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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
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Pranav Kothari
Curiosity has always propelled Pranav Kothari. As a child in India, he was intrigued by his family's wholesale textile business. "I was always interested in how things work, how they're made, how machines produce," Pranav says.... 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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Trade Catalog Collection | Baker Library
Trade Catalog Collection Columbia bicycles / Pope Manufacturing Company. Boston, Mass.: Pope Manufacturing Co., 1895. Special Collections & Archives has a rich and diversified collection of trade catalogs covering a wide array of subject areas, including agriculture,... View Details
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India - Industry specific research
steel are also available. Textiles Ministry of... 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
- 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 2016
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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
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Historic Industry & Trade Literature | Baker Library
agriculture, textile manufacturing, hardware and tools, railroads, automobiles, aviation, consumer products, furnishings, leisure goods, and scientific instruments. To learn more about accessing our collections, visit: Finding and Using... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
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Providing education and opportunities to children in Pakistan
Seema Aziz (OPM 39, 2010), cofounder of Bareeze, a global luxury textile and clothing brand based in Pakistan, started the CARE Foundation to provide education and opportunities for children in rural Pakistan. In this video conducted... View Details
- 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
- 23 Mar 2003
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Globalization: Little Impact on the Continent
particularly textiles and agriculture, to compete globally. He said it is estimated that 27 million jobs in the developing world have not been created due to subsidies on farm and textile products in... View Details
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Joe Stenger
that prevented unmarried women from leaving their homes without a male escort. Still, they persisted. One in particular rose from an IDF camp to secretly operate her own textile business to provide for her children and create employment... 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
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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
- 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
- 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
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