Fashion Industry - Publications - Faculty & Research

23 Jul 2024
In Practice

The New Rules of Trade with China: Navigating Tariffs, Turmoil, and Opportunities

administration and is a reaction to the Chinese Communist Party’s own perception of insecurity at home and in the global economy. Increasing restrictions to transnational commerce in and with China are best understood in terms of security dilemma dynamics. View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Fashion; Fashion; Fashion; Fashion; Fashion; Fashion; Fashion; Fashion

Profile

Carolin Oldenbuettel

for more than three years with Simon-Kucher & Partners. “I did projects across Europe: food, telecommunications, manufacturing, a fashion project in France, a banking project in Switzerland.” Next stop? The United States. “My uncle... View Details

Keywords: Consulting

20 Jul 2015
Research & Ideas

Globalization Hasn’t Killed the Manufacturing Cluster

Globalization hasn't made manufacturing clusters obsolete, but the geographically concentrated pockets of industry have to be smart to ensure their survival, according to new research from Harvard Business School. Gary P. Pisano, the... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Fashion; Fashion; Fashion

01 Apr 2001
News

Books: Brand New

products, organizations, and brands. She explains how they used their brands as strategic tools to create best-of-class companies that maintained close connections with customers and to fashion new markets for their products. These... View Details

Keywords: Startbucks; HP, Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft, Dell, eBay; Estee Lauder; John Heinz (MBA 1963); Publishing Industries (except Internet); Publishing Industries (except Internet)

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2017 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

Fabulous is too Fabulous? The Masculinity Dilemmas of Daring Dressers at Work Ben Barry, School of Fashion, Faculty of Communication and Design, Ryerson University Ben Barry, Associate Professor of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion at the School of View Details

22 Aug 2018
Blog Post

MBA Students Reflect on Their Summer Internships

location or further your pre-HBS industry experience. As summer winds down and our second-year MBA students are preparing to come back to class, we wanted to take the opportunity to share reflections from the Class of 2019's internship... View Details

15 Aug 2016
Blog Post

Prepare for Your Interview with Research

industries from apparel, textiles & fashions to manufacturing and robotics. These reports will help to educate you quickly on an industry by providing a synthesized... View Details

01 Dec 2013
News

14 for '14

1.0. But food is one of the biggest industries on the planet, and the tech that supports it hasn't changed in 30 years. Stay tuned for big innovation." —Nick Taranto (MPA/MBA 2010), cofounder, Plated Karen Tumulty "History—with the recent... View Details

Keywords: Arts, Entertainment; Finance; Government; Information; Retail Trade

08 Jun 2011
News

George Yeo: A Matter of Degrees

When Singapore’s George Yeo (MBA ’85) was a young man, his intellect and achievement made clear to his country’s leaders that he was destined to become an important national resource. Indeed, he has fashioned an impressive career built on... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

December 2021
Supplement

Troverie (B)

By: Thomas R. Eisenmann, Lindsay N. Hyde and Olivia Graham

Resolves the questions raised in Troverie (A); recounts pivots and efforts to raise capital from strategic investors and sell Troverie; and shares the founder's post-mortem reflections on what went wrong and what he might have done differently. View Details

Keywords: Startup; Failed Startup; Luxury Goods; Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Failure; Luxury; Fashion Industry; United States

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01 Sep 2020
News

Giving Amazon the Boot

all of these things have been areas of great concern and have caused challenges for the fashion industry, because obviously it’s an industry built on premium brands, authenticity, and strong customer... View Details

Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade

January 2014
Case

Maricopa, Inc.: Finding the Right Treatment for Growth

By: William A. Sahlman, Thomas R. Eisenmann, Joseph B. Fuller and Shikhar Ghosh

The founders of Maricopa, Inc., a startup that sold proprietary hair-care products directly to salons, were preparing a board presentation to address the young company's inability to meet financial projections. While the products had caught on with customers, the... View Details

Keywords: Business Startups; Financial Condition; Venture Capital; Financial Strategy; Financing and Loans; Expansion; Planning; Fashion Industry; Iowa

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October 2008
Course Overview Note

The Devil Wears Prada (General Version) (TN)

By: Howard H. Stevenson and Shirley Spence

Keywords: Fashion Industry

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25 May 2011
News

Singapore Star

has fashioned an impressive career built on civic engagement and public service, most recently as Singapore’s Minister for Foreign Affairs, a post he held until just recently when his People’s Action Party suffered an election defeat in... View Details

01 Oct 1999
News

Eight Among Many: Nancy J. Karch

several areas. Working with a few retailers as a young principal at the firm in the early 1980s, she realized that retailing, which represents one-third of the American economy, could benefit from McKinsey's management expertise. "The timing was terrific, because the... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

April 1995 (Revised January 2003)
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Anasazi Exclusive Salon Products, Inc.

By: William A. Sahlman and Jason Green

Anasazi, a hair-care products start-up based in the Midwest, is having growing pains as it tries to develop a new distribution model for the professional hair salon industry. The company has completed several rounds of venture financing but, to continue, needs to raise... View Details

Keywords: Business Startups; Financial Condition; Venture Capital; Financial Strategy; Financing and Loans; Expansion; Planning; Fashion Industry; Iowa

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February 2025
Case

Doing Business in Manila, Philippines

By: Jill Avery, Harold Zhu and Billy Chan

This case explores the opportunities and challenges of doing business in the Philippines, focusing on its economic transformation from "the sick man of Asia" to a rising force in Southeast Asia in the decades leading up to 2024. It examines key obstacles like... View Details

Keywords: Business History; Competitive Strategy; Emerging Markets; Globalization; Logistics; Climate Change; Environmental Sustainability; Transformation; Fashion Industry; Asia; Philippines

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August, 2024
Article

Absenteeism, Productivity, and Relational Contracts Inside the Firm

By: Achyuta Adhvaryu, Jean-François Gauthier, Anant Nyshadham and Jorge Tamayo

We study relational contracts among managers using a unique dataset that tracks transfers of workers across teams in Indian ready-made garment factories. We focus on how relational contracts help managers cope with worker absenteeism shocks, which are frequent, often... View Details