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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
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Marla Malcolm Beck
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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Aug 2014
- Research & Ideas
Dragging Patent Trolls Into the Light
The Texas town of Marshall has a population of 25,000 people, 2,000 of whom are students attending one of the four colleges that have earned Marshall the nickname "Athens of Texas." Marshall is also home to a historic pottery industry View Details
- 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
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Making of a School
BRICK BY BRICK: Completion of the campus dormitories took place in sixteen months. BAKER LIBRARY HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS On a stroll through campus, it’s almost impossible to envision HBS without the iconic columns View Details