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- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Jeremiah P. Murphy, Jr.
available online (www.thecoop.com). He may also expand retail operations as the University's Cambridge/Allston footprint grows. “One of the reasons the Coop has survived this long is its ability to respond... View Details
- 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
- 12 Apr 2012
- News
HBS Welcomes Eleven Alumni Startups
Lema21.com.br will offer fashionable, quality eyewear products for a revolutionary price via an online retail channel. We also will focus on social sustainability to empower less fortunate individuals.... 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
- 05 Sep 2014
- Blog Post
CPD on the Road in Manila
is the largest English-speaking online market in East Asia. According to Kleiner Perkins’ 2014 recent Internet Trends Report, the Philippines is one of the world’s top 5 fastest growing internet markets, with 18% growth in 2012 and 27%... View Details
- 11 Dec 2006
- Research & Ideas
Fixing Price Tag Confusion
rental charge and a charge for the remote. Do partitioned prices help the consumer make an informed decision or just add to his or her confusion? Do partitioned prices increase demand? Is an online grocer better off presenting a customer... View Details
- 25 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health
garment factory owners engaged in cutthroat price competition to secure orders from Western manufacturer and retailer brands. These brands conveniently sourced their requirements at arm’s length through third-party intermediaries to avoid... View Details
- Web
Thomas Stemberg | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
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 thriving retail sector, with online services from Staples.com... View Details
- 25 Apr 2023
- News
Class of 2022 Startups Sweep Alumni New Venture Competition
Clubs News Clubs News In a first-ever result, all of the winners in the 2023 Alumni New Venture Competition (ANVC) hail from the same HBS class: the MBA Class of 2022. The ANVC finale, held virtually on March 22 and 23, brought eight global regional winners together... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- Profile
Lindsay Hyde
registry idea that bombed, the team found inspiration in their one-on-one research and came up with a mobile retail idea – Nalli on a bus – to overcome consumer objections to traffic as a barrier to shopping. FIELD 3, the entrepreneurship... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Deals For Sale
FairMarket is an online auction house that allows companies with surplus computers and computer components to sell to the highest bidder. "We make the distribution chain more efficient by acting as a centralized market for such... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 26 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Grocery Bags Manipulate Your Mind
things going on in a store and a lot of inputs," Karmarkar says. So she and Bollinger dug deeper with a series of experiments, enlisting participants for a number of online surveys. In the first experiment, the researchers assigned... View Details
- Career Coach
Connie Walsh
team for $5B Staples Brands Group at Staples, Inc. She was responsible for marketing & developing product lines and brands across retail, contract, online and catalogue businesses and for the packaging strategy and production of over... View Details
- 25 Jun 2020
- News
Global Centers Broaden Understanding of Business and the Pandemic
Steps,” which consisted of four weekly online discussions for HBS and Harvard alumni in Africa. The series of hour-long webinars featured eight HBS faculty (led by Senior Lecturers John Macomber, Euvin Naidoo, and Hakeem Belo-Osagie and... View Details
- 11 Jun 2018
- Blog Post
Reimagining Fashion For The Good Of All
Zalando is a fairly unknown brand in the U.S., but the leading online fashion platform in Europe. Growing at a yearly rate of +20%, it was founded 10 years ago and it currently has more than 15,000 employees and is present in 15 different... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Truth Teller
things,” says Archie Norman (MBA 1979). “The genesis of any turnaround is facing into the unvarnished truth.” A somewhat unwilling veteran of doing “the hard things,” Norman became chairman of 133-year-old British retailer Marks & Spencer... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 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
Anthony Soohoo
a Fortune 100 company. He led one of the largest digital transformations in history, delivering multi-billion dollars of incremental revenue and record profits, catalyzing Walmart Home to become the nation’s largest retailer for home... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Alumni Navigator Takes Off
Staying in touch with the School’s network of 65,000 graduates just got a lot easier. Directory search, the most popular feature on the Alumni Web site, now uses the same cutting-edge technology that powers searches on Barnes & Noble.com, IBM.com, and other major View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Q & A: Jeanne P. Jackson: A New Regime at Banana Republic
reading a case between serving cocktails, an Executive Education participant who was a CEO in retail gave Jackson a tip that would change her future. "He told me that anyone who worked as hard as I did was made for retail," she recalls.... View Details