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- 12 Mar 2021
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My Favorite Case
Case Howard (Ted) Greene (MBA 1967) “Ant Financial” Rebecca E. Katz (AMP 193, 2017) “Lisa Sherman” Alterrell Mills (MBA 2016) “Fenchel Lampshade” Julie Lopez Santiago (MBA 1994) “Danaher Corporation” Bala V. Sathyanarayanan (AMP 192,... 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... View Details
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... View Details
Keywords: Fabric & Apparel
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
One Man Crime Wave
novel, The Brass Cupcake, he wrote, “Today as a writer, I am a small businessman in a highly competitive field, fabricating a product for sale in a buyers’ market, and required to establish my own merchandising and marketing procedures.”... View Details
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2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
customers are partitioned away from the operation, they are less likely to fully appreciate the work going on behind the scenes, causing them to place a lower value on the product or service being offered. To address this problem, leaders... View Details
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Boston Manufacturing Company Records | Baker Library
be known as the Waltham system. The Boston Manufacturing Company records contain administrative material, financial records, correspondence, and labor and production records of the Waltham-based textile firm... View Details
William M. Wood
After successfully managing a mill for his father in-law, Frederick Ayer, Wood organized the American Woolen Mills Company in 1899, combining the enterprises of Ayer and several other businessmen.... View Details
Keywords: Fabric & Apparel
- 01 Aug 1998
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High Honors
expanded into other parts of the country, added four production facilities, and saw sales top $7 million. In 1960, Barford sold his share of the business to his partners and returned home with his family to Toronto. The following year, he... View Details
- 07 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 7
time. Publisher's link: http://www.sagepub.com/books/Book235126 Exploring the Duality between Product and Organizational Architectures: A Test of the 'Mirroring' Hypothesis Authors:Alan MacCormack, John Rusnak, and Carliss Y. Baldwin... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Sunny's MBA
In 1986, as a 26-year-old with a degree in agricultural management and little business experience, Sunny Verghese (AMP 115, 1994) was newly employed by a venerable Indian conglomerate to oversee a textile 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... View Details
Keywords: Fabric & Apparel
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Harvard Business School
engaged in the broadcasting and cable television industries. From 1970-1975, Ryan was a management consultant for McKinsey & Company. Ryan is currently on the board of directors of General Mills and Stanley Black & Decker. He is also a... View Details
- 06 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 6
improvements in outcomes such as productivity and longevity, and that good nuts-and-bolts management at individual firms shapes national performance. At 14 textile manufacturers in India, for example, an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
"Unheard Voices" Brings to Light Three Centuries of American Women at Work
textile work. A few collections — such as the 2,500-volume R.G. Dun & Co. credit report collection and the detailed productivity studies from Western Electric Company’s Hawthorne, Illinois, plant — were... View Details
- 21 Jul 2022
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How Sumner Feldberg Helped Transform Retail
overly dependent on downtown locations that were losing shoppers to suburban malls. Some New England rivals were opening discount stores in abandoned textile mills, which came with cheap rents and plenty of parking space. Mr. Feldberg,... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
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An Rx for Small Business Recovery
Karen Gordon Mills served in President Barack Obama’s cabinet as head of the Small Business Administration (SBA) during the height of the Great Recession. “Back then, I thought small businesses were weathering the worst financial crisis... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 1999
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New Releases
Apparel and Textile Industries is based on eight years of study. The keys to success in an age of product proliferation, the authors found, are no longer economies of scale and cheap labor but an... View Details
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Cristiana Torres
Cristiana Torres' great-grandfather built a textile mill in Barcelos, Portugal, a family business that her father ran, her brother worked for, and Cristiana was expected to join. Midway through her... View Details