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  • December 1995
  • Teaching Note

Laura Ashley Series TN

By: Lynda M. Applegate
Keywords: Brands and Branding; Fashion Industry
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  • March 2006
  • Teaching Note

Alessi: Evolution of an Italian Design Factory (A)-(D) (TN)

By: Youngme E. Moon
Keywords: Fashion Industry; Italy
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  • March 2002
  • Teaching Note

Talbots - A Classic TN

By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Marie Bell
Teaching Note for (9-500-082). View Details
Keywords: Fashion Industry
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  • 19 Dec 2017
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 19, 2017

fashion industry creative director at predicting the future fashion trends and tastes of consumers. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/517115-PDF-ENG... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Dec 2004
  • News

A Life by Design

As a girl growing up in Riverdale, New York, Ivy Ross (PMD 68, 1994) was surrounded by modern design — and disliked it. The home she lived in and the furniture she sat on reflected the avant-garde sensibilities of her father, an View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; toys; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries
  • 17 Jan 2012
  • First Look

First Look: January 17

service. Many of these copycats focus on non-U.S. countries, but others are challenging Birchbox on its home territory. Can Birchbox defend its position? How? Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/912010-PDF-ENG Moda Operandi: A New Style of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Apr 2011
  • News

BioMine Strikes Gold

Contest. BioMine uses existing scaled-up mining industry technologies to capture value from the 40 million tons of "e-waste" that is landfilled or incinerated annually around the world. (Watch Bradoo explain the concept behind BioMine.)... View Details
Keywords: Mining (except Oil and Gas); Mining; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 04 Jan 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Best of HBS Working Knowledge 2009

reduce their purchases of items when they see their friends buying them. This negative social effect reduces the revenue for this group by more than 14 percent. This finding is consistent with the typical fashion cycle wherein opinion... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 25 May 2016
  • Blog Post

Meet the Africa Business Club

business in Africa. This highly acclaimed event includes panel sessions, networking events, a fashion show, prospective students' day, and a banquet. For details on this year’s conference, please visit africabusinessconference.com. There... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • July 2023
  • Article

Managerial Quality and Productivity Dynamics

By: Achyuta Adhvaryu, Anant Nyshadham and Jorge Tamayo
Do productivity and managerial quality vary within the firm? If so which managerial traits and practices matter most for team productivity? Combining granular garment production data with survey data on managers across 120 production lines in India, we document... View Details
Keywords: Productivity; Non-cognitive Skills; Learning By Doing; Ready-made Garments; Management; Management Practices and Processes; Management Skills; Performance Productivity; Fashion Industry; Fashion Industry; India
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  • December 2014 (Revised May 2015)
  • Supplement

Growth Hacking at Bazaart (B)

By: Jeffrey Bussgang and Matthew G. Preble
"Growth Hacking at Bazaart (B)" provides a brief update of what has transpired at Bazaart since the timing of "Growth Hacking at Bazaart (A)". View Details
Keywords: Growth Hacking; Customer Acquisition; Startup Marketing; Startup Nation; Business Startups; Social Marketing; Marketing; Growth and Development; Customers; Fashion Industry; Fashion Industry; Israel
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  • November 2014
  • Case

Taryn Rose Launches Dresr: Street Marketing a Luxury Brand

By: Lena G. Goldberg, Marcel Saucet and Christine Snively
Serial entrepreneur and shoe designer Taryn Rose, M.D., prepared to launch a new e-commerce platform, Dresr, which would connect shoppers with tastemakers online. Dresr would bring the service element found in brick and mortar luxury stores into the online shopping... View Details
Keywords: E-commerce; Online Platforms; Online Marketing; Footwear; Legal Aspects Of Business; Street Marketing; Entrepreneurship; Internet and the Web; Luxury; Marketing Strategy; Digital Platforms; Legal Liability; Fashion Industry; Fashion Industry
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  • 12 Apr 2011
  • News

Twelve Global Finalists Compete at HBS

shared mobile-based longitudinal Electronic Health Records via mobile phone. AVA is an invitation-only shopping platform. The company addresses the gap between the growing market demand for fashion and the lack of availability of branded... View Details
Keywords: Multiple alumni
  • Web

2017 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

Images, Identities and the Space(s) Between Images, Identities and the Space(s) Between 06–07 APR 2017 Home Speakers Videos Agenda Ben Barry Ben Barry is an Associate Professor of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion at the School of Fashion... View Details
  • 19 Feb 2008
  • News

The Scoop Behind the Silver Screen

Clayton up this weekend for seven Academy Awards. (Any predictions out there on the winners?) Samuels drew an analogy between the real estate industry and filmmaking. “I look at a movie script the same way I look at an empty piece of... View Details
Keywords: Arts, Entertainment; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Real Estate
  • August 2012 (Revised November 2012)
  • Case

Bonne Chance

With a competitor nipping at his heels, his bank reluctantly covering his recent overdraft, Jacob Zimmerman is considering expanding his Midwestern retail jewelry business by bringing on the new Swatch watch line to augment his high end Rolex offerings. Only 14 weeks... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurial Management; Entrepreneurs; Financial Crisis; Crisis Management; Bank Loan; Entrepreneurial Finance; Turnarounds; Negotiation; Liquidation; Entrepreneurship; Retail Industry; Retail Industry; United States
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  • 05 Apr 2004
  • What Do You Think?

Should We Brace Ourselves for Another Era of M&A Value Destruction?

in an asymmetrical fashion (for example, through stock options), it is in their financial best interest to do M&A to add volatility to their business." Is M&A part of the natural Darwinian process of business, or is it rigged... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 27 Nov 2023
  • Blog Post

Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability Series - Opportunities for Green Entrepreneurship in the Face of Policy Inaction

innovations that can transform adversity and environmental waste into prosperity for climate-impacted communities in Nigeria. Achenyo Idachaba-Obaro is the Founder and CEO of MitiMeth, a company that uses water hyacinth, an invasive aquatic weed, to craft View Details
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  • 20 Mar 2007
  • First Look

First Look: March 20, 2007

firm-size distribution and de jure and de facto measures of international capital integration. We then explore causal channels through which foreign capital may encourage entrepreneurship. We find evidence that entrepreneurial activity in View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace