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- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Project Runway
Stacey Estrella (MBA ’93), a corporate communications executive at a Silicon Valley software firm, started sewing for fun just two years ago. But her beautifully crafted dresses and suits helped her beat out thousands of other hopefuls to earn a slot on the reality-TV... View Details
- 07 Nov 2016
- News
The Business of Saving Old Buildings
setting up a nonprofit foundation to do recycling of older buildings, and so I started the Architecture Heritage Foundation and was asked by the Boston Redevelopment Authority to come up with what they could do with the surplus wholesale... View Details
- Web
Teams | New Venture Competition
wholesale markets. Oply Lindsey Chrismon (MBA 2025), Gabe Chrismon Oply is an AI-powered home management assistant that predicts, organizes and automates home maintenance, saving homeowners time and preventing costly repairs. By... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Business Suits You: Experimenting with Professional Identity
junior professionals in consulting and investment banking firms. She found that these individuals had various methods of discovering how to create an effective image for themselves as senior managers. The most prevalent form of experimentation was imitation, which... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Li & Fung's Global Footprint
Issue Focus: Leadership To keep pace with a fast-changing global business environment, “You’ve got to institutionalize the process of reinvention,” says William Fung. Photo courtesy Li & Fung Ltd. Issue Focus Making the Leadership Case Reimagining the MBA Related Links... View Details
- Profile
Pranav Kothari
Curiosity has always propelled Pranav Kothari. As a child in India, he was intrigued by his family's wholesale textile business. "I was always interested in how things work, how they're made, how machines produce," Pranav says.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
In VMI Partnerships, the Devil is in the Data
decade, however, influential manufacturers such as Procter & Gamble and Campbell Soup initiated such partnerships to help smooth production cycles and improve profits. Retailers were wooed by the potential efficiencies of better inventory management and, in some cases,... View Details
Keywords: Laura Singleton (MBA 1988)
- 03 Mar 2003
- What Do You Think?
Are Conditions Right for the Next Accounting Scandal?
include Hare's call for "a wholesale simplification of our government, accounting, and tax systems," Maria Dell'Oro's suggestion that "the audit committee should have its own staff that follows its own instructions and has... View Details
- Web
A Marketing Revolution - The Art of American Advertising
for consumer goods.” James D. Norris, Advertising and the Transformation of American Society , 1865—1920, 1990 52 Advertising reached consumers through wholesalers and retailers as well as traveling salesmen who operated as middlemen... View Details
- 21 Jul 2022
- News
How Sumner Feldberg Helped Transform Retail
Wall Street Journal. That initiated a period of growth for the company, which went public in 1962. In time Feldberg also helped establish the BJ’s Wholesale Club and T.J. Maxx retail chains, which bought surplus merchandise from the same... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Case Study: Glass Half Full
through Shopify and social channels with influencer gifting. Consider investing in a PR/marketing agency if you aren’t good at content curation and creation. Then, after you have a brand identity and foothold, you can also consider View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Fıelds of Gold
elsewhere, obscuring its source and often producing a lower-quality product. The wholesaler sells the packaged saffron to a distributor. The distributor sells it to a retailer. The retailer sells it to the consumer. Retail price: Average... View Details
- 01 Nov 2018
- News
Earning Potential
believe in the idea that once you empower women, they, in turn, help their families and their communities. So, we do it in a way that is sustainable. It's a for-profit social enterprise. “We have an exclusive line of quality products in the US that women can buy at... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Virtual Plant Tours and Beer Game Dysfunction
exercise, administered in the computer lab. A software program simulates a supply chain from retailer through wholesaler and distributor up to the beer factory. Students take roles as a participant in the chain, seeing only the orders... View Details
- 26 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
What Perceived Power Brings to Negotiations
have to put your participant in a situation in which they can picture themselves. One of the famous negotiations that a lot of research is based on is buying and selling a refrigerator on a wholesale level. It's just not something that... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- 03 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Lehman Brothers Plus Five: Have We Learned from Our Mistakes?
is yes. The safety of the financial system depends on financial institutions' risk exposure, their ability to absorb losses, their reliance on short-term wholesale funding, transparency, and understanding the interconnectedness between... View Details
- 20 May 2025
- Blog Post
How Student-Proposed Internships Can Create Value
contemporary women’s fashion brand that blends European simplicity with California energy. Known for its elevated essentials and modern aesthetic, the company has carved out a niche in the affordable-luxury space, with a global presence across more than 100 markets and... View Details
- 21 May 2025
- Blog Post
Mentorship in Action: When an HBS Student Proposes a Project
simplicity with California energy. Known for its elevated essentials and modern aesthetic, the company has carved out a niche in the affordable-luxury space, with a global presence across more than 100 markets and strong e-commerce and View Details
- 07 Dec 1999
- Research & Ideas
Henry Heinz and Brand Creation in the Late Nineteenth Century
store customers or trading them to urban wholesalers and jobbers for needed supplies. Bartering reduced storekeepers' dependence on currency. It also created informal distribution networks for locally produced goods. For instance,... View Details
Keywords: by Nancy F. Koehn
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Rachel Silverstein
to wear a lot of different hats – when you're lean, it's all hands on deck. I got involved in opening a new market launching a digital app launching a meal plan subscription product wholesale testing many different operational and... View Details