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- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Fever Pitch
great generation of small business owners. Most Innovative Selected by alumni and students BollyX Fitness (Northeastern US Region) Minal Mehta (MBA 2011) The world’s leading and fastest-growing Bollywood fitness company. Greatest Impact Selected by alumni and students... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Designing Change
company’s mission, using meetings and even Muzak hats and T-shirts to jump-start employees’ emotional connection to their work as “audio architects” who provide the soundtrack for fashionable retail chains and a wide variety of work... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 16 Oct 2014
- News
Innovating for International Aid
is really the first time I can take my professional expertise in venture capital and finance and apply it in this fashion toward entrepreneurs and others working on solutions to major problems of a different type. “This isn’t a handout;... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Avoiding a Succession Crisis
status. Even among those CEOs who plan for succession, some manage in such an imperial fashion that the potential successors wither in their shade. And in their heart of hearts, some CEOs fear being surpassed. Many companies think a horse... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Luxe Redux
stars, outdoor sportsmen, the British military, and the Royal family. In 1997, Burberry launched a revitalization of the brand that showcased the ongoing appeal of its more timeless products while expanding into fashionable clothing and... View Details
- 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
- 26 Jan 2015
- News
The Ingredients for Success
by the telecom industry, entered HBS with the goal of using her time there to find the career she truly wanted. After graduation, she returned to California and held a series of finance jobs in the fashion and apparel industry. Restless... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
being brought on by the board at Liz Claiborne as vice chairman and COO in 1994. Founded in 1976 by fashion designer Liz Claiborne, her husband, Arthur Ortenberg, and two other partners, the tiny shop had rocketed to success in its first... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Business Plan Contest Has Many Winners
fashionable and custom-fitted bras to fuller-sized customers and the 85 percent of women who wear the wrong size. In the social enterprise track, the winner was India Info Village, a team featuring Rita Singh (MBA ’05) and several other... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
A Smooth Stretch
explained, “Yoga became a great way to work my body and quiet my mind at a time when my life as a full-time mother of two small children was feeling quite chaotic.” And yoga also offered a great business opportunity, Hanna realized, for View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
The Future of Stem Cells
medical advances. The effect of the ban, experts say, has been to slow research and drive it into areas where it is supported in patchwork fashion by academic institutions, individual states, private firms, and foundations. Stem cells... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
A Start-Up with Giddyup
with cowboy boots.' They're timeless and appreciated worldwide, so I don't have to guess fashion trends." Best advice "Don't worry about a business plan, just go and sell 50 pairs of boots." Capitalization "So far, just me and my savings;... View Details
- 16 Sep 2010
- News
Idea Takes Root
wire. The IIRC deserves better, and here’s why. As Eccles states in his blog, reporting both financial performance and performance in the areas of environmental sustainability, social responsibility, and governance in an integrated View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Case Study: Something New
over and over. Additionally, because most women aren’t fashion design- ers, it reduces the overwhelming responsibility of designing some- thing from scratch. —Erica Keany Blob (MBA 2006) Change the business model, and morph into a... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 17 Apr 2019
- News
Two Alumnae Among Time’s Most Influential of 2019
entry is written by Diane von Furstenberg, fashion designer and chair of the Council of Fashion Designers of America. Von Furstenberg recalls her first meeting with Hyman, in which the legendary designer... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Fair Trade
of prestige skin care brands in East Asia, where a preference for lighter skin led to its incorporation into global brands. As in India, these preferences were rooted historically, but they have grown stronger over the recent past .A striking feature of the whitening... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Perfection’s Price
MICHAEL KAPLAN (left, with brother and partner Nicholas) reflects on lessons learned and looks ahead to future growth. Michael Kaplan (MBA ’02) had a great idea for a start-up: a fashionable apparel company catering to plus-size women.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
range from Fortune 100 and start-up companies to not-for-profits and municipalities. He has helped position Bangkok, Thailand, as a global fashion capital and FootJoy as the number one shoe and glove brand in golf. With FootJoy, he notes,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Action Plan: Yes, Chef!
Wolfgang Puck (OPM 53, 2019)—aka the father of California cuisine, OG celebrity chef, and culinary empire-builder—began his career as a disgraced cook’s apprentice at a hotel restaurant. At 14, he’d been eager to take the post just outside his Austrian hometown: Not... View Details
Keywords: Christine Speer Lejeune
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Student Conferences Inspire Campus Dialogue
25-year-old company that sells fashion jewelry and home accessories to 450 retail accounts, discussed some of the challenges she has faced as a woman in business. Friedlander attributed her success to a "constant state of being creatively... View Details