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  • 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
Keywords: vending machines; Retail Trade; Retail Trade; Retail Trade; Retail Trade
  • 01 Dec 2014
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Rethinking the Fashion Beat

wanted to. Still, it wasn’t until investors came calling that Amed realized that London-based BoF could be a business. In 2013, he took on backers that included industry powerhouses LVMH and Index Ventures, threw in some of his own money,... View Details
Keywords: Alyssa Giacobbe; fashion; Retail Trade
  • 25 Aug 2022
  • News

Open Market

culturally relevant as art or music—and why the retail investor is woefully misunderstood. You’ve been at Robinhood now for three-and-a-half years. How has the organization evolved in that time? The mission... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Keith Negley; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance
  • 01 Sep 2005
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Perfection’s Price

MICHAEL KAPLAN (left, with brother and partner Nicholas) reflects on lessons learned and looks ahead to future growth. Michael Kaplan (MBA ’02) had a great idea for a start-up: a fashionable apparel company catering to plus-size women. But when an View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley; Retail Trade; Retail Trade
  • 01 Apr 2001
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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... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes; Retail Trade; Retail Trade
  • 08 Jun 2021
  • News

New Funding for Female Founders

respective ventures. Assaf is co-founder and CEO of the CBD-infused beauty brand The Uplifters’ Prima, which raised $9.2 million in a seed-plus funding round to support its retail expansion, according to coverage in the Los Angeles... View Details
Keywords: Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance
  • 01 Jun 2000
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Priceline's Jay Walker: The Future is Wow

online stock trading and online auctions are the few places in e-commerce that approximate "wow" today. Noting that 30 percent of all securities trading is done by individual investors online, Walker said that the Web has turned the... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2017
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2017 in Real Estate: A Local Business Goes Global

trend is not going away. This trend is being driven by two things. The first is the wealth buildup in Asia. The domestic real estate markets in Asia are still small, so Asian real estate investors have turned to Europe and the United... View Details
Keywords: Real Estate
  • 22 Jan 2018
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The First Five Years: ‘30 Under 30’ Edition

sourcing retail partners to ideating and negotiating the deals. I'd also execute on the look and feel of the physical store post-deal. It was a hands-on management role and I absolutely loved the high-intensity nature of my day-to-day.... View Details
Keywords: Nonstore Retailers; Nonstore Retailers; Nonstore Retailers; Nonstore Retailers; Nonstore Retailers; Nonstore Retailers
  • 01 Mar 2023
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Elevator Pitch: Spread the Wealth

want to open pathways to ownership for a new generation of investors like Amanda.” “We want to open pathways to ownership for a new generation of investors like Amanda.” Status Update: More than 600 View Details
Keywords: entrepreneurship; stock ownership; customer rewards; employee retention; financial literacy; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance
  • 24 Apr 2014
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An investment of time to advance education

investment in Facebook when it was still a start-up. He is also founder and CEO of Breyer Capital, a global equity investor focused on catalyzing high-impact social and for-profit entrepreneurs in the media, technology, education, and... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2014
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Customizing Couture Online

“fashion’s fairy godmother.” It’s easy to remember a time when women didn’t buy high-end fashion online—it was barely a decade ago. Magnúsdóttir watched the birth of the online fashion industry as a retail consultant and a cofounder of a... View Details
Keywords: April White; fashion; Professional Services
  • 01 Mar 2023
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Case Study: Power Nappy

The Answers: It depends on the company’s goals. We’ve seen many examples of DTCs that had to scale and go to retail faster than they were ready, due to investor pressure. If Saigal is happy with the current... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Miscellaneous Manufacturing; Manufacturing
  • 01 Jun 2022
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Sunny Side

contrarian bet is paying off. Berardi is traveling less, as more and more founders and investors set up shop in his new hometown: “Miami was built on waves of immigration. It’s a place that makes you feel like you matter to its future and... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
  • 01 Jun 2015
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Case Study: Sneak Peak

1,000 retail outlets, including Target and Toys “R” Us. Revenue has grown rapidly with just one flavor, but after multiple discussions with venture capital groups, it became clear that investors were looking... View Details
Keywords: Whole Foods; Retail Trade; Retail Trade; Retail Trade; Retail Trade
  • 22 Feb 2022
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Launch Codes

Pak (MBA 2015) founding member and CMO at Blueland; Alumni track winner, 2019 Forget the Past Sebastian Monroy (MBA 2018) and I launched Zubale as a marketplace to connect independent contractors to consumer goods companies in need of merchandising help. And while we... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Alvaro Dominguez
  • 18 Aug 2014
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Closing the Education Gap

Light. “They had never hired MBAs, and we were very foreign creatures to them. I was one of eight money managers, covering retail and financial services stocks. A year into it, they gave me the entire sector to cover,” she says. Dias... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
  • 29 Apr 2021
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Equal Partner

working in the fashion and retail industry—as the director of Global Strategy at Donna Karan (a division of LVMH), the general manager of Shop Your Way and the founder of Mintbox, a flash sale and loyalty startup—she helped to organize... View Details
Keywords: Diversity; Inclusion
  • 17 Jun 2021
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Investing in a Post-COVID World; Exploring the Pandemic’s Impact on Gender Equity

Clubs News Clubs News Alumni Angels Conference Tackles Post-Pandemic Investing and Entrepreneurship The global pandemic has reshaped the world, and investors and founders are full of questions about the future of startups. To find... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • 01 Jan 2009
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Jorge Paulo Lemann, A.B. 1961; Carlos A. Sicupira, OPM 9, 1984; Marcel H. Telles, OPM 10, 1985

Lemann founded Banco de Investimentos Garantia and soon recruited Sicupira and Telles to join what would become the most successful investment bank in Brazil. As they acquired diverse assets, the trio transformed the Brazilian economy, opening it up to outside View Details
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