, said... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

19 Jun 2012
First Look

First Look: June 19

For decades, management consultants and the popular business press have urged large firms to flatten their hierarchies. Flattening (or delayering, as it is also known) typically refers to the elimination of layers in a firm's... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

15 Jan 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019

this effect drives advisor reactions to one of the most widely recommended advice-seeking strategies: seeking advice from multiple advisors to leverage the wisdom of crowds. Advisors negatively judge and interpersonally distance themselves from seekers who they learn... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

Immigrant Innovators: Job Stealers or Job Creators?

particular industry—both software engineers and fashion models are considered "specialized"—but 60 percent of the visas go to workers who specialize in science, engineering, and high-tech occupations. Top recipients of H-1B visas include... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology

02 Mar 2020
What Do You Think?

Are Candor, Humility, and Trust Making a Comeback?

“raises similar issues in the context of building more personal connections and relationships in the workplace.” Others disputed the notion that these values are making a comeback. J. T. Goh commented: “I don’t see these values as trendy or View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

04 Nov 2008
First Look

First Look: November 4, 2008

Fashionable Opportunity Harvard Business School Case 209-012 Roberto Charvel is a young MBA graduate making his first personal real estate investment in his native Mexico City. Charvel is planning to purchase and renovate a nine-unit... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

16 Jul 2013
First Look

First Look: July 16

famously said that, because it's nigh impossible to do both, leaders should opt for fear. Research from Harvard Business School's Amy Cuddy and consultants Matthew Kohut and John Neffinger refute that theory, arguing that leaders would do... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

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Gap, Inc., 2012

Live Nation and Pharrell Williams

First Look: October 28, 2008

Breaking the Code of Change

Are Factory Jobs Important to the Economy?

A Luxury Industry Veteran Teaches the Importance of Aesthetics to Budding Business Leaders

Unilever: Transformation and Tradition

The Office of Strategy Management

Is Business Management a Profession?

Leadership and Teaming

Incubators: The New Venture Capitalists?

First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017

Are Customer Loyalty Initiatives Worth the Investment?

What Does 'Diversity' Really Mean?

First Look: June 19

New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019

Immigrant Innovators: Job Stealers or Job Creators?

Are Candor, Humility, and Trust Making a Comeback?

First Look: November 4, 2008

First Look: July 16

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