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  • 29 Oct 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Building a Powerful Prestige Brand

committed. Even if they had wanted to sell in chain stores, the Lauders could not afford the large sales force necessary to service such outlets.  Because she wanted to reach women who did not necessarily have much experience with makeup,... View Details
Keywords: by Nancy F. Koehn; Beauty & Cosmetics; Consumer Products; Retail
  • 27 Nov 2013
  • News

No Bologna, Please

risks where the payoff wasn't obvious. After HBS, he opened a cookie shop in downtown Boston—and watched commuters stream by in the morning until he added fresh croissants and baguettes, both novelties at the time. That store would become... View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia; Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality
  • 15 Jun 2021
  • News

Alumni Achievement Awards 2021

traction the business got in the market but by the number of people we were able to employ. In 2009, while I was working in Senegal with a private equity firm, Ndidi and I noticed that a huge amount of the packaged food in stores was... View Details
  • 12 May 2011
  • News

A Game Plan in Trying Times

Keywords: yoga; Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores
  • 01 Dec 2007
  • News

Lighten Up

focus on the blissful experience of being outdoors surrounded by beauty instead of how much my knees or my back hurt. “Most people, once they lighten up, won’t go back,” Coup says. My old hiking boots have logged some spectacular miles,... View Details
Keywords: Kathryn Jones; Sporting Goods, Hobby, Musical Instrument, and Book Stores; Sporting Goods, Hobby, Musical Instrument, and Book Stores
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Research Tools

employee experience insights in one place through online surveys, polls, quizzes, etc.  Tableau (for Students) Students can sign up for a free Tableau account. The software will allow anyone to connect to a... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2003
  • News

Rural Renewal

native of Wayland, Massachusetts, Reade never thought much about gardening as a kid. After earning her MBA and living in New York City for a few years, however, she went looking for geraniums for her window boxes. At the garden store in... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young; Crop Production; Agriculture
  • 01 Mar 2007
  • News

Avon CEO Jung on Leadership

Jung Andrea Jung, chairman and CEO of Avon Products, Inc., knows a thing or two about reinvention. After taking over the venerable beauty-products firm in 1999, she helped it shed the last vestiges of its “Ding-dong, Avon calling” image and morph into a glamorous... View Details
Keywords: makeup; grooming; Health and Personal Care Stores; Health and Personal Care Stores; Health and Personal Care Stores; Health and Personal Care Stores
  • 01 Oct 1999
  • News

Eight Among Many: Robert F. Diromualdo

CEO of Borders Group, Inc. - which includes more than 250 Borders Books & Music superstores around the globe, 900 Waldenbooks stores throughout the United States, and Borders.com - DiRomualdo runs an organization that rang up $2.6 billion... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
  • 13 Jul 2010
  • News

Setting an Industry Standard

Keywords: beer; brewaries; Food and Beverage Stores; Food and Beverage Stores; Food and Beverage Stores; Food and Beverage Stores
  • 02 Dec 2021
  • News

Learning Curve

Melcher. She served as president and handled the business side of the growing school, from learning to write a budget to scouring used furniture stores for inexpensive desk chairs and finding ever-larger classroom spaces (the school moved... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2006
  • News

Fast Lane to Country Lane

TOGETHERNESS: Mark and Kim Lackley based their furniture business in Vermont. Learn on someone else’s dime. That’s a lesson from HBS that served Kim Alley Lackley (MBA ’94) well as she made the leap from software and Internet start-ups to launching her husband’s... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley; Furniture and Home Furnishings Stores; Furniture and Home Furnishings Stores
  • 01 Dec 2000
  • News

Vivek Ranadivé

provides the infrastructure (or"middleware") that makes e-commerce work across disparate computer systems. His meaning, however, is just the opposite.. "The concept of e-business will disappear because every business will be an e-business," Ranadivé explains. "Physical... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Telecommunications; Information; Air Transportation; Transportation
  • 01 Jun 2008
  • News

Toy Story

centered on quality, FAO Schwartz now focuses on higher-end toys. The company is also designing its own products with its own brand and has acquired a children’s clothing company. The chain is now down from forty stores to just three, in... View Details
Keywords: toys; Retail Trade
  • 08 Jun 2018
  • News

My First Job: Selling Shoes, Surviving Black Monday, and Shaped by Chicken Lenses

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Back by popular demand, we offer a second collection of alumni recounting their experience at their first jobs. READ MORE Hey, everybody, it's Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck.... View Details
  • 21 Jan 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Lessons for Retailers from the Rebirth of Indie Bookstores

started to rise, climbing 49 percent in the next decade to nearly 2,500 stores nationwide. The resurgence has lessons for other industries. “Indie bookstores have defied the odds,” Raffaelli says. “What happened in this sector has... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 04 Dec 2007
  • First Look

First Look: December 4, 2007

  Working PapersThe "Fees Savings" Link, or Purchasing Fifty Pounds of Pasta Authors:Michael I. Norton and Leonard Lee Abstract Many consumers have had the experience of entering discount membership clubs to make a few... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Jun 2009
  • News

Martin V. Marshall Remembered

while working as a stock boy at a Safeway grocery store to help pay his way through the University of Missouri. He received the School’s Distinguished Service Award in 1998, and one year later, OPM graduates honored Marshall by endowing... View Details
Keywords: obiturary; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 01 Mar 2016
  • News

How Do I Get Your Job?

McKinsey before coming to HBS. Beck, cofounder and CEO of beauty retailer Bluemercury, tells Uberoi, a member of the student-run Retail & Luxury Goods Club, how she went from consultant to entrepreneur to retail maven, with 70-plus stores... View Details
Keywords: April White; Nonstore Retailers; Retail Trade
  • 24 Apr 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Managing Alignment as a Process

that existing stores must participate in normal industry growth while the new stores experience targeted revenue growth. The corporate scorecard also measures the amount of... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion; Consumer Products; Retail
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