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- 04 Aug 2022
- News
Is Ecommerce the Antidote to Ongoing Retailer Challenges?
- 25 Sep 2019
- News
Leading the Evolution of E-Commerce
Photo via the New York Observer Photo via the New York Observer When Jennifer Fleiss (MBA 2009) started Rent the Runway with HBS classmate Jenn Hyman, the pair were in their 20s—two scrappy entrepreneurs who built the concept of renting designer clothing into a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Case Study: Gazelle's New Predators
Illustration by Istvan Banyai Since 2006, Gazelle has offered consumers an answer to the question of what to do with their old electronic devices when they upgrade: Sell them to us. Customers can go to Gazelle's website; get a price for their used smartphone, tablet,... View Details
- 01 Nov 2013
- News
Selling Crafts with a Story
Jennifer Lee Koss by Maureen Harmon For weeks in 2012, Jennifer Lee Koss (MBA 2008) and Kena Paranjape held early- morning meetings at La Bohème coffee shop in Toronto. The discussion centered on a possible business venture. The meeting spot made sense; it was near... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Action Plan: Whole Sale
The future of retail won’t be brick and mortar or online, says Musab Balbale (MBA 2007). Instead, it will be a more inclusive combination of the two. Balbale, who spent several years of his career focused exclusively on online sales, is testing that theory at scale as... View Details
- 20 Oct 2019
- News
Rent the Runway Opens Galway Office
- 13 Aug 2018
- News
Under CEO Hubert Joly, Best Buy Moving Forward In The Age Of Amazon
- 13 Mar 2017
- News
Mentoring of entrepreneurs is missing in India
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Why the Chip Shortage Drags On and On … and On
- 04 Mar 2015
- News
Retail Reaches a Tipping Point—Which Stores Will Survive?
- 15 Oct 2012
- News
Retailers curb online shopping with in-store deals
- 05 Jul 2021
- News
Jeff Bezos Steps Down as Amazon CEO
- 23 Jan 2020
- News
Digital Transformation’s Emerging Effect on Customer Expectations
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Case Study: Testing the Waters
Illustration by Christina Spano Endurance training was nothing new to Lauren Picasso (MBA 2014), who’d raced through her younger years as a cross-country runner and swimmer. In 2017, when she was director of marketing at Jet.com and looking for a physical challenge,... View Details
- 10 Oct 2018
- News
Working with a Giver’s Spirit
low-income people across Southeast Asia to have access to money-saving ecommerce and other mobile content. Supply Philippine smallholder cocoa farmers with best-in-industry knowledge, planting materials, fertilizers, and loan products,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Giving Amazon the Boot
When the coronavirus pandemic led many brick-and-mortar retailers to close their doors, consumers turned to online shopping in record numbers—US ecommerce sales rose by 31.8 percent between the first and second quarter of 2020 to $211.5... View Details
- 06 Dec 2017
- News
Puzzle Master
towards digital experiences that enhance customer engagement. In an interview with Black Enterprise, Williams-Sonoma Vice President and Head of Strategy & Business Anddria Clack-Rogers Varnado (MBA 2014) said, “Technology has always been a part of our business... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Case Study: Welcome Aboard
stores in the fall of 2021 and through an ecommerce channel in early 2022. The switch has better aligned the company with the wave of interest in sports tech and connected health, Cass notes, and distanced it from the more saturated... View Details
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- 12 Feb 2016
- News
Creating Common Ground in Communities of Conflict
catch up,” she says. Questioning the status quo has also inspired Mendhro to launch VIDA, a venture-based ecommerce platform based in San Francisco that connects designers across the globe with producers, to manufacture original apparel... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Camel and the Unicorn
instance, ecommerce companies have had to develop systems that allow buyers to pay cash on delivery so they can address trust issues and serve unbanked populations. But more generally, it also means that startups are being built for a... View Details