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- November 2017
- Teaching Note
Reinventing Best Buy
By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth
Teaching Note for HBS No. 716-455.
On March 1, 2017, Best Buy Company, Inc., North America’s largest retailer of consumer electronics and appliances, announced a third year of comparable-store sales increases and a 20.8% increase in domestic comparable online sales....
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Best Buy;
Hubert Joly;
Renew Blue;
Showrooming;
Webrooming;
E-commerce;
E-Commerce Strategy;
Online Retail;
Multichannel Retailing;
Omnichannel;
Marketplaces;
Turnaround;
Consumer Electronics;
Consumer Electronics Accessories;
Appliances;
Stores-within-stores;
Store Experience;
Store Size;
Store Pickup;
Store Management;
Delivery;
Delivery Models;
Amazon;
Amazon.com;
Pricing Strategy;
Business Subsidiaries;
Business Units;
Business Growth and Maturation;
Business Model;
For-Profit Firms;
Customer Focus and Relationships;
Customer Satisfaction;
Entertainment;
Film Entertainment;
Games, Gaming, and Gambling;
Music Entertainment;
Television Entertainment;
Theater Entertainment;
Price;
Profit;
Revenue;
Geographic Scope;
Multinational Firms and Management;
Business History;
Cost;
Selection and Staffing;
Reports;
Technological Innovation;
Job Cuts and Outsourcing;
Human Capital;
Leading Change;
Business or Company Management;
Goals and Objectives;
Growth and Development;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Management Teams;
Brands and Branding;
Product Marketing;
Consumer Behavior;
Demand and Consumers;
Media;
Distribution;
Order Taking and Fulfillment;
Distribution Channels;
Infrastructure;
Product;
Service Delivery;
Service Operations;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Public Ownership;
Problems and Challenges;
Programs;
Groups and Teams;
Sales;
Salesforce Management;
Strategy;
Adaptation;
Business Strategy;
Competition;
Competitive Advantage;
Competitive Strategy;
Corporate Strategy;
Expansion;
Technology;
Hardware;
Information Technology;
Internet;
Mobile Technology;
Online Technology;
Search Technology;
Software;
Web;
Web Sites;
Wireless Technology;
Resource Allocation;
Computer Industry;
Electronics Industry;
Entertainment and Recreation Industry;
Information Technology Industry;
Retail Industry;
Service Industry;
Technology Industry;
Telecommunications Industry;
Video Game Industry;
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- 21 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018
Latin America during the globalization waves between the 19th century and the present day. It argues that although global capitalism created much wealth for the region, this was at the cost of massive ecological destruction in Latin...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 15
Abstract We study competitive interaction between two alternative models of digital content distribution over the Internet: peer-to-peer (p2p) file sharing and centralized client-server distribution. We present microfoundations for a...
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Martha Lagace
- 04 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 4, 2018
behavior through reputational or status incentives. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55333 forthcoming Review of Corporate Finance Studies Short-Termism and Capital Flows By: Fried, Jesse M., and Charles...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
after stints at the World Bank and at his family's industrial distribution business. "Then you have to consider the outputs: Did they use this new technology and training? Did it produce more bananas or mangoes or pineapples? Did they...
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- 23 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018
boards (SBs) on managers' behavior and on long-run firm value using a natural experiment: a 1990 law that imposed a SB on all firms incorporated in Massachusetts. We find that the law led to an increase in Tobin's Q, increased investment in View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The Fight Beyond
chocolate and a pack of Camels,” the airman recalled gratefully. For his new mission in Slovakia, Green requisitioned more candy and cigarettes—and thousands and thousands of guns. Banská Bystrica had become the capital of the Slovak...
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- Web
Annual Report 2019 - Annual Report 2019
business and culture, and fostering discussion, podcasts extend the reach and influence of the School’s intellectual capital to millions of listeners around the world. All Podcasts Doctoral Student Research Awards Four doctoral students...
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- 09 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Uncompromising Leadership in Tough Times
because of aggressive discounting by its chief competitor. Revenue in one of Dreyer's new product lines began to drop. And one of its customers threatened to terminate its long-term distribution contract. “CEOs recognize that they have to...
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by Martha Lagace
- 28 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 28, 2007
books. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=107035 Leslie Brinkman at Versutia Capital Harvard Business School Case 407-089 Leslie Brinkman is the founder and CEO of a hedge fund, Versutia...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Fair Trade
market. Toiletries were also the main category sold by Western companies in developing countries .As these companies took their brands into foreign markets, they diffused consumption habits. As incomes rose and distribution channels...
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- 20 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency
brand: What are people thinking? And you’d expect a much lower sensitivity to administration, to structure, to organizational dynamics, to long-term view, and to capital spending. The incoming president has a really good sense for what...
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by Christina Pazzanese
- 20 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 20
Snack Foods, located in Austin, Texas, manufactures, markets, and distributes snack foods and frozen treats. The CEO is passionate about maximizing shareholder value and believes in keeping tight control over costs and operating the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 9, 2008
supplement: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=208125 China's Financial Markets: 2007 Harvard Business School Note 208-147 Provides an overview of capital markets in mainland China in 2007,...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
vertically integrated, local market. In technology, capital flows to the location where products can be produced most quickly and cheaply for the moment; our model focuses on the long-term sustainability that comes from the health of the...
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- Web
Podcast - Forum for Growth & Innovation
strategy was, and how and why Apollo was different? BJ Hess: Arrow's strategy, beginning in the early seventies, way before Apollo, was to consolidate the electronics distribution industry. There were way too many electronics distributors...
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- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
benefactor and main trading partner, entering what is referred to as “the Special Period,” which would last until the mid-1990s. Gas shortages led to farming and distribution disruptions, which led to food shortages. The average Cuban...
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Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Class Acts
kitchen to a larger production facility in Vermont. Over the next few years, he and his family orchestrated the creation of an entire line of nationally distributed condiments and pasta sauces. In 1995, his natural foods company, Uncle...
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