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  • 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
Keywords: Christine Lejeune; fashion; cosmetics; Retail Trade; Retail Trade
  • 01 Mar 2015
  • News

Fıelds of Gold

expensive foods, retailing at $4,000 or more a pound. Iran is the largest producer of this highly prized spice, which stains food a brilliant golden hue, but David Luo (MBA 2011) believes that Afghanistan could become the world’s... View Details
Keywords: April White; Support Activities for Agriculture and Forestry; Agriculture
  • 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
  • November 2017 (Revised May 2019)
  • Case

Wayfair: Fast Furniture?

By: Janice H. Hammond and Anna Shih
Keywords: Supply Chain; Logistics; Distribution; Web; Retail Industry; United States
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  • 06 Dec 2017
  • News

Puzzle Master

Photo via Black Enterprise Photo via Black Enterprise When kitchen goods and home furnishings retailer Williams-Sonoma announced its acquisition of Outward, Inc.—a leading 3-D imaging and augmented reality platform—the $112 million deal... View Details
  • 25 Apr 2023
  • News

Class of 2022 Startups Sweep Alumni New Venture Competition

and Sylvan Guo, for Hue, an e-commerce technology platform that helps brands and retailers to showcase short-form, customer-generated video reviews on their websites. The virtual audience then awarded the Crowd Favorite prize of $5,000 to... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • 23 Dec 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard

assets, including customer relationships; innovative products and services; high-quality and responsive operating processes; skills and knowledge of the workforce; the information technology that supports the workforce and links the firm... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
  • 26 Oct 2015
  • News

Ron Johnson’s Post-Penney’s Rebirth

The November issue of Fast Company has a profile of Ron Johnson (MBA 1984)—former Apple retail guru and JC Penney CEO. Johnson’s now at the helm of a consumer electronics startup, Enjoy, that focuses on personal service interactions with... View Details
Keywords: Retail Trade; Retail Trade
  • 01 Jun 2022
  • News

Case Study: Glass Half Full

Image courtesy Ernesto Humpierres Image courtesy Ernesto Humpierres In classic engineer fashion, Ernesto Humpierres (MBA 2011) has always enjoyed building systems, whether it’s a Lego set with his twins or an e-commerce side hustle with their mother, Sarah Scott... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Nonstore Retailers; Nonstore Retailers
  • 01 Dec 2014
  • News

Taking Tailoring High Tech

year, topping $60 billion. But these newly fashion-conscious men didn’t want to spend lots of time and money on shopping and tailoring. Motlagh’s solution: use technology to update and brand traditional bespoke tailoring and create a low-inventory View Details
Keywords: April White; fashion

    Charles S. Woolworth

    Taking control of the family discount goods enterprise upon his brother Frank’s death, Charles Woolworth continued to expand the company. In the 1920s, Woolworth began operations in Cuba and Germany, and American View Details
    Keywords: Retail

      Charles R. Walgreen III

      Charles Walgreen, III continued the tradition of success begun by his father and grandfather. Under his leadership, Walgreens stores continued to expand its existing operations and also entered the restaurant business. By 1979, the... View Details
      Keywords: Retail
      • 01 Mar 2005
      • News

      House of Bread on the Rise

      McCANN: Former defense atforney learned the bakery business from scratch. The lessons Sheila McCann (OPM 24, 1996) learned from the surprising failure of her second House of Bread retail bakery turned out to be an essential ingredient in... View Details
      Keywords: Margie Kelley; Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality
      • 01 Mar 2014
      • News

      Cutting Edge

      than when he took over, those outlets are mostly regional players. He looks for the company to penetrate major, nationwide retailers this year on the strength of a national marketing effort, a broader innovation agenda, and Smith... View Details
      Keywords: Retail Trade; Retail Trade; Retail Trade
      • 29 Jun 2016
      • Blog Post

      Emerging Into Singapore

      mixed group of local and multi-cultural young and driven people who I already have formed good friendships and memories with. Being an Avenger Global Fashion Group was founded over a year ago as an over-arching company that links its 6 fashion View Details
      Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail; Consumer Products / Retail
      • 01 Sep 2006
      • News

      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
      • 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
      • 30 Jan 2012
      • News

      Shopping Around

      Calabrese: "Never mistake motion for action." Courtesy Julia Calabrese A commercial real-estate mogul who quotes Hemingway? That would be Julia Calabrese (OPM 22, 1995), CEO at London-based McArthurGlen Group UK Ltd., a leading owner, manager, and developer of designer... View Details
      Keywords: real estate; shopping; Retail Trade; Retail Trade
      • 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
      • 01 Feb 2002
      • News

      Replicating Toyota's Success

      likely a company is not going to get a design perfect on the first try," notes Spear. "It needs to have the people within its system capable of making improvements." Spear has now helped apply Toyota's principles to much of Alcoa's worldwide manufacturing View Details
      Keywords: Retail Trade; Retail Trade; Retail Trade; Retail Trade
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