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- 04 Mar 2015
- What Do You Think?
Can a Laissez-Faire Approach Fix Labor Market Inequality?
Summing Up When Is It In An Employer's Self-Interest to Voluntarily Raise All Wages? A laissez-faire approach to fixing labor market inequality has widespread appeal, judging by responses to this month's column. For some it is an ideal, whether or not it can be...
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Samuel M. Walton
Walton achieved great success at Wal-Mart, primarily by focusing on an often-ignored group of consumers: small-town residents. Walton’s formula for success entailed building super-stores that sold a wide variety of low-priced goods, mostly to residents of towns with...
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Retail
Jack I. Straus
Having joined the company immediately after graduation from college, Jack Straus was the driving force behind Macy’s expansion in the mid-1900s. In addition to expanding the stores through numerous acquisitions, he adjusted the company’s cash-only policy to allow for...
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Retail
Richard W. Sears
After having much success selling a small order of watches he had come across while working as a telegrapher, Sears entered the merchandising business full time and devoted his business to rural, relatively poor farmers. Though Sears was known for his lack of...
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H. Wayne Huizenga
Huizenga purchased the one-year old Blockbuster operation from its founders in 1986 and embarked on a massive expansion campaign. Believing that there were low barriers to entry in the video rental market, Huizenga built over 1,000 Blockbuster establishments in less...
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William M. Batten
Batten transformed JCPenney from a sleepy “Main Street” store into a diversified mass merchandiser located in shopping malls throughout suburbia. He dramatically expanded the merchandising line, introduced the Penney credit card, and launched the catalogue business....
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Edward A. Filene
Filene developed the world’s largest specialty store. In 1912, when Filene opened his new mega-store in Boston, 715,000 people came through the doors of the new store within one week. With the inauguration of the new store, Filene’s sales jumped from $4.8 million to...
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Retail
James E. Davis
At a young age, Davis and his 3 brothers helped their father open the family’s first store in Miami, FL. As the brothers grew older, they increased the number of family owned stores to 34, and eventually acquired the Winn & Lovett chain, which added 78 stores. As...
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Retail
- Profile
Arum Kang
As an assistant buyer fresh out of college, Arum Kang felt ready to test her quantitative skills on the retail floors of Lord & Taylor in New York City. "I'm very analytical," Arum says. "Working with consumer data and...
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- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Supplying Demand
When it opens next year, Los Angeles' new state-of-the-art sports complex will bear the name of a $7-billion international retail giant, a newcomer that will join heavyweights such as United Airlines, Anheuser-Busch, and MCI in seeing its...
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Paul Michelman
- 04 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Making the Case for Consumer-Driven Health Care
HBS professor Regina Herzlinger has been the foremost advocate for what she calls "consumer-driven health care." In this video, she argues that just as consumers drive the retail industry, so too should they drive health care....
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- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Robert Buzzell Remembered
known as the Profit Impact of Marketing Strategies (PIMS), designed to identify and measure the determinants of profits in individual businesses. The author or coauthor of eleven books, Buzzell worked extensively on subjects such as marketing economics; the economic...
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- 01 May 2013
- News
Isik Kececi Asur, MBA 1997
country and culture,” Asur says. In addition to Mustafa’s diversified family oil business, the Asurs are partners in Istanbul-based Aragon Capital, a firm they launched five years ago that manages a variety of investments including commercial and residential...
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- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Ensuring success through education
opened its first campus in 2008 and its second in 2011. “There are many businesses that are born and die. A university is supposed to live forever,” says the founder and chairman of FiBA Group, a multibillion-dollar portfolio of investments that includes shopping...
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- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Mobile robots revolutionize order fulfillment
The brainchild of Mick Mountz (MBA 1996), Kiva Systems, with its army of small, battery-powered, orange mobile robots, offers a game-changing approach to the way e-commerce retailers such as The Gap, Staples, Saks 5th Avenue, Crate and...
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- 01 Mar 2009
- News
An Excerpt from The Innovator’s Prescription: A Disruptive Solution for Health Care
“The current health-care system generally is modular. Specialized companies operate hospitals, process paperwork, negotiate blanket service contracts, and manage outpatient and retail clinics. Most doctors’ offices are set up as...
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Health, Social Assistance
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Video Perspectives: Magashe Ngoepe - MBA
Government Health Care / BioTech Manufacturing Private Equity Real Estate Retail Social Enterprise Technology Venture Capital Audiences Audiences FirstGen+ College Diverse Perspectives International LGBTQ+ Military Socioeconomic Inclusion...
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- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Sunny Side
When Miami-based venture capital firm ANIMO Ventures launched in 2018, cofounder Nico Berardi (MBA 2018) traveled weekly. “It was 80 percent San Francisco, maybe 20 percent New York,” he recalls. But the Argentine-born Berardi loved the energy in Miami. Now, in the era...
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Julia Hanna
- 26 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
What Your Competition is Telling You
perhaps prefer, the nearby independent. "There's a delicate balance between the synergies [two combatants] can generate on one hand and too much competition on the other," says Joan E. Primo, a principal of real estate and View Details
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