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  • 01 Dec 2016
  • News

Vive la Madeleine!

few miles from the factory. “Jeannette was to become a textbook case, so there was no choice: I had to succeed.” About 24,000 madeleines, with a shelf life of 50 days, pop out of Jeannette ovens every week. Sales from the company’s factory View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustrations by Natalya Balnova
  • 10 Mar 2015
  • First Look

First Look: March 10

introduces methods for increasing the efficiency of retail store liquidation, which we define as the time-constrained divestment of retail outlets through an in-store sale of inventory. The retail industry... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Dec 2007
  • News

Lighten Up

established market channels. Many top-notch sales reps balked at taking on a new company that would compete with the brands they were used to selling. Similarly, many retail outlets weren’t interested in adding a new brand to their... View Details
Keywords: Kathryn Jones; Sporting Goods, Hobby, Musical Instrument, and Book Stores; Sporting Goods, Hobby, Musical Instrument, and Book Stores
  • 27 Oct 2014
  • Research & Ideas

The Coffee Economy That Bloomed Out of Nowhere

example, the California-based Rogers Family Company exports coffee from its farm, Finca Peru Paris, and sells it at major retail outlets such as Costco stores on the west coast of the United States. Lurtz... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Food & Beverage; Agriculture & Agribusiness
  • 01 Dec 1996
  • News

An Entrepreneurial Journey

quality customer service, Staples has evolved from its original store in Brighton, Massachusetts, opened in 1986, to more than 506 retail outlets worldwide. Faced immediately with imitators, Stemberg soon... View Details
  • 26 May 2003
  • Research & Ideas

What Your Competition is Telling You

Basis For Comparison When stores of strong retail competitors, such as Best Buy and Circuit City, are located side by side, "it's easier for customers to comparison-shop," says Strategic Edge's Primo. But that's not necessarily... View Details
Keywords: by David Stauffer
  • 25 Mar 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part II]

. Todd Krasnow, MBA '83, typified the historic Harvard Business School mid-career entrepreneur when he celebrated the opening of the first Zoots store in October 1998. But how had he—self-described as "not a clothes person"—come... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
  • 19 Jul 2016
  • First Look

July 19, 2016

announced that it had passed Walmart in global sales to become the biggest retail platform in the world. To add to Walmart’s woes, in the United States traditional dollar discount stores and convenience View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Jul 2008
  • First Look

First Look: July 22, 2008

department stores and a new hypermarket—Nagesh was proud of the way the company had taken retail from its roots in simple transactions to a complete "experience" defined by the luxurious ambiance, food, events and educated staff... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Nov 2009
  • Research & Ideas

The Times Captures History of American Business

stores and shopping on the Internet. His column takes as its springboard the phenomenon of outlet shopping for entertainment. In fact, the growth and development of the New York Times itself makes for a... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Journalism & News
  • 19 May 2022
  • News

Leading to Salvation

about how his expertise recently found another, unexpected outlet when he was called on to help save a small business that helped a community cope with its grief and honor their dead for over 50 years. READ MORE NEWS CLIP: Funeral homes... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2012
  • News

From Where We Stand

identify the game's new rules and players and switch gears ASAP. Bennie Wiley (MBA 1972), principal, Wiley Group, Brookline, Massachusetts One of my favorite ventures was a toy store I created on Martha's Vineyard. I loved everything... View Details
  • 12 Jul 2021
  • News

Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis

overwhelmed, Alene continued production, providing face shields free of charge to more than 300 organizations across a dozen states. Among the media outlets that featured the effort were ABCs: Pandemic What You Need To Know, The White... View Details
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