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Jack I. Straus
Having joined the company immediately after graduation from college, Jack Straus was the driving force behind Macy’s expansion in the mid-1900s. In addition to expanding the stores through numerous acquisitions, he adjusted the company’s cash-only policy to allow for... View Details
Keywords: Retail
Richard W. Sears
After having much success selling a small order of watches he had come across while working as a telegrapher, Sears entered the merchandising business full time and devoted his business to rural, relatively poor farmers. Though Sears was known for his lack of... View Details
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H. Wayne Huizenga
Huizenga purchased the one-year old Blockbuster operation from its founders in 1986 and embarked on a massive expansion campaign. Believing that there were low barriers to entry in the video rental market, Huizenga built over 1,000 Blockbuster establishments in less... View Details
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William M. Batten
Batten transformed JCPenney from a sleepy “Main Street” store into a diversified mass merchandiser located in shopping malls throughout suburbia. He dramatically expanded the merchandising line, introduced the Penney credit card, and launched the catalogue business.... View Details
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Edward A. Filene
Filene developed the world’s largest specialty store. In 1912, when Filene opened his new mega-store in Boston, 715,000 people came through the doors of the new store within one week. With the inauguration of the new store, Filene’s sales jumped from $4.8 million to... View Details
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James E. Davis
At a young age, Davis and his 3 brothers helped their father open the family’s first store in Miami, FL. As the brothers grew older, they increased the number of family owned stores to 34, and eventually acquired the Winn & Lovett chain, which added 78 stores. As... View Details
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- 15 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 15
Wawa Inc. Retailing requires attention to detail and customer and employee loyalty. Wawa is a 50-year-old food retailer with an almost cult-like following. With $9 billion in revenues, Wawa is the 50th... View Details
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Michael Kaplan
Fullbeauty brands by Goldman Sachs and Oaktree; negotiations for a potential debt refinancing by a major US department store; partnership with a leading private equity firm to purchase a national specialty retailer and brand; investment... View Details
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Student Clubs | MBA
Student Organization Latter-day Saint Student Association M Management Consulting Club Marketing Club Middle East & North Africa Club Midwest Student Association O Outdoors Club P Partners' Club Pickleball Club Polo & Equestrian Club PRIDE Public-Speaking Club R Real... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Hi-Ho, Hi-Ho
Investment Banking: 10.5% Investment Management: 7.3% Hedge Funds: 5.3% Private Equity/LBO: 12.4% Sales & Trading: 2.0% Venture Capital: 2.5% Other: 4.4% Consulting 21.1% Manufacturing 17.3% Biomed/Pharma: 3.7% Consumer Products: 4.9% Technology: 6.0% Other: 2.7% View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
How to Survive Past Start-up
from the MBA Class of 1998: Marc Cenedella, founder of the Internet job search site TheLadders; Marla Malcolm Beck, cofounder of national cosmetics retailer bluemercury; and Chris Michel, cofounder of early professional social networks... View Details
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Buy Now, Pay Later: Research Links - Secondary Resources
1917). Full text available as a networked resource. Wassam, Clarence Wycliffe. The Salary Loan Business in New York City (New York, 1908). Full text available as a networked resource. Credit Men's National Association (U.S.) Retail et... View Details
- 01 Apr 2020
- Blog Post
How Scott Linzmeyer Crafted a Business He Loves at Reveler Beverage
deadline, and as Linzmeyer dug into the earlier concepts he and his co-founder considered the retail component stuck out to him as the clear winner. He loved craft beer, but as a consumer he wasn’t happy with the options of where he could... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Elevator Pitch: Spread the Wealth
want to open pathways to ownership for a new generation of investors like Amanda.” “We want to open pathways to ownership for a new generation of investors like Amanda.” Status Update: More than 600 retail and service organizations have... View Details
- 26 Feb 2009
- News
Last Look - March 2009
Our thanks to HRPBA ’60-ers Sandy Krickovic Self and Nancy Needham Merrill, who recognized themselves as the second and third models in the photo. Self wrote: “In Malcolm McNair’s Marketing class, we were studying the women’s retail... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Fair Trade
status-symbol luxuries, like expensive watches or designer jeans. Why do consumers pay so much for products whose ingredients are well known to represent only a small proportion of the retail price? Beauty is certainly, as one recent... View Details
- 16 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 16
Publications 2006 Stanford University Press Wall Street Research: Past, Present, and Future By: Groysberg, Boris, and Paul M. Healy Abstract—Wall Street equity analysts provide research products and services on publicly traded companies to institutional and View Details
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- 02 Feb 2018
- Working Paper Summaries
Last Place Aversion in Queues
- 21 Dec 2016
- Cold Call Podcast