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  • 01 Sep 2003
  • News

Jeanne Jackson

strengths. “During the go-go Internet years, there was pressure at Gap and Wal-Mart to treat the online operation as a separate business,” she recalls. “What we learned is that our e-commerce function needed to be an extension of what we... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 01 Dec 2014
  • News

Creating the Shopping Experience of the Future

More Retail Revolutions Sharing Designer Labels Rent the Runway, from Jenn Hyman and Jenny Fleiss (both MBA 2009), brings the sharing economy to the world of fashion, offering big-name dresses—and now accessories—for short-term rental... View Details
Keywords: Christine Lejeune; fashion; technology
  • 03 Jun 2015
  • What Do You Think?

Is the Time Right for Self-Management?

Absent of these it's bound to fail." These and other comments provided grist for the question: When and where will Holacracy work best? What do you think? Original Article Recently it was reported that Zappos.com, the online clothing... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail
  • 25 Jul 2016
  • Blog Post

Advice on Switching Careers While at HBS

network The HBS network is a powerful thing, and one of the easiest and least intimidating places to start was talking to my classmates with retail experience. The online student classcard system made it... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2023
  • News

Case Study: Power Nappy

beyond, to wholesale or retail. Why? The first reason is reach: There is a limit to your own branded website. This is due to the website’s potential traffic (whereas large online retailers have millions of... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Miscellaneous Manufacturing; Manufacturing
  • 01 Apr 2001
  • News

Jimmy Lai Chee-ying: Rags, Riches, and Risk

his way up the job ladder at a garment factory, in due course becoming plant manager. By speculating in the stock market, he turned bonus money into enough cash to start his own clothes-making operation, which eventually became Giordano, a wildly successful casual... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes; Retail Trade; Retail Trade
  • 27 Aug 2014
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Learning From Japan’s Remarkable Disaster Recovery

is that participants write up their own case studies—an opportunity usually reserved for faculty. Some of the 18 cases published or in development in the "The Great East Japan Earthquake" series include reports on Google Japan and Yahoo!; Oisix, an View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail; Retail; Retail
  • 01 Dec 2014
  • News

Instilling Production with Principles

going to count how much impact we have on changing the behavior of the whole industry,” she says. “We’re going to create some noise.” Next: Áslaug Magnúsdóttir (MBA 2000) — Customizing Couture Online » Return to Fashion's View Details
Keywords: April White; fashion; Manufacturing
  • 01 Jun 2018
  • News

The Evolution of Modern Pricing Models

is a larger overhaul of the business model that goes beyond applying online insights offline to a more defined integration of those two buying environments. TT: Some retailers have different prices View Details
  • 01 Mar 2007
  • News

Avon CEO Jung on Leadership

leadership, the company introduced new lines and products, repackaged old standbys, invested heavily in research and development, and expanded overseas. Redubbed “the company for women,” Avon now operates in more than 100 countries, generating some $8 billion in annual... View Details
Keywords: makeup; grooming; Retail Trade; Retail Trade; Retail Trade; Retail Trade
  • 01 Apr 2000
  • News

The World at a Click

two-year-old, name-your-price discount site gaining fame of late with humorous ads featuring pitchman William Shatner. Both companies have grown rapidly since entering the online market, and with consolidation already under way... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelly
  • 01 Jun 2017
  • News

Streamlining the Supermarket

which represents close to $100 billion in annual consumer sales. A new report from the Grocery Manufacturers Association/Boston Consulting Group cites “click and collect” as one of the “biggest changes ever in the US retail landscape.”... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
  • 01 Dec 2020
  • News

Steady as She Goes

for the community was a profitable strategy: The company saw a 7.1 percent year-over-year increase in retail profits for the fiscal year that ended in June. Weckert isn’t going to predict that the coming year will bring the stability she... View Details
Keywords: April White; COVID-19; change management; leadership; women; grocery stores; Retail Trade; Retail Trade
  • 01 Mar 2011
  • First Look

First Look: March 1

Strategies of Multichannel Retailers Authors:Elie Ofek, Zsolt Katona, and Miklos Sarvary Publication:Marketing Science 30, no. 1 (January-February 2011) Abstract The Internet has increased the flexibility of retailers, allowing them to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Mar 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018

March 2018 Review of Economics and Statistics Scraped Data and Sticky Prices By: Cavallo, Alberto Abstract—I use daily prices collected from online retailers in five countries to study the impact of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Career Coach

Megan Gardner

capital led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byer, expanded the company to 28 different cities with 350+ employees and contractors while growing the online member base to over a million people. She worked with top View Details
Keywords: Emerging Markets; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Financial Services (All); Hospitality
  • 23 Oct 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Will the “Long Tail” Work for Hollywood?

long-tail view suggests that consumers will purchase an increasing number and a wider variety of videos, everything from Hollywood classics to obscure foreign films. Long-tail proponents believe that consumers have very different tastes, and View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 01 Apr 1998
  • News

Going For The Summit

CANDICE CARPENTER has led some high-profile enterprises - Time Life Video and Television and the electronic retailing enterprise Q2 Inc. among them. But nothing, she says, has prepared her for the rocky terrain of View Details
Keywords: Caroline Chauncey
  • Web

Thomas Stemberg | Baker Library

office supplies, where customers wheeled their own carts through aisles of discounted office offerings from faxes and computer printers to pens and paper products, and, yes, staples. Staples launched in 1986 and not only created but also became the leader in its... View Details
  • Web

Trade Publications - Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School

Click on the links to see one or more sample issues. Report of sales of stocks and bonds ([Boston]: Boston Stock Exchange, 1852-1876, 1922 [Gaps]). Full text available as a networked resource. The Credit World: The Official Organ of the View Details
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