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  • 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... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; fashion; Retail Trade; Retail Trade
  • 01 Jun 2000
  • News

Priceline's Jay Walker: The Future is Wow

online stock trading and online auctions are the few places in e-commerce that approximate "wow" today. Noting that 30 percent of all securities trading is done by individual investors online, Walker said... 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
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 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
Keywords: Julia Hanna; shopping; e-commerce; Retail Trade; Retail Trade
  • 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
Keywords: Christine Lejeune; fashion; technology
  • 01 Dec 2014
  • News

Instilling Production with Principles

going to count how much impact we have on changing the behavior of the whole industry,” she says. “We’re going to create some noise.” Next: Áslaug Magnúsdóttir (MBA 2000) — Customizing Couture Online » Return to Fashion's View Details
Keywords: April White; fashion; Manufacturing
  • 01 Apr 2001
  • News

Jimmy Lai Chee-ying: Rags, Riches, and Risk

his way up the job ladder at a garment factory, in due course becoming plant manager. By speculating in the stock market, he turned bonus money into enough cash to start his own clothes-making operation, which eventually became Giordano, a wildly successful casual... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes; Retail Trade; Retail Trade
  • 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
Keywords: Maureen Harmon; crafts; hobbies; ecommerce; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Miscellaneous Store Retailers
  • 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... View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Miscellaneous Store Retailers
  • 01 Mar 2007
  • News

Avon CEO Jung on Leadership

leadership, the company introduced new lines and products, repackaged old standbys, invested heavily in research and development, and expanded overseas. Redubbed “the company for women,” Avon now operates in more than 100 countries, generating some $8 billion in annual... View Details
Keywords: makeup; grooming; Retail Trade; Retail Trade; Retail Trade; Retail Trade
  • 01 Apr 1998
  • News

Booting Up

proprietress admits, nascent. "Right now we're mostly getting inquiries," she says. "The online aspect mainly enhances the retail end. A lot of people come in because they've seen us on the Web, or they... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
  • 01 Jun 2022
  • News

Sunny Side

million fund in 2018 and recently announced a second $77 million fund. “Who we are, and where we live, helps us see opportunities where others would not,” he observes. One example is Mighty, an educational platform that enables young entrepreneurs to start View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
  • 01 Jan 2008
  • News

John Doerr, MBA 1976

a dramatic impact on life in the 21st century, from online retail giant Amazon.com to Internet behemoth Google to synthetic biology leader Amyris. Doerr has become a leading advocate of innovation and... View Details
  • 01 Oct 2000
  • News

Internet Tsunami

Hiroshi Mikitani (MBA '93) is the founder, president, and CEO of Rakuten, Japan's leading online shopping destination. He believes that because the Internet allows merchants to circumvent the many intermediaries who jack up prices in... View Details
Keywords: Nonstore Retailers; Nonstore Retailers
  • 08 Jun 2021
  • News

New Funding for Female Founders

Ventures, Defy Partners, Greycroft, and Lerer Hippeau. Prima said it will use the funding to continue product development and support operations. The company sells its products online and through retail... View Details
Keywords: Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance
  • 01 Dec 2020
  • News

Kill Groupthink

and your organization. Escape the bubble. With more than 90 percent of our information-gathering happening online these days, we are subject to more and more confirmation bias in the information we consume. The result is de facto tunnel... View Details
  • 01 Apr 2000
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At Cyberposium, Amazon's Bezos Debunks Internet Myths

world," he said. "Probably more so because more business models are possible online." Myth #5: It's easier for bricks-and-mortar retailers to extend their business. Using books as an example, Bezos noted that View Details
  • 01 Mar 2023
  • News

Case Study: Power Nappy

beyond, to wholesale or retail. Why? The first reason is reach: There is a limit to your own branded website. This is due to the website’s potential traffic (whereas large online retailers have millions of... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Miscellaneous Manufacturing; Manufacturing
  • 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
Keywords: Retail Trade; Retail Trade
  • 03 Oct 2017
  • News

Can Bezos’s Ties to Boston—and HBS—Seal the Deal?

electronics devices to Amazon’s online storefront. HBS would continue to play a role in Amazon’s development, with the article noting that two of Amazon’s earliest acquisitions included local companies founded by Warren Adams (MBA 1998)... View Details
Keywords: Retail Trade
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