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- 23 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
COVID-19 Shines New Light on Working Conditions in Supply Chains
interesting to see what they come up with. Kost: Are companies actively evaluating the working conditions of their suppliers? Toffel: In some industries, it has become really quite common. In the US, it dates back to scandals, really. So, whether it be Nike or the... View Details
- 28 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 28
fashion company competing in a variety of unconventional ways, many "experience economy" related. Moods fronts their brand with the "boy band" images of its three founders and designs eccentric features into their View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Developing-World Companies Teach Us About Innovation
themselves to understanding the needs of less-affluent customers and using this knowledge to devise creative solutions to customer problems. Employees of China's Haier, for example, discovered through visiting rural customers that they frequently used their washing... View Details
- 05 Jun 2013
- Op-Ed
Corporate Leaders Need to Step Up on Climate Change
sustainability leaders—like clothing manufacturer Patagonia, a business we admire—don't recognize the primacy of climate change. Instead, it includes climate in a basket of equally weighted issues, like protecting oceans, forests, or... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Toffel & Auden Schendler
- 25 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Will Machine Learning Make You a Better Manager?
when he angrily stormed into a store clutching a circular for maternity clothes that had been sent to his teenage daughter, only to later find out that the store had accurately predicted she was pregnant. Such examples represent a... View Details
- 03 Jun 2015
- What Do You Think?
Is the Time Right for Self-Management?
Absent of these it's bound to fail." These and other comments provided grist for the question: When and where will Holacracy work best? What do you think? Original Article Recently it was reported that Zappos.com, the online clothing... View Details
- 09 Dec 2015
- Research Event
How Do You Predict Demand and Set Prices For Products Never Sold Before?
Ferreira was a doctoral student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Rue La La is a so-called flash sales business, offering deeply discounted, extremely-limited-time offers on designer clothes and accessories. Often, these... View Details
- 20 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
How Much Is Freedom Worth? For Gig Workers, a Lot.
pointing to the mobile shift-swapping app used by employees of clothing retailer The Gap. The company piloted the app in its Old Navy stores and expanded it to all brands in 2018. The app “creates value,” says Oberholzer-Gee, by helping... View Details
- 26 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 26, 2008
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=808107 Parks Capital-Investment in US Retail, Inc. Harvard Business School Case 208-104 Parks Capital acquired a Children's Apparel Manufacturer, American Child Clothing... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Peeling Back the Global Brand
same brand is offered in different countries with a different product formulation. Depending on the country, people usually wash clothes with hot or cold water, so the product formulation needs to be adapted, he said. Idiosyncratic... View Details
- 27 Aug 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Learning From Japan’s Remarkable Disaster Recovery
Clinic, a provider of medical services; Fast Retailing Group, which owns a chain of apparel stores; and Lawson's, which operates more than 40,000 convenience stores. The cases underscore disaster recovery challenges that are both universal and particularly local. A... View Details
- 26 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 26
giant IBM? Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/316143-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 416-019 Gap Inc.: Refashioning Performance Management In 2014, clothing retailer Gap Inc. rolled out a new performance... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Mar 2021
- Research & Ideas
Beyond Pajamas: Sizing Up the Pandemic Shopper
came true. Sales of pajamas more than doubled in 2020 compared with 2019, the fastest growth among clothing categories, while sales of suits and dresses fell. In contrast to popular opinion, sales of bras and pants did not exhibit major... View Details
- 11 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 11, 2018
partners to build her fashion business and legendary luxury brand based on understated elegance. Chanel’s famous “little black dress” was accompanied by many other innovations including the use of jersey as material for daytime clothing... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
‘Retail Revolution’ Excerpt: The Scale of the Ecommerce Threat
fulfillment of basic needs, such as Consumer Product Goods and apparel basics, is growing. With customers increasingly ordering these and other products online, potential shoppers have fewer reasons to leave their homes, and the clothing... View Details
- 06 Jun 2013
- Op-Ed
How to Do Away with the Dangers of Outsourcing
human cost of rampant outsourcing. "Every outsourced stop along the supply and production chains holds the potential for tainting the mother ship” What to do? Certainly, the newly announced plan by a coalition of clothing retailers,... View Details
- 18 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
When Words Get in the Way: The Failure of Fiscal Language
audience," Kotlikoff laments. "We hope this paper will reacquaint younger economists with the concept." "This is an emperor's new clothes situation," he continues. "Many economists have a vested interest in... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 25 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part II]
. Todd Krasnow, MBA '83, typified the historic Harvard Business School mid-career entrepreneur when he celebrated the opening of the first Zoots store in October 1998. But how had he—self-described as "not a clothes person"—come... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Entering the Age of Alliances
and the Boston Red Sox continues to this day. Nordstrom, a leading clothing retailer predominantly owned and run by the Nordstrom family and headquartered in Seattle, was an early and major supporter of its local United Way, the seventh... View Details
Keywords: by James Austin
- 06 May 2002
- Research & Ideas
Profits for Nonprofits: Earning Your Own Way
though, are not administrative. "The biggest challenge we face is a cultural shift. People who by and large get into these organizations have amazing compassion. They want to clothe the homeless and feed the hungry. And for them to... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace