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  • 25 Jan 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Strategic Alliances

apparel and footwear, when City Year requested fifty pairs of boots for its youth service corps program. "In the philanthropic relationship," Austin observes, "each side benefits modestly. The NPO receives funding, goods, or services,... View Details
Keywords: by Nancy O. Perry
  • 23 Feb 2021
  • Research & Ideas

COVID-19 Shines New Light on Working Conditions in Supply Chains

Tightly packed workers and other weak protections allowed COVID-19 to sweep through American slaughterhouses during the past year, infecting at least 45,000 employees and killing an estimated 240 people. To Harvard Business School Professor Michael Toffel, who has... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Apparel & Accessories
  • December 1990
  • Teaching Note

Beauregard Textile Co., Teaching Note

By: Francis Aguilar
Teaching Note for (9-191-058). View Details
Keywords: Apparel and Accessories Industry
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  • 2009
  • Case

Mercury Athletic Footwear, Inc.: Valuing the Opportunity: Brief Case No. 4050.

By: Timothy A. Luehrman and Joel L. Heilprin
In January 2007, West Coast Fashions, Inc., a large designer and marketer of branded apparel, announced a strategic reorganization that would result in the divestiture of their wholly owned footwear subsidiary, Mercury Athletic. John Liedtke, the head of business... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Restructuring; Valuation; Apparel and Accessories Industry
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  • July 2004 (Revised March 2006)
  • Teaching Note

Vans: Skating on Air (TN)

By: Youngme E. Moon
Teaching Note to (9-502-077). View Details
Keywords: Apparel and Accessories Industry
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  • April 2001
  • Supplement

Gucci Group N.V. (B)

By: David B. Yoffie and Mary Kwak
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
Keywords: Corporate Strategy; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Italy
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  • October 1995 (Revised March 1996)
  • Case

Executive Shirt Company, Inc.

By: Janice H. Hammond and Sylvie Ryckebusch
The Executive Shirt Co. is contemplating a move into custom-made shirts. The company's general manager has charged two of his managers to come up with plans for incorporating production of custom shirts into the existing manufacturing process. View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Production; Strategic Planning; Expansion; Apparel and Accessories Industry; United States
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  • September 1984 (Revised February 1989)
  • Case

Benetton (A)

By: James L. Heskett
The world's largest manufacturer of woolen outerwear garments seeks to extend its retailing network to the United States from its base in Europe. A number of issues concerning marketing, manufacturing, and logistics strategy are raised by the proposed move along with... View Details
Keywords: Logistics; Brands and Branding; Networks; Production; Marketing Strategy; Globalization; Apparel and Accessories Industry; United States; Europe
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  • January 1980 (Revised April 1994)
  • Case

New Balance Athletic Shoes

By: Kim B. Clark
Faced with growth exceeding 100% per year, James Davis, president of New Balance, must decide how to meet the need for additional capacity. Several factors contribute to a climate of extreme uncertainty. Several options are considered, ranging from a second shift to... View Details
Keywords: Factories, Labs, and Plants; Forecasting and Prediction; Financial Strategy; Information; Growth Management; Organizational Design; Performance Capacity; Risk and Uncertainty; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Republic of Ireland
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  • April 1996
  • Case

J.C. Penney

By: Walter J. Salmon and Jeanne Blasberg
Keywords: Apparel and Accessories Industry
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  • April 1989 (Revised November 1993)
  • Case

Georgetown Leather Design

By: Walter J. Salmon
Keywords: Apparel and Accessories Industry
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  • August 1984 (Revised January 1989)
  • Teaching Note

Hart Schaffner & Marx: The Market for Separately Ticketed Suits, Teaching Note

By: Richard S. Tedlow
Teaching Note for (9-582-134). View Details
Keywords: Apparel and Accessories Industry
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  • March 1984 (Revised August 1990)
  • Case

Petite Playthings, Inc.--1984 (A)

By: Benson P. Shapiro
Provides background information for the (B) case, in which a young sales person is asked for a bribe by an experienced children's wear buyer. View Details
Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Ethics; Information; Sales; Apparel and Accessories Industry
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  • April 1982 (Revised June 1993)
  • Case

Hart Schaffner & Marx: The Market for Separately Ticketed Suits

By: Richard S. Tedlow
Calls for a decision on whether Hart Schaffner & Marx, the nation's leading manufacturer of high quality, branded suits, should expand its product line by marketing suits that are separately ticketed (i.e., the coat, vest, and slacks are sold from individual hangers... View Details
Keywords: Advertising; Decisions; Price; Markets; Distribution Channels; Production; Mathematical Methods; Competitive Strategy; Apparel and Accessories Industry
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  • December 1988 (Revised March 1990)
  • Case

Karen Vincent and Zodiac Corp.

By: Howard H. Stevenson
Keywords: Family Business; Production; Management; Performance Improvement; Apparel and Accessories Industry
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  • November 1988
  • Teaching Note

B-W Footwear (TN)

By: David B. Yoffie
Teaching Note for (9-387-022). View Details
Keywords: Apparel and Accessories Industry; United States
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  • October 1986 (Revised November 1988)
  • Case

B-W Footwear

By: David B. Yoffie
As import penetration into the American footwear market reached 81% in 1986, B-W Footwear, along with all of its American competitors, was struggling. Supply lines were deteriorating, retailers and importers were gaining power, and the government had rejected two... View Details
Keywords: Competitive Strategy; Management; Globalization; Government and Politics; Business Strategy; Trade; Apparel and Accessories Industry; United States
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  • October 1984
  • Teaching Note

NIKE (B1): Business Class Travel, Teaching Note

Teaching Note for (9-385-028). View Details
Keywords: Accounting; Policy; Apparel and Accessories Industry
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  • September 2023
  • Teaching Note

Patagonia: 'Earth Is Now Our Only Shareholder'

By: Brian Trelstad, Nien-hê Hsieh, Michael Norris and Susan Pinckney
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 323-057. Patagonia’s change of ownership from a privately held company to a perpetual purpose trust and 501(c)(4) nonprofit in order to use the company’s profit to fight the environmental crisis and be a model for future businesses. View Details
Keywords: Trusts; Business Ventures; Business Organization; Family Business; Restructuring; Change; Disruption; Transition; Decision Making; Ethics; Values and Beliefs; Finance; Financial Management; Governance; Corporate Governance; Investment Activism; Innovation Leadership; Labor; Law; Common Law; Management; Goals and Objectives; Organizations; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Ownership; Ownership Type; Family Ownership; Private Ownership; Social Enterprise; Nonprofit Organizations; Society; Social Issues; Wealth and Poverty; Value; Value Creation; Apparel and Accessories Industry; United States
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  • 10 Apr 2019
  • HBS Case

How Entrepreneurs Can Turn Lead Into Gold

through narratives and storytelling, or by seeking out members of a common group. One company that has succeeded in this regard, says Wu, is Cotopaxi, a Salt Lake City–based creator of outdoor apparel that Wu explored in a case study for... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

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