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- 01 Oct 2000
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Internet Tsunami
system, much more so than in the United States," the New York Times (June 7, 2000) reported. Merchants, ranging from toy stores to fishmongers, pay a monthly fee to access Rakuten's e-commerce software and customer database. Merchants... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Reinventing perceptions of Africa through wine
Sisters in 1,500 stores between the United States and South Africa, and is eventually expanding into other countries. “Founding the company wasn’t about wine; it was about striving to transform the way the world perceived Africa, through... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
A Smooth Stretch
design and suitable not only for yoga but for everyday wear as well. Launched a little over two years ago, her clothing line, Zobha (which means beauty, brilliance, and grace in Sanskrit), can be found in more than 350 stores in twenty... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Walking the TalkTalk
Harding: Tiddlywinks and telecom. Other Newsmakers Bob Gannon (OPM 16, 1990) David Miller (MBA ’03) Allison O’Kelly (MBA ’99) Amos Schocken (MBA ’70) Mike Stone (MBA ’88) Tom Tiller (MBA ’91) Bill Wyman (MBA ’65) Ammara Yaqub (MBA ’05) Describing herself to London’s... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Evolution of Modern Pricing Models
can go really high tech, with algorithms behind the scenes that post prices at very high frequencies, or you can go the route that we took in collaboration with Zalora, which was to approach the problem by designing the online store in... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Action Plan: Rapids Growth
weekend, Holley laughs. “All four days,” he says. “My kids complain about how much we kayak. But I love it.” How to Kayak Like a Pro Find a great dealer. “You can walk into any big-box store right now and walk out with a $250 kayak, but... View Details
Keywords: Ryan Jones
- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2019
no.” Fast money: “My husband, Barry, and I raised a million dollars in two weeks to start Bluemercury in 1999. The initial idea was to build an e-commerce company, but then we changed course and focused on freestanding beauty stores where... View Details
- 04 Feb 2008
- News
After Twenty Years, Rankings Remain Controversial
on objective measures. The MBA Pathfinder Data Warehouse stores admissions, enrollment, and employment information. If not exactly an antidote to the rankings, Pathfinder can at least lay claim to being the definitive source of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Enhancing Students’ Cultural Intelligence
travel stores to help the airline enhance customer satisfaction—provided insight on Mexico’s travel industry and, equally important, a new perspective on teamwork. “There were no designated leaders in the teams we were assigned to in... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Nancy Hall (MBA 1974)
understand. My first jobs were in retailing, on the finance side. Thirteen years after HBS, I had a midlife crisis. I was working for a soon-to-be defunct department store in Baltimore and knew it was time to get out. I left my job to... View Details
- 01 Apr 2008
- News
“Let Us Now Praise Famous Women”
computer storing the data was not on campus. Doris at the dot-matrix printer, with a Decmate at the right Doris came to Alumni Records in 1979 after two years with the HBS Fund. That was the year HBS records were computerized using the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Using IT to Heal U.S. Health Care
and cutting death rates. Brailer’s challenge is to create electronic recordkeeping standards for the medical profession and to fund construction of the computer network necessary to store and share patient data. Said Brailer: “Health-care... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Download This
study that directly compares actual downloads of music files with store sales of CDs, covering the last half of 2002. “While downloads occurred on a vast scale during this period — 3 million simultaneous users shared 500 million files on... View Details
- 04 Feb 2022
- News
Hour by Hour
$1,000 per permanent hire by bypassing recruitment, background checks, and training. It has also helped hourly employees pick up extra work. “You can imagine that if you’re a store manager, you want somebody who’s familiar with your... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Incentives and Operational Excellence
on the retailer’s shelf, however, is less than $3. Demand for an individual movie is highly uncertain and usually declines rapidly after the first few weeks, Narayanan said. One contracting solution to bridge the divide between studios and View Details
- 25 Jan 2018
- News
A Whole New Game
dead,” Ranadive told The New York Times. “You could have thrown a bowling ball, and it wouldn’t have hit a soul.” In the last year, the Times reports, 27 new stores have opened in the area, with nearly two dozen more set to open in 2018.... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Mr. Coffee
“At the time, it was the highest-volume pizza operation in the world. I learned how to make pizzas very fast and rose to become a store manager during college.” On deadline: “I was editor of a Navy magazine called Surface Warfare, and at... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna