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- 13 Feb 2019
- News
We’re All Going to Get Hacked
point-of-sale systems at the retail stores. They had some policies that were interesting. One of the policies is, they cleared the POS systems every night. They’d wipe the hard drives, just in case someone steals one of these cash... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Making Their Way
medical industry; shelving units for retail consumer products; and high-tolerance firing pins for military applications. When it comes to per-piece cost for metal stampings, the United States is very competitive with China because labor... 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
- 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
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Marjorie M.T. Yang (MBA '76)
we could send machinery to the Chinese factories we managed. In return, we received shipments of apparel that we then sold to discount retailers in the United States." With an initial focus on high quantity and low prices, Esquel was just... View Details
- 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
- 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... 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
- 30 Sep 2016
- News
Competing Against Luck
seen them pop up over the last 50 years. And the man who organized IKEA is the third richest guy in the world. And yet, IKEA has no competitors. They have no competitors. There are other retailers that sell furniture, but nobody has... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Fever Pitch
This year’s New Venture Competition saw heavy alumni participation on both sides of the judging. More than 160 graduates critiqued student startups during April’s on-campus event, weighing everything from team chemistry to financials. The alumni version of the... View Details
- 15 Nov 2019
- News
Diversity as a Driver of Performance
Source: Tapestry Source: Tapestry In September, Jide Zeitlin (MBA 1987) was named chairman and CEO of Tapestry, the $5.9 billion parent company of Coach, Kate Spade, and Stuart Weitzman. A former Goldman Sachs executive, Zeitlin has been on the board of the company... View Details
Keywords: Retail Trade