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- 01 Oct 2021
- News
Marking 10-Year Connection with Japanese Earthquake Region
cooperative’s plan to rebuild its decimated workforce. Kenichi Nonomura (MBA 2012), who was on the first Tōhoku trip and attended the virtual reunion, contributed to the case study “The Great East Japan Earthquake (B): Fast Retailing... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Long-Term Interest: Bill Crozier, a Banker Pegged to the Customer
An innovative thinker who created BayBanks, one of the most successful retail banking franchises in the United States, William M. Crozier, Jr. (MBA '63) has a lot to say about the evolution of banking. As head of BayBanks for 21 years,... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Research Brief: What Makes a Mobile Money Service Thrive in an Emerging Market?
Ishan Sachdev (MBA 2013) Since 2009, more than 80 mobile money services have popped up in emerging markets to offer financial services to the millions of people who have a cell phone but no traditional bank account. Taking advantage of the increasing availability of... View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Consumer Finance Makes HBS Debut
we have a rich set of finance electives, including courses on behavioral topics, investment management, financial markets, private equity, venture capital, financial engineering (which I also coteach), and a host of other topics. Retail... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
American Dream
passing motorists. Hustead acquired the T. rex, for example, to drive demand for the fossils, rocks, and dinosaur-related products for sale in the Wall Drug Mining Company, one of 21 separate retail departments that generate over $12... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Instilling Production with Principles
pro-environmental policies are money savers and the key to her company’s continued success, Yang says. More Retail Revolutions Recycling the Consignment Shop Bigger than the local consignment shop and easier than eBay, thredUP, cofounded... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Flight Path
Toy State, retails for about $170. Spring 2018 The 2018 season is unveiled, with races scheduled for broadcast by six networks across more than 87 countries. View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Barbara Bry: Business is Blooming
Proflowers, there are no warehouses and no network of retail florists. Orders are transmitted electronically to growers, who cut, pack, and ship, usually within 24 hours. This supply-chain compression allows Proflowers to offer a unique... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Ask the Expert: In Security
Illustration by Taylor Callery Remember a decade ago, when the main cybersecurity worry was a retail breach of credit card information? “Obviously that still happens,” says Chris Young (MBA 2003), CEO of the security software company... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
New HBS Alumni Board Members
former U.S. naval officer, Mendell was a Baker Scholar at HBS. He and his wife, Andrea, have two children. Linda S. Oubré (MBA '84), a native of Los Angeles, is director and division president of BriteSmile, Inc., a specialty retailer... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
William K.L. Fung
earned a Ph.D. in economics at Harvard in 1971, Fung has built Li & Fung into a multinational trading and retailing company with 36 offices in 20 countries and an annual turnover of more than $1.6 billion. In Hong Kong, where Li & Fung... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 10 Feb 2014
- News
King of His Castle
Renaissance fair vendor, began in 2009 to formulate a business plan to open a fair in Austin. Less than a year later, Sherwood Forest opened, and ancillary businesses—a summer camp, a sword and armor retailer called Eternal Arms, a Celtic... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
@Soldiers Field
England Patriots owner Robert Kraft (MBA 1965) and president Jonathan Kraft (MBA 1990) suggested an innovation they’d like to see: a way to predict the next Tom Brady. The Retail and Luxury Goods Club brought designer Tommy Hilfiger to... View Details
- 06 Jan 2014
- News
Sprouts Sees Healthy Growth Ahead
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Robert Buzzell Remembered
known as the Profit Impact of Marketing Strategies (PIMS), designed to identify and measure the determinants of profits in individual businesses. The author or coauthor of eleven books, Buzzell worked extensively on subjects such as marketing economics; the economic... View Details
- 26 Feb 2014
- News
How Grocery Bags Manipulate Your Mind
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Beyond the Numbers
Robinson in 1986 as assistant controller for their international consumer businesses, including bank cards and retail banking. His first task, he recalls, was to "take a look around and advise my boss what his group should be doing... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Buy the Book
retailers (such as Wal-Mart and Costco) that only stock twenty or so bestsellers yet are responsible for 34 percent of book sales in the United States. “Something hits as a success and dominates the market,” Deighton comments. “It’s... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Supplying Demand
When it opens next year, Los Angeles' new state-of-the-art sports complex will bear the name of a $7-billion international retail giant, a newcomer that will join heavyweights such as United Airlines, Anheuser-Busch, and MCI in seeing its... View Details
Keywords: Paul Michelman
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
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