Publications

13 Apr 2009
News

The Shifting Paradigm: Rules Being Redefined For Fashion and Retail

22 Jul 2021
News

Mentoring Fashion Startups in Singapore; Rising Star Accolades for Mid-Career Women

Clubs News Clubs News Singapore War Room Sessions Link Startups with HBS Alumni Mentors The HBS Club of Singapore (HBSCS), in collaboration with the Textile and Fashion Federation (TaFF) and its signature The Bridge View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

February 2006
Case

Bumble and bumble: Building a Successful Business in Beauty and Fashion

By: Nancy F. Koehn and Erica Helms

Explores the creation and subsequent rise of Bumble and bumble, a trend-setting hair-care company. Analyzes the vision and achievements of the founding entrepreneur, Michael Gordon, and charts the evolution of the company within the $230 billion global beauty industry.... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Entrepreneurship; Brands and Branding; Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Strategy; Financial Condition; Business Growth and Maturation; Success; Distribution; Fashion Industry; Fashion Industry

03 Jul 2018
News

How a Passion for Travel Built a $43 Million Fashion Brand

Photo via Forbes Photo via Forbes Leigh Rawdon (MBA 2001) grew up outside Memphis, Tennessee, listening to stories an adventurous aunt told of travels abroad. At 16, she got her first passport, traveling to Paris with a high school French class. "I finally could see... View Details

23 Nov 2015
News

How Imran Amed Is Turning Business of Fashion into an Empire

Keywords: Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Retail Trade

20 Apr 2023
News

Feeling Thrifty: How the Secondhand Market Is Changing the Fashion Game

04 Aug 2021
News

This Technology Will Have A Profound Effect On The Fashion Industry

05 Aug 2015
News

What A Fashion Entrepreneur Learned When Her Startup Flamed Out Early

Keywords: failure; Apparel Manufacturing; Manufacturing

28 Feb 2017
Blog Post

Why I Love My Job: Sierra Smith Talks Her Fashion Startup Internship

Why I Love My Job is a series of interviews with HBS students and alumni on what drives their satisfaction at work. Internship Position: Summer Fellow, Plan de Ville, Summer 2016 Location: New York, New York Describe your role at Plan de Ville. Plan de Ville is a small... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship

2010
Other Unpublished Work

Fashioning an Industry: Cognitive Processes and the Construction of Worth in the Institutionalization of a New Industry

By: Mukti Khaire

This inductive study of the high-end fashion industry in India explores how the worth of a new industry is constructed. Interviews with entrepreneurs and constituents of the field revealed that the worth of the industry was constructed through framing by early... View Details

Keywords: Market Design; Framework; Entrepreneurship; Value; Cognition and Thinking; Industry Structures; Fashion Industry; India

May 2018
Case

Inditex: 2018

By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth

In 2018, Inditex, based in Spain, was the largest specialist fashion retailer in the world, generating sales of $31.5 billion in 2017 from a portfolio of eight retail brands selling through a total of 7,475 stores located in 96 countries and from websites in 49... View Details

Keywords: Fashion; Succession; IPO; Competition; Initial Public Offering; Multinational Firms and Management; Management Succession; Growth and Development Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Fashion Industry; Fashion Industry; Fashion Industry

14 Nov 2014
News

Microsoft Xbox Alum’s New Game is Vida: High-tech Fashion That Does Good

Keywords: Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Retail Trade

September 2012
Case

United Capital Partners (A)

By: Paul A. Gompers, J. Daniel Kim and Vladimir Mukharlyamov

This case examines a proposed growth equity investor in a Russian fashion retail chain. View Details

Keywords: Fashion; Growth Equity; Private Equity; Fashion Industry; Fashion Industry; Fashion Industry; Europe; Russia

21 Mar 2016
Lessons from the Classroom

When Your Classmate is an NBA Superstar (or Fashion Model, or Movie Actress)

Marshall, fashion model Karlie Kloss, and “Magic Mike” star Cody Horn, have attended the program, sharing business challenges and contract strategies in the same room with mid- and senior-level executives who work for studios, networks,... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Entertainment & Recreation; Sports; Media & Broadcasting; Education

30 Apr 2021
News

With Its Pet Fashion Show, Petco Is Testing Facebook Live for Video Commerce

01 Jan 2008
Conference Presentation

Fashioning an Industry: How Entrepreneurs and Others Shape the Emergence and Evolution of an Industry

By: Mukti Khaire

Keywords: Entrepreneurship

June 2013 (Revised March 2014)
Case

Inditex: 2012

By: John R. Wells and Galen Danskin

In the 11 years since its public offering, Inditex and its flagship brand, Zara, had expanded into 86 countries, achieved $21.6 billion in revenue, and become the largest specialty apparel retailer in the world. In marked contrast to the general malaise of the Bolsa de... View Details

Keywords: Fashion; Strategy; Strategic Planning; Competitive Strategy; Fashion Industry; Spain

June 2013 (Revised March 2014)
Case

Inditex: 2000

By: John R. Wells and Galen Danskin

In 2000, Inditex was one of the largest specialty apparel retailers in the world, with $2.4 billion in sales from 1,080 stores across 33 countries. Zara, Inditex's main brand, produced popular designer items at a fraction of design-house prices and could push an item... View Details

Keywords: Fashion; Fashion Industry; Succession; IPO; Competition; Initial Public Offering; Multinational Firms and Management; Management Succession; Growth and Development Strategy; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Retail Industry