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Brittani Rettig

small line of fitness apparel. "The year 2014 will see the launch of my first brick and mortar fitness studio! I'm partnering with a friend who is a respected entrepreneur... View Details

Keywords: Consulting; Services; Health Care

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nature.” As the founder and CEO of Bluemercury, the highly successful luxury cosmetics retailer, Beck has lived an entrepreneur’s dream. She started the company in 1999, just as the dot.com boom was at its zenith, View Details

01 Dec 2014
News

Instilling Production with Principles

clean out their closets and earn some cash or score discounted used clothing and lighten fashion’s carbon footprint. Revitalizing Bricks and... View Details

Keywords: April White; fashion; Manufacturing

15 Apr 2002
Research & Ideas

In the Virtual Dressing Room Returns Are A Real Problem

information about products rather than to make direct purchases. It is not surprising that apparel led the list: For every dollar spent on apparel online, consumers who visited online apparel sites spent $2.92 purchasing apparel from catalogs or View Details

Keywords: by Jan Hammond & Kristin Kohler; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion; Consumer Products; Manufacturing; Retail

21 Apr 2015
First Look

First Look: April 21

growth was one of the biggest stories in e-commerce, especially when the retailer attracted $50 million in investment from Index Ventures, a top VC firm that funded other successful retailers such as Net-a-Porter and Etsy, in 2013. Yet,... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne

21 Jul 2008
Research & Ideas

Solving the Marketing Resources Allocation Puzzle

papers about "The Value of a Free Customer" and "The Value of a Customer in a Social Networked World." Thomas Steenburgh: I am spending time thinking of a few different things. I have a working paper with a few graduates from our DBA... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Nov 1999
Lessons from the Classroom

What’s Next & So What? Leading in the 21st Century

enough to get better; you have to "get different" — for example, in the way that GE went from manufacturing to services or Charles Schwab went from bricks and mortar... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

01 Mar 2004
News

David “Bull” Gurfein: Bronze Star citation

627324) were reduced. Major Gurfein maneuvered to the breach sites in a “soft-skin” command HMMWV and as soon as his Task Force commenced work, he came under sustained indirect 82mm mortar fire View Details

Keywords: National Security and International Affairs; National Security and International Affairs

11 Jun 2014
News

The First Five Years: Brittani Rettig (MBA 2010)

will see the launch of my first brick and mortar fitness studio! I'm partnering with a friend who is a respected entrepreneur to transform his current fitness studio located in... View Details

Keywords: fitness; wellness; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools

01 Mar 2007
News

The Winning Season

season in the new Busch Stadium was a sellout; outside the stadium, a visitor could spend hours reading the names and messages of devotees who had their words inscribed on bricks that pave the sidewalk. “To... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries

30 Jun 2019
News

Alumni in France honor self-made entrepreneurs; Shih talks trade in Buffalo

employs more than 140 people and revenues have gone from 100k to 65M in 10 years,” says Mannai. “Further growth is expected, as they open brick and View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

05 Jul 2016
First Look

July 5, 2016

July–August 2016 Harvard Business Review Beyond the Holacracy Hype: The Overwrought Claims—and Actual Promise—of the Next Generation of Self-Managed Teams By: Bernstein, Ethan, John Bunch, Niko Canner, and Michael Lee Abstract—Holacracy... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

15 Nov 2006
Research & Ideas

Lessons Not Learned About Innovation

brick wall was erected to separate the two sides of the building. Time was wasted battling each other and even stealing each others' customers. So the message is you can't afford to build two cultures.... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

28 May 2019
News

The Physical Campus in a Virtual World

the brick and mortar of the Harvard Business School campus remains vital and irreplaceable. And as we continue to... View Details

Keywords: Nitin Nohria

26 Aug 2024
Research & Ideas

Can AI Match Human Ingenuity in Creative Problem-Solving?

When ChatGPT and other large language models began entering the mainstream two years ago, it quickly became apparent the technology could excel at certain business functions, yet it was less clear how well artificial intelligence could handle more creative tasks. Sure,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Information Technology; Information; Technology

01 Mar 2009
News

Field Study

epic battle is the Murr Center, the brick edifice at the open end of the Stadium. A 1998 gift of Michael Murr (MBA ’75), the building houses squash and tennis courts; a Harvard athletics history hall; View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools

18 Feb 2015
First Look

First Look: February 18

http://www.pearsonhighered.com/educator/product/Managerial-Accounting-Decision-Making-and-Motivating-Performance/9780137024872.page February 2015 Rajiv Lal Retail Revolution: Will Your Brick & Mortar... View Details