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CEO and co-founder of thredUP, James Reinhart, continues to disrupt the retail space. "I never thought we would be in the position to change the way retail works. Creating a circular economy in apparrel that previously had not existed has been the most rewarding part of the journey." [...]
This is why I decided to come to Harvard Business School—to give life to the technology that has the potential to change how we do things, and whose only barrier is a poor revenue model or a misaligned product-market fit. I’m now better equipped to solve these problems, identify the right segment, launch plan, financing, strategy, etc. to get great new ideas off the ground. [...]
It is a feeling that is familiar to many of us, the “career switchers”: beginning an MBA program with a keen interest in a different industry, yet not really sure where to start. [...]
I applied to MBA programs because I wanted to change careers. I went from spending six years at one company to trying out a number of industries and function areas in two years. [...]
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