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- 28 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 28, 2008
the online, Chicago-based t-shirt company, was not your typical fashion apparel company. The company, run by Jake Nickell, Jacob DeHart, and Jeffrey Kalmikoff, turned the fashion business on its head by... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 20, 2007
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=407062 Liz Claiborne and the New Working Woman Harvard Business School Case 407-060 At age 47, with two decades of experience as a lead designer for a Fortune 500 View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Feb 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Outside-In Approach to Customer Service
customers is just the starting point. From here, firms have to make a creative leap to discover the unique combination of products and services that may address those needs. No customer gave Steve Jobs and Apple the design for the iPhone... View Details
- 19 Jan 2023
- Research & Ideas
What Makes Employees Trust (vs. Second-Guess) AI?
about how an algorithm works—but following its advice based on trusting the people who designed and tested it—can lead to better decision-making and financial results for businesses, say researchers affiliated with the Laboratory for... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 30 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 30, 2007
high-end fashion industry and the actions of entrepreneurs in the early days of this industry, I seek to redress these shortcomings of prior organizational research. Based on a series of interviews with View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
What Makes a Good Leader
or intrinsic, such as projects that are designed to be satisfying to the worker in addition to taking the organization where it needs to go." Kanter, whose new book Evolve! deals with leadership challenges when change is threatening,... View Details
Keywords: Management
- 05 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 5, 2008
908-068 In this case we look at the design and development of an unconventional market, where neither money nor traditional "goods" are exchanged. Kidney exchange is an idea pioneered by HBS professor and market View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Jan 2016
- What Do You Think?
Why Do Leaders Get Their Timing Wrong?
strategy or culture? What do you think? Original Column Two pieces of news that hit the business press in recent weeks illustrate situations in which leadership timing has been called into question. The first concerns Volkswagen’s notorious, apparently conscious effort... View Details
- 29 Nov 2022
- Research & Ideas
How Much More Would Holiday Shoppers Pay to Wear Something Rare?
Do you have that one friend who seems to snag the coolest, most fashionable shoes, jewelry, or clothes? Now new research shows that when luxury goods companies cater to these trendy consumers by controlling how rare certain items... View Details
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Breaking the Code of Change
overhead, and it was planning an additional layoff of 8,300 employees at the time Dunlap took over. At the same time it invested in new paper machines and attempted to consolidate its global position by acquiring several foreign subsidiaries and View Details
Keywords: by Michael Beer & Nitin Nohria
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Made in Italy
HBS faculty members and students visited Lamborghini’s headquarters in Bologna during the immersion to learn how the company became experts in electric car technology. Photo courtesy Lamborghini IMMERSIVE FIELD COURSES OFFERED AS ELECTIVES IN 2023 Denmark and... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 26 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
How Toyota Turns Workers Into Problem Solvers
into a meaningful, harmonious whole. This common yet nevertheless challenging problem is obviously evident when we talk about the design of complex technical devices. Automobiles have tens of thousands of mechanical and electronic parts.... View Details
- Portrait Project
Sonali Bloom
“You’re not a real Jew.” The only other Jewish girl on my middle-school math team scoffed at me. “You’re not really Indian.” My Indian classmates excluded me from the annual Indian fashion show, year after year. “Don’t worry about them –... View Details
- Web
Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition
science-powered platform. Social Enterprise Track, 2021 Shelly Xu Design (SXD) Shelly Xu, HBS 2021 Ahmed Fardin Junga Park, HBS 2021 Social Enterprise Track & Crowd Favorite Winner Vocal Justice Shawon Jackson, HKS Social Enterprise Track... View Details
- 19 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
The History of Beauty
disinclined to conform to assumed gender stereotypes by working on beauty. The fashion industry, which is also huge, suffers from the same lack of attention from management researchers. Q: You write, "Beauty emerges as an industry which... View Details
- 28 Nov 2018
- HBS Case
On Target: Rethinking the Retail Website
jimkruger In the mid-1990s, Target was a discount superstore behemoth. The retailer had set itself apart from chief rival Walmart with a focus on more upscale but wallet-friendly fashion and lifestyle lines, spurring double-digit growth... View Details
- 12 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 12, 2009
implementation of radical routines and resource configuration. Structural arrangements, pre-set change routines, and existing decisional priorities are insufficient to fashion relevant capabilities into new core activities. Ad-hoc problem... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 May 2017
- Lessons from the Classroom
A Luxury Industry Veteran Teaches the Importance of Aesthetics to Budding Business Leaders
angel investor in fashion tech; Vanessa Kay, senior vice president at Moët Hennessy USA, who heads up the Veuve Clicquot, Krug, and Ruinart champagne brands; Edda Gudmundsdottir, a fashion View Details
- Web
Social Enterprise - Faculty & Research
financial performance of corporations, the design of incentive and control systems to guide strategy execution, corporate reporting, and the role of investors in this new paradigm. Initiatives & Projects The Social Enterprise Initiative ,... View Details
- 22 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 22
domains—cars, dates, and hotels—we show that different attribute partitions impact the importance assigned to attributes (Studies 1 and 2), as well as consumer choices (Studies 3 and 4). We argue that these effects are due in part to users' willingness to use the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace