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- 29 Jun 2012
- News
Funds and Allies Defend the Buck
- 30 Nov 2018
- News
Share Buybacks: Mismeasured and Misunderstood
- 29 Jun 2021
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Procter & Gamble’s Lean Innovation Transformation
- 01 Jul 2020
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Covid-19 Dispatch: Tsedal Neeley
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Buy Big, Sell Small
If you live in a rural village or small city in India and run low on toothpaste, rice, or cooking oil, you’ll likely visit your local kirana, the equivalent of a US neighborhood variety store and a mainstay of the country’s $932 billion retail economy. The shops are...
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- 12 May 2023
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Alabama's Yella Fella
Photo credit: Auburn University Photo credit: Auburn University In 1970, Jimmy Rane (OPM 11, 1986) took over a tiny treated-lumber business in Abbeville, Alabama, that was hovering near bankruptcy. Its owners, Rane's in-laws, had died suddenly in a car accident. Over...
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- 01 Aug 2001
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Richard B. Fisher (MBA '62)
progressed against the background of a changing financial landscape, Fisher and his colleagues persuaded Morgan Stanley's senior partners that the wholesale culture of the major "bulge bracket" investment banks needed to make way for a...
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- 01 Jun 2023
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Pet Project
that demand payment for product placement and by wholesalers who are slow to pay. If Katie pursues this direction, she needs senior team members with the experience to navigate this challenging path and investors who can offer good...
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- 12 Mar 2021
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My Favorite Case
four to one. When another premium brand lowers its wholesale price in an attempt to stimulate sales, Heublein’s president decides to increase the price of Smirnoff and put the additional revenue into advertising. This case taught me that...
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- 01 Dec 2008
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Attention, Oenophiles
THE CUFFES: A new career importing “fantastic” African wines from black-owned vineyards. In 2005, while on a trip in South Africa, Selena Cuffe (MBA ’03) saw an ad for the Soweto Wine Festival. “I was used to seeing negative African images,” Cuffe told the Pittsburgh...
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Wholesale Trade
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Case Study: Power Nappy
beyond, to wholesale or retail. Why? The first reason is reach: There is a limit to your own branded website. This is due to the website’s potential traffic (whereas large online retailers have millions of unique visitors) and lack of...
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- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Robert Buzzell Remembered
wholesale distribution; strategic planning; and the application of mathematical and statistical methods to marketing issues. A member of the HBS faculty from 1961 to 1993 and chair of the Marketing faculty from 1972 to 1977, he taught...
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- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Li & Fung's Global Footprint
Issue Focus: Leadership To keep pace with a fast-changing global business environment, “You’ve got to institutionalize the process of reinvention,” says William Fung. Photo courtesy Li & Fung Ltd. Issue Focus Making the Leadership Case Reimagining the MBA Related Links...
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- 07 Nov 2016
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The Business of Saving Old Buildings
setting up a nonprofit foundation to do recycling of older buildings, and so I started the Architecture Heritage Foundation and was asked by the Boston Redevelopment Authority to come up with what they could do with the surplus wholesale...
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- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Inside the Partnership
mischievously saying: “I don’t speak Russian. Who the hell could I talk to over there?” ... In 1939 Weinberg got another assignment: conducting an exhaustive study of investment banking for FDR, with particular attention to the wholesale...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2000
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Business Suits You: Experimenting with Professional Identity
junior professionals in consulting and investment banking firms. She found that these individuals had various methods of discovering how to create an effective image for themselves as senior managers. The most prevalent form of experimentation was imitation, which...
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- 01 Jun 2002
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In VMI Partnerships, the Devil is in the Data
decade, however, influential manufacturers such as Procter & Gamble and Campbell Soup initiated such partnerships to help smooth production cycles and improve profits. Retailers were wooed by the potential efficiencies of better inventory management and, in some cases,...
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Laura Singleton (MBA 1988)
- 21 Jul 2022
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How Sumner Feldberg Helped Transform Retail
Wall Street Journal. That initiated a period of growth for the company, which went public in 1962. In time Feldberg also helped establish the BJ’s Wholesale Club and T.J. Maxx retail chains, which bought surplus merchandise from the same...
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- 01 Dec 2010
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The Transformers
organizations. That may sound like standard practice today, but ten years ago a lot of nonprofit leaders were deeply suspicious of “suits” showing up with advice lifted wholesale from the for-profit arena. They had tried that before, and...
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