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- 01 Jun 2022
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The Exchange: Same Great Price, Now with Fewer Chips
behavior across retailers? Certainly, online shopping has taken off over this period. How might that affect consumer behavior when they show up in the store? With stores like Walmart and Target carrying...
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- 01 Mar 2018
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Every Trick in the Book
bookstore; small, privately owned shops were the predominant model for bookselling throughout the United States in the early 1970s. That was the original model for Borders, which also opened in 1971 with a small stock of used books in a...
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April White
- 01 Dec 2014
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Making Big Data Fashionable
Principles Áslaug Magnúsdóttir Customizing Couture Online Customizing Couture Online Jamal Motlagh Taking Tailoring High Tech Taking Tailoring High Tech Katrina Lake Dressing by Number Dressing by Number...
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- 01 Feb 2000
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Breaking Down Barriers: The Electronic Wallet
online consumers about a better deal at another Web site. Originally designed to automatically complete online point-of-sale forms with a single click, the electronic wallet is paving the way for a richer,...
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Judith A. Ross
- 01 Dec 2014
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Taking Tailoring High Tech
the Boutique Online Shoptiques founder Olga Vidisheva (MBA 2011) offers all the technical tools and support a small shop needs to get started in the e-commerce world and a one-stop boutique View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
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Learning to Speak the Language of Business
companies with a commanding presence in their home markets. But to call Mikitani’s company, Rakuten, the Amazon.com of Japan would overlook fundamental differences for customers and merchants alike. “We created a real online marketplace...
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- 24 Apr 2014
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Empowering Japan through e-commerce
he developed a web-based shopping mall—Rakuten, which roughly means “optimism”—often called the Amazon.com of Japan. “We created an online marketplace where customers can interact with View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
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Becoming a VC Insider
just a week on the job, floundered for answers, but Upromise, an online college savings vehicle, received funding anyway. The author recommends you shop for VCs like shopping...
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- 21 Sep 2015
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Funding Progress Back Home
“Harvard gives you powerful tools for getting things done in the world,” observes Eric-Vincent Guichard (MBA 1990). “Over time, you more fully appreciate the responsibility that goes with that education.” Guichard, who grew up in rural Guinea, is founder and CEO of...
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- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Dressing by Number
of expertly picked goodies delivered to your door. (True story: That “aha” moment came courtesy of a delivery of farmer-endorsed seasonal veggies.) Now she’s translated that idea into Stitch Fix, the Pandora of fashion. This rapidly growing View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
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Internet Tsunami
Hiroshi Mikitani (MBA '93) is the founder, president, and CEO of Rakuten, Japan's leading online shopping destination. He believes that because the Internet allows merchants to circumvent the many...
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- 01 Jun 2000
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Priceline's Jay Walker: The Future is Wow
online stock trading and online auctions are the few places in e-commerce that approximate "wow" today. Noting that 30 percent of all securities trading is done by individual investors online, Walker said...
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- 01 Dec 2017
- News
2017 in Finance: Helping Consumers Improve Their Financial Life
same from financial services firms. However, consumers understandably have a different bar when it comes to shopping online for clothes versus picking the financial product that’s best for them. Finances...
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- 01 Apr 2000
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The World at a Click
two-year-old, name-your-price discount site gaining fame of late with humorous ads featuring pitchman William Shatner. Both companies have grown rapidly since entering the online market, and with consolidation already under way...
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Margie Kelly
- 01 Jun 2018
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Research Brief: Lessons from Last Place
the operational implications of that behavior for service providers. Buell’s research, which included observing the behaviors of people both in a physical line at the grocery store checkout and in virtual lines when asked to take an View Details
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Jennifer Myers
- 06 Dec 2021
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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...
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- 01 Jun 2014
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FIELD 2 in Accra
multimedia company, devise a monetization strategy for its online presence, primarily by gathering information about the viewing habits of young, well-educated, upscale consumers. A key finding that emerged from their surveys, conducted...
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- 11 Dec 2014
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Fashion's Retail Revolution
Áslaug Magnúsdóttir (MBA 2000) in the New York office of Tinker Tailor, her new online couture business. When HBS first turned a scholarly eye to retail in the early 20th century, department stores were king. Institutions like Filene’s...
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- 04 Sep 2019
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Clicks and Mortar
Associate Professor Antonio Moreno and Senior Lecturer Jill Avery (image by John Ritter) While legacy companies like Sears are shuttering their doors, a growing number of online-first companies—from Amazon to Rent the Runway—are opening new storefronts and transforming...
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- 01 Dec 2014
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Instilling Production with Principles
pro-environmental policies are money savers and the key to her company’s continued success, Yang says. More Retail Revolutions Recycling the Consignment Shop Bigger than the local consignment shop and easier...
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