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  • 18 Apr 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Selling Luxury to Everyone

shifting," she said. Panelist Rory Tahari, creative director and brand designer for Elie Tahari, Ltd.—and wife of designer Elie Tahari—said she saw a clear trend toward higher expectations from consumers in the fashion industry.... View Details
Keywords: by Julie Jette; Consumer Products
  • 18 May 2020
  • Working Paper Summaries

No Line Left Behind: Assortative Matching Inside the Firm

Keywords: by Achyuta Adhvaryu, Vittorio Bassi, Anant Nyshadham, and Jorge Tamayo; Fashion
  • 02 Apr 2019
  • Working Paper Summaries

Managerial Quality and Productivity Dynamics

Keywords: by Achyuta Adhvaryu, Anant Nyshadham, and Jorge Tamayo; Fashion
  • Web

Middle East & North Africa - Global Activities 2020

MBA to gain the business skills he needed to further his artistic and entrepreneurial interests, including the launch of his fashion e-commerce company, Darza. View Details
  • 02 Aug 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Modern Indian Art: The Birth of a Market

relationships among entrepreneurship, the construction of value in new markets by entrepreneurs and other commercial and noncommercial actors in the ecosystem, and the processes of market creation. Related to the question of how value is constructed is a study on the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • Forthcoming
  • Article

No Line Left Behind: Assortative Matching Inside the Firm

By: Achyuta Adhvaryu, Vittorio Bassi, Anant Nyshadham and Jorge Tamayo
How do firms pair workers with managers, and which constraints affect the allocation of labor within the firm? We characterize the sorting pattern of managers to workers in a large readymade garment manufacturer in India and then explore potential drivers of the... View Details
Keywords: Assortative Matching; Productivity; Global Buyers; Readymade Garments; Labor; Organizational Design; Performance Productivity; Fashion Industry
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  • December 2021 (Revised May 2022)
  • Case

Troverie (A)

By: Thomas R. Eisenmann, Lindsay N. Hyde and Olivia Graham
Six months after the August 2018 launch of Troverie, a U.S.-based online retailer of luxury watches, the average cost of acquiring a customer is much higher than originally projected, and the startup is incurring a substantial loss on each sales transaction. Could... View Details
Keywords: Startup; Luxury Goods; Customer Acquisition; Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Luxury; Failure; Internet and the Web; Revenue; Fashion Industry; United States
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  • May 1997
  • Case

Donna Karan International Inc.

By: Krishna G. Palepu and Sarayu Srinivasan
Designer Donna Karan takes her firm public. After eager anticipation from Wall Street, the stock loses 60% of its value. This case addresses the questions: Is Karan's company ready to undertake responsibilities of being public? Is the company's strategy sustainable?... View Details
Keywords: Public Equity; Stock Shares; Financial Strategy; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Outcome or Result; Going Public; Business Strategy; Valuation; Fashion Industry
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  • July 2004 (Revised March 2006)
  • Teaching Note

The Birth of the Swatch (TN)

By: Youngme E. Moon
Teaching Note to (2-504-096). View Details
Keywords: History; Fashion Industry
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  • March 2003
  • Teaching Note

Brioni (TN)

By: David E. Bell
Teaching Note for (9-503-057). View Details
Keywords: Fashion Industry
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  • January 2000
  • Case

Talbots - A Classic

By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Marie Bell
This case traces why the $1 billion women's clothing retailer decided to attract younger customers, what went wrong, and the actions taken to recover. By the end of 1999, the company has reestablished itself and faces several growth opportunities and must decide on the... View Details
Keywords: Customer Focus and Relationships; Decisions; Crisis Management; Product Positioning; Problems and Challenges; Segmentation; Fashion Industry
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  • 1991
  • Other Unpublished Work

Improving the Performance of the Men's Dress Shirt Industry: A Channel Perspective

By: J. H. Hammond, J Dunlop, F A Abernathy and D. Weil
Keywords: Performance Improvement; Marketing Channels; Fashion Industry
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    Barry Schwartz

    Schwartz is the business half of Calvin Klein Inc.’s leadership, and without his industry savvy, Klein’s popular fashion designs could not have become so successful. Schwartz’s attentive management style allowed the company to purchase... View Details
    Keywords: Fabric & Apparel
    • 14 Oct 2020
    • News

    Sewn with Love

    In the midst of a global pandemic and widespread protests against racial injustice, the fashion industry can seem pretty frivolous. Fashion-industry leader Kikka Hanazawa (MBA 2002), CEO of VPL, a women’s underwear and athleisure company,... View Details
    Keywords: Maureen Harmon
    • 01 Mar 2008
    • News

    Innovation, Inc.

    attack new markets, it is the shift in the mindset of employees that can prove most difficult.” Creativity is doubtless a significant force in the Indian fashion business, the focus of research by HBS assistant professor Mukti Khaire.... View Details
    Keywords: Julia Hanna; Mary Tripsas; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management
    • Web

    How Student-Proposed Internships Can Create Value - Recruiting

    partnership. Read on for one student’s experience designing her own summer role with fashion brand Anine Bing—and how her proactive outreach turned into a strategic internship opportunity. Not every summer internship starts with a job... View Details
    • Portrait Project

    Yael Melamed

    is too short to surround yourself with drains of energy rather than sources of energy. Life is too short not to celebrate those whom you love and who love you. Life is too short not to give back to the world around you before it's too late. I want to start a View Details
    • 27 Sep 2021
    • News

    Sewn with Love

    Hanazawa, who also founded Fashion Girls for Humanity (FGFH), a nonprofit that provides humanitarian services and funds to victims of natural disasters, began to study a medical gown given to her by a friend in the medical profession. She... View Details
    • 25 Jul 2016
    • Blog Post

    Advice on Switching Careers While at HBS

    many retail speakers as I could, typically 1-2 presentations a week, covering everything from large fashion brands to small e-commerce start ups. I found I always learned at least one useful thing per session that helped boost my... View Details
    • 19 Mar 2018
    • Sharpening Your Skills

    8 Ways To Be An Environmentally Conscious Manager

    your values Stella McCartney Combines High Fashion with Environmental Values Fashion designer Stella McCartney shows that luxury and sustainability need not be mutually exclusive in a case study by Anat... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Energy