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The General Shoe Company, 1921 | Baker Library
the situation with the information available to them, determine what questions still needed asking, and decide on a possible course of action. Harvard University. Bureau of Business Research. Depreciation in the Retail Shoe Business.... View Details
- 25 Aug 2017
- Blog Post
HBS Interns: Summer Takeovers
Toronto, before working in their offices in California and New York City. Anita worked with the CFO and COO to implement the executive search firm's new digital strategy. Jenn Volk, Sephora Innovation Lab Jenn Volk spent her summer in San Francisco merging her... View Details
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Fair Competition
American Institute for the History of Pharmacy]. In the paper I explore how pharmacist trade associations coordinated a state-wide movement in California to control retail marketing and pricing. Prior to the Great Depression, California... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Creating the Shopping Experience of the Future
More Retail Revolutions Sharing Designer Labels Rent the Runway, from Jenn Hyman and Jenny Fleiss (both MBA 2009), brings the sharing economy to the world of fashion, offering big-name dresses—and now accessories—for short-term rental... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Yla Eason (MBA 1977)
in June, when retailers had made their purchasing decisions in February. Sales is often about education. I asked chain retailers where they were selling dark pantyhose and makeup for brown skin, then... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Jeremiah P. Murphy, Jr.
Harvard Square retail community, the Coop's number was almost up when Murphy arrived on the scene. As an old-style department store that carried everything from refrigerators to intimate apparel, the store was struggling to compete in the... View Details
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Alex Nelson
solve complex problems and meet people's needs — I could do more effectively as a business person." Finding meaningful roles After just over two and a half years with Boston Consulting Group (BCG), where Alex worked on a variety of marketing and View Details
Charles E. Mitchell
Under Mitchell’s presidency, National City Bank was converted into a modern retail banking organization and a world-wide banking empire with offices from London to Singapore. He popularized checking accounts for individuals and pioneered... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 16 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
The Rise of The Sixes: Interview with CEO and Founder Franci Girard
remembered. “And I had a crisis of confidence looking at my experience and feeling insecure about wanting to pursue a career in fashion.” However, two elements of the HBS experience helped propel her forward in her fashion and retail... View Details
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Samantha Ernst
in investment banking with J.P. Morgan, Samantha found her calling in retail. “I grew up with Women’s Wear Daily in my house,” she says. “My mother graduated from the Fashion Institute of Technology. I always suspected retail would be in... View Details
- 04 Mar 2009
- Op-Ed
Credit is Not the Bogey
to loan Americans money. In the housing sector, an explosion of subprime lenders gave borrowers deals that were truly too good to be true, trapping them in impossible loans. In the retail sector, credit card agencies flooded mailboxes,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Toy Story
one was surprised. On the retail side, the large discount chains — WalMart and Target in particular — had steadily taken market share from specialty toy stores, in some cases using toys as a loss leader to pull in traffic. The ripple... View Details
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Michelle Giguere
In high school, Michelle Giguere, "fell" into the Gap and never left, working part-time at the apparel retailer throughout college and returning full-time after graduation. "I loved the mix of fashion with the energy of... View Details
- 20 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018
March 2018 Review of Economics and Statistics Scraped Data and Sticky Prices By: Cavallo, Alberto Abstract—I use daily prices collected from online retailers in five countries to study the impact of measurement bias on three common price... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jun 2015
- News
Doing whatever it takes
When she served as president and COO of Stop & Shop, Carol R. Goldberg (AMP 57, 1969) helped develop the family business into a $4 billion retail giant. (Published June 2015) View Details
Thomas S. Monaghan
Monaghan founded the second largest pizza retailer in the United States. He discovered an effective new formula for Domino’s pizza, simplified the menu, limited toppings and pizza sizes, and concentrated on making deliveries in record... View Details
Keywords: Food & Tobacco
- 14 May 2013
- Blog Post
Exploring new opportunities at HBS
startup approximately 10% of the size of our entire RC class. Prior to joining the startup, I had a slightly more traditional occupation working on the Loyalty Marketing team at a national luxury retailer (which, yes, did require me to... View Details
Keywords: Technology
Lucio A. Noto
Noto first concentrated on consolidating and improving efficiency in Mobil's oil, gas and chemical businesses, including trimming bureaucracy at the corporate level. Noto also revamped Mobil's retail gasoline business, being one of the... View Details
Keywords: Utilities & Energy
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
The Great Priority Reset
1998), CEO of the global airports and travel retail group daa plc since 2017. (He starts a new role as CEO of UK-based food manufacturer Greencore this fall.) This idea of “travel with intention” is a key trend in the industry that... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Making Big Data Fashionable
from anything so unquantifiable as emotion, Moon values that intuition and wants to “help validate” it. More Retail Revolutions Speeding Up Accessories BaubleBar cofounders Amy Jain and Daniella Yacobovsky (both MBA 2010) apply the... View Details