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Dawn Dobras
career, including 13 years at Gap Inc, Dawn built consumer brands in beauty, fashion and home with a deep focus on retail, DTC and omni-channel in settings. As former CEO of Credo Beauty (largest clean beauty retailer in the US), Dawn led...
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- 18 Nov 2013
- Op-Ed
Twitter IPO: Overvalued or the Start of Something Big?
committing to an approach that may need to fundamentally change—something that is harder to accomplish at scale. That said, the pursuit of coveted "network effects," with winner-take-all rewards to the dominant platform and a high number of users, argues for getting...
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- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Avoiding a Succession Crisis
status. Even among those CEOs who plan for succession, some manage in such an imperial fashion that the potential successors wither in their shade. And in their heart of hearts, some CEOs fear being surpassed. Many companies think a horse...
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- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Depression or Euphoria? Navigating the Market’s Mood Swings
few years, he said, has permanently changed the financial markets and the idea of entrepreneurship. "I think the financial field is permanently warped, especially for smaller markets," he said. Markets these days change as fast...
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by Carrie Levine
- 04 Jan 2010
- Research & Ideas
Best of HBS Working Knowledge 2009
Your Skills: Managing Teams The ability to lead teams is fast becoming a critical skill for all managers in the 21st century. Here are four HBS Working Knowledge stories from the archives that address everything from how teams learn to...
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by Staff
- 02 Mar 2020
- What Do You Think?
Are Candor, Humility, and Trust Making a Comeback?
“raises similar issues in the context of building more personal connections and relationships in the workplace.” Others disputed the notion that these values are making a comeback. J. T. Goh commented: “I don’t see these values as trendy or View Details
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by James Heskett
- 02 May 2005
- What Do You Think?
Where is Consumer Generated Marketing Taking Us?
Summing Up Consumer generated marketing is a fact of life to which all of us will have to adapt. Adaptation means learning how to use CGM to provide one form of input in fashioning product and marketing decisions. Those are the messages...
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by James Heskett
- 23 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
COVID-19 Shines New Light on Working Conditions in Supply Chains
interesting to see in the classroom. We were talking about fast fashion from a supply chain perspective in my Technology and Operations Management course. And in the middle of class a student raises his hand...
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- 05 Dec 2012
- What Do You Think?
Should Managers Bother Listening to Predictions?
least three plans, one based on "best case," one based on "worst case," and one representing "best guess." One could argue that the process itself has a degree of humility built into it. Fashion retailers...
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by James Heskett
- 09 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 9
Managing Stores for Fast Fashion Zeynep Ton, Elena Corsi, and Vincent DessainHarvard Business School Case 610-042 Pablo Isla, the CEO of Zara, wanted to improve operational efficiencies in managing its store...
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Martha Lagace
- 20 Mar 2000
- Research & Ideas
Incubators: The New Venture Capitalists?
staffing, services, physical space, strategic guidance and more — are popping up in the private sector almost as fast as the dot.com companies they hope to hatch. They're pulling in veteran entrepreneurs and established Internet players...
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by Kenneth Liss
- 07 Sep 2016
- What Do You Think?
How Can the Threat of Networks Be Reduced?
their control for leadership effectiveness. He suggested that tribal leadership, described in a book by the same name, is “a perfect fit for the fast moving networks of the Seventh Sense.” It describes organizations formed around natural...
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by James Heskett
- 09 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
May 2018, the De Beers Group shocked the diamond industry when it announced it was launching a new fashion jewelry brand of laboratory-grown (synthetic) diamonds. The reaction was swift as people sought to understand the company’s...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 16 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Mentoring—Using the Voice of Experience
experienced.) The cognitive science shows us is that there are limits to how fast you can drive in the learning.— Dorothy Leonard Walt and I studied mostly companies on the West Coast. Brian studied the incubators here in Boston. Walt and...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Empowering Entrepreneurially Minded Students
can’t yet afford to pay market rates. For some qualifying students, the Rock Loan Forgiveness Program helps reduce their debt burden after graduation. FAST FACTS 45 Entrepreneurs-in-Residence, Rock Executive Fellows, and Venture Capital...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 31 Oct 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 31, 2017
1990s, these two historical trends met, as the concept of sustainable development spread to large conventional corporations, and visionary green firms scaled or were acquired by conventional big businesses. The concept of sustainability became socially constructed in a...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
Disruptors Sell What Customers Want and Let Competitors Sell What They Don’t
habits as well, such as a growing preference for sharing items rather than owning them, and encouraging "showrooming" where shoppers visit stores only to test products—then buy them more cheaply online. The user benefits from lower cost, lower effort, or saved time....
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by Michael Blanding
- 30 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 30
fashion without intervening predictions. Subjects were yoked so that the same history of outcomes was observed in all conditions. The results revealed the Gambler's Fallacy when outcomes were experienced (with or without predictions)....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 28
Harvard Business School Case 713-510 Benetton Group S.p.A., 2000 In 2000, Benetton was one of the leading mass fashion competitors in the world with approximately $1.9 billion in sales across 5,500 stores in 120 countries. But the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets
company created within the last five years that produces the number one flat-panel TV brand in the U.S., beating Sony, Samsung, and Panasonic. It created a brand and financed itself to grow fast despite a limited number of staff—because...
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by Martha Lagace