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- 20 Jul 2017
- News
Why the Death of Malls Is About More Than Shopping
- 03 Dec 2014
- News
Why malls across America are dying
- 06 Jul 2015
- News
New name, new look for Chestnut Hill mall
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
2017 in Retail: Voice-Activated, One-Hour-Delivery Shopping
building. The losers have been the middle-of-the-road retail strategies—JCPenney, Kohl’s, Gap, Abercrombie & Fitch—and the shopping malls they occupy. Their business models are completely outdated. Customers... View Details
- 22 Jun 2017
- News
ShotSpotter: A Gunfire Detection Business Looks for a New Market
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Game On
It’s raining in Sarasota. And not a light sprinkle but a proper, Florida drenching, so the outdoor courts at the Pickleball Club’s Lakewood Ranch location are deserted. Inside is a different story. Most of the 12 courts are in play. With four people to a court, all... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Every Trick in the Book
opened its first standalone location in a suburban Pittsburgh mall in 1962; by 1971, it had more than 60 stores. Its main rival, B. Dalton Bookseller, founded in 1966 in a suburban Minnesota shopping center,... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Point, Click, Give: Internet Fuels Philanthropic Fundraising Revolution
host of Web-based social enterprises (WEBSEs): nonprofit information hubs, online giving directories, click-to-donate sites, workplace-giving centers, charity shopping malls and auctions, and volunteer... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Perfection’s Price
Ultimately, the Kaplans settled on a 3,500-square-foot shop in the Palisades Center mall in West Nyack, New York, and opened the flagship store last October. “We thought the plus-size market had evolved so... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Learning to Speak the Language of Business
merchants to build relationships with their customers,” says Mikitani, Rakuten’s founder, chairman, and CEO. Amazon offers neither experience, he adds. Launched in 1997, Rakuten’s online shopping mall now... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
The New Rules of E-Commerce
Mikitani (MBA 1993) is not shy about pursuing the big idea, in this case a belief that English is the lingua franca of business and learning it would give his organization a competitive edge. Rakuten, founded in 1997, operates an online View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Booting Up
cater properly to larger-footed women. One day a shoe manufacturer finally said to me, 'Why don't you do something about that?'" Intrigued by the challenge, Thornton interviewed shoe retailers and manufacturers and even took a $6-an-hour job selling shoes in a View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Clicks and Mortar
Associate Professor Antonio Moreno and Senior Lecturer Jill Avery (image by John Ritter) While legacy companies like Sears are shuttering their doors, a growing number of online-first companies—from Amazon to Rent the Runway—are opening new storefronts and transforming... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
FIELD 2 in Accra
multimedia company, devise a monetization strategy for its online presence, primarily by gathering information about the viewing habits of young, well-educated, upscale consumers. A key finding that emerged from their surveys, conducted in View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Speak English, Please!
proficient in English, or risk demotion. “I was simply astonished,” said one engineer interviewed after the announcement. “Many Rakuten employees are allergic to English.” At Rakuten, an online shopping mall... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
him by Max. Starting with one store in the 1950s financed by his mother’s trust fund, his father has taken advantage of the heyday of shopping malls to grow the St. Louis–based business to hundreds of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
same time, American families flocked to locations such as Walt Disney’s Disneyland to experience new forms of leisure. Shopping itself became another form of entertainment, as the number of shopping View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
High Honors
launched Tokyo-based Rakuten, a 10,000-person company that began as an online shopping mall and now includes banking, travel, e-book, and credit card divisions. With a market capitalization of approximately... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
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Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management
getting people in the door of a museum has intensified. Admission fees and retail income from gift shops and food sales can have a significant impact on the museum as a whole. Because the Smithsonian's NMNH is located in the heart of one... View Details