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- 01 Jun 2022
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A Sustainable Solution for Fashion
emissions are produced by the industry, and the amount of textile waste generated each year could fill 20,000 football stadiums, Theuerkauf explains, adding that, “even in 2022, excess inventory is still put in landfills and burned.” To... View Details
Keywords: April White
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Yinka Shonibare CBE RA Wind Sculpture (SG) V 2019 | About
Asia, Africa and Europe—and of course the diaspora in the United States.” Wind Sculpture (SG) V was acquired by Harvard Business School in 2021 for the C. Ludens Ringnes Sculpture Collection. In this work, Shonibare employs Dutch wax View Details
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National Markets - The Art of American Advertising
small shop, or through itinerant peddlers. Retailers distributed basic goods, for example textiles and grains, to general merchants, while regional enterprises manufactured products such as tractors and looms. Given the steady demand for... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
One Man Crime Wave
a textile mill, and issues of whether or not to keep or sell the mill, protect the employees and community, and maintain or forfeit personal integrity. In these, and in his thrillers, MacDonald clearly prefers small and family-owned... View Details
Robert T. B. Stevens
In response to the changing nature of the textile industry and to the growing inefficiencies in the company, Stevens merged the manufacturing and selling sides of the business and took the new entity public to raise much needed funds. The... View Details
Keywords: Fabric & Apparel
Roger Milliken
firm operated at least 60 mills in five states. He was also one of the first to establish computerized management information systems in the textile industry, and, in so doing, Milliken became the industry leader in research and... View Details
Keywords: Fabric & Apparel
Henry P. Kendall
Kendall was instrumental in advancing the textile industry. He emphasized basic product research and the application of scientific management to all phases of manufacturing, purchasing and sales. His company was a major supplier of View Details
Keywords: Healthcare
Royal Little
Little, often referred to as “the Father of Conglomerates,” was famous for his “unrelated diversification” theory. He built one of the world’s largest and most successful conglomerates. Starting as a textile manufacturer, by the mid-1960s... View Details
Keywords: Fabricated Goods
- 01 Dec 1998
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Short Takes
Ownership Matters: Bringing Owners on Board In his working paper, "The Impact of Ownership Type on Performance in Public Corporations: A Study of the U.S. Textile Industry 1983-1992," HBS assistant professor David L. Kang demonstrates... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
Elizabeth E. Boit
Boit was the first American woman to establish ownership in the textile industry. She joined forces with Charles N. Winship to establish the Winship, Boit & Company in 1888. While Winship oversaw production, Boit managed the finances... View Details
Keywords: Fabric & Apparel
- 01 Dec 1999
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A Stitch in Time (Second Edition) by Frederick H. Abernathy, John T. Dunlop, Janice H. Hammond, and David Weil (Oxford University Press) Spurred on by advances in information technology, a retailing revolution has been taking place during the past two decades,... View Details
James S. Love
Beginning as a rayon producer, Love built the world’s largest textile mill by the mid-1950s. Love, the architect of the company’s growth, expanded the company to 22 plants by 1936 and bought six hosiery mills. After World War II, he... View Details
Keywords: Fabric & Apparel
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Boston Manufacturing Company Records | Baker Library
Boston Manufacturing Company Records Boynton, I.M. 75 young women from 15 to 35 years of age, wanted to work in the cotton mills! :in Lowell and Chicopee, Mass. [S.l. : s.n., ca. 1870]. The Boston Manufacturing Company was a textile firm... View Details
Whitney Stevens
Having inherited his fathers labor problems, Whitney Stevens’ early years at his family’s company were dominated by struggles with textile unions. Though the family strongly opposed the organizations, Whitney was forced to acquiesce and... View Details
Keywords: Fabric & Apparel
William M. Wood
world’s largest carded woolen plant and the world’s largest worsted manufacturing plant. Wood maintained the firm’s leadership in the textile industry and shepherded it through a difficult labor relations period in the early 1910’s. View Details
Keywords: Fabric & Apparel
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Pranav Kothari
Curiosity has always propelled Pranav Kothari. As a child in India, he was intrigued by his family's wholesale textile business. "I was always interested in how things work, how they're made, how machines produce," Pranav says.... View Details
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American Business History Records | Baker Library
with global reach. Strengths include the papers of colonial and early republican-era farmers, craftsmen, and merchants; the records of major manufacturing firms, especially textile companies that developed the factory system from the... View Details
- 23 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
Globalization: Little Impact on the Continent
particularly textiles and agriculture, to compete globally. He said it is estimated that 27 million jobs in the developing world have not been created due to subsidies on farm and textile products in... View Details
Keywords: by Julie Jette
J. Chadbourn Bolles
Under Bolles dynamic direction which spanned 34 years, Chadbourn grew from a small hosiery operation with $500,000 in annual sales to an international and diversified textile and apparel complex with $68 million in sales. Through... View Details
Keywords: Fabric & Apparel