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  • 01 Sep 2013
  • News

The New Rules of E-Commerce

proving the freshness of his eggs. Empower partners over products. Rakuten allows its merchants great leeway in crafting their online portals. Site designs encourage customers to linger and explore rather than purchase and leave, and Rakuten provides its View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; e-commerce; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Miscellaneous Store Retailers
  • 01 Jun 2000
  • News

Priceline's Jay Walker: The Future is Wow

information, and savings. "An entire industry imploded," he asserted. "Now the industry is driven by the retail marketplace. And [online traders] are having fun." Indeed the... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2020
  • News

Giving Amazon the Boot

When the coronavirus pandemic led many brick-and-mortar retailers to close their doors, consumers turned to online shopping in record numbers—US ecommerce sales rose by 31.8 percent between the first and second quarter of 2020 to $211.5... View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Miscellaneous Store Retailers
  • 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
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Rail Transportation; Transportation
  • 01 Mar 2023
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Case Study: Power Nappy

had worked as a design engineer at Procter and Gamble, in addition to having cofounded a social enterprise that successfully commercialized biodegradable sanitary pads in India. Saigal started looking into the $10 billion diaper industry... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Miscellaneous Manufacturing; Manufacturing
  • 22 Jan 2018
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The First Five Years: ‘30 Under 30’ Edition

sourcing retail partners to ideating and negotiating the deals. I'd also execute on the look and feel of the physical store post-deal. It was a hands-on management role and I absolutely loved the high-intensity nature of my day-to-day.... View Details
Keywords: Nonstore Retailers; Nonstore Retailers; Nonstore Retailers; Nonstore Retailers; Nonstore Retailers; Nonstore Retailers
  • 01 Dec 2014
  • News

Customizing Couture Online

“fashion’s fairy godmother.” It’s easy to remember a time when women didn’t buy high-end fashion online—it was barely a decade ago. Magnúsdóttir watched the birth of the online fashion industry as a retail... View Details
Keywords: April White; fashion; Professional Services
  • 01 Sep 2010
  • News

Fair Trade

Related Links Ten Amazing Facts about Beauty Register for a Club presentation with Professor Jones on October 19 In his new book, Beauty Imagined: A History of the Global Beauty Industry (Oxford University Press), HBS professor Geoffrey... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Retail Trade; Retail Trade; Retail Trade; Retail Trade
  • 01 Sep 2006
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Notebook

if you walk into Best Buy and purchase a cell phone, we run your credit score and activate the account so you can walk out with a phone that’s ready to use. We tie together the retailers that sell digital services with the providers of... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Telecommunications; Information
  • 25 Aug 2022
  • News

Open Market

game, right? I believe they can. People in the industry must be dynamic and pay attention to what’s happening around them. I’m a learner by nature, so if I’m a company, I’d want to hear from retail investors... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Keith Negley; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance
  • 25 Jul 2012
  • News

Movie Magic

swipe of a credit card. “Automated retail sounds better,” suggests Gregg Kaplan (MBA 1997). Recruited by McDonald’s to help start new businesses within the fast-food giant, in 2002 Kaplan oversaw the installation of six kiosks in... View Details
Keywords: vending machines; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries
  • 01 Dec 2020
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Digital Health Care: Empowering Consumers

come. But this is a highly regulated, technology-intensive industry with third-party payers, not a retail industry. It’s a very unusual sector and you need to know a lot about how it works. How do you align... View Details
Keywords: April White
  • 01 Oct 2000
  • News

Internet Tsunami

had operating profits of $1.9 million on sales of $4 million. Mikitani, formerly a banker at the Industrial Bank of Japan, became a man with a mission after attending HBS: He founded Rakuten, he told the magazine, because "I wanted to set... View Details
Keywords: Nonstore Retailers; Nonstore Retailers
  • 26 Feb 2014
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The First Five Years: Morgan Hermand-Waiche (MBA 2010)

entrepreneur Fabrice Grinda and worked with him on various ventures. We found that there was a big opportunity in the intimates industry, which is what eventually led to the launch of Adore Me." How did you come up with the idea? "My family has a history in the garment... View Details
Keywords: online shopping; fashion; Retail Trade; Retail Trade; Retail Trade; Retail Trade
  • 01 Oct 1998
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Short Takes

Smoking Gun When impressionable teenagers light their first cigarettes, they initiate what all too often becomes a lifelong, life-threatening habit. The vast majority of smokers begin in their teens, yet the tobacco industry has... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
  • 01 Mar 2025
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On The Case: The Base Factor

learnings in Madrigal are not dependent on context. “It doesn’t matter if it’s a retail business or a SaaS B2B business or an app or industrial product—you name it,” she says. This case’s aim is to equip... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
  • 06 Dec 2021
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The Sparkles in Our Skies

approximately the equivalent of a year and a quarter of the average American’s carbon footprint. While it feels like a technological magic trick in an industry known for tradition rather than innovation, it may not even be the startup’s... View Details
Keywords: April White; Nonstore Retailers; Nonstore Retailers
  • 01 Dec 2014
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Instilling Production with Principles

pro-environmental policies are money savers and the key to her company’s continued success, Yang says. More Retail Revolutions Recycling the Consignment Shop Bigger than the local consignment shop and easier than eBay, thredUP, cofounded... View Details
Keywords: April White; fashion; Manufacturing
  • 01 Dec 2007
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Hi-Ho, Hi-Ho

array of sectors before recruiting begins. Over an eight-week period in September and October, students learned about more than twelve different industries by attending an informational overview session; an alumni panel to share advice... View Details
  • 25 Aug 2022
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Comfort Zone

comfortable, that task has to fall to the airports. “Travel was stressful already, and even more so after COVID. The airports need to respond by making this time as relaxing as possible,” says Fraser, who is also a trained architect, serves on View Details
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