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- 06 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 6, 2007
"platform") around the rapidly expanding online video industry. Simultaneously, CEO Jeremy Allaire was completing a major funding round that would enable the company to make strategic investments in some or all of several...
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Martha Lagace
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
Leadership and Learning at Walmart. The retail giant’s Live Better U [LBU] program covers the costs of employees’ education and training. The company has pledged $1 billion over the next five years toward upskilling its workforce. The...
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2022 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
masculinity on offshore oil platforms, the impact of racial diversity on retail bank performance, and the design and delivery of women’s leadership development programs. For the past several years, Professor Ely has maintained an active...
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- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Delivering the Goods
to last-mile business from FedEx, UPS, and Amazon. Unfortunately, the online retailer is piloting its own delivery service that would put it in direct competition with the Postal Service. And Amazon isn’t...
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Jen McFarland Flint
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
in the 2010s, facing the ruthless competition of retail electronics, that he refined and applied his human-centric approach. In the course of leading a dramatic turnaround in the company’s performance, Joly proved that purpose, respect,...
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- 07 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 7, 2009
109-070 Commercial Director Prado wonders how to leverage the loyalty card information to prepare the fall 2008 budget. The case discusses the value of subjective and objective information for profit-planning purposes. Spanish children's apparel View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 13 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 13, 2016
protection than SOEs. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51975 December 2016 Harvard Business Review Fixing Discrimination in Online Marketplaces By: Fisman, Ray, and Michael Luca Abstract—Online marketplaces...
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Carmen Nobel
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The One That Got Away
wants to open a chain of retail shops selling a commodity product you can get anywhere for 25 cents, but he will charge 2 dollars. Of course, you listen politely and then fall off your chair laughing when he leaves. [Starbucks founder]...
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- 09 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Come Fly with Me: A History of Airline Leadership
sustainable business model. Q: Who are some current business leaders you see that could be strong role models for the airlines? A: Jeff Bezos of Amazon.com has been a maverick in the online retailing...
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- 17 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 17, 2006
the digital music industry. Through its iPod line of portable digital music devices and its iTunes Music Store, Apple controlled more than half of the market for both music player hardware and online music sales. But the evolving ability...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
the mafia. Every criminal trope imaginable is trying to get a piece of this. All told, online crime inflicted $445 billion in damage to the global economy in 2014, according to a study by the Center for Strategic and International...
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Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 23 Aug 2019
- Blog Post
A Summer of Peaks and Swells: Interning at Patagonia
Patagonia’s online careers page. The application deadline had passed several weeks prior (oops), but I submitted my application anyways since the posting remained open. Through a series of serendipitous events, connections, and timing, I...
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- 04 Apr 2019
- Cold Call Podcast
Can Mark Zuckerberg Rebuild Trust in Facebook?
on Amazon; they help curate the kind of books I might like, I actually like that service. And if I'm looking online at a retailer for a particular shirt, I don't mind them sending me ads for shirts. That's...
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Re: Gerardine A. Doyle
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Screen Saver
take a company rooted in its history, in one kind of business, and develop a strategy and execution around migrating that experience from the traditional venue of our retail stores into new business areas and channels of distribution,"...
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- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Local Customs
“We want to be the Sam Adams of the auto world.” Rogers launched his Massachusetts-based company, Local Motors, with $4 million in start-up capital; its online contest (LocalMotors.com/competition.php) invites the public in various cities...
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- 14 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 14
https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/516023-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 817-083 thredUP: Think Secondhand First In the fall of 2016, the management team at thredUP, the largest U.S. online View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jan 2017
- First Look
January 3, 2017
structure and liquidity policies—for tax or agency reasons—appears to be a key driver of their decision to simultaneously raise and pay out capital. Download working paper: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=48383 Online...
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Carmen Nobel
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
that we recruit a lot for. Why do I care if you learned Python in a four-year college degree, or if you took it at a class at a community college, or you learned it in the military, or you taught yourself online at night? I don't, as long...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
experience, and you’re making more money. Many of these workers also experience what a lot of us have in their industry, which is, a sudden acceleration of technology deployment, as people work to remote, or what had been four-wall View Details
- 12 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 12, 2016
ASOS was large by online standards, traditional fashion retailers were building their own online sales capabilities, and Amazon was expanding its apparel offering. Meanwhile,...
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Sean Silverthorne