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- 07 May 2016
- News
Retail in the Blood
As a boy, Simon Belsham (MBA 2007) hung out on the shop floor of Scally Wags Fun Factory, the toy shop his parents ran in the English town of Ashford. The shop closed with the... View Details
Keywords: Retail Trade
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Empowering Japan through e-commerce
he developed a web-based shopping mall—Rakuten, which roughly means “optimism”—often called the Amazon.com of Japan. “We created an online marketplace where customers can interact with shop owners, and we... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Instilling Production with Principles
pro-environmental policies are money savers and the key to her company’s continued success, Yang says. More Retail Revolutions Recycling the Consignment Shop Bigger than the local consignment shop and easier... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Making Big Data Fashionable
Next: Ivy Ross (PMD 68, 1994) — Creating the Shopping Experience of the Future » Return to Fashion's Retail Revolution main page « To learn more about these seven HBS Alumni trendsetters, click on their photos below: Marjorie Yang... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Ensuring success through education
opened its first campus in 2008 and its second in 2011. “There are many businesses that are born and die. A university is supposed to live forever,” says the founder and chairman of FiBA Group, a multibillion-dollar portfolio of investments that includes View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
He’s Back
Wesleyan, he returned three punts for touchdowns and led the NCAA’s Division III in average punt-return yards his senior year), Robinson returns to his former stomping grounds at a busy time. Several big projects are in progress: a $2 billion View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
2017 in Finance: Helping Consumers Improve Their Financial Life
that consumers often feel overwhelmed by the topic of finances. They don’t feel as if they are in control. In other aspects of their life—for instance, in their shopping habits—consumers have access to a lot of information that in turn... View Details
- 06 Nov 2009
- News
Health Reform Paths Not Taken
Herzlinger points to Switzerland as a model system without a government-run plan. “What I like about it is that it’s got universal coverage, it’s customer driven, and there are no intermediaries shopping on people’s behalf,” she recently... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Entrepreneurship flourishes in the Bayou
entrepreneurs. “It is a very easy city in which to adopt new approaches. It's a very open city in which to take a risk,” says Wilkins. “After Katrina, everyone needed to become an entrepreneur. Everyone needed to start over. Everyone had to open up View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Learning to Speak the Language of Business
companies with a commanding presence in their home markets. But to call Mikitani’s company, Rakuten, the Amazon.com of Japan would overlook fundamental differences for customers and merchants alike. “We created a real online marketplace where customers can interact... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Coach “Chuck” Jukes Convention
’Tis the season for bowl games and playoffs! If you’re stuck at midfield on your shopping list with the clock winding down, The Complete Handbook of Coaching Wide Receivers would make a great Hail Mary holiday gift. The treatise’s author... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Research Brief: Lessons from Last Place
the line.” For instance, if the barista at the neighborhood coffee shop acknowledges customers as they enter the line and asks what they want to drink, the customer at the end of the line is less likely to leave or register... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Uhlmann Award Winners Focus on French Retailer
suburb with thousands of high-quality, low-cost items under one roof. A new term -- hypermarché -- was coined to describe this phenomenon. French consumers were lured away from their traditional patronage of small, locally owned stores to do their View Details
- 25 Apr 2023
- News
Class of 2022 Startups Sweep Alumni New Venture Competition
Center for Entrepreneurship. “We started Hue in our RC year at HBS, and we actually met in the Startup Bootcamp and started working together,” says Shah. The cofounders combined their previous tech and retail expertise to create Hue, with a goal of helping people feel... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 30 Aug 2018
- News
“No Interest in Being the Only”
that real estate was so tangible,” she said. “We all stay in hotels, we shop in malls, we work in offices. It’s an asset that you can touch and feel and understand.” “My grandfather hoboed from Tennessee to California,” Hale said. “My dad... View Details
- 26 Apr 2011
- News
BioMine Strikes Gold
marketing, were as follows: Africa Angus Rowe, OPM 38 2009 LifeQube mobile clinic management Watch their pitch. Asia-Pacific Oliver Segovia, MBA '10 Jennifer Kelly, MBA '10 AVA invitation-only shopping platform Watch their pitch. Canada... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Hollywood Squared
American shopping mall.” Citing an “explosion of home-grown content” in diverse countries around the world, he added that “globalization does not mean homogeneity. It means heterogeneity.” Lynton’s is a respected voice, as was underscored... View Details
Keywords: Arts, Entertainment
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Internet Tsunami
Hiroshi Mikitani (MBA '93) is the founder, president, and CEO of Rakuten, Japan's leading online shopping destination. He believes that because the Internet allows merchants to circumvent the many intermediaries who jack up prices in... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Business Plan Contest Has Many Winners
entrepreneur-owned, for-profit centers throughout rural India would offer one-stop shopping locations for customers needing government-required permits and deeds, microfinancing, agricultural information, and other essential services. A... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Reunion Highlights: A Case in Point
program about IDEO, a highly successful product design firm (and the subject of an HBS case that the teens had also been assigned to read). In the segment, IDEO’s designers were challenged to build a much-improved supermarket shopping... View Details