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- 29 Mar 2010
- Research & Ideas
Ruthlessly Realistic: How CEOs Must Overcome Denial
Companies you describe as crippled by denial include the supermarket chain A&P, the retail conglomerate Sears, and the short-lived delivery experiment Webvan. How did these companies succumb to denial? A: To paraphrase Tolstoy, every...
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- 19 Mar 2015
- News
Walter Salmon Remembered
grocers, drug stores, and discount stores like Costco. Peter asked me (a banker) what I thought of supermarkets accepting credit cards for groceries. I said that the grocery margins (~1%) wouldn’t support the discounts on card purchases,...
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- 20 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 20
advertising budget to online ads on YouTube? Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/product/youtube-for-brands/an/514048-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 713-453 J Sainsbury Plc, Road to Recovery In 2012, J Sainsbury Plc (Sainsbury's), the number three View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 13
Tesco, the UK's largest supermarket chain with revenues of £64.5 billion ($104 billion). CEO Philip Clarke unveiled the first half-year profit drop in almost 20 years and, in the UK, the majors Asda and Sainsbury were closing the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Rocket Science Retailing: A Practical Guide
we've seen suggests that this performance is typical: analysts and managers have trouble making forecasts in the kind of volatile economy that will probably be part of the new normal. Pay Attention to Product Availability Repeated studies in View Details
- 13 Mar 2018
- First Look
March 13, 2018
No abstract available. Purchase this case:https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/715035-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 118-076 Whole Foods and JANA Partners In 2017, JANA Partners decided to launch an activist campaign at struggling View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 May 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 9
U.S. consumers. Despite years of offering samples to consumers, modifications to the naming and packaging design, the addition of new flavors, changes in the supermarkets where it placed its product, and offering retailers slotting...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
contaminated. “We had been following the dog food recall, which centered around contaminated wheat gluten, a cheap dog food ingredient used primarily in supermarket brands,” explains Gisholt. “But we were totally shocked to discover that...
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- 12 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 12
actions. Combining supermarket scanner data with firm-level financial data, we find evidence that differs from prior literature. Instead of reducing expenditures to boost earnings, soup manufacturers roughly double the frequency and...
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Martha Lagace
- 17 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 17
expenditures, to manage earnings to meet or beat key benchmarks. This paper examines this hypothesis by testing how different types of marketing expenditures are used to boost earnings for a durable commodity consumer product, which can be easily stockpiled by end...
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Martha Lagace
- 03 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 3, 2009
to supermarket deli departments. In 2008, he was convinced that the time was right to make a big push in the fresh food area to satisfy consumers that were demanding more convenient, natural, good-tasting, and locally-grown foods. Taylor...
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Martha Lagace
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
it resists bruising. For consumers, that means increased convenience—potatoes can be prepped in advance—and reduced food waste. The White Russet marketing campaign is unique, too. When the company introduced the potatoes into supermarkets...
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- 21 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018
case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/518066-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 118-074 Whole Foods Under Amazon In August 2017, Amazon acquired Whole Foods Market for $13.7 billion. Whole Foods was struggling with high costs and faced growing competition from...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Vive la Madeleine!
yield; internet sales (limited to France and Belgium) and distribution to regional gourmet stores and supermarkets account for the rest. Capacity—and distribution—are the next challenges for Jeannette. “Today the factory is working well,...
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- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Higher Ground
in the city, a transportation mode he’s favored since HBS, when he would cycle to the airport before flights back to Mexico City, leaving his bike locked up in front of a supermarket in East Boston. There’s Commander’s Palace, once the...
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This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
(the company that invented voicemail); Jane Fonda’s Workout; and Playboy TV/Video, my most instructive failure was during my year as product manager of Tostitos. Top management had decided that we would implement a “trial size” promotion in View Details
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