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- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Shop Talk, Different Avenues
of retailing through consulting and marketing work for a roster of global clients. Traub recently sat down with Gilt Groupe cofounders Alexis Maybank and Alexandra Wilkis Wilson (both MBA 2004) to discuss 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
- 30 Jan 2012
- News
Shopping Around
Calabrese: "Never mistake motion for action." Courtesy Julia Calabrese A commercial real-estate mogul who quotes Hemingway? That would be Julia Calabrese (OPM 22, 1995), CEO at London-based McArthurGlen Group UK Ltd., a leading owner, manager, and developer of designer... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Incentives and Operational Excellence
video they wanted was out of stock. Retailers typically buy videocassettes from studios for $45 each and rent them for $4. Tapes are disposed of for $5 after three months, so the retailer must rent the tape... View Details
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This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details
- 29 Jul 2013
- News
Opening New Markets for Black South African Winemakers
notable recent addition is the House of Mandela portfolio of wines, produced by the family of Nelson Mandela. The Mandelas and Cuffes both recognized South Africa's burgeoning fair trade wine movement, which promotes equitable View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Q&A: Orin Smith
the quintessential entrepreneur." When Schultz purchased the Starbucks name and assets in 1987 for $3.8 million, the company, founded in 1971, had six retail stores that sold whole bean coffee, tea, and spices. Three years later, there... View Details
- 15 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Apple Pay’s Technology Adoption Problem
company will have trouble coming up with an equally compelling message to drive sales of a service that allows you to pay at the retail counter with a swipe of an iPhone. "What does it do for me as a consumer?" asks Associate... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Downhill Re-Boot
remains to be seen is whether buyers will pony up the suggested retail price of $1,295 per pair. Hanson, a pioneer of the rear-entry boot, acknowledges that “in this very, very difficult economy,” there is “some skepticism around making... View Details
- 18 Dec 2018
- News
Nike Korea CEO David Song's Investment in Employees Pays Off
Keywords: Retail Trade
- 20 May 2014
- News
HBS Startup Turns Unused Gift Cards Into Cash
- 07 Feb 2014
- News
How Shoptiques is Helping Independent Boutiques Tackle E-Commerce
- 30 Jul 2019
- News
Turning Around Tesco
The British-based grocery chain Tesco—the third-largest retailer in the world—recently marked its 100th anniversary with a record-setting, 30-hour dance relay in Wembley Stadium. There were other reasons to celebrate, too: The chain is... View Details
- 15 Nov 2019
- News
Diversity as a Driver of Performance
Source: Tapestry Source: Tapestry In September, Jide Zeitlin (MBA 1987) was named chairman and CEO of Tapestry, the $5.9 billion parent company of Coach, Kate Spade, and Stuart Weitzman. A former Goldman Sachs executive, Zeitlin has been on the board of the company... View Details
Keywords: Retail Trade
- 25 Sep 2019
- News
Entrepreneur Middle East's Achieving Women 2019: Dina Sidani
Keywords: Retail Trade
- 03 Oct 2017
- News
Can Bezos’s Ties to Boston—and HBS—Seal the Deal?
In the battle to land Amazon’s second American headquarters, Boston may have an historical advantage with CEO Jeff Bezos. A recent Boston Globe article details Bezos ties to the area, which began with a visit to HBS campus 20 years ago. Since the founder of Amazon... View Details
Keywords: Retail Trade