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- March 2006 (Revised November 2006)
- Case
The Market and the Mountain Kingdom: Change in Lesotho's Textile Industry
By: Rawi E. Abdelal, Regina M. Abrami, Noel Maurer and Aldo Musacchio
In Maseru, the capital of the Kingdom of Lesotho, the stirrings of industrialization and modernization were promising, and more than 50,000 workers, mostly women, were employed in the textile sector; the figure reflected more than a threefold increase in just a few...
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History;
Labor Unions;
Trade;
Business and Stakeholder Relations;
Financial Crisis;
Globalized Markets and Industries;
Business and Government Relations;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Foreign Direct Investment;
Developing Countries and Economies;
Fashion Industry;
Fashion Industry;
Lesotho
Abdelal, Rawi E., Regina M. Abrami, Noel Maurer, and Aldo Musacchio. "The Market and the Mountain Kingdom: Change in Lesotho's Textile Industry." Harvard Business School Case 706-043, March 2006. (Revised November 2006.)
- 10 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
New Venture Competition 2022: Business and Environment Ventures
The ResourceAyanda Heita, MBA 2023The Resource aggregates and curates the best secondhand fashion online. Our vision is to eliminate fashion waste. Clean Energy, Buildings, & Transportation Contestants...
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- Profile
Lara Hodgson
government customers. While running Nourish, which sold a patented line of spill-proof purified water for infants and toddlers, Hodgson grew increasingly frustrated with the difficulties of getting paid in a timely fashion by the large...
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- 26 Jan 2009
- Research & Ideas
Where is Home for the Global Firm?
that Nestlé's bankers fashioned a solution for Alcon that would preserve its Swiss identity for some purposes yet make it look completely American for various other reasons. It seemed to me that a firm could easily change its national...
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by Martha Lagace
- 12 Jun 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Minal Mehta (MBA 2011)
effective workout, but you also walk out of the class literally feeling like a rock star. "It's incredible to fashion a fitness program based on Bollywood music and dance because the category itself is one that people of different...
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- 03 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017
Philippines, found himself at a crucial turning point in his young company’s development. In just three years, Zalora had come from entering the Philippine fashion retail industry as an unknown quantity to becoming a household name across...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Oct 2011
- News
Tea’s Time
can’t wait 10 years to do it,” Rawdon thought. Still at Siebel, and casting about for business ideas, she met Emily Meyer, a designer for Esprit and Gymboree who wanted to create a line of globally inspired children’s clothes. “Business was not her forte, and View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- What Do You Think?
Are Customer Loyalty Initiatives Worth the Investment?
profitability? When several of us first began researching these relationships, findings such as these were news. Today we take them for granted. Fred Reichheld, among others, has fashioned a career as a consultant around his work on...
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by James Heskett
- 31 Oct 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 31, 2017
1990s, these two historical trends met, as the concept of sustainable development spread to large conventional corporations, and visionary green firms scaled or were acquired by conventional big businesses. The concept of sustainability became socially constructed in a...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Blockbuster! Why Star Power Works
around show business. Q: What are you working on next? A: I just released a new case on fashion magazine Vogue, which I can't wait to teach later this month, and have a few other exciting case studies in the pipeline. I am also thinking...
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- 21 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Health Care Managers Need to Know--and How to Teach Them
Scriplogix also polled conference attendees about their views of what the future held and the impediments, if any, to fashioning curricula which could help students best address this future. Concurrently, Herzlinger and conference...
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- 25 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 25
& Mauritz, 2000 In 2000, Hennes & Mauritz (H&M) was the second-largest and most global player in the fashion retail business. It operated 682 stores, 80% of them outside its home country of Sweden, and achieved revenues of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Harvard Business School Faculty Comment on Crisis in Japan
with the task of fashioning an appropriate fiscal response. Bold recovery plans would seem to be in order, but how that response is financed holds great import for Japan's economic future. With government deficits equaling 10% of GDP, and...
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Re: Multiple Faculty
- 02 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
Disruptors Sell What Customers Want and Let Competitors Sell What They Don’t
habits as well, such as a growing preference for sharing items rather than owning them, and encouraging "showrooming" where shoppers visit stores only to test products—then buy them more cheaply online. The user benefits from lower cost, lower effort, or saved time....
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by Michael Blanding
- 07 Jan 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Culture Changers: Managing High-Impact Entrepreneurs
managers can team with creative talent in six "culture industries": Fashion, publishing, art/architecture/design, film, music, and food. Her subjects include fashion pioneer Chanel, publishers Penguin and Atavist, film icons...
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The Route of the Exhibition - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center
Trottenberg with Davis W. Pratt, December 1966. When the 1934 NAAI and Photographic Illustrators, Inc. exhibition opened in the mezzanine gallery at 30 Rockefeller Center and visitors gazed upon advertisements for Lucky Strike cigarettes or View Details
- 15 Oct 2001
- Op-Ed
Lessons from the Rubble
have been obvious even without the devastation we have just witnessed. First is that the new economy never was all that different from the old. In the ancient, heady days of the Internet boom, it became fashionable to declare that the...
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by Debora L. Spar
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Designing Change
company’s mission, using meetings and even Muzak hats and T-shirts to jump-start employees’ emotional connection to their work as “audio architects” who provide the soundtrack for fashionable retail chains and a wide variety of work...
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Julia Hanna
- 16 Oct 2014
- News
Innovating for International Aid
is really the first time I can take my professional expertise in venture capital and finance and apply it in this fashion toward entrepreneurs and others working on solutions to major problems of a different type. “This isn’t a handout;...
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Constantine von Hoffman
- August 2024
- Case
Cristina Ventura: The Career of a Catalyst
By: Linda A. Hill, Allison J. Wigen and Ruth Page
Pre-Abstract: This multimedia case should be assigned to students in advance of class. Instructors should consider the timing of making the B videos available to students, as they may reveal key case details.
Abstract: This multimedia case follows the career of...
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Keywords:
Leadership;
Innovation;
Innovation Leadership;
Innovation Strategy;
Technological Innovation;
Leadership Style;
Leading Change;
Entrepreneurship;
Luxury;
Family Business;
Fashion Industry;
Fashion Industry;
Fashion Industry;
Asia;
China;
Hong Kong
Hill, Linda A., Allison J. Wigen, and Ruth Page. "Cristina Ventura: The Career of a Catalyst." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Case 425-708, August 2024.