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- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Perfection’s Price
MICHAEL KAPLAN (left, with brother and partner Nicholas) reflects on lessons learned and looks ahead to future growth. Michael Kaplan (MBA ’02) had a great idea for a start-up: a fashionable apparel company catering to plus-size women.... View Details
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Past Projects | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
showcase best practices in the topic, to be distributed among all participating agents. Our objective is to disseminate knowledge and facilitate implementation of the most efficient solutions for distribution of financial products. Sustainable View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
John (“Bo”) Kemp
"That grew into a desire to save, invest, and make more" - a predilection that eventually led to an interest in private-equity investing. Kemp attended Yale, where he continued his entrepreneurial efforts by creating The Greek Shop, a custom View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Faculty Q&A: Price Check
addition, online retailers have a vast amount of data at their fingertips; solving complex problems with data seemed like a natural fit. Tell me about the research you did with Rue La La. Rue La La is in the online flash sales industry, offering designer View Details
- 29 Jan 2025
- Blog Post
Finding professional purpose: Building an impactful career that reflects your values with Lisa Tanzer (MBA 1993)
Life is Good, I led a lifestyle apparel brand dedicated to spreading optimism. Later, I joined Katie Couric Media as President of Katie Couric Media Marketplace, where we collaborated with purpose-driven brands. More recently, I served as... View Details
- 02 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
‘Retail Revolution’ Excerpt: The Scale of the Ecommerce Threat
fulfillment of basic needs, such as Consumer Product Goods and apparel basics, is growing. With customers increasingly ordering these and other products online, potential shoppers have fewer reasons to leave their homes, and the clothing... View Details
- 17 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #14: Bonita Stewart (MBA 1983) – A Career Devoted to Creating the Future
consumers. The Deckers Brand – producer of UGG®, KOOLABURRA®, HOKA®, Teva®, and Sanuk® shoes and apparel – is an example. Despite inflation, ongoing Covid workplace worries, and supply chain limitations, the company just reported $1.346... View Details
- 27 Aug 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Learning From Japan’s Remarkable Disaster Recovery
Clinic, a provider of medical services; Fast Retailing Group, which owns a chain of apparel stores; and Lawson's, which operates more than 40,000 convenience stores. The cases underscore disaster recovery challenges that are both... View Details
Sidney W. Winslow
With the insight he gained while working in his father’s shoe factory, Winslow started his first shoe machine company in 1893, producing leather-buffing machines. With the profits from this business, Winslow combined resources with Gordon McKay and the Goodyear Company... View Details
Keywords: Fabric & Apparel
Elizabeth E. Boit
Boit was the first American woman to establish ownership in the textile industry. She joined forces with Charles N. Winship to establish the Winship, Boit & Company in 1888. While Winship oversaw production, Boit managed the finances and the overall administration... View Details
Keywords: Fabric & Apparel
Philip H. Knight
Knight founded Nike by capitalizing on the fitness craze of the 1970s and 1980s. Through skillful advertising and innovative product development, Knight was able to build a billion dollar business in ten years. View Details
Keywords: Fabric & Apparel
Walter A. Haas
Haas led Levi’s transformation from a family business to a worldwide corporation. Haas introduced a number of innovative employment policies and refused to lay off workers even during the time of the Great Depression – gaining a long-standing reputation for considerate... View Details
Keywords: Fabric & Apparel
Herman Cone II
Cone consolidated all of the Cone companies under one corporation. The new Cone Mills Corporation had 18 plants, including the huge White Oak plant in Greensboro, the largest denim manufacturer in the world. In 1950, Cone Mills had $163 million in sales and 15,000... View Details
Keywords: Fabric & Apparel
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Happy Monday
Illustration by Fabio Consoli Illustration by Fabio Consoli The co-CEOs noticed it right away: Early in the pandemic, staffers at the online children’s clothing company Primary.com were struggling when they logged back into Zoom on Mondays. People were not recharging... View Details
- 02 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Retail Reaches a Tipping Point—Which Stores Will Survive?
say "there is no way I'm going to buy apparel online". But now over 10 percent of apparel is purchased online. This may not seem like a lot but this level of penetration for ecommerce is often enough to... View Details
Robert T. B. Stevens
In response to the changing nature of the textile industry and to the growing inefficiencies in the company, Stevens merged the manufacturing and selling sides of the business and took the new entity public to raise much needed funds. The new structural change was... View Details
Keywords: Fabric & Apparel
William Rosenthal
After discovering a need for the product in their dress making business, William and Ida Rosenthal created the “first modern uplift brassiere” in 1923. After the success of that item, business was expanded into lingerie, swimwear and other products, growing Maidenform... View Details
Keywords: Fabric & Apparel
Walter A. Haas, Jr.
Walter A. Haas Jr. was responsible for Levi’s concentration on blue jeans production. He targeted the marketing strategy to teenagers and as blue jeans became the symbol of nonconformity, Levi’s rapidly multiplied its sales and net profit. In 1970, Haas took the... View Details
Keywords: Fabric & Apparel
Paul Fireman
By successfully tapping the market for women’s “fashionable” athletic shoes during the nation’s aerobics craze, Fireman took Reebok from $13 million in sales in 1983 to $1.4 billion in sales just five years later. In 1986, Reebok overtook Nike as the top-selling maker... View Details
Keywords: Fabric & Apparel
Elisabeth Claiborne
Founded in 1976, Liz Claiborne joined the Fortune 500 list of the largest industrial companies only a decade later, one of the youngest companies ever to achieve this mark. In 1987, Liz Claiborne had sales in excess of $1 billion. All this success was a result of... View Details
Keywords: Fabric & Apparel