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- 17 May 2011
- News
From Banking to Baubles
- 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
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Design Fair
of Pinball, pictured at far right. The team, in collaboration with the Design Continuum and the MIT Media Lab, created a system for fashion retail stores that utilizes weight-sensitive floor tiles in order to know where shoppers are... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
In VMI Partnerships, the Devil is in the Data
The expression “letting the fox guard the henhouse” comes to mind when you first hear about Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) systems, where a product manufacturer actually places orders for the retailer, determining quantities based upon consumption data provided by the... View Details
Keywords: Laura Singleton (MBA 1988)
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
Caravia—a store remodel that includes a new seating area, for example, or sales and marketing efforts such as branded merchandise and an increased social media presence. Caravia is a sanctuary of sorts, a space where Cognetti can recharge... 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
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Clearing the Air
the need for scientific advancement as significant obstacles to the DAC industry. What will it take for the sector to overcome those challenges and help the world combat climate change? And what opportunities will be created by the need to View Details
- 06 May 2019
- News
Are You Ready for Veggie Fast-Casual?
The founder and former CEO of Panera Bread has a new lease on life. Life Alive, that is. And it’s not a lease—he’s the owner. Ron Shaich (MBA 1978), has tapped his $300 million fund, Act III Holdings, to buy and reimagine a mini-chain of Boston-area casual vegetarian... View Details
- 25 Mar 2015
- News
Kraft to Be Acquired by Brazil’s 3G Capital
- 05 Jul 2014
- News
The Power of the Pub
- 01 Aug 2013
- News
For Clover CEO, openness is first
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
After the Revolution: Putting the Internet in Perspective
hours a day, has a development team instead of a staff, and has no checkout lines. Bricks-and-mortar firms such as Walgreens, on the other hand, must build physical stores and employ and train store staff.... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Noted & Quoted
“The variety, nuance, and humanity of the Middle East are being obscured.” — Her Majesty Queen Noor of Jordan, lamenting negative stereotypes of the Middle East, in a keynote address at Burden Auditorium. (Harvard Arab Weekend, November 18, 2010) “Grocery View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
The power to change nuclear waste into cost-efficient energy
planet, if we don’t find some solution like this,” says Wilcox, an entrepreneur whose first venture was E Ink, the company that created the display technology for the Kindle, Nook, and other popular e-readers. With their easy-on-the-eyes screens, long battery life, and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Research Brief: Weatherproofing Renewables
blackouts and lead to higher prices. “What we really need are new storage technologies that can store electricity without the polluting effects,” Tamayo adds. Although they have been expensive to develop, storage technologies like... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Reinventing Radio Days
guaranteed new music they’ll enjoy, unlike recommendations based on more superficial data, such as purchasing patterns. Music stores were SBT’s customers, but Kennedy’s innovative idea was to reinvent SBT as a personalized Internet radio... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
The Exchange: The Road Ahead for Crypto
So you need some people treating the currency as a store of value as well. And, incidentally, these sorts of dynamics don’t just play out with general-use cryptocurrencies. They also show up in individual tokens, like NFT projects. If a... View Details