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Senior Lecturer Kristin W. Mugford (photo courtesy of Kristin Mugford) Senior Lecturer Kristin W. Mugford (photo courtesy of Kristin Mugford) Students at Harvard Business Schools are taking their education to the streets of Boston to help small entrepreneurs build... View Details

Keywords: retail

29 May 2024
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Retailers Must Have Great Leadership to Thrive Right Now: Fmr. Best Buy CEO Hubert Joly

06 Oct 2014
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Why Tesco's Strengths Are No Longer Good Enough

Keywords: retail; strategy; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Miscellaneous Store Retailers

27 Sep 2023
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Former Best Buy CEO Hubert Joly on State of the Consumer, Rise of Retail Theft and FTC-Amazon Lawsuit

03 Aug 2022
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The Confusing Job Market: Tech and Finance Brace for the Worst, Retail Is Mixed, Travel Can’t Hire Fast Enough

28 Nov 2015
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All I Want for Christmas Is Chocolate Brussels Sprouts

Keywords: online retail; England; entrepreneurship; artisans; Retail Trade

24 Mar 2021
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Outsider-Insider Named CEO of Amazon Web Services

Photo via LinkedIn Photo via LinkedIn On March 23, recently appointed Amazon CEO Andy Jassy (MBA 1997) named Adam Selipsky (MBA 1993) head of Amazon Web Services (AWS), a $50 billion business that contributes more than half of Amazon’s total income. For the past five... View Details

Keywords: Amazon; online retail; leadership; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

29 Mar 2019
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Callaway Golf Takes a Swing at Outdoor Apparel

Keywords: golf; retail; aquisitions; leadership; risk; Retail Trade; Retail Trade

01 Mar 2011
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Swap ’Em If You Got ’Em

Hall (right): An online market for military personnel. Blake Hall (MBA ’10) grew up in a military family, became an Army Ranger, and was a platoon leader in Iraq for fifteen months. A conversation with a fellow veteran about the difficulty of buying and selling... View Details

Keywords: online retail; online shopping; online marketplace; National Security and International Affairs; Government; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

20 Jul 2016
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How Amazon Adapted Its Business Model to India

Keywords: Amazon; online retail; market entry; innovation; Retail Trade

14 May 2015
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Whole Foods' Misguided Play for Millennials

Keywords: millenials; grocery stores; retail; segmentation; demographics; generations; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Miscellaneous Store Retailers

07 Mar 2012
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Fashion Tech Startups Emerge from HBS

Keywords: online retail; online shopping; fashion; Retail Trade; Retail Trade; Retail Trade; Retail Trade; Retail Trade; Retail Trade

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Harvard Students Help Mom-and-Pop Shops Get off the Ground