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- January 2014 (Revised January 2014)
- Teaching Note
StepSmart Fitness (Brief Case)
By: Robert J. Dolan, Benson P. Shapiro and Alisa Zalosh
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Faculty News
by Rufus W. Lumry III (MBA 1974) to further research in the field of information technology. Others receiving chairs for the first time are Max Bazerman (Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business Administration); John A. Deighton (Harold...
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- June 2018
- Teaching Note
Macy's: Evolution in the Sunshine State
Teaching Note for HBS No. 416-018.
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- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Banking on HBS
effective on several levels. Nina B. Shapiro (MBA '76), a senior official at the World Bank, completed the program in August. As director of the Project Finance and Guarantees Department, she is in charge of implementing the Bank's effort...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Short Takes
popular among youths (Marlboro, Newport, Camel, Kool, and Winston) with that of brands smoked almost exclusively by adults (Salem, Virginia Slims, Benson & Hedges, Parliament, Merit, Capri, and Kent) in 39...
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Eileen K. McCluskey
- May 24, 2010
- Article
Raise Your Prices!
By: Frank V. Cespedes, Elliot Ross and Benson P. Shapiro
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Price
Cespedes, Frank V., Elliot Ross, and Benson P. Shapiro. "Raise Your Prices!" Wall Street Journal (May 24, 2010).
- 22 Nov 2011
- News
A Storybook Beginning
goal of touching a million kids’ lives by 2015” by providing them with e-readers. Risher developed the idea for the venture during a world tour with his family that combined sightseeing with hands-on...
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- 25 Mar 2022
- Blog Post
ClimateCAP 2022
On February 26, 2022, a cohort of HBS MBA students attended ClimateCAP, the Global MBA Summit on Climate, Capital, and Business. This year, ClimateCAP was hosted by Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management and drew over 260...
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- 17 Mar 2011
- News
Make or Break for the USA?
devoted entirely to manufacturing (and featuring Kim Clark, Steve Wheelwright, Bob Hayes, and Roy Shapiro as youthful professors, along with older hands such as Wick Skinner). After its founding in 1908 (the same year Henry Ford...
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- Article
Why Bad Things Happen to Good Companies
By: Richard S. Tedlow, Benson P. Shapiro and Adrian Jurij Slywotzky
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Business Ventures
Tedlow, Richard S., Benson P. Shapiro, and Adrian Jurij Slywotzky. "Why Bad Things Happen to Good Companies." Strategy & Business, no. 3 (Second Quarter 1996): 16–26.
- September 2010 (Revised August 2011)
- Background Note
Pricing, Profits, and Customer Value
By: Frank V. Cespedes, Benson P. Shapiro and Elliot B. Ross
This note discusses how some firms (start-ups and established companies) maximize customer value and profits via their pricing processes. It is aimed at companies that compete on the basis of performance initiatives rather than absolute cost advantages and low price....
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Customer Focus and Relationships;
Customer Value and Value Chain;
Cost;
Price;
Profit;
Performance Effectiveness;
Sales;
Competitive Strategy
Cespedes, Frank V., Benson P. Shapiro, and Elliot B. Ross. "Pricing, Profits, and Customer Value." Harvard Business School Background Note 811-016, September 2010. (Revised August 2011.)
- Web
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products of one of the world’s largest steel producers during momentous years for the industry. At the same time, the photographs are unique works of art, many taken by renowned and distinctively talented photographers. This...
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- September 2015 (Revised June 2018)
- Case
Macy's: Evolution in the Sunshine State
In 2009, Lee O'Rourke was promoted to district vice president in charge of Macy's newly created North Florida district. This district consisted of 11 stores located in the greater Orlando area and in the east coast towns of Daytona, Melbourne, Merritt Island, and Vero...
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Human Capital;
Managing Performance;
Retail;
Organization;
Change Management;
Leadership;
Leadership Style;
Leading Change;
Marketing;
Marketing Strategy;
Management;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Performance Improvement;
Retail Industry;
United States
Groysberg, Boris, Das Narayandas, Benson P. Shapiro, and Sarah L. Abbott. "Macy's: Evolution in the Sunshine State." Harvard Business School Case 416-018, September 2015. (Revised June 2018.)
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Ink: Talking Shop
and not tooting his own horn, I’ll give a vote for Michael Horn’s podcast, Future U. It’s great for anyone interested in higher ed and workforce development. —Scott Benson (MBA 2008) I’ve been listening to many of the podcasts View Details
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FY19 Baker Library Annual Report
Skip to Main Content Annual Report FY19 Our Mission Who We Are Our People Our Culture Our Values What We Do Our Services Our Collections Our Spaces How We Do It FY19 By The Numbers Our Platform Digital Baker Ecosystem Our Budget Search...
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- 06 Dec 2021
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Come Clean
have missed a cracked button in inspection, we didn’t fold the collar up as requested by the customer, etc.” “No second grader says, ‘I want to work in dry cleaning when I grow up.’” “No second grader says, ‘I want to work in dry cleaning...
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- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2015
effective communicator. Martin Shapiro’s 2039 by Martin Shapiro (MBA 1966) (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform) A dystopian novel depicting a world in which no nuclear explosions or pandemics have...
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- 20 Dec 2019
- News
The 19 Musts of 2019
newsletter Drinking from the Firehose MUST DOWNLOAD Ear Hustle “A remarkable, meaningful, and totally enjoyable and surprising show about the daily realities of life inside prison, shared by those living it, and stories from the outside,...
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Working with Spaces, Files & Folders - Research Computing Services
the following advices on storage Organization and other Best Practices: Two well written papers, Gentzkow & Shapiro (2014)and Noble (2009), discuss strategies for organizing research project involving computational components and are Must...
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- 25 Aug 2010
- News
Games, Parties, Pranks, and Celebrations
(sent in by class-notes secretaries) Games 1972J. Section A started our bingo game in the second term of our first year (1971). Cards had the names of roughly a third of the class (24 of 75) on them (5 each for B, I, G, and O and 4 plus...
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