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- 30 Apr 2015
- News
A Warehouse Dash with Rent the Runway
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
A Look at Olook
André Beisert's olook targets a very particular part of Brazil's new consumer market. "Our brand has a persona," Beisert (MBA 2009) says in his white brick office, which sits atop a small warehouse in the Vila Nova Conceição neighborhood in south São Paulo. "Her name... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Stiletto Science
MIT grad Brian Hughes (MBA ’79) is bringing technology to bear on what may result in a giant step forward for womankind. Imagine, gushed the Austin, Texas, American-Statesman (July 8, 2004), a high-heeled shoe “so cozy you can wear it all day, dance all night, and go... View Details
- 04 May 2010
- News
The History of Beauty
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Bringing Up Baby
As a Walt Disney Co. executive who helped turn around the company's Euro Disney operation, Laura McCartney (MBA '93) knew plenty about problem solving and strategizing in the corporate world. But as a mother, she also knew from personal experience that shopping for... View Details
- 14 Oct 2020
- News
Sewn with Love
first time Hanazawa has wrestled with the ways she could urge her industry to focus on social impact. In 2011, an earthquake and tsunami leveled towns and cities in her home country of Japan, and she struggled with how to help. She weighed her options: She could donate... View Details
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- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Toy Story
centered on quality, FAO Schwartz now focuses on higher-end toys. The company is also designing its own products with its own brand and has acquired a children’s clothing company. The chain is now down from forty stores to just three, in... View Details
- 03 Jul 2018
- News
How a Passion for Travel Built a $43 Million Fashion Brand
than Tennessee, but I felt at home,” Rawdon told Forbes online. “After that trip I set my mind to travel.” In 2002, that passion was a strong factor in Rawdon’s decision to co-found Tea Collection, a children’s clothing brand that draws... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Providing education and opportunities to children in Pakistan
Seema Aziz (OPM 39, 2010), cofounder of Bareeze, a global luxury textile and clothing brand based in Pakistan, started the CARE Foundation to provide education and opportunities for children in rural Pakistan. In this video conducted... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Faculty Research Online
HBS Cases: Overcoming the Stress of ‘Englishnization’ CEOs of global companies increasingly mandate that their employees learn English. The problem: these workers can experience a loss of status and believe they aren’t as effective in their learned language, says... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Shop Talk, Different Avenues
Wilkis Wilson, Traub, and Maybank Main article: Where Innovation Rules Marvin Traub (MBA 1949) joined Bloomingdale’s in 1950, became its president in 1969, and served as chairman and CEO from 1978 to 1991. Today, as chairman of Marvin Traub Associates, he continues to... View Details