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- 28 Feb 2014
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The First Five Years: Omowale Casselle (MBA 2009)
the expectations of our consumers, retailers, and brand partners. "In addition to managing our product lines, I also lead our operations team, which means that I make sure that each retail partner (Walmart,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
A Look at Olook
partnerships with everyone from fashion designer André Lima to Princess Paola d'Orléans-Bragança, a descendant of Brazil's colonial royal family. Online retail has proved to be a healthy market. Brazilian research firm e-bit estimates... 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
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
How Do I Get Your Job?
McKinsey before coming to HBS. Beck, cofounder and CEO of beauty retailer Bluemercury, tells Uberoi, a member of the student-run Retail & Luxury Goods Club, how she went from consultant to entrepreneur to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Luxe Redux
markets,” says HBS professor emeritus Walter J. Salmon, a specialist in consumer marketing and retail distribution. He cites “cultural sensitivity” — the ability to know what consumers will want before they know it themselves — as a key... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
The Big Business of Returns
(illustration by Chris Philpot) Sources: (1) National Retail Federation; (2) Industry analyst Kurt Salmon; (3) Inbound Logistics; (4) B-Stock Solutions View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Dressing by Number
More Retail Revolutions Manufacturing Makeup on Demand Although it isn’t available yet, Mink, a 3D home printer that produces custom makeup, has already made serial inventor Grace Choi (MBA 2013) a cosmetics celebrity. Katrina Lake knew... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Steady as She Goes
buying to operations management, for nearly nine years. She finally felt like the biggest challenges were behind the company. The year 2020 was going to be stable, she recalls thinking. But by late 2019, it was clear that would not be the... View Details
Keywords: April White; COVID-19; change management; leadership; women; grocery stores; Retail Trade; Retail Trade
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
The New Rules of E-Commerce
Mikitani (MBA 1993) is not shy about pursuing the big idea, in this case a belief that English is the lingua franca of business and learning it would give his organization a competitive edge. Rakuten, founded in 1997, operates an online... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Case Study: Paper Chase
operates four sales kiosks in the Boston area, with mobile retail teams that visit local fairs and markets. The kiosks offer a valuable in-person experience with a high conversion rate for the $8–$13 cards.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Stiletto Science
feet.” Or, as Hughes described it, “A shoe you can think in.” Hughes is chairman of HBN Shoe, which owns Insolia, a biomechanically correct design that’s built into a heeled shoe and can’t be seen when the shoe is being worn. Nordstrom is currently the only View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Perfection’s Price
“start-ups are about speed to market. You get in there and learn and react quickly.” Kaplan grew up immersed in the plus-size retail world of the Lane Bryant chain, founded over a century ago by his great-grandmother Lena H. Bryant and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Bill Dunaway (MBA 1964)
A self-described SOB — son of the boss — Bill Dunaway grew up working in his father’s pharmacy in Marietta, Georgia, a town of 61,000 outside Atlanta. After expanding the business to a chain of 18 drug stores, Dunaway sold the operation... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
A Better World, One Idea at a Time
commission-based, door-to-door sales organization while reinvesting profits to expand and provide employee benefits in Haiti. In addition to the judges’ picks, the “Audience Choice” award went to Essmart, a retail distribution company in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Downhill Re-Boot
remains to be seen is whether buyers will pony up the suggested retail price of $1,295 per pair. Hanson, a pioneer of the rear-entry boot, acknowledges that “in this very, very difficult economy,” there is “some skepticism around making... View Details
- 01 Nov 2013
- News
Selling Crafts with a Story
office. They'd touch base for an hour, give each other homework, and then head to their day jobs—Koss working in private equity, investing in retail companies; Paranjape running a bricks-and-mortar lifestyle store. Then they'd hit the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Case Study: Power Nappy
late at night, now that she’s up in the wee hours feeding her baby and scrolling Amazon on her phone, Saigal starts to question the exclusive direct-to-consumer route. “Are we losing out by not being on Amazon—and in retailers like Whole... View Details
- 25 Sep 2019
- News
Leading the Evolution of E-Commerce
tech incubator, Store No. 8. “I love the early stages of businesses,” Fleiss told the New York Observer. “I think it’s where I’m my best self and where I have the most value.” This time around, Fleiss has the infrastructure and resources of the world’s largest... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Rethinking the Fashion Beat
community and a global one—how it interacts and how it can be brought together,” he says. “We don’t just report the news, we engage with it.” Return to Fashion's Retail Revolution main page « To learn more about these seven HBS Alumni... View Details
- 03 Oct 2017
- News
Can Bezos’s Ties to Boston—and HBS—Seal the Deal?
separate from Amazon’s logistics operations and distribution centers in the state. Those early HBS visits, the article notes, were to drop in at a class taught by current Senior Lecturer Jeffrey Rayport, who wrote an early case study on... View Details
Keywords: Retail Trade