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- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Agenda: Amanda E/J Morrison (MBA 2014)
the ground, and knowledge coming from the local communities up to us about what’s happening, since early 2022.” “We’re 18 months old and we’re in 13,000 CVS, Target, and Walmart stores right now. The goal is to one day have this Julie ‘medicine cabinet’ that any woman... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Stiletto Science
feet.” Or, as Hughes described it, “A shoe you can think in.” Hughes is chairman of HBN Shoe, which owns Insolia, a biomechanically correct design that’s built into a heeled shoe and can’t be seen when the shoe is being worn. Nordstrom is currently the only View Details
- 02 Oct 2013
- News
General Motors Takes a Look Under Tesla's Hood
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
recent U.S. real estate history can’t help but notice unsettling parallels between the red-hot commercial market of the late 1980s and today. Then, as now, money gushed into the market, driving office and retail property values to... View Details
- 08 Oct 2020
- News
Leader of Metro Named Canada's Outstanding CEO of the Year
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Accelerating a Gas-on-demand Startup
Model T owners—and it was basically the last major innovation in gasoline retailing for more than 100 years, says Bryan Frist (MBA 2015). “The gas station was stuck in the 20th century.” That revelation led to a question: If you can get... 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
- 20 Oct 2019
- News
Rent the Runway Opens Galway Office
- 25 Jun 2020
- News
Global Centers Broaden Understanding of Business and the Pandemic
events, each attended by some 180 alumni in the region. Professor Suraj Srinivasan discussed COVID-19 crisis management and the outlook for business with Alain Bejjani, CEO of Majid Al Futtaim Holding, a Dubai-based company that operates... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Going For The Summit
CANDICE CARPENTER has led some high-profile enterprises - Time Life Video and Television and the electronic retailing enterprise Q2 Inc. among them. But nothing, she says, has prepared her for the rocky terrain of online business better... View Details
Keywords: Caroline Chauncey
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Ask the Expert: Bounce Back
newsletter advertising can be extended to many industries: hotels or airlines can embed ads for attractions near featured destinations or travel accessories, entertainment venues can embed ads for local restaurants and bars, retailers... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 12 Oct 2014
- News
The Gate-Crasher in the Front Row
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management
operations of their complicated, not-for-profit institutions. "The job of running a museum is much bigger and broader than it once was," observes HBS marketing professor emeritus Stephen A. Greyser, an expert on nonprofit management who... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Kid at Heart — John H. Eyler (MBA 1971)
free that makes the job so appealing to Eyler -- it's also the chance to put to the sternest test yet his 25 years of management experience with retailers such as Federated Department Stores, Hartmarx, and the May Company. When Eyler took... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Case Study: Power Nappy
late at night, now that she’s up in the wee hours feeding her baby and scrolling Amazon on her phone, Saigal starts to question the exclusive direct-to-consumer route. “Are we losing out by not being on Amazon—and in retailers like Whole... View Details
- 01 Nov 2013
- News
Selling Crafts with a Story
office. They'd touch base for an hour, give each other homework, and then head to their day jobs—Koss working in private equity, investing in retail companies; Paranjape running a bricks-and-mortar lifestyle store. Then they'd hit the... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Eight Among Many: Robert F. Diromualdo
DiRomualdo decided to make his passion for books - especially spy stories and historical novels - his business as well. In 1989, he was hired by Tom and Louis Borders to expand the Ann Arbor, Michiganbased $20 million bookstore operation... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 06 Jan 2014
- News
Sprouts Sees Healthy Growth Ahead
- 10 Feb 2014
- News
King of His Castle
Renaissance fair vendor, began in 2009 to formulate a business plan to open a fair in Austin. Less than a year later, Sherwood Forest opened, and ancillary businesses—a summer camp, a sword and armor retailer called Eternal Arms, a Celtic... View Details