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- June 2020 (Revised August 2020)
- Case
Majid Al Futtaim Retail Geographic Expansion: Brick or Click?
By: Juan Alcácer and Alpana Thapar
This case illustrates the challenges that retailers face when they aggressively pursue geographical growth by expanding both their physical store network and their online presence. It features Majid Al Futtaim (MAF) Retail, a franchisee of Carrefour hypermarkets in the...
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Stores;
Ecommerce;
Strategy;
Expansion;
Geographic Location;
Decision Making;
Internet and the Web;
Digital Transformation;
E-commerce;
Retail Industry;
Middle East
Alcácer, Juan, and Alpana Thapar. "Majid Al Futtaim Retail Geographic Expansion: Brick or Click?" Harvard Business School Case 720-482, June 2020. (Revised August 2020.)
- 2020
- Working Paper
Working (From Home) During a Crisis: Online Social Contributions by Workers During the Coronavirus Shock
By: Prithwiraj Choudhury, Wesley W. Koo and Xina Li
Prior research has documented that during mortality-related crises workers face psychic costs and are motivated to make social contributions. In addition, management practices that encourage workers to make social contributions during a crisis create value for firms....
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Keywords:
Crisis;
Social Contributions;
Work From Home (WFH);
Cannot Work From Home (CWFH);
Social Distancing;
Online Communities;
Coronavirus;
COVID-19;
Health Pandemics;
Employees;
Working Conditions;
Internet and the Web;
Crisis Management
Choudhury, Prithwiraj, Wesley W. Koo, and Xina Li. "Working (From Home) During a Crisis: Online Social Contributions by Workers During the Coronavirus Shock." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-096, March 2020. (Revised April 2020.)
- January 2017
- Case
Expanding Ecommerce at Technos
By: Thales Teixeira, Rohit Deshpandé, Ruth Costas and Priscilla Zogbi
Technos was the market leader in the Brazilian watch market. Its CEO had made a firm commitment to evolve the company’s marketing and commercial practices by focusing less on pushing product to retail clients and more on branding to end consumers to pull watches from...
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Technos;
Watch;
Wristwatch;
Ecommerce;
Online Shopping;
Distribution;
Website;
Marketing;
Brazil;
Latin America;
Branding;
Trade;
Marketplace;
Brands and Branding;
Marketing Strategy;
Internet and the Web;
E-commerce;
Digital Marketing;
Apparel and Accessories Industry;
Brazil
Teixeira, Thales, Rohit Deshpandé, Ruth Costas, and Priscilla Zogbi. "Expanding Ecommerce at Technos." Harvard Business School Case 517-078, January 2017.
- July 2015
- Case
Vita: Cosmetics in the Nordics
By: Das Narayandas, Krishna Palepu and Kerry Herman
Vita is a Norwegian cosmetics retailer owned by FSN Capital, a Scandinavian private equity company. The company has a strong market position in Norway. The case focuses on two strategic issues: how to develop an e-commerce strategy to supplement the company's...
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Keywords:
E-Commerce Strategy;
Norway;
Cosmetics;
Managing Under Private Equity Ownership;
Strategy;
Private Equity;
Internet and the Web;
Growth and Development Strategy;
E-commerce;
Beauty and Cosmetics Industry;
Retail Industry;
Norway
Narayandas, Das, Krishna Palepu, and Kerry Herman. "Vita: Cosmetics in the Nordics." Harvard Business School Case 516-013, July 2015.
- March 2011 (Revised September 2011)
- Background Note
Everyone and Everything is Online
By: Stephen P. Bradley and Nancy Bartlett
The twenty-first century digital world enabled mobile, empowered, content-hungry individuals to capture the value of enabling technologies and applications to manage, create, share, and influence content across the creation and delivery spectrum. Users were online in...
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Keywords:
Communication Technology;
Learning;
Entertainment;
Power and Influence;
Internet and the Web;
Value;
Web Services Industry
Bradley, Stephen P., and Nancy Bartlett. "Everyone and Everything is Online." Harvard Business School Background Note 711-494, March 2011. (Revised September 2011.)
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Greed, Fear, and The System Hinder Corporate Reform
of ever making money and that executives were regularly manipulating earnings," he said. Khurana concluded his remarks by reciting the lyrics to a ditty posted on the Internet by disgruntled workers. The rain it raineth every day...
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by Martha Lagace
- 25 Apr 2016
- News
Trail Blazer
high-speed Internet service, in 1996. “We beat the telephone companies to market in six of seven regions,” says McMinn. He left to start another company, then returned to Covad in 2000 when the tech bubble burst. That was also when he...
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- 19 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Connecting School Ties and Stock Recommendations
Social networks matter for more than just efficient Internet communication. They're also crucial for the strong performance of stock recommendations by analysts, according to researchers at Harvard Business School and the University of...
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- 08 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 8
the company's revenues, high gaming revenue still raised some questions. Between now and when Ben-Gacem had first submitted a bid of 60 million for Moneybookers back in November 2006, the U.S. Congress had enacted the Unlawful Internet...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2016
the models that online retailers use to prevent internet fraud, even the most high-tech modern businesses are empowered by theory first envisioned by economists. Pakistan, India and the Bomb: Spy versus Counterspy by James Glenn (MBA...
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- 25 Feb 2021
- News
Building Hope
double the general population and has “increased substantially” for veterans, ages 18 to 34, since 2005. For Mike Zapolin (OPM 33, 2004), this was a seemingly intractable problem that deserved a radical solution. Zapolin, who goes by “Zappy,” is a longtime View Details
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Daniel Morrell
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
A Safer—and Speedier—Way to Name Your Startup
aren’t going to confuse a Ford Explorer with Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, for example, so it’s not necessary (or possible) to own one name across all classes. “On the other hand, if you see lots of use of an identical or similar name or...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Broad Range of Interests Among Nine New Faculty
accounting from the University of Chicago. He’ll tap his interests in corporate accountability and disclosure to help him teach the first-year required course Financial Reporting and Control. Assistant Professor Thales Teixeira, a member of the Marketing unit, received...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Shaping the Way Business Does Business: HBR at 75
The Internet is becoming as familiar a presence in households and offices as the telephone, but, like many big ideas, it was once no more than a twinkle in someone's magazine story. Writing in the days before computers had even become...
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- 07 Jan 2002
- What Do You Think?
Did Consumer Behavior Tracking Come of Age on September 11?
Internet and credit or debit cards. The rapid accumulation of information in data warehouses, as reflected in the value of EMC stock (at least up to a year ago), was testimony to this, regardless of whether very many organizations had...
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by James Heskett
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Faculty Q&A: The Working World
organizations that embedded globalization and the differences that exist across countries into the heart of its model. It’s set up with the idea of unlocking value by leveraging the opportunities created by a worldwide community. Not all companies have those network...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
New Economy Notables: Thomas S. Volpe
longer cyclical. The Internet is a big deal, but it's not world-changing. It's another improvement, like the PC was. I have never been more optimistic than I am today about the future of technology. Advice for current MBAs It is a...
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- June 2021
- Case
HelloSelf: Search
By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock
In August 2018, after nearly six months of searching, Charles Wells was convinced that he should found HelloSelf to help people improve their sense of mental wellbeing. Those feeling mentally unwell would receive support from fully qualified clinical psychotherapists,...
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Keywords:
Mental Health;
Health Care and Treatment;
Internet and the Web;
Business Model;
Product Launch
Wells, John R., and Benjamin Weinstock. "HelloSelf: Search." Harvard Business School Case 721-484, June 2021.
- December 2019
- Case
Walmart Ecommerce (A): Picking up the Pace
By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Karen Elterman
This case is an abridged version (part 1 of 2) of "Walmart's Omnichannel Strategy: Revolution or Miscalculation?" HBS Case No. 720-370. The (A) case discusses Walmart's early forays into online retail, as well as improvements made under Doug McMillon beginning in 2014....
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Keywords:
Acquisition;
Strategy;
Internet and the Web;
Distribution;
Distribution Channels;
Competitive Strategy;
Retail Industry;
Bentonville;
Arkansas;
United States
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, and Karen Elterman. "Walmart Ecommerce (A): Picking up the Pace." Harvard Business School Case 720-425, December 2019.
- April 2019
- Supplement
Upwork in 2019
By: David Yoffie and Allison M. Ciechanover
Stephane Kasriel, the CEO of Upwork, the leading platform for freelance labor, updates his progress on how to redesign its business model in 2019.
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Keywords:
Strategy;
Platform;
Platform Businesses;
Technology;
Business Model;
Digital Platforms;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Internet and the Web;
Labor
Yoffie, David, and Allison M. Ciechanover. "Upwork in 2019." Harvard Business School Supplement 719-509, April 2019.