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  • 01 Oct 2001
  • News

Barbara Bry: Business is Blooming

Despite recent e-commerce volatility, Proflowers has experienced phenomenal growth, including a new partnership with Amazon.com and expansion into Japan. Proflowers is only the latest in a variety of endeavors that Bry has been involved... View Details
Keywords: Thomas Frick; Arts, Entertainment
  • 01 Dec 2004
  • News

Ideas: Faculty Research Online

work of the School’s Life Sciences & Health Care Initiative, which brings together faculty from diverse areas of HBS to conduct research on the sector and prepare future leaders in these two important areas. Start to Measure Your View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 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
  • 15 Mar 2019
  • News

A Model of Drive and Impact

Pablo Fernandez Alvarez (GMP 17, 2014) is cofounder of Clicars, an e-commerce platform in Spain that allows users to buy and finance refurbished cars hassle-free. In this interview, Fernandez explains the business model, the reasons... View Details
Keywords: Motor Vehicle and Parts Dealers; Retail Trade
  • 01 Dec 2014
  • News

Taking Tailoring High Tech

the Boutique Online Shoptiques founder Olga Vidisheva (MBA 2011) offers all the technical tools and support a small shop needs to get started in the e-commerce world and a one-stop boutique shopping portal for customers. Thinking Inside... View Details
Keywords: April White; fashion
  • 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... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Nonstore Retailers; Retail Trade
  • 01 Mar 2023
  • News

Action Plan: Casting Call

market over the years. While the company continues to make envelopes and printed products, it also produces packaging for pharmacies and other e-commerce mailing needs. With 9 manufacturing facilities and more than 20 sales offices in the... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; hobbies; balance; meaning; longevity; aging; Paper Manufacturing; Manufacturing
  • 13 Jan 2021
  • News

Stress Test

there any precedent for the logistical demands of this moment? On a smaller scale, you can look to the holiday season. There’s always a lot of stuff to ship and a deadline for arrival. It happens every year, and it’s been getting worse and worse as View Details
  • 23 May 2019
  • News

Marla Beck, MBA/MPA 1998

intended to build an e-commerce platform, but she changed course and invested in bricks and mortar when she saw a need for customer-friendly neighborhood stores. The pivot offered a personalized shopping experience that relied on a cadre... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
  • 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 reduce the need for roads and... View Details
Keywords: Real Estate
  • 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 that View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; fashion; Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Retail Trade
  • 11 Dec 2014
  • News

Fashion's Retail Revolution

Dressing by Number Dressing by Number Ivy Ross Creating the Shopping Experience of the Future Creating the Shopping Experience of the Future Today, though, the case studies are on a multitude of fashion businesses—“fast fashion” chain ZARA, “pretail” View Details
Keywords: April White; fashion; Leather and Allied Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Finance
  • 28 Sep 2021
  • News

Alumni Connections Drive Career Opportunities for Students

China, saw how social e-commerce operated there, and identified an opportunity to bring a similar model to Latin America. “In Latin America, only 6 percent of the population buys online, and as we’ve seen during the COVID-19 pandemic,... View Details
Keywords: Becca Carnahan
  • 01 Dec 2000
  • News

Latin America's Decade

still wary of Mexico in the wake of a series of economic crises. In addition, he notes, "We now must compete against Internet companies for capital as e-commerce firms attract investors seeking high returns. But I think as our country... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Julia Hanna; Latin America; research; infrastructure; Hospitality; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 01 Jun 2000
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HBS Business Plan Contestants Pin Their Hopes on the Internet

e-commerce solutions for the laboratory supply market; CitySoft, which builds Web sites and intranet applications and recruits and hires employees from underrepresented urban areas; and ZEFER Corp., an Internet consulting firm. The... View Details
  • 01 Feb 2000
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Breaking Down Barriers: The Electronic Wallet

startups taking advantage of this new opportunity, with the traditional giants - American Express, IBM, and Microsoft, for instance - also getting into the act. Brodia, an e-commerce company dedicated to simplifying online shopping for... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
  • 01 Oct 2000
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New and Improved

shaped and honed the class. We've selected eight classmates whose professional expertise ranges from Girl Scout cookies to e-commerce and whose stories suggest the diverse endeavors of the class as a whole. While "older and wiser" is an... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2000
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Vivek Ranadivé

provides the infrastructure (or"middleware") that makes e-commerce work across disparate computer systems. His meaning, however, is just the opposite.. "The concept of e-business will disappear because every business will be an... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Telecommunications; Information; Air Transportation; Transportation
  • 01 Sep 2016
  • News

The Taxi Wars of Jakarta

prices. Incomes were soaring, and by some measures about 1,000 new cars were being added to Jakarta streets every day. Not long after his graduation in 2011, Makarim joined Germany-based e-commerce investment firm Rocket Internet as its... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey Hutton; Illustrations by Josh Cochran
  • 01 Dec 2014
  • News

Instilling Production with Principles

local shops an enticing web presence alongside their e-commerce peers. Yang took a leadership role at Esquel Group, which her father founded, in 1995. The company has grown steadily despite the economic downturn, and today Esquel Group... View Details
Keywords: April White; fashion; Manufacturing
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