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- 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
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Stocking Up Can Build Customer Value
papers (and miss one or more possible sales) once a week, or one-seventh of the time. What's ignored in this equation, though, according to HBS professor David Bell, is that customers care how often a retailer runs out of stock. "The... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Capitalist Revolutions Analyzed in MBA "Foundations" Course
born in the first industrial revolution in England has survived for two hundred years. Another case, on Southland Corporation and Seven-Eleven Japan, examines retailing in the third industrial revolution in two very different... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2020
in an Omnichannel World, Vol. 8 edited by Santiago Gallino and Antonio Moreno, Sicupira Family Associate Professor, Technology and Operations Management Unit Springer Series in Supply Chain Management The world of retailing has changed... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
3-Minute Briefing: David Perpich (MBA 2007)
I interned at a lot of different places in high school and college—a hospital, a retail store, a magazine, an ad agency. At Duke, I was part owner of a student-run food-delivery service. In Clay Christensen–speak, it was the “emergent strategy,” exploring as I went and... 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
- 06 Jan 2014
- News
Sprouts Sees Healthy Growth Ahead
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Kill Groupthink
or former college lacrosse teammates, you are limiting the likelihood of out-of-the-box ideas, Bouygues says. “What you want to think about is best-practice crossover across industries.” For a retail board, for example, the CEO would be... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
At Cyberposium, Amazon's Bezos Debunks Internet Myths
world," he said. "Probably more so because more business models are possible online." Myth #5: It's easier for bricks-and-mortar retailers to extend their business. Using books as an example, Bezos noted that online sellers are... View Details
- 14 Feb 2017
- News
Taking the Lead at Wesfarmers
- 29 Apr 2021
- News
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
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Entrepreneurs Speak at HBS
increasingly imitated "direct-access" business model. Designed to deal directly with the customer via phone or the Internet, Dell shuns intermediaries such as retailers and distributors and builds computers according to the customer's... View Details
- 15 Jun 2015
- News
Giving Small Boutiques a Global Reach
- 04 Aug 2014
- News
The Best and Worst of Family Businesses
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Sleight of Hand
Camirand Photo Courtesy Guy Camirand It turns out that sawing ladies in half or pulling rabbits out of hats doesn’t worry professional magicians nearly as much as a bad case of dry hands. High-performance legerdemain, such as palming coins or making cards disappear,... View Details