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- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Shop Talk, Different Avenues
supply. In 2009 we started shaping the kind of inventory we needed and partnered with brands in the same way department stores do to make sure that we’re not left empty-handed when we have surges in demand.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
A Former Buyer Turns Designer
(MBA ’05) first line of women’s clothing, AMMARA, won’t hit department stores until this fall, she’s already landed in Women’s Wear Daily for bringing fashionable apparel to mature customers at a lower price... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
The Simplest Taste
parlaying that one emporium into an empire of stores nationwide. Neiman Marcus introduced a number of innovations such as weekly department store fashion shows, personalized... View Details
- 23 May 2019
- News
Marla Beck, MBA/MPA 1998
for cosmetics needed to be more customer focused, so in 1999 she launched Bluemercury, a retailer of high-end beauty products. Perhaps the most obvious evidence that Beck’s thoughtful strategy and hard work have disrupted the beauty market lies in the fact that a View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 17 Nov 2016
- News
Rent the Runway Sets Up Shop at Neiman Marcus
110-year-old department store, which will see new Rent the Runway shops open inside of existing Neiman Marcus locations. (Rent the Runway opened its first physical store in New York City in 2014, and now has... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Kid at Heart — John H. Eyler (MBA 1971)
chain's 38 similarly decorated stores -- is a fantasyland of whirling gizmos, blinking lights, talking bears, and singing clocks. The mazelike layout of the Fifth Avenue shop spans two levels and is filled from floor to ceiling with toys,... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 29 Jul 2021
- News
A Clean Start
and bactericides to tires and textiles—or for storing intermittent renewable energy until it is ready to be used, by converting it back into hydrogen or electricity. With two recent grants worth $2.8 million from the US View Details
- 03 Aug 2020
- News
A Clean Start
electrolyzer, combines electricity and CO2, and splits water to make formic acid, which can be stored like a conventional hydrocarbon liquid (think gasoline). OCO can then manufacture and sell that formic acid to customers who use it... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Seven Honored with Alumni Achievement Award
What keeps you up at night? Not much. I like to sleep. View complete profile. Carlos Sicupira (OPM 9, 1984) Director, Anheuser-Busch InBev Chairman, Lojas Americanas Starting in the 1980s, at Banco Garantia, Carlos (“Beto”) Sicupira (above, left) grew a Rio de Janeiro... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Deals For Sale
department and we agree to move them." In an arrangement with Federal Express, the modems are shipped to a warehouse in Memphis, Tennessee, and inspected. FairMarket then posts a description of the merchandise online for the next... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 11 Dec 2014
- News
Fashion's Retail Revolution
Áslaug Magnúsdóttir (MBA 2000) in the New York office of Tinker Tailor, her new online couture business. When HBS first turned a scholarly eye to retail in the early 20th century, department stores were... View Details
- 07 Oct 2011
- News
Tea’s Time
not just an idea anymore.” Based in San Francisco, Tea’s sales are projected to hit $25 million in 2011. Sold in some department stores (Nordstrom’s, Saks Fifth Avenue, Bloomingdale’s) and children’s... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Q & A: Jeanne P. Jackson: A New Regime at Banana Republic
the customer like about the brand? We found that they associated the brand with quality, a sense of adventure, and a pleasant store experience. Then we did some opportunity analyses on what people wished was out there. We found a gigantic... View Details
- 20 Jan 2015
- News
Patient Medical Records, Pocket-sized
the cost of care. The records are secure—encrypted, password-protected, HIPAA-compliant, and not stored on a server. In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Bushkin read of displaced New Orleanians whose paper medical records had been... 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... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Forward Thinking
but a study funded by the Department of Energy found that, over a five-year stretch, reality didn’t match predictions. Already AI technology is making progress, Nussey says. He points to the July release of GPT-4o mini, a lightweight... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Jeremiah P. Murphy, Jr.
Harvard Square retail community, the Coop's number was almost up when Murphy arrived on the scene. As an old-style department store that carried everything from refrigerators to intimate apparel, the View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Lighten Up
had some fabulous people from day one, but some very uneven teams until recently.” As of September, GoLite had about 25 employees. It plans to boost its development department from four to twelve people this year. Other View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Live Long and Prosper: Lillian Too Reveals Ancient Chinese Secrets
examples of businesses that use Feng shui. Two high-profile users are the Hong Kong Bank, the largest and most successful bank in Hong Kong, and the Marks & Spencer stores, probably the most successful supermarket and department View Details
- 12 Sep 2019
- News
Skydeck Voices: Finding My Muse
building all these mass stores on,” where I'm like “Is there a way to protect that beauty or even create some harmony between the buildings we build with the environment that we live in.” And so I think that's where I do my best thinking.... View Details