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  • 02 Jul 2014
  • Blog Post

Connecting Fashion & Technology at Kate Spade

I found my internship with Kate Spade through Career & Professional Development’s collaboration with the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA). Coming from management consulting where the recruitment process was very... View Details
Keywords: Technology; Consumer Products / Retail
  • July 2024
  • Teaching Plan

ECOALF: Fashion for the Future

By: Elizabeth A. Keenan, Diego Aparicio and Sara Coronel Rodriguez
Teaching Plan for HBS Case No. 524-057. View Details
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  • October 2011 (Revised September 2014)
  • Case

Moda Operandi: A New Style of Fashion Retail

By: Mukti Khaire
Moda Operandi is a startup in the fashion industry. The firm organizes online trunk shows of designers' collections, allowing its members to directly order clothes from the collections shown in Fashion Weeks all over the world. Moda Operandi conveys the preorders to... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Order Taking and Fulfillment; Distribution Channels; Internet and the Web; Design; Fashion Industry; Fashion Industry
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  • June 2004 (Revised September 2007)
  • Case

Zara: IT for Fast Fashion

In 2003, Zara's CIO must decide whether to upgrade the retailer's IT infrastructure and capabilities. At the time of the case, the company relies on an out-of-date operating system for its store terminals and has no full-time network in place across stores. Despite... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Customer Value and Value Chain; Information Management; Infrastructure; Supply Chain Management; Information Technology; Retail Industry
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  • October 2008 (Revised January 2015)
  • Teaching Note

Polanco: A Fashionable Opportunity

By: Arthur I Segel and Ben Creo
Teaching Note for [209012]. View Details
Keywords: Investment; Planning; Buildings and Facilities; Construction; Design; Property; Opportunities; Legal Liability; Real Estate Industry; Mexico
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  • August 2008 (Revised January 2014)
  • Case

Polanco: A Fashionable Opportunity

By: Arthur I Segel and Ben Creo
Roberto Charvel is a young MBA graduate making his first personal real estate investment in his native Mexico City. Charvel is planning to purchase and renovate a nine-unit apartment building. Is the market good? Should he sell or lease the units? How should he handle... View Details
Keywords: Investment; Housing; Leasing; Property; Real Estate Industry; Mexico City
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  • 24 Mar 2015
  • News

How Chiara Ferragni Turned Her Fashion Blog Into Big Business

    The Indian Fashion Industry and Traditional Indian Crafts

    This study documents the emergence of the high-end fashion industry in India from the mid-1980s to 2005. Drawn from oral histories, magazine articles, and several databases, the study demonstrates that the Indian fashion industry's unique identity, based on heavily... View Details
    • 01 Jun 2022
    • News

    A Sustainable Solution for Fashion

    Ferdinand Stockmann (MBA 2021) and James Theuerkauf (MBA 2021) Photo courtesy Syrup Tech Fashion is one of the most polluting industries in the world, says James Theuerkauf (MBA 2021), who worked in McKinsey’s retail sector before... View Details
    Keywords: April White
    • October 2023 (Revised April 2024)
    • Case

    FARM Rio: Bringing a Brazilian Fashion Brand to the World

    By: Isamar Troncoso and Jill Avery
    FARM Rio, a twenty-six year old Brazilian fashion brand, had recently put down roots in the U.S. The brand, known for its bold, colorful, nature-inspired tropical prints, was testing the waters in Europe to assess if and how the brand should further expand globally.... View Details
    Keywords: Global Marketing; Go-to-market Strategy; Global Branding; Brand Positioning; Marketing; Brands and Branding; Marketing Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy; Product Positioning; Market Entry and Exit; Distribution Channels; Expansion; Fashion Industry; Brazil; United States; Europe
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    • 21 Nov 2015
    • HBS Case

    HBS Cases: Stella McCartney Combines High Fashion with Environmental Values

    Many people equate luxury with excess and folly. Stella McCartney is not one of those people. A lifelong vegetarian and prominent player in the green fashion movement, the designer has shown that luxury and sustainability need not be... View Details
    Keywords: by Brian Kenny; Fashion
    • June 2022
    • Case

    Zalando: Becoming the Starting Point for Fashion

    By: Antonio Moreno, Leela Nageswaran, Emilie Billaud and Federica Gabrieli
    Born in 2008 as a small startup selling flip flops, by mid-2021 Zalando had turned into an online fashion company with an assortment of more than 4,500 international brands, 45 million active customers, and a presence in 23 European markets. An essential component in... View Details
    Keywords: Transition; Customer Value and Value Chain; Digital Platforms; Distribution; Order Taking and Fulfillment; Infrastructure; Logistics; Service Operations; Strategy; Business Strategy; Fashion Industry; Fashion Industry; Fashion Industry; Fashion Industry; Fashion Industry; Fashion Industry; Fashion Industry; Fashion Industry; Europe
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    • July 1987 (Revised January 1988)
    • Case

    Benetton S.p.A.: Industrial Fashion (A)

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    • 1999
    • Chapter

    Managing Inventory for Fashion Products

    By: A. Raman
    Keywords: Logistics; Fashion Industry
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    • 06 Mar 2014
    • News

    Fashioning a Career with Style

    Keywords: Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Retail Trade
    • 08 Feb 2018
    • News

    Bringing a Personal Touch to Plus-Size Fashion

    • June 2024
    • Teaching Note

    Tommy Hilfiger Adaptive: Fashion for All

    By: Elizabeth A. Keenan and Max Hancock
    Keywords: Social Marketing; Fashion Industry; United States
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      How Shein and Temu Conquered Fast Fashion

      The platforms Shein and Temu match consumer demand and factory output, bringing Chinese production to the rest of the world. The companies have remade fast fashion, but their pioneering approach has the potential to go far beyond retail by linking diverse small... View Details
      • November 2009 (Revised January 2010)
      • Case

      Zara: Managing Stores for Fast Fashion

      By: Zeynep Ton, Elena Corsi and Vincent Marie Dessain
      Pablo Isla, the CEO of Zara, wanted to improve operational efficiencies in managing its store network. In particular, he wanted to improve labor productivity at the stores. He considered outsourcing certain store operations to third parties, changing the way store... View Details
      Keywords: Compensation and Benefits; Employees; Managerial Roles; Service Operations; Business Processes; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Performance Efficiency; Performance Productivity; Retail Industry
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      • Research Summary

      Re-Producing Exclusivity: A History of the Transatlantic Fashion Industry, 1929-1960

      The history of fashion has been increasingly explored over the last decade, but two important and intertwined features of the topic are still underdeveloped: business and its international aspect. These dimensions are crucial. Fashion is first and foremost an industry... View Details