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- 11 Dec 2014
- News
Fashion's Retail Revolution
Áslaug Magnúsdóttir (MBA 2000) in the New York office of Tinker Tailor, her new online couture business. When HBS first turned a scholarly eye to retail in the early 20th century, department View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Brick by Brick
as a wood workshop in the small town of Billund, Denmark. Carpenter Ole Kirk Kristiansen eventually shifted the business from making houses and furniture to crafting wooden toys. He based the name of his new venture on "leg godt," the... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Ink: Talking Shop
specializes in retail turnarounds and transformation. Here, Bines shares a few words about his new book and two other indispensable texts about the trade. The Metail Economy 6 Strategies for Transforming Your Business to Thrive in the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Streamlining the Supermarket
A new alumni-backed venture hopes robots will change how we buy our milk, bread, and eggs. In early 2016, José Vicente Aguerrevere (MBA 2002) attended a talk at HBS by Mick Mountz (MBA 1996), founder of Kiva Systems. Kiva’s small, mobile... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 06 May 2019
- News
Are You Ready for Veggie Fast-Casual?
The founder and former CEO of Panera Bread has a new lease on life. Life Alive, that is. And it’s not a lease—he’s the owner. Ron Shaich (MBA 1978), has tapped his $300 million fund, Act III Holdings, to buy and reimagine a mini-chain of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
For the Records
Awards. The news that Kelleher and her business partner, Trey Watson, had acquired Waterloo was still fresh in the music community. “Everyone wanted to talk about Waterloo,” Kelleher says. Austin’s iconic record View Details
- 26 Jan 2015
- News
The Ingredients for Success
Idea Village, an anchor organization for the emerging entrepreneurial movement in New Orleans, Markowitz (MBA 2003) struggled to find a decent job there. With an HBS degree and a background in corporate... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Toy Story
centered on quality, FAO Schwartz now focuses on higher-end toys. The company is also designing its own products with its own brand and has acquired a children’s clothing company. The chain is now down from forty stores to just three, in... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
After the Revolution: Putting the Internet in Perspective
paramount. "When you went to Harvard Business School, we really knew what we were talking about," he told alumni. "But in the new economy, just about everything we accepted about business is being questioned." Nolan, an expert on general... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
A Look at Olook
André Beisert's olook targets a very particular part of Brazil's new consumer market. "Our brand has a persona," Beisert (MBA 2009) says in his white brick office, which sits atop a small warehouse in the Vila Nova Conceição neighborhood... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Eric Schiffer
1991 and served in various managerial capacities before being named president in 2000 and CEO in 2005. Despite the chain’s strong showing in a down economy (with three new stores scheduled to open in March... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Noted & Quoted
“The variety, nuance, and humanity of the Middle East are being obscured.” — Her Majesty Queen Noor of Jordan, lamenting negative stereotypes of the Middle East, in a keynote address at Burden Auditorium. (Harvard Arab Weekend, November 18, 2010) “Grocery View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2019
no.” Fast money: “My husband, Barry, and I raised a million dollars in two weeks to start Bluemercury in 1999. The initial idea was to build an e-commerce company, but then we changed course and focused on freestanding beauty stores where... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Agenda: Amanda E/J Morrison (MBA 2014)
RIPPLE EFFECT “A woman gets a period around age 12 to 14, and then we tell her to go off in the world and not get pregnant.” “A woman gets a period around age 12 to 14, and then we tell her to go off in the world and not get pregnant.” For 15 years, the morning-after... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Jimmy Lai Chee-ying: Rags, Riches, and Risk
with stores across East and Southeast Asia. The company became the subject of a 1990 HBS case study. In 1989, Lai branched out into the media world, starting up Next, an irreverent Cantonese-language magazine that quickly clicked with the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Using IT to Heal U.S. Health Care
and cutting death rates. Brailer’s challenge is to create electronic recordkeeping standards for the medical profession and to fund construction of the computer network necessary to store and share patient data. Said Brailer: “Health-care... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Fair Trade
Related Links Ten Amazing Facts about Beauty Register for a Club presentation with Professor Jones on October 19 In his new book, Beauty Imagined: A History of the Global Beauty Industry (Oxford University Press), HBS professor Geoffrey... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Jerry Shafir: A Simmering Success Story
their own brand names. The retail business - selling individual servings from refrigerators with our logos in delis and grocery stores - is a totally new challenge." Cooking up delicious recipes is only the... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Vive la Madeleine!
the potential to write a new chapter, to set an example. But he was also a realist. On that trip to Caen, it became clear that saving the company and the workers’ jobs would require a new factory and View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Strike Up the Broad(band)
open-standards, fertile software platform from which thousands of novel applications will bloom." While many of those new applications will benefit consumers, the authors raise concerns that the technology might exacerbate the "Big... View Details