Fashion Tech Startups Emerging From Harvard B-School Runway in Droves

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Gilt Groupe — Alexis Maybank (above, left) and Alexandra Wilkis Wilson (above, right)—both HBS ’04 graduates and Harvard College alums—are widely credited for inspiring future generations of fashion tech entrepreneurs. Gilt was founded in 2007 and is reportedly on target for an initial public offering—and is a case study at HBS. That’s the co-founders talking at an Xconomy event (more photos here) earlier this month. Former eBay employee Maybank was focused on the VC and entrepreneurship side of things at HBS, while Wilson entered the business school to break into the retail or luxury spaces, Wilson says.

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Author: Erin Kutz

Erin Kutz has a background in covering business, politics and general news. She holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Boston University. Erin previously worked in the Boston bureau of Reuters, where she wrote articles on the investment management and mutual fund industries. While in college, she researched for USA Today reporter Jayne O’Donnell’s book, Gen Buy: How Tweens, Teens and Twenty-Somethings Are Revolutionizing Retail. She also spent a semester in Washington, DC, reporting Capitol Hill stories as a correspondent for two Connecticut newspapers and interning in the Money section of USA Today, where she assisted with coverage on the retail and small business beats. Erin got her first taste of reporting at Boston University’s independent student newspaper, as a city section reporter and fact checker and editor of the paper’s weekly business section.