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- 14 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World
switched from in-person to online training. Case 4: Partner with other businesses to share labor ChiSuper is a supermarket chain with more than 1,000 stores across China. ChiSuper faced a severe labor shortage at a peak in the COVID-19...
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- 08 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
Koppert Cress: Macro Greenhouses, Microgreens
circular system to capture and store heat in the summer in water 150 meters below ground, which can then be used to heat the greenhouses in the winter. Heat is captured from the sun on the “energy roof,” from external water sources, and...
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- 24 May 2017
- News
Ilene H. Lang, MBA 1973
was the best in the country: Radcliffe. “I was a feminist early on,” says Lang, whose life’s work includes building a picture-framing store and a photo business, blazing a trail as a high-tech leader, raising three children, and...
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Susan Young
- 25 Jan 2024
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #15: Hilton Augustine III on Financing Climate Ventures
business training to evaluate technologies that challenge the conventions of discovering, producing, and consuming the materials and resources that drive our everyday lives. This includes mining and refining precious metals and magnets, generating and View Details
- 20 Feb 2017
- Research & Ideas
Having No Life is the New Aspirational Lifestyle
participants a description about a consumer named Matthew who shopped at either an upscale grocery store or instead used grocery-delivery service Peapod. Though Whole Foods was perceived as more of a luxury brand, the participants rated...
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by Michael Blanding
- 29 Aug 2023
- News
Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases
themselves about Commons, how do they do that? SP: You can go to the App Store on iOS or to the Play Store on Android and Search Commons to download the app. It's free to use, and you can also follow us on...
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- 31 May 2017
- What Do You Think?
Can Amazon Do What Walmart Couldn’t, Stop the 'Wheel of Retailing'?
and mortar big box stores instead. Amazon, unburdened by such real estate, was easily able to mobilize Internet capabilities in order to capture a dominant share of a notoriously inefficient book retailing industry. It didn’t stop there....
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- 15 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Businesses Beware: The World Is Not Flat
compete in them. It is now starting to do so in markets such as India, which does not allow foreign direct investment in retailing. Wal-Mart has therefore entered via a joint venture with an Indian partner, Bharti, that will operate the View Details
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by Martha Lagace
- 13 Mar 2017
- Research & Ideas
Hiding Products From Customers May Ultimately Boost Sales
Retailers routinely swap out the products they display to customers. It’s called assortment rotation, and it’s a popular business strategy for many brick-and-mortar and online stores alike. Retailing trends such as “fast fashion” (think...
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- 21 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
The Pandemic Conversations That Leaders Need to Have Now
doing poorly and who’s doing well and why. Prepare your people to be brand ambassadors. If a customer isn’t comfortable going to the store yet, the help-desk person she’s chatting with becomes her only connection to the company’s values,...
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- 31 Mar 2022
- News
A Community Hunger Solution with Global Ambitions
Ghose, but they didn’t have easy access to stores and meals through the early months of the pandemic. “We partnered with Uber and WhatsApp in #SeniorPatrol,” says Ghose. “People would reach out via the Robin Hood Army WhatsApp chatbot to...
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- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The Boxer of Quirinal By John Barr (MBA 1972) Red Hen Press All animals struggle to survive. In John Barr’s poems, the success of the heron hunting, the albatross breeding, the inchworm spinning give proof of life. But for us that...
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- 20 Dec 2022
- Blog Post
Thinking About an MBA? Think About Your Purpose
contradictions. They know that they will face criticism when, say, quarterly results are disappointing or when healthier menu or store offerings lead to lower sales. But guided by a clearly defined sense of purpose, they hold true to...
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- 20 Jan 2023
- News
Free Spirits
hoppy, sour, golden, and traditional and hazy IPA. Athletic also offers a rotating selection of seasonal releases and limited editions, which are sold online, on the shelves of supermarkets and in liquor stores and non-alcoholic bottle...
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- 25 Mar 2015
- HBS Case
Tate’s Digital Makeover Transforms the Traditional Museum
response is predominantly awe at the magnitude of what Tate has been able to pull off” It also created the Magic Tate Ball and a dozen other apps and online games to tie-in with exhibitions, available on iTunes and Android stores for free...
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- 20 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
How Much Is Freedom Worth? For Gig Workers, a Lot.
pointing to the mobile shift-swapping app used by employees of clothing retailer The Gap. The company piloted the app in its Old Navy stores and expanded it to all brands in 2018. The app “creates value,” says Oberholzer-Gee, by helping...
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- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
an empty lot. To the east stands a vacant building; to the north, a liquor store with iron bars on its windows. In short, it could be any corner in any struggling neighborhood in the United States. Yet for Dlodlo, it might as well be the...
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- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
about 350 cord-blood transplants have been performed worldwide, and the possibility of storing cord blood beyond ten years is still uncertain. But Fisher is encouraged by the current research, including the National Institutes of Health's...
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Jewish American & AAPI Heritage Month | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
the papers of numerous Jewish American business people and families who were greatly involved in philanthropic affairs in the 19th and 20th centuries. These include the investment banker Felix M. Warburg, Boston department store executive...
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- 26 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Electronic Patient Records Can Slow Doctor Productivity
productivity implications from increased information technology. "We often look at systems on the basis of their technical capability, the fact that they can store this many records or process that many requests in this period of time....
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