Filter Results
:
(203)
Show Results For
-
All HBS Web
(203)
- News (59)
- Research (123)
- Multimedia (4)
- Faculty Publications (44)
Show Results For
-
All HBS Web
(203)
- News (59)
- Research (123)
- Multimedia (4)
- Faculty Publications (44)
- 11 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 11
http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/14-061_51d0227f-ea86-40f7-957f-be8d25bb3517.pdf Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 714-431 Walmart around the World After reaching the limits of its successful...
View Details
Keywords:
Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
Businesses Need a 'Catalyst' to Make CSR Practices Stick
undereducated and underemployed, leading many to turn to gangs and illegal activity to survive. Meanwhile, companies such as Walmart and Hilton, which may want to enter the country, are thwarted by a lack of entry-level service workers....
View Details
Keywords:
by Michael Blanding
- 28 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 28
value-added products like yogurt. The entry of large multi-brand retailers like Walmart and Carrefour in the Indian market threatens to squeeze Amul's margins and undermine its low-cost distribution network. India's large young rural...
View Details
Keywords:
Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 26
sustainably, and demanded its suppliers do the same, this would have an impact on its own bottom line and make the world a better place for everyone. Students can explore whether Walmart is making these changes to improve its battered...
View Details
Keywords:
Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Advanced Negotiation: Great Dealmakers, Diplomats, and Deals - Course Catalog
they work through their toughest deals. Examples: In business and finance: Steve Schwarzman on several early make-or-break deals for Blackstone; Sarah Frey negotiates advantageous supplier deals for her tiny farm with a vindictive Walmart...
View Details
- 15 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 15
performance to provide quantitative insight into the link between a firm's business model choices and its profit consequences. The method is applied to Walmart by building a qualitative representation of its business model and mapping...
View Details
Keywords:
Carmen Nobel
- 01 Mar 2017
- Research & Ideas
A Good Thing Happens When Doctors Start Talking to Their Patients
better overall care for their patients.” Related Reading: Why Business Should Invest in Community Health Attention Medical Shoppers: What Health Care Can Learn from Walmart and Amazon Five Imperatives for Improving Health Care
View Details
- 12 Mar 2018
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Why BlackRock CEO Larry Fink Is Not a Socialist
Alphabet/Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook, Berkshire Hathaway, Johnson & Johnson, Exxon and Walmart as well as China’s Tencent and Alibaba—currently, the most valuable public companies in the world. There should be no debate...
View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Faculty and Alumni Books for March 2014
Walmart to an African hand pump, a New York City park, and the B-17 bomber), the book explains why including the customer is an essential ingredient of success for any team, company, or organization. The Moses Virus by Jack Hyland (MBA...
View Details
- 04 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Predictions, Prophets, and Restarting Your Business
clear-cut. “A problem with megatrend predictions is that, even if they turn out to be generally accurate, they’re not managerially useful.” In the first month of social distancing in the United States, online sales at Walmart and Target...
View Details
Keywords:
by Frank V. Cespedes
- 27 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Family CEOs Spend Less Time at Work
countries. There are certainly plenty of examples of high-profile family-owned firms like Walmart that employ nonfamily CEOs. For example, Christopher McCormick (HBS AMP 158, 2000) took the helm at L.L. Bean in 2001, the first non-family...
View Details
Keywords:
by Carmen Nobel
- 28 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
Can LEGO Snap Together a Future in Asia?
Asia," as one LEGO executive put it. Uncertainties of Asian retail. Many Asian countries lack a developed retail network. And while big chains like Walmart and Tesco are growing in China, the country still relies on many small...
View Details
- 04 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018
they can relocate their headquarters to a hub, as GE recently did (but make them much smaller). A less expensive strategy is to create an innovation lab or corporate outpost in a talent cluster, as Walmart did with View Details
Keywords:
Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Apple Pay’s Technology Adoption Problem
Only about 10 percent of retailers use NFC readers, and at least one retailer—Best Buy—stopped using them because they were too expensive. Officials with both Best Buy and Walmart have said the retailers have no plans, at least right now,...
View Details
- 24 Jul 2019
- Lessons from the Classroom
Can These Business Students Motivate Londoners to Do the Right Thing?
economists working to solve problems. Retailers such as Walmart are also putting together behavioral teams. New frameworks are continuing to develop, and the broader use of behavioral economics has continued to scale at an impressive...
View Details
Keywords:
by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Blissful Thinking
When Arthur Brooks was interviewing for his job, longtime HBS professor Len Schlesinger asked him, “What can you teach that really only you can teach—and that we need and don’t have?” Brooks responded that he’d been hearing about data on HBS graduates decades after...
View Details
Keywords:
Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters
- 04 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
Worried About the Great Resignation? Be a Good Company to Come From
the food and drinks industry are increasing wages, and in a concession to work-life balance, Walmart and Target even opted to close on Thanksgiving. However, in the race to retain talent, companies are also resorting to less substantive...
View Details
Keywords:
by Sandra J. Sucher and Shalene Gupta
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Launch Codes
Walmart could eventually be a big customer, it took the pandemic and the dramatic rise in e-commerce to force us to reevaluate our model and focus on supporting the fulfillment needs of retailers in addition to our brand business. It...
View Details
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Addressing Education Inequities Exacerbated by the Pandemic
“going to school” from their cars in Walmart parking lots. We’ve known that intellectually, but teachers and classmates are actually seeing students on Zoom in cars. Looking more globally, we know that as a result of the pandemic, in...
View Details
Keywords:
Jennifer Gillespie
- 27 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Customer Loyalty Programs That Work
panoply of Internet sites. It's just as hard to differentiate on price, for similar reasons: any consumer with an Internet connection can quickly determine if that flat-screen TV that Walmart claims is at a blowout price actually is....
View Details