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- 01 Jun 2012
- News
A Better World, One Idea at a Time
commission-based, door-to-door sales organization while reinvesting profits to expand and provide employee benefits in Haiti. In addition to the judges’ picks, the “Audience Choice” award went to Essmart, a retail distribution company in rural southern India. Through... View Details
- 28 Apr 2020
- Blog Post
A Crash Course in Saving a Family Business
having a roaster on site and only serving organic coffee are what differentiated Bean&Bean from the many other coffee shops in New York when her family launched the company 12 years ago. While Han knows how to juggle her HBS caseload... View Details
Richard M. Schulze
Schulze transformed his small Sound of Music electronic store into an electronics retailing giant – Best Buy. Schulze introduced mass-merchandising techniques to the electronics marketplace and helped to transform the shopping process... View Details
Keywords: Retail
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Priceline's Jay Walker: The Future is Wow
convenient place to shop ("7-Eleven is more convenient, but it doesn't have the retail share Wal-Mart has"), the discount retailer gained market supremacy by proclaiming, and delivering, "always the lowest price" -- typically by wringing... View Details
- 19 Nov 2014
- HBS Case
Marketing Marijuana
something that hadn't been done in 81 years—make an illegal drug legal. “They do not need to buy it at a fancy store—they'll go to a back alley basement shop as long as the product delivers” Of course, the question remains: How will state... View Details
- 25 Apr 2023
- News
Class of 2022 Startups Sweep Alumni New Venture Competition
Center for Entrepreneurship. “We started Hue in our RC year at HBS, and we actually met in the Startup Bootcamp and started working together,” says Shah. The cofounders combined their previous tech and retail expertise to create Hue, with a goal of helping people feel... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Stacey Lawson (MBA '96)
Lawson, 27. "My partner and I were inexperienced managers, but we had a lot of energy and a solid business plan." Once she raised the seed capital, everything began to fall into place: she filled out the management team (including a CEO), got a second round of funding,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Summing Up the New Students
Minneapolis. It was beautiful, and a great time to just think.” Jonathan Gary Dallas, Texas CV: Account associate, PIMCO, Newport Beach, California “I had to do some shopping once I got to Boston—a pair of L.L. Bean boots and a down... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 02 Mar 2016
- Blog Post
HBS FIELD - A Sneak Peek Into Retail
preliminary work before traveling to the market. My global partner was an Istanbul, Turkey based retailer with several hundred locations in Turkey that wanted to make its retail experience more appealing to young consumers. Istanbul is a dense and modern city with a... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
Diane S. M. von Furstenberg
women, von Furstenberg created an entire line of moderately priced fashions and accessories. Though she began in New York boutiques, she was an early pioneer in the use of QVC and the Home Shopping Network to expand the scale and scope of... View Details
Keywords: Fabric & Apparel
- 27 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Customer Loyalty Programs That Work
encourage the continued patronage of customers. They allow retailers to gather data on customer behavior in order to decipher trends, appropriately reward loyalty, and influence shopping behavior. Loyalty schemes take many forms; some of... View Details
- 26 Apr 2011
- News
BioMine Strikes Gold
marketing, were as follows: Africa Angus Rowe, OPM 38 2009 LifeQube mobile clinic management Watch their pitch. Asia-Pacific Oliver Segovia, MBA '10 Jennifer Kelly, MBA '10 AVA invitation-only shopping platform Watch their pitch. Canada... View Details
- 17 Apr 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty books pages
Faculty Books Ink: Bringing Purpose to Life 2021: December 2021 Alumni and Faculty Books Ink: Talking Shop September 2021 Alumni Books June 2021 Books and Podcasts Revealing the Rules New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts... View Details
- Web
Industrial Film Collection | Baker Library
manufacturing shop processes. In addition, the collection includes films produced by HBS for teaching topics like labor relations, the human aspect of administration, business policy, and management. Use the Collection Industrial Film... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Rethinking the Fashion Beat
Making Big Data Fashionable Ivy Ross Creating the Shopping Experience of the Future Creating the Shopping Experience of the Future Imran Amed Rethinking the Fashion Beat Rethinking the Fashion Beat View Details
- 27 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Sidetracked: Why Can’t We Stick to the Plan?
ingredients for a romantic dinner, but ends up spending an hour comparison shopping for organic dog food and craft beer. A college student resolves to spend every Wednesday evening studying in the library, only to spend most of that time... View Details
- Portrait Project
Marla Metz
a coffee shop window: “We really want to come back in two years to see you graduate, you know." Life is dynamic. So is my changed perspective. One month later, I'm at a noisy gathering – busy, bustling, lights. "You don't... View Details
- Web
Teams | New Venture Competition
manufacturing process. Argus Systems Lisa Yan (MBA 2025), Drew Borinstein (MBA 2025 Accelerating AI model development for physical AI. Catalog Paul Lachman (MBA 2025), Hamish Gunasekara Catalog is a new-age commerce platform that helps fashion brands optimize their... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Alumni on the Best Business Advice They’ve Ever Received
MORE Hear more advice in the special reunion edition of the Skydeck podcast MORE Hear more advice in the special reunion edition of the Skydeck podcast Spring reunions welcomed 3,600 alumni and guests to campus, and the Bulletin staff set up View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Weaving Success in India
our shop after finishing my homework. [I]n those days one sari’s cost was 12 rupees, [and the cost] of a nine-yard sari was 18 rupees. If the sales crossed 100 rupees my father used to offer me one ice cream. So I would finish my homework... View Details
Keywords: April White