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- November 2017
- Teaching Note
Reinventing Best Buy
By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth
Teaching Note for HBS No. 716-455.
On March 1, 2017, Best Buy Company, Inc., North America’s largest retailer of consumer electronics and appliances, announced a third year of comparable-store sales increases and a 20.8% increase in domestic comparable online sales....
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Hubert Joly;
Renew Blue;
Showrooming;
Webrooming;
E-commerce;
E-Commerce Strategy;
Online Retail;
Multichannel Retailing;
Omnichannel;
Marketplaces;
Turnaround;
Consumer Electronics;
Consumer Electronics Accessories;
Appliances;
Stores-within-stores;
Store Experience;
Store Size;
Store Pickup;
Store Management;
Delivery;
Delivery Models;
Amazon;
Amazon.com;
Pricing Strategy;
Business Subsidiaries;
Business Units;
Business Growth and Maturation;
Business Model;
For-Profit Firms;
Customer Focus and Relationships;
Customer Satisfaction;
Entertainment;
Film Entertainment;
Games, Gaming, and Gambling;
Music Entertainment;
Television Entertainment;
Theater Entertainment;
Price;
Profit;
Revenue;
Geographic Scope;
Multinational Firms and Management;
Business History;
Cost;
Selection and Staffing;
Reports;
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Job Cuts and Outsourcing;
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Business or Company Management;
Goals and Objectives;
Growth and Development;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Management Teams;
Brands and Branding;
Product Marketing;
Consumer Behavior;
Demand and Consumers;
Media;
Distribution;
Order Taking and Fulfillment;
Distribution Channels;
Infrastructure;
Product;
Service Delivery;
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Groups and Teams;
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Competition;
Competitive Advantage;
Competitive Strategy;
Corporate Strategy;
Expansion;
Technology;
Hardware;
Information Technology;
Internet;
Mobile Technology;
Online Technology;
Search Technology;
Software;
Web;
Web Sites;
Wireless Technology;
Resource Allocation;
Video Game Industry;
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- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
for much of the rest of the day. And when the day ends, there’s a surprising number of students who are still here, either working on their homework or, frankly, using our equipment for video games and the...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
also truth that often what they are interested in isn’t realistic. To just give you an illustration, there are several thousand students today in programs to learn how to become a video game programmer....
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
have a place in our stores where they can showcase the fruit of their billions of dollars. So we turned the tables on showrooming. We invented showcasing. And the leadership lesson, other than the zero-sum game thing, is sometimes people...
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- 16 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 16
more or less effective? Does bundling serve as a complement or substitute to network effects? To address these questions, we develop a consumer-choice model from micro-foundations to capture the essentials of our setting, the handheld View Details
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Anna Secino
- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Strategy for Small Fish
provide software developers in sectors ranging from video games to engineering simulation with training, tools, and support for application development tailored to exploit the unique capabilities of NVIDIA...
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by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
game and that a passive approach is more profitable in today’s market. By adjusting your portfolio asset weights to match a performance index, you consistently earn higher rates of returns and come out on top in the long run. This book...
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- 15 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 15
scholars to devote more resources to obtaining a fundamental understanding of contemporary and future practice and how analytic tools and contemporary advances in accounting and related disciplines can be deployed to improve the professional practice of accounting....
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Sean Silverthorne
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2018 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
Race, Work & Leadership: Learning about & from Black Experience Race, Work & Leadership: Learning about & from Black Experience 08–09 MAR 2018 Home Speakers Videos Agenda Dialogue Welcome and Introductions Laura Morgan Roberts, Robin Ely,...
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- 12 Jul 2020
- Book
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020
leadership, and strategy of Uber in Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber. Blake J. Harris covers a classic business battle in Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle that Defined a Generation; besides being a video View Details
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by Staff
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
that touched him personally. To understand that connection, you have to go back to Langford’s hometown of Calhoun, about 70 miles northwest of Atlanta, where he played on the high school football team. He was second string, he points out, so he could take notes about...
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- 20 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 20
Does correlation in consumer valuations make bundling more or less effective? Does bundling serve as a complement or substitute to network effects? To address these questions, we develop a consumer-choice model from micro-foundations to capture the essentials of our...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
the Cuban market, she has to rely on el paquete—a sort of informal, underground media delivery service hand-distributed weekly to subscribers via flash drives filled with everything from the latest Game of Thrones episodes to last week’s...
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Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- Web
Print View - Course Catalog
its critical deal moments. For most cases in the course, we watch excerpts from stop action video interviews, mostly that I’ve conducted with the protagonist(s) describing how they handled a series of key decisions. After discussion of...
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