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- 28 Dec 2016
- News
Retail price reality check
- 04 Dec 2010
- News
Gregg Steinhafel has faced up to many challenges as Target CEO
- 17 Sep 2021
- News
AI Can Help Address Inequity — If Companies Earn Users’ Trust
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Too Much of a Good Thing?
it's supposed to." Bower continues: "Theoretically, when an industry has excess capacity, prices fall and the least efficient producers can't survive." But, Bower adds, that doesn't always happen. "In many countries, for all sorts of...
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- 01 Jun 2022
- News
The Exchange: Same Great Price, Now with Fewer Chips
John Gourville and Alex MacKay (Image by John Ritter) Rising inflation and pandemic-related supply-chain challenges are driving up prices at the grocery store. While some manufacturers, like Procter & Gamble, have come forward to announce...
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- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
October 14, experts warned that “voluntary” carbon reduction targets being set at COP26 are far from sufficient to meaningfully address climate change. Methane, which is 60 to 80 times worse than CO2, they said, isn’t even part of the...
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- 29 Aug 2023
- News
Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases
were the social cost of carbon. Which I think is probably a couple of times higher than that, but let's imagine that for argument's sake. That means those folks are kind of opting in to a carbon priced world where they're recognizing this...
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- 12 Feb 2021
- News
How Dunkin’ Donuts Took Over the World
and chips chain, figuring that if I could grow earnings of 50 percent compounded with a donut shop chain, just imagine what I could do with several other franchise businesses. Bad idea. It did not work and earnings stagnated. Stock price...
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career;
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Retail Trade
- 21 Dec 2022
- News
HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion
iStock MESSAGE FROM DEAN SRIKANT DATAR On February 27, Dean Srikant Datar sent a message to the HBS community regarding the invasion of Ukraine, noting the resources available to those looking to offer support and highlighting learning opportunities available at HBS....
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- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
It’s a drab gray morning in April, and real estate developer Nadine Ngouabe Dlodlo (MBA 2008) is standing at the corner of West Baltimore and South Calhoun Streets in Baltimore’s historic Union Square district. Behind her, a chain-link fence decorated with a small...
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- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Downhill Re-Boot
softer “walking” boot that fits into a carbon-fiber chassis that in turn fits into a ski binding. “Our whole design concept is first and foremost to have a boot that’s comfortable,” Hanson told the Associated Press (September 5, 2009). “Comfort and warmth are important...
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- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Plugged In
money. That won't work for the ELR. "The consumer we're targeting is not that price conscious," notes Camargo, adding that it's more of an emotional purchase. "When they drive a vehicle, they want it to be a...
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- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Helping India’s energy crisis, one bulb at a time
experience with Motorola Mobility, Yarlagadda saw a safe and economical solution. Yarlagadda developed a solar-powered LED lantern that turns a few hours of sunlight into more than double the lighting power. “I priced my lanterns at $25...
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- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Case Study: Growing the Family Business
centers profitable more quickly. — Bob Poulin (MBA 1985) The premium in the hourly rates is well deserved, but you are giving too much value away by not covering fixed/setup costs. I believe the source of funds to finance the expansion is in your View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Is AI OK?
Illustrations by Dan Bejar Illustrations by Dan Bejar When she began investigating Airbnb’s smart-pricing algorithm several years ago, Assistant Professor Shunyuan Zhang wasn’t looking for evidence that it generated discriminatory outcomes, a problem known as...
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- 23 Oct 2019
- News
Understanding Business Firsthand in South Korea
Town, and Helsinki. Mike Lim (MBA 2020), one of the students on the Choco Pie team, says, “Our assignment was to determine how to target millennial women with the new product . . . driving sales at their specialty kiosks and shops.” The...
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- 28 Jun 2011
- News
Bold Ascent
of tent in use on some of the planet’s most dangerous peaks. Priced from $1,100 to $8,750 (for a seven-meter geodesic dome that can serve as a combination dining hall, meeting place, and satellite communication center), the company’s...
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- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Case Study: Up in the Air
in central and eastern Europe, each employing five to 500 software engineers, are often locked out of larger enterprise deals. What’s more, their target clients and projects are relatively small, which means valuable resources are left on...
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- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Case Study: Sneak Peak
1,000 retail outlets, including Target and Toys “R” Us. Revenue has grown rapidly with just one flavor, but after multiple discussions with venture capital groups, it became clear that investors were looking for companies that had reached...
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