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- 01 Feb 1997
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Doing It Your Way
reflection, he adds genetic engineering, specialty retail outlets, catalogue companies, restaurants, and superstores. But when Sahlman's attention turns to the present day, his answer is immediate and unqualified: the Internet. "In many...
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- 01 Mar 2023
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Elevator Pitch: Spread the Wealth
want to open pathways to ownership for a new generation of investors like Amanda.” “We want to open pathways to ownership for a new generation of investors like Amanda.” Status Update: More than 600 View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
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Customizing Couture Online
“fashion’s fairy godmother.” It’s easy to remember a time when women didn’t buy high-end fashion online—it was barely a decade ago. Magnúsdóttir watched the birth of the online fashion industry as a retail consultant and a cofounder of a...
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- 01 Mar 2023
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Case Study: Power Nappy
The Answers: It depends on the company’s goals. We’ve seen many examples of DTCs that had to scale and go to retail faster than they were ready, due to investor pressure. If Saigal is happy with the current...
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- 25 Apr 2023
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Class of 2022 Startups Sweep Alumni New Venture Competition
and Sylvan Guo, for Hue, an e-commerce technology platform that helps brands and retailers to showcase short-form, customer-generated video reviews on their websites. The virtual audience then awarded the Crowd Favorite prize of $5,000 to...
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Margie Kelley
- 29 Apr 2021
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Equal Partner
working in the fashion and retail industry—as the director of Global Strategy at Donna Karan (a division of LVMH), the general manager of Shop Your Way and the founder of Mintbox, a flash sale and loyalty startup—she helped to organize...
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- 01 Jan 2009
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Jorge Paulo Lemann, A.B. 1961; Carlos A. Sicupira, OPM 9, 1984; Marcel H. Telles, OPM 10, 1985
Lemann founded Banco de Investimentos Garantia and soon recruited Sicupira and Telles to join what would become the most successful investment bank in Brazil. As they acquired diverse assets, the trio transformed the Brazilian economy, opening it up to outside View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
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Riding It Out
recall of 450,000 tires missing a key safety feature that a U.S. importer had purchased from a Chinese manufacturer and distributed to retail outlets. “I don’t think there is a strong culture of adherence to regulations in China right...
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- 01 Dec 2014
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Rethinking the Fashion Beat
wanted to. Still, it wasn’t until investors came calling that Amed realized that London-based BoF could be a business. In 2013, he took on backers that included industry powerhouses LVMH and Index Ventures, threw in some of his own money,...
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- 25 Jul 2012
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Movie Magic
swipe of a credit card. “Automated retail sounds better,” suggests Gregg Kaplan (MBA 1997). Recruited by McDonald’s to help start new businesses within the fast-food giant, in 2002 Kaplan oversaw the installation of six kiosks in...
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- 25 Aug 2022
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Open Market
culturally relevant as art or music—and why the retail investor is woefully misunderstood. You’ve been at Robinhood now for three-and-a-half years. How has the organization evolved in that time? The mission...
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- 01 Mar 2019
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The One That Got Away
wants to open a chain of retail shops selling a commodity product you can get anywhere for 25 cents, but he will charge 2 dollars. Of course, you listen politely and then fall off your chair laughing when he leaves. [Starbucks founder]...
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- 02 Nov 2015
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Making Higher Ed Accessible to Africans
ambitious and bold—both criteria that have framed Royster’s career from the start. His initial break with convention occurred after his first year in college, when he took a year off from Duke to work retail near his hometown, in Newton,...
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Jill Radsken
- 01 Sep 2005
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Perfection’s Price
MICHAEL KAPLAN (left, with brother and partner Nicholas) reflects on lessons learned and looks ahead to future growth. Michael Kaplan (MBA ’02) had a great idea for a start-up: a fashionable apparel company catering to plus-size women. But when an View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
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Case Study: Sneak Peak
1,000 retail outlets, including Target and Toys “R” Us. Revenue has grown rapidly with just one flavor, but after multiple discussions with venture capital groups, it became clear that investors were looking...
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- 31 Jan 2023
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Female Founders' Dilemmas; UK Tech Startups
Saigal (MBA 2014), founder and CEO of Kudos, a sustainable diaper company, and Sarina Siddhanti Garg (MBA 2015), founder of the South Asian formal clothing retailer Riya Collective. The women shared their startup journeys with guest...
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Margie Kelley
- 07 Oct 2011
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Tea’s Time
Rawdon relates by phone. “But we were united by our vision of what the company could be.” The two spent the following months pulling together a business plan and fund-raising pitch. “My one-year anniversary at Siebel was the same day we got a commitment from an angel...
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- 02 Oct 2015
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The ‘F’ Word
Emory University, where she graduated with 40 percent more credits than required. A year out of HBS, Wallace and classmate Alex Nelson cofounded Quincy Apparel, an online retailer providing stylish, affordable work clothes for women in a...
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- 10 Mar 2021
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Dream Job: Higher Ed’s New Hire
institutions, so that’s different too. However, while the retail investors are smaller, they are also better armed because of social media. As we’ve seen with GameStop, this allows them to mobilize in ways...
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- 08 Jun 2021
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New Funding for Female Founders
respective ventures. Assaf is co-founder and CEO of the CBD-infused beauty brand The Uplifters’ Prima, which raised $9.2 million in a seed-plus funding round to support its retail expansion, according to coverage in the Los Angeles...
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