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- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
When Benchmarks Don’t Work
not a meaningful, let alone actionable, comparison. Similarly, although the cost of serving a customer who is purchasing clothing from a Wal-Mart store is likely far below the same cost for an Armani store,... View Details
- 19 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
The History of Beauty
homogenization of beauty ideals. Beauty became associated with Western countries, and white people, and with women. These assumptions reflected wider societal trends. Western societies as a whole underwent... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
How Culture Drives Results
- 08 Jun 2011
- News
A Lifestyle Entrepreneur
- 24 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
Managing Alignment as a Process
men's outdoor shoes and clothing had become saturated. A comprehensive strategy review revealed that the Sport-Man brand could be extended to other apparel lines. Furthermore, its retail footprint in major... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Bringing Up Baby
task for even the most capable, accomplished women. So in 1997, McCartney made the leap into e-commerce with eStyle, Inc., a dot-com backed with some $60 million in funding that sells clothing and View Details
- 19 Jul 2016
- News
HBS Startup Is Developing Tech-Enabled Jewelry to Stop Rapists
(Photo courtesy of Flare Jewelry) Is it possible to create a personal-safety device that can stop a physical assault, call for help, and collect evidence for the police? And be fashionable? Those are... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Giving Back
It was in grade school that Jim Gibbons (MBA ’94) began to lose his sight due to macular degeneration, a retinal condition; by his junior year at Purdue, his vision loss was complete. Today, Gibbons is president and CEO of Goodwill... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Downhill Re-Boot
HANSON: For boomers who still dare to schuss, a new way to keep them from getting cold feet. Former ski racer Denny Hanson (OPM 2, 1977) saw a lot of his contemporaries giving up skiing because they were tired of being cold and dealing... View Details
- 22 May 2017
- Lessons from the Classroom
A Luxury Industry Veteran Teaches the Importance of Aesthetics to Budding Business Leaders
laundromat called “Linens and Lattes” that would let customers drink coffee, socialize, and surf the web while waiting for their clothes to dry). Well into the night, the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Stiletto Science
MIT grad Brian Hughes (MBA ’79) is bringing technology to bear on what may result in a giant step forward for womankind. Imagine, gushed the Austin, Texas, American-Statesman (July 8, 2004), a high-heeled shoe “so cozy you can wear it all day, dance all night, View Details
- 04 May 2021
- Blog Post
Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month at HBS
when I was three years old. Not wanting me to struggle with them as they built a new life in a foreign land, they left me with my grandparents back home. Even though my mom had an engineering degree and years of work experience under her... View Details
- 05 May 2014
- News
Acustom Apparel Takes On E-Commerce
- 04 May 2010
- News
The History of Beauty
- 10 Feb 2014
- News
Get $100,000, Give Up 6% of Your Pay
- 20 Aug 2018
- Research & Ideas
Bargain Hunters Beware: A Store's 'Original Price' Might Not Be After All
marketing chicanery almost by accident. He was working on a related project involving a major US-based clothing and accessories brand (he can’t say which), when he noticed... View Details
- 12 May 2011
- News
A Game Plan in Trying Times
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
A Start-Up with Giddyup
A Start-Up with Giddyup FORD: These boots were made for business. Photo courtesy Sarah Ford Whether you're the real deal or all hat and no cattle, you can cowboy up in style with custom-made boots from Sarah Ford (MBA 2007). Ford founded... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
A Look at Olook
She just graduated from college a few years ago. She's middle class. She drives a Fiat Uno. She's very socially active. And she loves social networks. And she's into fashion blogs," says Beisert. "We sell to... View Details