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Collection Highlights | Baker Library
Company Records Administrative material, financial records, correspondence, and labor and production records of the Waltham-based textile firm founded in Waltham, Massachusetts in 1813. Alfred D. Chandler Papers Professor Alfred Chandler... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
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Building a better India through business and philanthropy
Known for understanding opportunities ahead of the curve, Ajay Piramal (AMP 110, 1992) led his family’s business away from textiles to pharmaceuticals in the 1980s. “Our guiding principle has been to build businesses that deliver... View Details
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India - Industry specific research
steel are also available. Textiles Ministry of... 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
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Sustainability in CPG and Retail
apparel, footwear, and textile industry members dedicated to measuring and reducing the environmental impact of the industry.
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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
- 01 Nov 2018
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Earning Potential
have different lines. We have a beautiful textile line, a jewelry line, and also a bedding line. The idea behind that is that the women will sell first, let's say, a jean to her friend. And then they will sell a bedding product to her... View Details
Lammot du Pont
Under duPont’s leadership, researchers at duPont invented nylon, which revolutionized the textile industry. Researchers also discovered neoprene (the first general purpose synthetic rubber), Orlon and Dacron under duPont’s direction.... View Details
Keywords: Chemicals & Industrial
- 05 Dec 2022
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2022 Climate Symposium: Tackling Climate Together
textiles that could bypass the toxic chemical dying and unsustainable materials sourcing of todays textiles industry. SpaceSense: A platform designed to help geospatial data scientists and developers build... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
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Himalayan Journey
development of Bhutan prepared us for what we would encounter: magnificent dzongs, Bhutanese structures dating from the 17th century and built for defense as well as to serve as monasteries and/or administrative centers; Buddhist temple art; traditional religious... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Leading Change
earned approximately $1.5 billion in revenue in 2015 from serving top brands, including Hugo Boss, Nautica, and Ralph Lauren. Yang is a catalyst for change in a traditional industry. As wages rise in China, many textile companies are... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
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"Unheard Voices" Brings to Light Three Centuries of American Women at Work
contributing to the family’s livelihood by spinning yarn, weaving cloth, sewing quilts, and producing other clothing and textile items for sale or trade. When she died, her husband’s second wife, Deliverance, took over these tasks and was... View Details
- 16 Sep 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #9: Shelly Xu (MBA 2021) Reducing Waste Through Beautiful Design
2020, the BBC reported that 85% of all textiles are thrown away in the U.S. and “globally, an estimated 92 million tonnes of textiles waste is created each year and the equivalent to a rubbish truck full of... View Details
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Maliha Khan
In college, Maliha Khan kept her family's textile business at arm's length, preferring to follow a path that would lead to a PhD in political science. But as she approached graduation, the business changed dramatically. "Pakistan... 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 undergraduate years, however, the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
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Taking Care of Business
recommended against producing sleepwear, now a highly popular line. Knock out! has been an acquisition target, but buyers always planned to offshore manufacturing—a nonstarter for the North Carolinian and mother of three whose father, Norvin Clontz (AMP 153, 1997),... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 02 Mar 2018
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Op-Ed: Trump’s Tariffs Could Harm Allies as Much as Opponents
cause concern among people in other parts of the country, since it may lead to trade retaliation targeted at politically sensitive US exports such as textiles from North Carolina or oranges from Florida. Bottom line: Trump’s tariffs are... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
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OPM Reunion Snapshots
notes Kathy. Bernard Foulquies (3rd OPM) Representing the fifth generation of his family in the industrial textile business in England and France, Bernard Foulquies attended OPM after filling out an application he found in an airline... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
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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 mill in Nigeria. A foreign... View Details