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- 01 Jun 2022
- News
The Exchange: Same Great Price, Now with Fewer Chips
John Gourville and Alex MacKay (Image by John Ritter) Rising inflation and pandemic-related supply-chain challenges are driving up prices at the grocery store. While some manufacturers, like Procter & Gamble, have come forward to announce price hikes across their... View Details
- 09 Jun 2015
- News
Yat-Pang (MBA 2000) and Helina Au
apartments and ground floor retail in San Francisco. Au believes alumni should give to HBS “in appreciation for what the School has done for us,” so he has established a bequest to create the Yat-Pang and Helina Au Fellowship Fund. “The... View Details
- 09 Mar 2015
- News
Professor Emeritus Walter J. Salmon Dies at 84
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
A Sustainable Solution for Fashion
Ferdinand Stockmann (MBA 2021) and James Theuerkauf (MBA 2021) Photo courtesy Syrup Tech Fashion is one of the most polluting industries in the world, says James Theuerkauf (MBA 2021), who worked in McKinsey’s retail sector before... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Hiroshi Mikitani, MBA 1993
retail stores sell their products online. Rather than rely on outside investors, Mikitani funded Rakuten with his own money, taking a significant personal risk, and recruited his wife, Haruko (an IBJ colleague), to run the back office. In... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Derek Ferguson
Music, a retailer based in the Midwest. “Its biggest profit drivers were rap and hip-hop,” he remarks. “I remember thinking that there was a real opportunity to cater more directly to that customer base.” To learn more about the business,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
End Game
Illustration by James Steinberg In the 1960s and 1970s, as the environmental movement dawned in the United States, a new generation of activist-minded entrepreneurs appeared. Among them were companies like Body Shop, Aveda, Tom’s of Maine, and Whole Foods—all founded... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Step Change
chairwoman. After, the more prevalent mindset was “I’ll just go do it,” the “it” being a new venture addressing any of a host of gaps in the marketplace. At a panel in 2016, Shousha remembers bankers droning on about opening bricks-and-mortar View Details
- 01 Jan 2013
- News
André R. Jakurski, MBA 1973
he explains, "We had our best year ever. We borrowed in US dollars and invested in Brazilian reais. It was incredible." By 1997, the once small Pactual had grown into a large institution. When his business partner wanted to expand into View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 11 Mar 2021
- News
Leading with Heart
both sort of felt deeply and we just said, "We have to work with each other." And after that, I joined JAB Holding, which is an investment fund that owns a bunch of food retail concepts like Krispy Kreme and Panera Bread, Pret a Manger,... View Details
- 27 Oct 2015
- News
Sweet Success
retailers such as Whole Foods, Trader Joe’s, and Kroger, and on the menu in upscale restaurants as a sweetener in everything from cocktails to main courses. After focusing on details for several years, Turner hints he is once again... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 12 Feb 2021
- News
How Dunkin’ Donuts Took Over the World
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Courtesy Bob Rosenberg Courtesy Bob Rosenberg Dan Morrell: In 1963, Bob Rosenberg’s (MBA 1963) father asked him to become CEO of Universal Food Systems—which included a regional brand known as Dunkin’... View Details
- 20 Jan 2023
- News
Free Spirits
explains. It’s another item for Tilden’s to-do list: educate the market. In the short-term, Royle was packing up her home in Cambridge and preparing to move back to California, where she would manage the company’s West Coast retail... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Every Trick in the Book
moment, the model for Barnes & Noble, a venerable but struggling small chain, which that year sold its single remaining location on Fifth Avenue in New York to a bookseller named Leonard Riggio. But the retail landscape was already... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
My First Job
did make sense and thus had my first lesson about COGS (cost of goods sold). It took me a few more months to earn enough for the bike. After that, whatever I desired beyond basics, I had to earn myself—including HBS, during which time I started a View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
unsuccessful) plans to redevelop Union Square and other parts of Southwest Baltimore, Dlodlo began by asking residents what they wanted and needed. Everything about Madikizela, from the incorporation of culturally diverse retail to the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Generation Next
grocery. All of the new businesses were unprofitable, though, and the losses from rural retailing threatened to overwhelm the entire company. Even worse, the avian flu had dented the poultry feed business, hitting the pockets of its... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
It's academic. (Not!)
been a great friend. It makes me feel so good to know that my advisor is interested in my career and my well-being." Raman and Ton have been studying retail operation, focusing on an operational execution issue - namely, misplaced... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Real Conflict
BY PERMISSION OF JOHN DEERING AND CREATORS SYNDICATE, INC. Nowadays, mighty Wal-Mart’s headquarters in Bentonville, Arkansas, must feel less like a hotbed of retailing and more like a war room. There is a groundswell of criticism of the... View Details