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- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Making Change
these new businesses with education and advocacy for public health and hygiene will have a significant and sustainable social and economic impact on communities. What aspect of your organization makes you most proud? People from around the world—from Ethiopian View Details
- 07 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Quest for Better Layoffs
layoffs project, Malden Mills, describes how a leader handled a disastrous event: Two weeks before Christmas 1995, a fire destroyed three factory buildings at a textile company, one of the largest employers in the already economically...
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- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Women at the Top
19th-century textile mogul Francis Cabot Lowell, oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller, and technology titan Bill Gates. "It was a great way to start the program, because it gave us a background and context for what's happening in business...
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Marguerite Rigoglioso and Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Innovation, Inc.
of Textiles that fosters fashion education, research, and training. The fashion industry did not actively co-opt these organizations for their own means, however; the organizations were self-interested, evolved alongside the industry, and...
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- 28 Aug 2017
- Research & Ideas
Should Industry Competitors Cooperate More to Solve World Problems?
Source: Cecilie_Arcurs George Serafeim has a startling suggestion to fix the world’s biggest environmental, social, and governance (ESG) problems such as water pollution, deforestation, and wealth inequality: encourage companies within industries to do less competing...
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- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction
history of women in business to give her audience some perspective on the transformational effects of economic independence. Among the first places U.S. women worked outside the home were textile factories in Massachusetts, she noted. The...
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- 04 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 4, 2016
317-013 Tolaram: Innovating in Africa Tolaram is a Singaporean company that began operations selling textiles in Nigeria in the 1970s. Executives and brothers, Haresh and Sajesh Aswani, however, saw an opportunity to create an instant...
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- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How the Giants of Enterprise Seized the Future
nineteenth century. From a bobbin boy in a steam-driven textile mill, where he was paid $1.20 a week, he moved on to a telegraph office, then to the Pennsylvania Railroad, and eventually to the gigantic complex of mills on the Allegheny...
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by Richard S. Tedlow
- 14 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Getting Down to the Business of Creativity
around the same time the industry in India was getting off the ground, other entities were being formed, such as fashion magazines, new kinds of retail outlets, and the National Institute of Fashion Technology, an organization established in 1986 under the Indian...
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- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Look at Globalization Now
investment opportunities under British law. Exports of labor-intensive, capital-light manufactures by countries with relatively low labor costs—e.g., textiles and garments—involved arbitrage as well, but across economic differences rather...
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by Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
tariffs for dumping cheap sets in the U.S. market. The U.S. government also curtailed Chinese textile imports on grounds that their rapid increase constituted a “surge.” Critics blame the import flood on the undervalued Chinese yuan,...
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- 13 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 13
profit on these branded infant socks Kentucky Derby Hosiery Co. faces financial distress. In a generally bleak North American textile environment, Nichol ponders the most promising negotiating strategy and tactics to rescue this product...
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Martha Lagace
- 25 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 25
Co. Ltd. Founded in 1986, Red Star had become the leading department store in China for furniture and home equipment products (bathroom, lamps, textiles complements, etc.). The business model of Red Star was to provide adequate space for...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 6
improvements in outcomes such as productivity and longevity, and that good nuts-and-bolts management at individual firms shapes national performance. At 14 textile manufacturers in India, for example, an intervention-involving free,...
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Sean Silverthorne