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- 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
- 07 Oct 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
How Companies Can Make Up with (Very) Unhappy Customers
for competitors. Tesco’s Stumble into the US MarketUK retailer Tesco was very successful penetrating foreign markets—until it set its sights on the United States. What Mark Zuckerberg Can Learn About Crisis Leadership from StarbucksWhile... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Devtosh Khare
investments in a variety of Indian business sectors. After graduation, Khare plans to work in a hypergrowth, high-tech Silicon Valley company or in private equity in Singapore or Hong Kong before pursuing his entrepreneurial dream in India. "I need to get View Details
Keywords: Orna Feldman photograph by Webb Chappell
- 05 Dec 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is Walmart Defying Economic Gravity?
federal and state governments, and negative publicity driven by special interest groups." Shadreck Saili added, "Is a company this large manageable? 'Yes' for as long as its policies align with policies of the environments it View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
How Artificial Intelligence is Changing Business
Algorithms and Networks Run the World, presents a framework for rethinking business and operating models. “AI is not just displacing human workers, it is changing the nature of firms, how they operate, and how they interact with the rest... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 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 Dec 2000
- News
Bottom-Line Beauty
discussed the technology purchasing decisions she made when equipping her company, a "clicks-and-bricks" retailer of high-end, hard-to-find beauty products. The Washington, D.C.-based firm now has two boutiques in the nation's capital, as... View Details
- 08 Jun 2015
- News
Doing whatever it takes
When she served as president and COO of Stop & Shop, Carol R. Goldberg (AMP 57, 1969) helped develop the family business into a $4 billion retail giant. (Published June 2015) View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Case Study: Something New
affordable prices, a unique offering in the otherwise crowded wedding industry. But custom design creates ongoing operational challenges. As it grows, should Anomalie leverage its supply-chain advantages to create a line of off-the-rack... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Creating the Shopping Experience of the Future
More Retail Revolutions Sharing Designer Labels Rent the Runway, from Jenn Hyman and Jenny Fleiss (both MBA 2009), brings the sharing economy to the world of fashion, offering big-name dresses—and now accessories—for short-term rental... View Details
- 27 Aug 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Learning From Japan’s Remarkable Disaster Recovery
Clinic, a provider of medical services; Fast Retailing Group, which owns a chain of apparel stores; and Lawson's, which operates more than 40,000 convenience stores. The cases underscore disaster recovery... View Details
- 14 Jul 2021
- News
The First Five Years: Nicolas Manes (MBA 2020)
What are your long-term goals for the company? “In the short term, we are raising a new round of financing to boost our growth in Mexico and to launch an operation in Brazil and in Central America. In the long term, we aspire to be the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Shop Talk, Different Avenues
of retailing through consulting and marketing work for a roster of global clients. Traub recently sat down with Gilt Groupe cofounders Alexis Maybank and Alexandra Wilkis Wilson (both MBA 2004) to discuss 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 2003
- News
Jeanne Jackson
strengths. “During the go-go Internet years, there was pressure at Gap and Wal-Mart to treat the online operation as a separate business,” she recalls. “What we learned is that our e-commerce function needed to be an extension of what we... View Details
- 29 Aug 2018
- Blog Post
From the Classroom to the Workplace: How I Applied Learnings to my Internship
interesting to note how culturally sensitive Zalando has to be as a company due to operating so closely to the customer in so many different countries. It often feels like Europe can be treated as one country, but for a digital disruptor... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
- 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
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Courting the Poor
while reading the New York Times. An article on the front page of the Business section about an innovative Brazilian retailer prompted an immediate e-mail to Gustavo Herrero (MBA ’76), executive director of the School’s Latin America... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Eight Among Many: Nancy J. Karch
several areas. Working with a few retailers as a young principal at the firm in the early 1980s, she realized that retailing, which represents one-third of the American economy, could benefit from McKinsey's management expertise. "The... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Noted & Quoted
“J.C. Penney is in a very tough spot. If you ask people today what it stands for, you don’t get a particularly compelling answer.” —HBS professor Rajiv Lal, commenting on the challenge facing retailing guru Ron Johnson (MBA 1984) as the... View Details