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- 14 Aug 2014
- News
E-Commerce Is Not Eating Retail
- 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
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Returning to the Roots
Dulles-to-Geneva flight, relying on Swiss efficiency to get to Burgundy.” Running a 226-year-old winemaking company is a bit different from the tech industry where Latour has spent his career, working in software, B2B, and more recently,... View Details
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Hiroshi Mikitani, MBA 1993
Chairman and CEO, Rakuten, Inc. Download Mikitani profile (pdf) Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1965 Born, Kobe, Japan 1972 Family moves to United States for two years 1988 Earns commerce degree, Hitotsubashi University 1988 Joins View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint
at the company. He then turned his attention to the e-commerce platform the firm launched in 2018 to sell products directly to retail consumers. Now, as the case “Digital Transformation at Tata Steel” explains, Narendran had to decide... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Jun 2022
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A Sustainable Solution for Fashion
Ferdinand Stockmann (MBA 2021) and James Theuerkauf (MBA 2021) Photo courtesy Syrup Tech Fashion is one of the most polluting industries in the world, says James Theuerkauf (MBA 2021), who worked in McKinsey’s retail sector before... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
2017 in Manufacturing: The Supply Chain Goes High Tech
market differentiation are now even more important than they have been historically. These truths apply across the manufacturing sector, but general industrial equipment and electronics are two areas where these forces are particularly... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
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2017 in Real Estate: A Local Business Goes Global
we need less office space; e-commerce will mean we will need less retail space and new kinds of industrial buildings. Autonomous vehicles—if the ethical, legal, and technical issues can be resolved—may... View Details
Keywords: Real Estate
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Priceline's Jay Walker: The Future is Wow
information, and savings. "An entire industry imploded," he asserted. "Now the industry is driven by the retail marketplace. And [online traders] are having fun." Indeed the "fun," or entertainment value, of... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Internet Tsunami
system, much more so than in the United States," the New York Times (June 7, 2000) reported. Merchants, ranging from toy stores to fishmongers, pay a monthly fee to access Rakuten's e-commerce software and customer database. Merchants... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
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Timothy G. Brier: The Price is Right
predicted that his expertise in the business of flight would one day take him beyond the stratosphere and into cyberspace, and to an important role in the e-commerce revolution. After working in nearly every facet of the airline View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 11 Dec 2014
- News
Fashion's Retail Revolution
Dressing by Number Dressing by Number Ivy Ross Creating the Shopping Experience of the Future Creating the Shopping Experience of the Future Today, though, the case studies are on a multitude of fashion businesses—“fast fashion” chain ZARA, “pretail” View Details
- 15 Mar 2019
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A Model of Drive and Impact
Pablo Fernandez Alvarez (GMP 17, 2014) is cofounder of Clicars, an e-commerce platform in Spain that allows users to buy and finance refurbished cars hassle-free. In this interview, Fernandez explains the business model, the reasons... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
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New Exhibit Highlights Turning Point for American Business
Amidst the dizzying swirl of today's e-commerce transactions, it is sometimes difficult to remember what the business world was like before the advent of computer technology. For campus visitors who want to take a minute to reflect on a... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Using storytelling to transform the retail experience
elevate craft, inspire creativity, and share the stories of passionate, talented, and independent craftspeople. “With BRIKA, we are trying to elevate craft, inspire creativity, and shake up the e-commerce space,” Koss says. (Published... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
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Breaking Down Barriers: The Electronic Wallet
As people get more accustomed to using the Internet to conduct business transactions, their demands will become more sophisticated. Cyberspace is jam-packed with startups trying to second-guess what consumers of the future will want. "Whole new View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 27 Sep 2021
- News
Sewn with Love
began raising funds to support small businesses within the fashion and garment industries that pivoted their manufacturing to create personal protective equipment and partnered with The RealReal, an View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
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Capitalizing the Corner Shop
Amazon of Africa”; at the time of its IPO last April, it was valued at $1.3 billion. A year later, Kehinde and fellow Jumia executive Ercin Eksin went on to found Africa Courier Express (ACE), a logistics company meant to meet the growing last-mile delivery needs of... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 14 Oct 2020
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Sewn with Love
In the midst of a global pandemic and widespread protests against racial injustice, the fashion industry can seem pretty frivolous. Fashion-industry leader Kikka Hanazawa (MBA 2002), CEO of VPL, a women’s underwear and athleisure company,... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Feb 2000
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The Future Is Now: 21st-Century Business Pondered at HBS Forum
the worlds of technology and e-commerce gathered for the daylong "CEO Millennium Forum," an event jointly sponsored by HBS, Microsoft, Forrester Research, and the Wall Street Journal. The forum was also the subject of an hourlong... View Details