Sucharita Mulpuru

Vice President, Principal Analyst serving eBusiness & Channel Strategy PROFESSIONALS

Sucharita serves eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals. She is a leading expert on eCommerce, multichannel retail, consumer behavior, and trends in the online shopping space. She is also a noted authority on technology developments that affect the online commerce industry and vendors that facilitate online marketing and merchandising.

In her research, Sucharita covers such consumer-oriented topics as eCommerce forecasting and trends, merchandising best practices, conversion optimization, and social computing in the retail world. She has also authored "The State Of Retailing Online," a joint study conducted annually with Shop.org and a leading industry benchmark publication.


Previous Work Experience

Prior to Forrester, Sucharita was the director of marketing at Saks Fifth Avenue, where she managed the customer acquisition, retention, and market research efforts for the $2 billion luxury retailer's online channel. Prior to Saks, she held management positions at Toys R Us, where she was a merchant in the Babies R Us division and a store manager in one of the company's largest toy stores. She also worked for the Walt Disney Company, where she developed and managed marketing plans for new business initiatives, including the Disney Stores, the Disney Cruise Line, and Club Disney.

Additionally, she was involved in the expansion of Cap Cities/ABC properties, specifically ESPN Zone, ESPN Magazine, and the Go.com network. She has written two nonfiction books and has contributed to BusinessWeek Online.


Education

Sucharita holds a B.A. in economics from Harvard University and an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Sucharita Mulpuru's Research

  • For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

    Report: The Art And Science Of Retail eCommerce

    As retail eCommerce sales continue to explode, eBusiness executives must check all the boxes to ensure that they are not missing opportunities in this critical channel. This playbook provides in...

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    Report: The State Of Retailing Online 2012: Investments In Mobile And Tablet Commerce

    Forrester partners with Shop.org annually to survey online retail executives on their adoption of various web-related technologies and the investment levels associated with those initiatives. Th...

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    Report: The Purchase Path Of Online Buyers In 2012

    In 2011, Forrester partnered with GSI Commerce and its digital agency True Action to evaluate how shoppers touched various marketing touchpoints, such as paid search and email, prior to completi...

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  • For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

    Report: Why Amazon Matters Now More Than Ever

    As Amazon.com has grown aggressively in recent years, expanded into diverse businesses, and achieved profitability, its impact on the eBusiness and retail sectors is now top of mind. For many bu...

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    Report: The State Of Retailing Online 2012: Mobile And Tablet Commerce

    Forrester partners with Shop.org annually to survey retailers on their attitudes toward and investments in the online retail channel. This year the research specifically probes mobile and tablet...

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    Report: Five Retail eCommerce Trends To Watch In 2011

    2010 marked a year of significant changes in the Internet landscape (primarily with the growth of social networks and mobile devices); these changes forced retail executives to think hard about ...

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  • For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

    Report: US eCommerce Forecast: 2008 To 2012

    US online retail reached $175 billion in 2007 and is projected to grow to $335 billion by 2012. Business-to-consumer (B2C) eCommerce continues its double-digit year-over-year growth rate, in par...

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  • For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

    Report: The State Of Retailing Online 2011: Marketing, Social, And Mobile

    While eCommerce continues to grow and take market share from the physical retail channel, retailers also look to experiment with new approaches to their web businesses such as social commerce an...

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  • For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

    Report: Topic Overview: eBusiness And The Economy

    The silver lining in the cloud of the global recession is that Web businesses are certain to fare better than their offline counterparts as consumers continue to shift their daily activities onl...

    • Downloads: 2559
  • For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

    Report: Mobile Commerce Forecast: 2011 To 2016

    Mobile commerce is expected to reach $31 billion by 2016. While this represents a compounded annual growth rate of 39% from 2011 to 2016, mobile commerce is only expected to be 7% of overall eCo...

    • Downloads: 2745
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Sucharita Mulpuru's Planned Reports

Nov 2012

Report: The eCommerce Juggermaut Dominates Retail

In this second chapter of the Retail eCommerce Playbook, we lay out the current state of eCommerce and the enormous trillion-dollar opportunity it represents around the world by 2016.  ...;

 
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