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- Career Coach
Lee Scott
Lee started her career in the nonprofit sector. She has spent the last few years transitioning into an impact investing role. She can provide advice on switching sectors and strategizing how to build out relevant skillsets. Work...
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- 10 Feb 2023
- Research & Ideas
COVID-19 Lessons: Social Media Can Nudge More People to Get Vaccinated
study by Michael Luca, Harvard Business School’s Lee J. Styslinger III Associate Professor of Business Administration, in collaboration with Susan Athey, the economics of technology professor at Stanford Graduate School of Business;...
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- May 2016
- Case
The Inexorable Rise of Walmart? 1988—2016
By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth
In October 2015, Walmart surprised investors by announcing that it expected flat sales growth for 2015 and growth of only 3% to 4% over the coming three years. Profits would also fall due to significant investments in people and technology. The company’s stock price...
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Keywords:
Asda;
Costco;
David Glass;
Convenience Stores;
Discount Retailing;
Dollar Stores;
Doug McMillon;
E-commerce;
Online Retail;
General Merchandise;
Grocery;
Lee Scott;
Mike Duke;
Multichannel Retailing;
Omnichannel;
Neighborhood Market;
Sam Walton;
Sam's Club;
Store Formats;
Supercenter;
Supermarket;
Warehouse Clubs;
Merchandising;
Walmart;
Wal-Mart;
Globalized Firms and Management;
Competitive Strategy;
Corporate Strategy;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Business Units;
Business Divisions;
Business Growth and Maturation;
Business Model;
Business Organization;
For-Profit Firms;
Film Entertainment;
Television Entertainment;
Banks and Banking;
Price;
Profit;
Revenue;
Food;
Global Range;
Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues;
Global Strategy;
Business History;
Compensation and Benefits;
Employees;
Human Capital;
Labor Unions;
Wages;
Business or Company Management;
Goals and Objectives;
Management Succession;
Brands and Branding;
Product Positioning;
Distribution;
Supply Chain;
Supply Chain Management;
Public Ownership;
Problems and Challenges;
Labor and Management Relations;
Strategy;
Adaptation;
Business Strategy;
Competition;
Competitive Advantage;
Diversification;
Expansion;
Segmentation;
Information Technology;
Internet;
Mobile Technology;
Online Technology;
Web;
Web Sites;
Retail Industry;
Food and Beverage Industry;
Distribution Industry;
Banking Industry;
United States;
Arkansas;
Bentonville
Wells, John R., and Gabriel Ellsworth. "The Inexorable Rise of Walmart? 1988—2016." Harvard Business School Case 716-426, May 2016.
Boston Globe article on noncompete paper
Scott Kirsner profiles the sequence of events that led to my undertaking research on noncompete agreements (with Lee Fleming and Deborah Strumsky). He also discusses the "chilling effect" of noncompetes based on discussions with local labor lawyers.
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- October 2002 (Revised November 2003)
- Case
Wal-Mart Neighborhood Markets
By: David E. Bell, Jeffrey M. Feiner and Iris T. Li
Wal-Mart has been growing at 15% per year for the last 10 years. Can it keep growing at that rate for the next 10 years? CEO Lee Scott reflects on his strategy for achieving such growth, relying on a combination of supercenters, neighborhood markets, and international...
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Keywords:
Growth and Development;
Leadership;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Marketing;
Strategy;
Retail Industry;
United States
Bell, David E., Jeffrey M. Feiner, and Iris T. Li. "Wal-Mart Neighborhood Markets." Harvard Business School Case 503-034, October 2002. (Revised November 2003.)
- Research Summary
Moving Beyond Direct-to-Consumer
Changing consumer behaviors have redefined what it means to be direct to consumer ("DTC"). What once began online a decade ago as a distribution and disintermediation strategy has since evolved into a multifaceted approach for the modern-day brand.
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George C. Lodge
Professor Lodge had been a member of the Harvard Business School faculty since 1963. Before his retirement in 1997, he taught a number of courses in the MBA Master's Program and in various HBS executive programs. in the MBA program these included: Business,... View Details
- 19 Dec 2023
- Research & Ideas
$15 Billion in Five Years: What Data Tells Us About MacKenzie Scott’s Philanthropy
Over the last five years, MacKenzie Scott has gone from relatively unknown in the US philanthropic community to arguably its single most influential figure. When she signed the Giving Pledge in 2019 following her divorce with Amazon...
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Business Economics - Doctoral
Dale Jorgenson Myrto Kalouptsidi Maximilian Kasy Lawrence Katz Gabriel Kreindler David Laibson Robin S. Lee N. Gregory Mankiw Stephen Marglin Eric S. Maskin Marc Melitz Jeffrey Miron Ariel Pakes Amanda Pallais Matthew Rabin Gautam Rao...
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- 03 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 3
PublicationsAddressing the Leadership Gap in Medicine: Residents' Need for Systematic Leadership Development Training Authors:Daniel Mark Blumenthal, Kenneth Richard Lee Bernard, Jordan David Bohnen, and Richard Bohmer...
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Carmen Nobel
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Placement - Doctoral
(2022-) Dissertation: Market Design for Matching and Auctions Advisors: Scott Duke Kominers, Emmanuel Farhi, Jerry R. Green, Stefanie Stantcheva, and Alexander Teytelboym Michael Thaler Business Economics, 2020 Placement: Princeton...
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Great American Business Leaders of the 20th Century - Leadership
BrownStryker Corporation, 1977–2004 Lewis H. BrownJohns-Manville Corporation, 1929–1946 Alvin G. BrushAmerican Home Products, 1935–1965 John H. Bryan, Jr.Sara Lee Corporation, 1975–2000 Edward G. BuddE. G. Budd Company, 1912–1946 Ralph...
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- 20 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 20
model choices aimed at increasing volume such as building new stores, increasing product variety, everyday low prices (EDLP), and high-powered incentives for store managers. Input and output prices played a smaller role under David Glass than under Sam Walton. Finally,...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Founders & Investors - Entrepreneurship
International MBA 1954 Dina Burkitbayeva Beauty on Demand MBA 2015 Frank J. Caufield Kleiner, Perkins, Caulfield & Byers MBA 1968 Ian Chan Abpro MBA 2001 Charles Clareman Tiggly MBA 2013 Scott D. Cook Intuit MBA 1976 Michelle Crames...
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- 25 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 25
The result would be improved deal process design in MBOs and improved capital formation in the economy overall. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50980 Patent Trolls: Evidence from Targeted Firms By: Cohen, Lauren, Umit G. Gurun, and...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Investors - Entrepreneurship
Fisher Draper, Fisher, Jurvetson MBA 1991 Jennifer Fonstad Aspect Ventures MBA 1997 Frank Foster DFJ Frontier MBA 1994 Constance Freedman Second Century Ventures MBA 2006 Scott Friend Bain Capital Ventures MBA 1995 Otso Fristrom Terra...
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Named Fellowship Funds - Alumni
operates in the factoring industry, and is active in southern and eastern Europe. He was previously with Apax Partners and McKinsey & Company. Belsky (MBA 2008) Fellowship In honor of his 10th Reunion, Scott Belsky (MBA 2008) established...
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Past Programs - Crossover Into Business
Football Caron Butler NBA Damiere Byrd NFL Havanna Cabrero Surfing Jose Calderon NBA Scott Caldwell MLS Fabrice Calmels Ballet Joe Cardona NFL Stephen Carlson NFL Essence Carson Basketball Matthew Centrowitz Track & Field Jamie Cerretani...
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Faculty & Advisors - MBA
efforts for Shopping.com and Epinions, one of the web’s first user-generated content services. She is currently a venture partner at Unusual Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm with over $1B under management. Aileen Lee MBA ’97,...
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Student Research - Doctoral
Patients with Hypertension By: Mitchell Tang, Carter Nakamoto, Ariel Dora Stern, Jose Zubizarreta, Felippe Marcondes, Lori Uscher-Pines, Lee Schwamm and Ateev Mehrotra Background: Remote patient monitoring (RPM) is a promising tool for...
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