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Focus on diamond retailing : Blue Nile, Zales, and Tiffany / Sunil Chopra & Roby Thomas.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextSeries: Publisher: [London] : SAGE, 2016Description: 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour)Content type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781473968929 (ebook) :
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 338.2782 23
Online resources: The case focuses on the diamond retailing industry toward the end of 2008, with the United States in an economic downturn. All diamond retailers are hit by the downturn and are facing a critical look at their strategies. Given the basic performance information on Blue Nile, Zales and Tiffany, students are asked to consider the strengths and weaknesses of each business model with the goal of understanding business models that are better suited to handling a downturn.
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Originally Published in: Chopra, S., & Thomas, R. (2008). Focus on Diamond Retailing: Blue Nile, Zales, and Tiffany. 5-408-754. Evanston, IL: Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University.

The case focuses on the diamond retailing industry toward the end of 2008, with the United States in an economic downturn. All diamond retailers are hit by the downturn and are facing a critical look at their strategies. Given the basic performance information on Blue Nile, Zales and Tiffany, students are asked to consider the strengths and weaknesses of each business model with the goal of understanding business models that are better suited to handling a downturn.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on April 28, 2016).

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