Mindy Grossman has made a career out of surprising people with boldly unexpected decisions, perhaps most famously in 2008, when she left the global powerhouse brand Nike for what was effectively a “start up” CEO position at the Home Shopping Network. At the time, HSN was flailing thanks to a beleaguered business model of customers ordering merchandise on their landlines after seeing it on TV. Bleeding money and fizzling out in a new digital world of internet and smart-phone video shopping, G...
Mindy Grossman has made a career out of surprising people with boldly unexpected decisions, perhaps most famously in 2008, when she left the global powerhouse brand Nike for what was effectively a “start up” CEO position at the Home Shopping Network. At the time, HSN was flailing thanks to a beleaguered business model of customers ordering merchandise on their landlines after seeing it on TV. Bleeding money and fizzling out in a new digital world of internet and smart-phone video shopping, G...
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