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  • 20 Sep 2021
  • Blog Post

Student Spotlight: Summer Internships in Business and Environment

Sofia Baqueiro (MBA 2022, Section J), Summer Internship: MBA Intern at Whole Foods Market, e-Commerce Digital and Product Management Team The e-Commerce Digital and Product Management team owns the customer... View Details
  • 01 Oct 2000
  • News

Lydia M. Marshall: Gumption and Grace

notes, "and it was very exciting to be a part of it." In 1999, Marshall decided to do something completely different. The result, VentureThink, is a start-up that aims to create, build, and manage e-commerce businesses. With the budding... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
  • 01 Feb 2000
  • News

Breaking Down Barriers: The Electronic Wallet

startups taking advantage of this new opportunity, with the traditional giants - American Express, IBM, and Microsoft, for instance - also getting into the act. Brodia, an e-commerce company dedicated to simplifying online shopping for... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
  • 12 Apr 2011
  • News

Twelve Global Finalists Compete at HBS

shared mobile-based longitudinal Electronic Health Records via mobile phone. AVA is an invitation-only shopping platform. The company addresses the gap between the growing market demand for fashion and the lack of availability of branded merchandise and View Details
Keywords: Multiple alumni
  • 05 Jun 2014
  • Blog Post

Learning to fail at HBS

some operational experience. With that, as the summer is dawning upon us, you’ll find me in Zambia, a landlocked country in the south/eastern part of Africa. I’ll be working for a recently launched e-commerce startup (the "eBay of... View Details
Keywords: Consulting; Consumer Products / Retail
  • Profile

Jeff Bussgang

sciences, consumer marketing, e-commerce and energy, to name a few. In my judgment, Boston is the absolute best place to run a start-up.”  As an MBA student, Jeff says, “I was able to plug into the entrepreneurial community – to talk to... View Details
  • 23 Oct 2019
  • News

Designing a More Artful Future for the Middle East

point in my career rather than a continuation of my job after college,” he notes. “It is allowing me to explore other avenues.” One of those avenues is launching his own fashion e-commerce company, Darza, which means “stitch” in Arabic.... View Details
Keywords: Inclusion
  • 15 Oct 2019
  • News

Innovative Thinking Fuels Nascent Startup Scene

model that has found success elsewhere in the world to the MENA market. Circumventing obstacles presents opportunities for MENA entrepreneurs. Despite being one of the most connected regions in the world, with 88 percent of people online every day, the area’s View Details
  • June 2021 (Revised November 2024)
  • Case

MicroStrategy: Accounting for Cryptocurrency

By: Jonas Heese and Annelena Lobb
On February 15, 2021, Alina Moss, an analyst who covered the technology company MicroStrategy, pondered a rise in MicroStrategy’s share price. Moss had dialed into the company earnings call. When it ended, Moss had more questions than answers. MicroStrategy had... View Details
Keywords: Cryptocurrency; Share Price; Electronic Commerce; Intangible Assets; Assets; Accounting; Financial Statements; Financial Management; Financial Reporting; Analytics and Data Science; E-commerce
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  • 17 Apr 2025
  • Blog Post

From Tech to Coaching: Empowering Women and Minority Leaders with Yue Zhao (MBA 2013)

something with lasting impact—something that could truly make a difference in people’s lives. HBS became the perfect launch pad. I dove headfirst into entrepreneurship, co-founding FirstCrush, a wine e-commerce startup that aimed to be... View Details
  • September 2019 (Revised December 2019)
  • Supplement

Anthony Soohoo: Retrospection on Dot & Bo

By: Thomas R. Eisenmann, Allison M. Ciechanover and George Gonzalez
The case describes the final year of the once-promising furniture e-tailer, Dot & Bo, that included a challenging fundraising market, troubles with logistics and operations, and a team tragedy. The founder looks back at the experience and shares his learnings about... View Details
Keywords: Startups; Furnishing; Leadership; Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Internet and the Web; Failure; Learning; E-commerce; United States
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  • September 2018
  • Article

Aggregation of Consumer Ratings: An Application to Yelp.com

By: Weijia Dai, Ginger Jin, Jungmin Lee and Michael Luca
Because consumer reviews leverage the wisdom of the crowd, the way in which they are aggregated is a central decision faced by platforms. We explore this "rating aggregation problem" and offer a structural approach to solving it, allowing for (1) reviewers to vary in... View Details
Keywords: User Generated Content; Crowdsourcing; Yelp; Social and Collaborative Networks; Information; Internet and the Web; Learning; Mathematical Methods; E-commerce
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  • 15 Apr 2002
  • Research & Ideas

In the Virtual Dressing Room Returns Are A Real Problem

people to strike unnatural poses in the scanning machine, producing measurements that will not lead to good fit. Reprinted with permission from the chapter "Distinctive Aspects of the Textile and Apparel Industries: Factors Affecting View Details
Keywords: by Jan Hammond & Kristin Kohler; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion; Consumer Products; Manufacturing; Retail
  • March 2022
  • Article

Learning to Rank an Assortment of Products

By: Kris Ferreira, Sunanda Parthasarathy and Shreyas Sekar
We consider the product ranking challenge that online retailers face when their customers typically behave as “window shoppers”: they form an impression of the assortment after browsing products ranked in the initial positions and then decide whether to continue... View Details
Keywords: Online Learning; Product Ranking; Assortment Optimization; Learning; Internet and the Web; Product Marketing; Consumer Behavior; E-commerce
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  • December 2016
  • Case

thredUP: Think Secondhand First

By: Thomas Eisenmann, Allison Ciechanover and Jeff Huizinga
In the fall of 2016, the management team at thredUP, the largest U.S. online retailer of second hand clothing, is deciding whether to expand into international markets. Over the past 12 months the 7-year-old startup, which had raised over $130 million in venture... View Details
Keywords: Scaling Start-ups; International Expansion; Online Consignment; Apparel; Internet and the Web; Expansion; Entrepreneurship; Global Strategy; Business Startups; E-commerce; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Retail Industry; San Francisco
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  • 15 May 2017
  • Blog Post

Exploring Career Options at HBS

While working in investment banking and e-commerce roles, I realized the importance of interpersonal and leadership skills in successfully growing an organization. My decision to attend business school was largely fueled by my desire to... View Details
  • 21 Oct 2013
  • News

Moving the Needle

for-profit. She began to make her mark as vice president of business development at Novica, in Los Angeles, an e-commerce company that connects artisans in developing countries to businesses and consumers in the US. "It's an innovative... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance
  • 29 Jan 2025
  • Blog Post

Finding Professional Purpose: Building an Impactful Career that Reflects your Values with Lisa Tanzer (MBA 1993)

leadership, working my up to CMO, and then President and CEO roles. I worked on educational toys and entertainment properties (Hasbro), contributed to taking an early e-commerce company in the educational toy space through an IPO and... View Details
  • May–June 2025
  • Article

Algorithmic Assortment Curation: An Empirical Study of Buybox in Online Marketplaces

By: Santiago Gallino, Nil Karacaoglu and Antonio Moreno
Most online sales worldwide take place in marketplaces that connect sellers and buyers. The presence of numerous third-party sellers leads to a proliferation of listings for each product, making it difficult for customers to choose between the available options. Online... View Details
Keywords: Algorithms; Marketplaces; Marketplace Matching; E-commerce; Demand and Consumers; Customer Focus and Relationships; Market Participation; Technology Adoption
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  • 29 Jan 2025
  • Blog Post

Finding professional purpose: Building an impactful career that reflects your values with Lisa Tanzer (MBA 1993)

properties (Hasbro), contributed to taking an early e-commerce company in the educational toy space through an IPO and strategic exit (SmarterKids.com), and helped develop TV shows and product lines for major networks like PBS, Disney,... View Details