Mindy Grossman

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'''Mindy Grossman''' (born September 8, 1957) is the former CEO of WW International (formerly Weight Watchers). Her earlier career included executive roles at Ralph Lauren Corporation and Nike, and she was also CEO of HSN from 2006 to 2017. She has been listed on ''Financial Times''{{'}}s list of the Top 50 Women In World Business, and was ranked among ''Forbes''{{'}} 100 Most Powerful Women In The World, as well as in ''Fortune''{{'}}s Top People in Business.

==Early life and education== Mindy Grossman was born September 8, 1957.<ref>[http://flvoters.com/by_number/1193/25259_mindy_faye_grossman.html Mindy Faye Grossman] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150618121624/http://flvoters.com/by_number/1193/25259_mindy_faye_grossman.html |date=2015-06-18 }}. Registered Voters in the State of Florida, U.S.A. as of 31 December 2014. ''FLvoters.com''.</ref> Her adoptive parents were Donald and Elaine Waldman, a Jewish produce dealer and homemaker on Long Island, New York, who had married young but had been unable to have children.<ref name=cnn /><ref name=time>Luscombe, Belinda. [http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2125508,00.html "Lights, Camera, Sell: How Mindy Grossman took the shame out of home shopping"]. ''TIME''. October 8, 2012.</ref>

She attended Manhattanville College in Westchester County, New York, and transferred to George Washington University in Washington, D.C.<ref name=bloomberg>[https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/people/person.asp?personId=1520068 Mindy Grossman] – Executive Profile at ''Bloomberg Businessweek''.</ref> She intended to go to law school after graduation. However, in her senior year at George Washington University, she broke off her engagement to her high-school boyfriend and dropped her plans to attend law school, and instead moved to New York City to go into the fashion industry.<ref name=cnn /><ref name=time />

==Career==

===1977–1991=== Grossman moved to New York City in 1977, and was offered a job working for menswear conglomerate Manhattan International, as an assistant to the president of their international division.<ref name=cnn>Sesay, Isha and Phoebe Parke. [http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/02/world/europe/mindy-grossman-hsn/ "How Mindy Grossman made home shopping hip"]. ''CNN''. September 30, 2014.</ref><ref>[http://www.milkeninstitute.org/events/conferences/global-conference/2013/speaker-detail/10669 Speaker's Biography: Mindy Grossman, CEO, HSNi] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150618114036/http://www.milkeninstitute.org/events/conferences/global-conference/2013/speaker-detail/10669 |date=2015-06-18 }}. Milken Institute. ''MilkenInstitute.org''. 2013.</ref><ref name=career>[https://web.archive.org/web/20140830113037/http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-08-27/hsni-ceo-mindy-grossmans-career-path "HSNi's Mindy Grossman: How Did I Get Here?"]. ''Bloomberg Businessweek''. August 28, 2014.</ref> From 1978 to 1980, she was an account executive at Jeffrey Banks menswear.<ref name=career /> From 1980 to 1981, she was an account executive at Ron Chereskin menswear.<ref name=career /> From 1981 to 1985, she was a regional sales manager at Merona, and then vice-president of sales at Jeffrey Banks; both Merona and Jeffrey Banks were at the time divisions of Oxford Industries.<ref name=career /><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20150924154934/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-3806921.html "Winmor licenses Bjorn Borg name from Eiser"]. ''Daily News Record''. June 6, 1985.</ref>

From 1985 to 1988, Grossman worked for WilliWear by Willi Smith. She started out as Vice President of Sales and in 1987 became Vice President of Menswear.<ref name=career /><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20150924155223/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-4715738.html "Stuart Lazar resigning as WilliWear V-P"]. ''Daily News Record''. March 16, 1987.</ref><ref>Gibbons, William. [https://web.archive.org/web/20150924161919/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-6516358.html "WilliWear to add lower-priced men's, women's line for spring"]. ''Daily News Record''. July 26, 1988.</ref>

From 1988 to 1991 she was Vice President of Sales and Merchandising at Tommy Hilfiger,<ref name=career /> which had been incorporated in 1985.<ref name=time /> Grossman later recalled, "At the time, it was a small company, and sales were meteoric. They went from around $38 million to $350 million."<ref name=career />

===1991–2006===

====Ralph Lauren==== From 1991 to 2000, Grossman worked for brands by Ralph Lauren. From 1991 to 1994, she was President of Chaps Ralph Lauren, a division of Warnaco, Inc., and she was also Senior Vice President of Menswear for Warnaco, Inc.<ref name=bloomberg /><ref name=career /><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20150924051726/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-11073978.html "Chaps names Grossman president"]. ''Daily News Record''. August 1, 1991.</ref> Chaps was Ralph Lauren's midprice department-store brand;<ref name=time /> She grew the Chaps division's annual revenues from $26 million to $250 million.<ref name=hbr>Grossman, Mindy. [https://hbr.org/2011/12/hsns-ceo-on-fixing-the-shopping-networks-culture/ar/1 "HSN’s CEO on Fixing the Shopping Network’s Culture"]. ''Harvard Business Review''. December 2011. Reprinted in: Harvard Business Review. [https://books.google.com/books?id=4pvBAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA54 ''How I Did It: Lessons from the Front Lines of Business'']. Harvard Business Review Press, 2014. pp. 54–61.</ref><ref name=nonlinear>Nazarian, Angella. [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/angella-nazarian/mindy-grossmans-nonlinear_b_3233342.html "Mindy Grossman's Non-Linear Path to Success"]. ''Huffington Post''. May 10, 2013.</ref>

She was vice-president of New Business Development at Polo Ralph Lauren Corporation from 1994 to 1995.<ref name=bloomberg /> During that period, she developed new brand concepts, including Polo Jeans. She convinced Lauren that in order to attract customers at a younger age he needed to embrace new ideas, and that Polo Jeans Company was a good way to make lifelong customers out of a younger audience.<ref>Mattern, Joanne. [https://books.google.com/books?id=NvhbAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT70 ''Ralph Lauren'']. Chelsea House, Infobase Publishing, 2013. pt. 70.</ref> Grossman calls starting Polo Jeans "my start-up experience";<ref name=cnn /> she was its president and CEO from 1995 to 2000,<ref name=career /> launched the brand in 1996,<ref>Walsh, Peter. [https://web.archive.org/web/20150924144808/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-17435171.html "Ralph Lauren licenses Sun Apparel for men's jeanswear collection"]. ''Daily News Record''. September 18, 1995.</ref> and took it from a standing start to a $450 million business,<ref name=hbr /><ref name=time /> building it into the leading department store status denim brand.<ref name=cunningham>Cunningham, Thomas. [https://web.archive.org/web/20150924162037/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-66382802.html "Swooshing On A Star; As Head Of Nike Apparel, Mindy Grossman's Challenges Start With A Familiar Customer -- Department Stores"]. ''Daily News Record''. October 18, 2000.</ref>

====Nike==== In 2000, Grossman joined Nike, Inc., where she served as Vice President of Global Apparel from 2000 to 2006, overseeing its worldwide multi-billion-dollar apparel business.<ref name=career /> Nike CEO Phil Knight had brought her in to revive Nike's sagging apparel business,<ref name=cunningham /><ref name=FortuneNike /><ref>Drexler, Kateri. [https://books.google.com/books?id=iL0vtijwaksC&pg=PA277 ''Icons of Business'']. Greenwood Publishing Group, 2007. p. 277.</ref> capitalizing on her expertise in fashion, brand strategy, product development, and retail space management.<ref>Karr, Arnold J. [https://web.archive.org/web/20150924161957/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-65766387.html "Grossman To Head Nike Global Apparel"]. ''Women's Wear Daily''. September 28, 2000.</ref>

In her capacity as head of global apparel, she oversaw global strategic planning; product development; and global apparel manufacturing, operations, sourcing, merchandising, advanced innovation, quality assurance, and compliance and sustainability. She was also responsible for Nike's women's business.<ref name=appoints /> She reengineered the entire apparel organization, and created three sub-brands for Nike apparel: Nike Performance, targeted to athletes and aspirational consumers; Nike Active, a line to be worn from gym to street; and Nike Fusion, apparel with higher-performance fabrics and aggressive styling.<ref name=departure /> Under her leadership, Nike also rolled out new NikeWomen stores, launched NikeWomen catalogues, and started a new division called Fitness Dance.<ref name=departure /> She advanced Nike's apparel innovation agenda, led the development and growth of the global women's business, and created and co-chaired Nike's Global Women's Leadership Council.<ref name=hbr /><ref name=unicef>[http://www.unicefusa.org/about/people/board/mindy-grossman Board of Directors – Mindy Grossman] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150618121458/http://www.unicefusa.org/about/people/board/mindy-grossman |date=2015-06-18 }}. UNICEF. ''UNICEFUSA.org''. Retrieved February 3, 2015.</ref>

Grossman was credited with showing a footwear company how to be an apparel company.<ref name=departure /> She brought her strong fashion background to Nike's apparel and regenerated it, devoting much of her energy to the company's weaker women's wear business.<ref name=departure /> Nike's apparel business's annual revenue was $2.7 billion when she joined in 2000;<ref name=FortuneNike>Boyle, Matthew. [https://web.archive.org/web/20080325071439/http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2002/06/24/325204/index.htm "How Nike Got Its Swoosh Back"]. ''Fortune''. June 24, 2002.</ref> by the end of fiscal year 2005 she had grown it to $4.1 billion,<ref name=departure>Lloyd, Brenda. [https://web.archive.org/web/20150924135514/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-146547525.html "Grossman's Departure Seen As A Blow To Nike; During Her Tenure, Global Apparel Sales Jumped To $4.1B"]. ''Daily News Record''. April 24, 2006.</ref> which was 32% of Nike brand revenues.<ref>Kletter, Melanie. [https://web.archive.org/web/20150924135517/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-146548806.html "Jumping The Nike Ship: Mindy Grossman Exits, Joins Barry Diller's IAC"]. ''Women's Wear Daily''. April 18, 2006.</ref>

===2006 to 2017: HSN ===

====Arrival at HSN==== By 2006, a recruiter approached Grossman about IAC/InterActiveCorp (IAC), the parent company of HSN, Inc., and after studying HSN's broadcasts she realized that, in her words, "HSN really needed to become more of a lifestyle network that would inspire people through products".<ref name=hbr /> Her vision was to offer inspiring lifestyle programming, particularly with charismatic celebrities, with all the products for sale – rather than the usual dry and old-fashioned standard sales format.<ref name=time />

She took the idea to Barry Diller, the head of IAC, and even though she had no television experience, no direct-to-consumer experience, and no experience in most of the product categories HSN sold, he hired her.<ref name=hbr /><ref name=time /> In April 2006, Grossman was appointed CEO of IAC Retailing, overseeing HSN, the catalog company Cornerstone Brands, Shoebuy.com, and IAC's international retailing operations.<ref name=appoints>[http://iac.com/media-room/press-releases/iac-appoints-mindy-grossman-chief-executive-officer-retailing "IAC Appoints Mindy Grossman Chief Executive Officer of Retailing"]. ''IAC.com''. April 17, 2006.</ref>

HSN had had seven CEOs in the previous 10 years, and according to Grossman the company, offices, and employees seemed downtrodden and frozen in time.<ref name=hbr /> One of her first actions was to throw out all the old, broken, or dirty office furniture and give all employees Aeron chairs.<ref name=hbr /> In order to focus on revitalizing HSN, she closed IAC's failing UK auction business, sold its German shopping channel, closed the down-market DirecTV clearance-shopping channel America's Store, and put another executive in charge of Cornerstone brands.<ref name=hbr /> She also eliminated negative or "toxic" employees, sought out committed, knowledgeable people within and outside the company to head up important divisions, and ensured that all employees were on board with the company's new vision.<ref name=hbr /><ref name=time />

She also found that the network and brand itself was a "very stagnant, linear, non-immersive experience".<ref name=wsj2010>Holmes, Elizabeth. [https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748703805004575606463489605440 "The Golden Age of TV Shopping"]. ''Wall Street Journal''. November 11, 2010.</ref> By October 2006 she rolled out HSN's new brand image, tagline, vision statement, customer intention, and advertising. The company's new manifesto was "to create a new lifestyle experience for consumers".<ref name=hbr /> To implement the plan, she stopped selling $150 million worth of unsuitable brands, and worked hard to entice higher-end brands, and new personalities to sell products.<ref name=hbr /> Among many others, early on she recruited Sephora, Emeril Lagasse, and Todd English to sell on air. She also aired a two-hour fashion show of high-end apparel.<ref name=hbr /> In addition, she brought the company's call centers back to the U.S. from overseas.<ref name=wsj2010 /><ref name=q&a>Sammon, Lindsay E. [http://www.wwd.com/footwear-news/business/channel-changer-2407299 "Q&A With Mindy Grossman"]. ''Women's Wear Daily''. January 11, 2010.</ref>

====HSN relaunch and taking the company public==== By mid 2007 the relaunch and redesign of HSN's channel, website, and campus were in effect, and the business started to turn around.<ref name=hbr /> In November of that year, Diller decided to break up IAC into several of its constituent companies, and to spin off HSN, Inc. as a public company via an IPO with Grossman as CEO.<ref name=hbr /><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20150924144426/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-171287488.html "IAC Preps HSN Spinoff"]. ''Home Textiles Today''. November 12, 2007.</ref> The IPO launched in August 2008.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20150924145759/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-184377699.html "HSN Now Standalone as IAC Breakup Done"]. ''Home Textiles Today''. September 1, 2008.</ref> A few weeks later the Lehman Brothers collapse occurred, with the subsequent stock-market plunge and recession. Grossman kept HSN afloat and thriving during the tenuous recessional years of 2008 and 2009 via intense economies and stringent dedication to her vision, and by tailoring HSN's marketing to her customers' needs to economize.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20150924152050/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-217361497.html "Women to Watch"]. ''Multichannel News''. January 25, 2010.</ref><ref name=obvious /><ref name=stanford />

She continued to aggressively transform, redefine, and reinvent the HSN brand, improving its demographics and increasing the value of its stock from $10 at its IPO in August 2008 to $55 a share in 2014.<ref name=stanford>Snyder, Bill. [https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/how-mindy-grossman-turned-around-hsn "How Mindy Grossman Turned Around HSN"]. ''Insights'' by Stanford Business. Stanford Graduate School of Business. June 5, 2014.</ref> HSN's success fostered the launch of a second 24-hour television channel, HSN2, in 2010.<ref>Boccaccio, Katherine and Marianne Wilson. [http://www.chainstoreage.com/article/celebrating-success# "Celebrating Success: Retail entrepreneurs honored in annual awards program"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150618113715/http://www.chainstoreage.com/article/celebrating-success |date=2015-06-18 }}. ''Chain Store Age''. November 18, 2011.</ref><ref>Stelter, Brian. [https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C05E4DD153DF937A25755C0A9669D8B63 "Up Next: Reruns From HSN"]. ''New York Times''. June 14, 2010.</ref> Grossman's upgraded the product level to high-end products; implemented numerous digital and mobile access options; improved the shopping experience; and brought on celebrities and high-end fashion designers to sell their lines.<ref name=elle /><ref name=robin>Lewis, Robin. [http://therobinreport.com/qa-with-mindy-grossman-ceo-hsn/ "Q&A With Mindy Grossman, CEO HSN"]. ''The Robin Report''. May 15, 2012.</ref><ref name=fastcoprofile>[http://www.fastcompany.com/person/mindy-grossman Mindy Grossman] – Profile at ''Fast Company''.</ref>

HSN improved as a multi-platform business, with an improved shopping experience.<ref name=bloomberg /><ref name=bloomin /><ref name=newrules /> ''Forbes'' and ''Fortune'' termed the new brand a "hybrid" – a media, entertainment, technology, and retail business.<ref name=obvious /><ref name=forbes2012>Goudreau, Jenna. [https://www.forbes.com/sites/jennagoudreau/2012/08/29/how-mindy-grossman-is-transforming-hsn/ "How Mindy Grossman Is Transforming HSN"]. ''Forbes''. August 29, 2012.</ref>

To stay current with technology, Grossman introduced new HSN venues including Shop by Remote (television remote control shopping), HSN Arcade (online games), Video on Demand, HSN Live, shopping via YouTube, and in-flight shopping.<ref>Farrell, Mike. [https://web.archive.org/web/20150924151402/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-203117416.html "HSN Minds the Store"]. ''Multichannel News''. July 6, 2009.</ref><ref name=unicef /><ref name=newrules>Lewis, Robin and Michael Dart. [https://books.google.com/books?id=b4XCX2zKYBYC&pg=PA168 ''The New Rules of Retail: Competing in the World's Toughest Marketplace'']. Macmillan, 2010. pp. 168–171.</ref> She overhauled HSN's website and made HSN a major e-commerce presence;<ref name=q&a /><ref name=stanford /> as of 2013 HSN.com was one of the top 10 most-trafficked e-commerce sites.<ref name=nonlinear /><ref name=forbesprofile>[https://www.forbes.com/profile/mindy-grossman/ Mindy Grossman] – Profile at ''Forbes''.</ref> She evolved HSN from a linear network to a multi-platform business, so that nearly half the HSN's revenue came through digital platforms.<ref name=robin /><ref name=bloomin/><ref name=fastcoprofile />

She recruited major celebrities such as Jennifer Lopez, Queen Latifah, Mariah Carey, Iman, P. Diddy, Padma Lakshmi, Martha Stewart, Jessica Simpson, Keith Urban, Nicki Minaj, Mary J. Blige, and Serena Williams, and major cosmetics companies such as Lancôme and Stila, to appear on the network and sell their own brands of merchandise, most of them exclusively created for HSN.<ref name=elle>Levy, Ariel. [http://www.elle.com/culture/career-politics/a11876/mindy-grossmans-sell-a-vision-success-616031/ "Mindy Grossman's Sell-A-Vision Success"]. ''Elle''. February 9, 2012.</ref> She brought in high-end fashion designers to sell exclusive fashion lines on the network, garnering Grossman and HSN a front row at Fashion Week.<ref name=hbr /><ref name=wsj2010 /><ref name=q&a /> She also created partnerships with major companies like Disney and other Hollywood studios to sell merchandise, invited movie and television-series tie-ins, and aired live concerts by singers such as Rod Stewart and Randy Travis.<ref name=elle /><ref name=forbes2012 /><ref name=fortune22 /><ref name=fastco2011 />

HSN became a Fortune 1000 company in 2009.<ref>[http://fortune-archive.wp.alley.ws/magazines/fortune/fortune500/2009/snapshots/11525.html Fortune 500, 2009 snapshots – HSN]{{dead link|date=January 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}. ''Fortune'' archives.</ref> As of 2014, Grossman was one of only 51 women who lead a Fortune 1000 company.<ref>Fairchild, Caroline. [http://fortune.com/2014/07/08/women-ceos-fortune-500-1000/ "Women CEOs in the Fortune 1000: By the numbers"]. ''Fortune''. July 8, 2014.</ref><ref>Goudreau, Jenna. [https://www.forbes.com/sites/jennagoudreau/2011/05/27/hsn-chief-mindy-grossman-talks-women-and-shopping/ "HSN Chief Mindy Grossman Talks Women And Shopping"]. ''Forbes''. May 27, 2011.</ref> In 2015, ''Fortune'' published an article stating that from 2002 through 2014, Fortune 1000 companies led by women have performed three times better than the S&P 500, and that HSN's returns since its IPO were one of the top two, even despite the stock-market meltdown which immediately followed its initial public offering.<ref>Wechsler, Pat. [http://fortune.com/2015/03/03/women-led-companies-perform-three-times-better-than-the-sp-500/ "Women-led companies perform three times better than the S&P 500"]. ''Fortune''. March 3, 2015.</ref> Grossman was the recruited by other retailers, including Penney's, Target, and Avon.<ref name=elle /><ref>Thurston, Susan. [https://www.tampabay.com/news/business/retail/hsns-mindy-grossman-a-hot-commodity-among-retailers/2189117/ "HSN's Mindy Grossman a hot commodity among retailers"]. ''Tampa Bay Times''. July 18, 2014.</ref><ref>Kapner, Suzanne and Joann S. Lublin. [https://online.wsj.com/articles/hsn-chief-turned-down-top-job-at-j-c-penney-1405263904 "HSN Chief Turned Down Job as J.C. Penney"]. ''Wall Street Journal''. July 13, 2014.</ref><ref>Mattioli, Dana and Joann S. Lublin. [https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052970204883304577222780575245916 "Avon Woos HSN's Mindy Grossman for CEO Post"]. ''Wall Street Journal''. February 15, 2012.</ref>

===2017 to present: WW === ====Arrival at WW==== On April 26, 2017, Weight Watchers (now WW) announced that Mindy Grossman would take over as CEO in July 2017, replacing former CEO James Chambers who resigned from the company in the fall of 2016.<ref>[https://www.weightwatchers.com/us/weight-watchers-names-mindy-grossman-president-and-ceo "Weight Watchers Names Mindy Grossman President and CEO"]</ref> Once in office, she said that her plan included a push beyond dieting and into well-being, as well as a partnership with Oprah Winfrey, who holds almost 15% of WW's shares and sits on its board of directors.<ref>[https://www.wsj.com/articles/new-weight-watchers-new-ceo-hopes-to-pull-off-another-turnaround-1501763072 "New Weight Watchers CEO Hopes to Pull Off Another Turnaround"]</ref> She resigned her position early in 2022.<ref name="fox">{{cite web |last1=Manfredi |first1=Lucas |title=Oprah thanks WW International CEO Mindy Grossman as she steps down |url=https://www.foxbusiness.com/business-leaders/ww-international-ceo-stepping-down-oprah |website=FOXBusiness |publisher=Fox Corporation |access-date=2 March 2024 |date=1 October 2021}}</ref>

==Directorships and advisories== Grossman has been a director of HSN, Inc. since it went public in August 2008.<ref name=bloomberg /><ref>[http://www.hsni.com/directors.cfm HSNi – BOARD OF DIRECTORS] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150618113739/http://www.hsni.com/directors.cfm |date=2015-06-18 }}. ''HSNi.com''.</ref> She has been a director of Bloomin’ Brands since 2012.<ref name=bloomin>[http://investors.bloominbrands.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=706046 "Bloomin' Brands, Inc. Appoints Two New Directors"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150618101023/http://investors.bloominbrands.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=706046 |date=2015-06-18 }}. (Press release) ''BloominBrands.com''. September 10, 2012.</ref> She serves on the Board of Directors of, and as of 2015 is Vice Chair of, the National Retail Federation.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20150924155046/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-397023132.html "The Container Store Chairman and CEO Kip Tindell Elected Chairman of Nrf Board of Directors"]. ''States News Service''. January 12, 2015.</ref> She also serves on the Board of Directors of, and as of 2015 is Chair of, the National Retail Federation Foundation, the charitable arm of the National Retail Federation.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20150924154203/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-314763026.html "Hsni CEO Mindy Grossman Elected Chair of Nrf Foundation Board of Directors"]. ''States News Service''. January 14, 2013.</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20150924155044/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-396819545.html "Hsni CEO Elected to Serve Another Term as Chair of the Nrf Foundation Board of Directors"]. ''States News Service''. January 10, 2015.</ref>

She is the chair of the advisory board of Fashion Institute of Technology’s Executive Women in Fashion.<ref>[http://www.fitnyc.edu/7743.asp FIT Executive Women in Fashion – Advisory Board] {{webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20150118224229/http://www.fitnyc.edu/7743.asp |date=2015-01-18 }}. Fashion Institute of Technology. ''FITNYC.edu''.</ref> She is a member of the Industry Advisory Board of the Jay H. Baker Retailing Center at the Wharton School of Business.<ref>[http://www.wharton.upenn.edu/bakerretail/about/industry-advisory-board.cfm Jay H. Baker Retailing Center – Industry Advisory Board] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150315112107/http://www.wharton.upenn.edu/bakerretail/about/industry-advisory-board.cfm |date=2015-03-15 }}. Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania. ''Wharton.UPenn.edu''. Retrieved February 4, 2015.</ref> She is also an advisor at the venture capital firm Metamorphic Ventures.<ref>[http://www.metamorphic.vc/layout/advisors/ Metamorphic Ventures – Advisors] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150109081914/http://www.metamorphic.vc/layout/advisors/ |date=2015-01-09 }}. Metamorphic Ventures. Retrieved February 5, 2015.</ref>

Grossman is on the Board of Directors of the United States Fund for UNICEF.<ref name=unicef /> She also founded and spearheads HSN Cares, the philanthropic arm of HSN.<ref>Thurston, Susan. [https://www.tampabay.com/news/business/retail/hsn-launches-campaign-to-benefit-trick-or-treat-for-unicef/2140990/ "HSN launches campaign to benefit Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF"]. ''Tampa Bay Times''. September 10, 2013.</ref><ref>[http://www.hsn.com/content/HSN%20Cares/135 HSN Cares]. ''HSN.com''.</ref>

In June 2017, Grossman joined the Board of Directors of sports apparel e-commerce retailer Fanatics.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.recode.net/2017/6/13/15788004/mindy-grossman-fanatics-board-of-directors-weight-watchers|title=Veteran retail CEO Mindy Grossman has joined the board of Fanatics — the $3 billion online sports retailer|last=Rey|first=Jason Del|date=2017-06-13|website=Recode|access-date=2017-06-13}}</ref>

==Awards and honors== * ''Forbes''{{'}} 100 Most Powerful Women (2009)<ref>[https://www.forbes.com/lists/2009/11/power-women-09_Mindy-Grossman_4BQ3.html The 100 Most Powerful Women: #97 Mindy Grossman]. ''Forbes''. August 19, 2009.</ref> *''Financial Times''{{'}} Top 50 women in world business (2010)<ref>[http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/55279476-f686-11e0-9381-00144feab49a.html "The top 50 women in world business 2010"]. ''Financial Times''. November 16, 2010.</ref> *''Financial Times''{{'}} Top 50 women in world business (2011)<ref>[http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/68e02aa0-0f18-11e1-b585-00144feabdc0.html "The top 50 women in world business 2011"]. ''Financial Times''. November 15, 2011.</ref> *''Forbes''{{'}} World's 100 most powerful women (2011)<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20111229125252/http://www.forbes.com/wealth/power-women/list The World's 100 Most Powerful Women]. ''Forbes''. 2011.</ref> *''Fast Company''{{'}}s Top 100 Most Creative People in Business (2011)<ref name=fastco2011>[http://www.fastcompany.com/3018496/most-creative-people-2011/91-mindy-grossman MOST CREATIVE PEOPLE 2011: 91. MINDY GROSSMAN]. ''Fast Company''. May 18, 2011.</ref> *Woman of Achievement Award from the Women's Project Theater (2011)<ref>[http://wptheater.org/special-events/award-recipients/ Award Recipients]. Women's Project Theater. Retrieved February 5, 2015.</ref> *Corporate Innovator of the Year at the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Florida Awards (2011)<ref>[http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20110617005021/en/Ernst-Young-Entrepreneur-Year%C2%AE-2011-Florida-Award "Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of the Year® 2011 Florida Award Recipients Announced"]. ''Business Wire''. June 17, 2011.</ref> *''Business Insider''{{'}}s 50 Sexiest CEOs Alive (2012)<ref>Polland, Jennifer and Melissa Stanger. [http://www.businessinsider.com/the-50-sexiest-ceos-alive-2012-9?op=1 "The Sexiest CEOs Alive!"]. ''Business Insider''. October 2, 2012.</ref><ref>[http://www.businessinsider.com/the-50-sexiest-ceos-alive-2012-9#50-mindy-grossman-1 "The Sexiest CEOs Alive!: #50 Mindy Grossman"]. ''Business Insider''. October 2, 2012.</ref> *''Forbes''{{'}} World's 100 most powerful women (2012)<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20121215104106/http://www.forbes.com/power-women/list The World's 100 Most Powerful Women]. ''Forbes''. 2012.</ref> *''Forbes''{{'}} World's 100 most powerful women (2013)<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20131123064824/http://www.forbes.com/power-women/list The World's 100 Most Powerful Women]. ''Forbes''. 2013.</ref> *Matrix Award (2013)<ref name=obvious>Sellers, Patricia. [http://fortune.com/2013/04/25/media-retail-stars-advice-go-beyond-the-obvious/ "Media-retail star's advice: Go beyond the obvious"]. ''Fortune''. April 25, 2013.</ref><ref>[http://www.nywici.org/matrix/2012/matrix-monday-announcing-second-our-esteemed-2013-matrix-award-honorees-mindy-grossman "Matrix Monday: Announcing the Second of Our Esteemed 2013 Matrix Award Honorees: Mindy Grossman"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150618100426/http://www.nywici.org/matrix/2012/matrix-monday-announcing-second-our-esteemed-2013-matrix-award-honorees-mindy-grossman |date=2015-06-18 }}. ''New York Women in Communications''.</ref> *''Fortune''{{'}}s Top People in Business #22 (2014)<ref name=fortune22>[http://fortune.com/businessperson-of-the-year/mindy-grossman-22/ 2014's Top People in Business: #22 Mindy Grossman]. ''Fortune''.</ref> *Women's Entrepreneurship Day Pioneer Award for Philanthropy (2016) <ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.womenseday.org/team_member/mindy-grossman-philanthropy-pioneer-award/|title=Women's Entrepreneurship Day Organization Pioneer Awards 2016 Winners|author=Wendy Diamond|access-date=July 5, 2018|publisher=WED}}</ref>

== Personal life == Mindy is married to Neil D. Grossman, an investment manager and investment analyst and the creator of ''Bloomberg''{{'}}s Neilytics.<ref>[http://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/people/person.asp?personId=214614057&ticker=BNK&previousCapId=11899829&previousTitle=Artesia%20Gest%C3%A3o%20de%20Recursos%20S.A. Neil D. Grossman] – Executive Profile at ''Bloomberg Businessweek''.</ref><ref>[http://neilytics.com/ Neilytics™, with Neil Grossman] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150618113806/http://neilytics.com/ |date=2015-06-18 }}. ''Neilytics.com''.</ref> They have one child.

==References== {{reflist|2}}

==External links== *[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOwyubtWdkU "Culture Trumps Strategy"] – 48-minute talk by Grossman at the Stanford Graduate School of Business (video, 2014)

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