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- 01 Dec 2017
- News
2017 in Real Estate: A Local Business Goes Global
we need less office space; e-commerce will mean we will need less retail space and new kinds of industrial buildings. Autonomous vehicles—if the ethical, legal, and technical issues can be resolved—may... View Details
Keywords: Real Estate
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Reimagining China and India
of China and India, not just financial markets and industry structure? Entrepreneurship in India and China is not just about taking companies public. It is also about finding ways around all manner of constraints, many of which originate... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Faculty Q&A: Price Check
application in an industry with the most room for improvement. Online retail, particularly online fashion, definitely fit the bill. Why is fashion a good place to focus? The industry faces several challenges... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Inside the Partnership
mischievously saying: “I don’t speak Russian. Who the hell could I talk to over there?” ... In 1939 Weinberg got another assignment: conducting an exhaustive study of investment banking for FDR, with particular attention to the wholesale and View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
and complex amino acids.) 683 alumni work in the agriculture industry 1957 HBS professors Ray Goldberg (MBA 1950) and John H. Davis (MBA 1941) coin the term agribusiness 236 alumni work in the food and beverage View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
The Wise Men
seem unlikely soil for agribusiness, the School actually had an ag industry course before I arrived. And Dean David, who himself came from an agribusiness background, wanted to improve the relationships in the value-added food system.... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
programs. “Local governments already are running deficits, and they are getting worse,” said Abrami. Foreign competition that further weakens local enterprises and erodes the tax base could trigger a WTO backlash at the provincial level, she warned. Already, local... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Case Study: Something New
expertise in various parts of a complex supply chain and high efficiency (to keep lead times down and costs manageable). But that is valuable precisely because it is difficult and thus very hard to replicate. —Ankur Daga (MBA 2005) What makes this online View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
back even further, to his elementary school days, when he bought packages of light bulbs in bulk and sold them door-to-door in his neighborhood at slightly below retail prices. "I think I always wanted to have control over my future. We... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Bringing a global perspective to corporate Australia
Peter Bohn (MBA 1998), managing director of the retail chain Diva in Eastern Europe, talks about the advantages of having a global business perspective. (Published April 2014) View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Globalization Revisited
what firms make of it.” How global retailers enter local foreign markets — and then what they make of them — was the subject of “Globalization of Retailing,” with HBS professor Rajiv Lal leading a discussion of a paper he authored with... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Toy Story
Toy of the Year as well as a nomination for the same title from the Toy Industry Association — the coveted T.O.T.Y. Award. The company had trouble filling orders from retailers that just months before were... View Details
- 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 Dec 2014
- News
Rethinking the Fashion Beat
intersection of business, his trade, and fashion, his infatuation. He named it The Business of Fashion. It was perhaps a little obvious—and yet it was entirely novel. Fashion is an industry traditionally built on aspiration, not access,... 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 Mar 2018
- News
March 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
Alumni Books Dress Like a Million from Goodwill: The Ultimate Recycle Store by Jean Kelley (OPM 29, 2000) (JKLA Publishing) Goodwill stores are the ultimate retail location for getting great deals on name brand clothing. In this book, the... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
The Great Priority Reset
1998), CEO of the global airports and travel retail group daa plc since 2017. (He starts a new role as CEO of UK-based food manufacturer Greencore this fall.) This idea of “travel with intention” is a key trend in the View Details
- 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
- 22 Jan 2018
- News
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