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- 09 Dec 2016
- News
How Wayfair Built a Furniture Brand from Scratch
- 22 Feb 2022
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How to Scale a Startup Marketplace for Used Furniture
- 30 Jan 2018
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IKEA Founder Leaves Behind A Furniture Empire And A Troubling Past
- 12 Jan 2020
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Trade War With China Took Toll on U.S., but Not Big One
- 05 Jan 2022
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Supply Chain Woes Prompt a New Push to Revive U.S. Factories
- 07 Jun 2013
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New Guru: Michael Norton of Harvard Business School
- 29 Sep 2017
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No Phillips Head? No Problem, Says IKEA
- 01 Mar 2024
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The War Within
which often depicted air raids and destruction. “The children were drawing their nightmares,” she says. (Stanislav Ivanov/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images) In February 2022, Ames had been planning to relocate to Ukraine. She had sold her house in Massachusetts...
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- 01 Dec 2022
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My First Job
Edited by Jen McFarland Flint; illustrations by Ross MacDonald Here’s the humbling truth: no matter how high your career soars, how many awards you win or companies you sell or differences you make in this world, everyone has to start somewhere. And in those first...
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- 25 Aug 2022
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Up on the Corner
corridor of Southwest Baltimore. Factories and warehouses supplied the city with everything from furniture to gelato, and people flocked to the strip’s shops, theaters, and saloons. Just to the south, a series of elegant row houses earned...
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- 01 Mar 2006
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Fast Lane to Country Lane
TOGETHERNESS: Mark and Kim Lackley based their furniture business in Vermont. Learn on someone else’s dime. That’s a lesson from HBS that served Kim Alley Lackley (MBA ’94) well as she made the leap from software and Internet start-ups to...
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- 22 Feb 2022
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Brand New
contemporize them and make them resonate with people again?” Sundy’s answer? “We have to fall in love with our customers.” Since joining La-Z-Boy in early 2021, he has been on a listening tour, meeting consumers, furniture dealers, and...
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- 01 Dec 2014
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These Walls Can Talk
the furniture and doors, in the walls. Your home comes alive without you even knowing about it,” says Liang. “That’s something we will realize over the next one to two years.” Kelly Liang (MBA 2000) has spent her career at leading-edge...
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- 01 Jun 2012
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Inspiration Is Not Enough
animated screen stars for decades of royalty income. IKEA founder Ingvar Kamprad developed a rigorous vendor-screening process that, though not sexy, provided the furniture retailer with “an impressive supply chain that is virtually...
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- 01 Oct 1997
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Terence P. Stewart
happens, lawyering didn't come first for Stewart. After graduating from HBS, he worked for several years in the business trenches, in marketing at J.C. Penney and later as product manager at Kroehler Manufacturing Co., a furniture...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2011
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Welcome to the Future
(“i-lab”). “The i-lab is a University-wide resource for all Harvard students interested in entrepreneurship and innovation,” explains i-lab director Gordon Jones. Used daily for discussion groups and exercises, the hives (above is the extra-large “superhive”) have...
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- 11 May 2011
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In a Good Place
everything from handmade jewelry (think cufflinks made from old typewriter keys) to custom-made furniture (perhaps a coffee table constructed from recycled barn siding?). Incorporated in 1985, founded by parent volunteers (Gehrke took the...
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- 01 Jun 2016
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Case Study: On the Table
Philippe Cahuzac (far right) and his Gaia Design cofounders (Photos courtesy of Gaia Design) Philippe Cahuzac (far right) and his Gaia Design cofounders (Photos courtesy of Gaia Design) Gaia Design is a Mexico-based online furniture...
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- 21 May 2016
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The Age of Consignment
“Ethical elimination” is the necessary corollary of ethical consumption, writes the New York Times, and HBS alumni are leading the way with online resell companies that make it easy to get rid of—and even make a profit from—your old gadgets, outdated fashion, and...
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