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  • 01 Sep 2013
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The New Rules of E-Commerce

One day in 2010 the CEO of Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten announced that thousands of employees would soon conduct business in a tongue most of them knew nothing about: English. Within days all the signs at the Tokyo headquarters were... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; e-commerce; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade
  • 06 Feb 2015
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The Billion-Dollar E-commerce Company You Know Nothing About

Keywords: e-commerce; Nonstore Retailers; Retail Trade
  • 14 Aug 2014
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E-Commerce Is Not Eating Retail

Keywords: e-commerce; bricks and mortar stores; retail industry; sales strategy; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade
  • 24 Apr 2014
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Empowering Japan through e-commerce

hundreds of cases, a light clicked on. “It was in an HBS classroom that I first considered starting my own company,” he says. Rakuten operates e-commerce businesses in 13 countries, spearheaded a $100 million investment in Pinterest, and... View Details
  • 25 Sep 2019
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Leading the Evolution of E-Commerce

allowing more time to focus on what the consumer wants, she says. What the consumer wants is what Fleiss—a mother of three—also wants: efficiency and ease of use. “The idea here is to combine the convenience of e-commerce with the... View Details
Keywords: ecommerce; work-life balance; entrepreneurship; Retail Trade
  • 01 Apr 2001
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William Fung: E-Commerce and Efficiency

Internet to improve efficiency and cater to new customers is a clear winner. Group managing director William K.L. Fung (MBA ’72) understands that e-commerce is revolutionary. “But it won’t change what our business is,” he insists. “We’re... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes; Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Retail Trade
  • 17 Mar 2022
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Pandemic’s E-Commerce Surge Proves Less Persistent, More Varied

  • 05 May 2014
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Acustom Apparel Takes On E-Commerce

Keywords: Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Retail Trade
  • 23 Feb 2010
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A Search Engine for Global E-commerce

Keywords: Wholesale Trade
  • 11 Oct 2012
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E-Commerce Challenges and Opportunities in Asia

  • 07 Oct 2024
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How E-Commerce Is Making China’s Deflation Worse

  • 02 Jul 2014
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Selling Through Storytelling: E-Commerce Site Celebrates American Crafts

  • 07 Feb 2014
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How Shoptiques is Helping Independent Boutiques Tackle E-Commerce

Keywords: fashion; Retail Trade
  • 16 Apr 2015
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Why e-commerce giants must reinvent, and why the human touch is still vital

  • 12 Jul 2021
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Inflation Threat May Be Boosted by Changes in Globalization, Demographics and E-Commerce

  • 06 May 2015
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Two Retail Veterans Take Aim at Amazon’s E-Commerce Reign

Keywords: Nonstore Retailers; Retail Trade
  • 29 Dec 2021
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Should Retailers Split E-Commerce From Stores? A High-Level Debate

  • 13 Feb 2013
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Everything but the Cook

Keywords: e-commerce; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality
  • 01 Mar 2006
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Second Acts

When Glen Meakem (MBA ’91) couldn’t persuade his employer, General Electric, that he was on to a hot idea to revamp corporate purchasing using the Internet, he quit and started his own firm, FreeMarkets, which charted the way for successful business-to-business... View Details
Keywords: e-commerce; B2B; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information
  • 01 Mar 2012
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Learning to Speak the Language of Business

merchants to build relationships with their customers,” says Mikitani, Rakuten’s founder, chairman, and CEO. Amazon offers neither experience, he adds. Launched in 1997, Rakuten’s online shopping mall now hosts more than 37,000 merchants, and the company has expanded... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; e-commerce; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade
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