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- 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
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Dressing by Number
More Retail Revolutions Manufacturing Makeup on Demand Although it isn’t available yet, Mink, a 3D home printer that produces custom makeup, has already made serial inventor Grace Choi (MBA 2013) a cosmetics celebrity. Katrina Lake knew... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
A Look at Olook
partnerships with everyone from fashion designer André Lima to Princess Paola d'Orléans-Bragança, a descendant of Brazil's colonial royal family. Online retail has proved to be a healthy market. Brazilian research firm e-bit estimates... 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
- 25 Jul 2012
- News
Movie Magic
swipe of a credit card. “Automated retail sounds better,” suggests Gregg Kaplan (MBA 1997). Recruited by McDonald’s to help start new businesses within the fast-food giant, in 2002 Kaplan oversaw the installation of six kiosks in... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Bill Dunaway (MBA 1964)
After I heard what had happened, I ran up to my room and tore down the signs. As it happens, I had voted for Kennedy. It was a tragic, terrible thing. I thought I would stay in the retail drug business for the rest of my life. My advice... View Details
- 28 Feb 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Omowale Casselle (MBA 2009)
the expectations of our consumers, retailers, and brand partners. "In addition to managing our product lines, I also lead our operations team, which means that I make sure that each retail partner (Walmart, Walgreens, Kroger, and Meijer)... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Action Plan: Whole Sale
The future of retail won’t be brick and mortar or online, says Musab Balbale (MBA 2007). Instead, it will be a more inclusive combination of the two. Balbale, who spent several years of his career focused exclusively on online sales, is... View Details
- 01 Nov 2013
- News
Selling Crafts with a Story
office. They'd touch base for an hour, give each other homework, and then head to their day jobs—Koss working in private equity, investing in retail companies; Paranjape running a bricks-and-mortar lifestyle store. Then they'd hit the... 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
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Cutting Edge
than when he took over, those outlets are mostly regional players. He looks for the company to penetrate major, nationwide retailers this year on the strength of a national marketing effort, a broader innovation agenda, and Smith... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Fıelds of Gold
expensive foods, retailing at $4,000 or more a pound. Iran is the largest producer of this highly prized spice, which stains food a brilliant golden hue, but David Luo (MBA 2011) believes that Afghanistan could become the world’s... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
New Releases
A Stitch in Time (Second Edition) by Frederick H. Abernathy, John T. Dunlop, Janice H. Hammond, and David Weil (Oxford University Press) Spurred on by advances in information technology, a retailing revolution has been taking place during... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
The Big Business of Returns
(illustration by Chris Philpot) Sources: (1) National Retail Federation; (2) Industry analyst Kurt Salmon; (3) Inbound Logistics; (4) B-Stock Solutions View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
In VMI Partnerships, the Devil is in the Data
decade, however, influential manufacturers such as Procter & Gamble and Campbell Soup initiated such partnerships to help smooth production cycles and improve profits. Retailers were wooed by the potential efficiencies of better inventory... View Details
Keywords: Laura Singleton (MBA 1988)
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Taking Tailoring High Tech
year, topping $60 billion. But these newly fashion-conscious men didn’t want to spend lots of time and money on shopping and tailoring. Motlagh’s solution: use technology to update and brand traditional bespoke tailoring and create a low-inventory View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
William Fung: E-Commerce and Efficiency
managers are able to e-mail a digital picture of any questionable item to Hong Kong for an instant assessment. But it is Li & Fung’s StudioDirect service that has investors buzzing. For a long time, the company has built a solid reputation among big multinational... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Rethinking the Fashion Beat
community and a global one—how it interacts and how it can be brought together,” he says. “We don’t just report the news, we engage with it.” Return to Fashion's Retail Revolution main page « To learn more about these seven HBS Alumni... View Details
- 06 Dec 2017
- News
Puzzle Master
Photo via Black Enterprise Photo via Black Enterprise When kitchen goods and home furnishings retailer Williams-Sonoma announced its acquisition of Outward, Inc.—a leading 3-D imaging and augmented reality platform—the $112 million deal... View Details
- 15 May 2012
- News
Finally Finding the Right Fit
Heffernan: From one who's tried on many hats, a tip of the cap to HBS. Photo courtesy Andrew Heffernan As a young man in Dublin, Ireland, Andrew Heffernan (MBA 2006) worked in a variety of summer jobs with the family business, the country’s largest retailer. But View Details