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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 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 mill in Nigeria. A foreign... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The Fight Beyond
But there were those within the US government who knew they needed more than fighters on the front lines. Green had the necessary skills to manage the business of the war, and the connections to get himself hired for the job. Green came from a respected North Carolina... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
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
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Research Links - The Art of American Advertising
has a remarkably rich and diversified collection of trade catalogs covering a wide array of subject areas, including agriculture, textile manufacturing, hardware and machine tools, railroads, automobiles, aviation, consumer products,... View Details
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Additional Archives - Creating Emerging Markets
interested in the study of Africa. Global Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley The Bancroft Library’s large collection of business leaders’ oral histories includes interviews of business and philanthropy in Peru and the creation of the Hong... View Details
- 12 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 12
School Case 413-120 Kvadrat: Leading for Innovation In 2013, Anders Byriel, CEO of the family-owned Danish textiles company, Kvadrat, considered the firm's strategic plan. In 2000, Byriel and Mette Bendix, Kvadrat's Product Director, had... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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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
- 01 Feb 2000
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textile dyes so that its customers could reduce their use of other raw materials and their costs for end-of-pipe waste treatment. Ciba could then capture some of these cost savings. Another example is the Ventura, California-based... View Details
- 15 Aug 2016
- Blog Post
Prepare for Your Interview with Research
industries from apparel, textiles & fashions to manufacturing and robotics. These reports will help to educate you quickly on an industry by providing a synthesized overview of market and industry trends, as well as industry... 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
- 30 Aug 2016
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August 30, 2016
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51552 forthcoming Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization Competition and Social Identity in the Workplace: Evidence from a Chinese Textile Firm By: Kato, Takao, and Pian Shu... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
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Chinese Competition and Emerging Technologies - A Chronicle of the China Trade
40 In addition to adopting modern managerial and financial systems, the Chinese compradors played a significant role in the early industrialization of the country by investing their wealth in modern business enterprises, including steamships, mining, machine... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
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Alumni Honorees Urge Students to Emphasize Ethics
Esquel Group is a leading textile and apparel manufacturer, didn't shy away from the fact that her industry is typically regarded as anything but socially conscious. Acknowledging that “most people think of us as running sweatshops,” Yang... View Details
- 06 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
Harvard Business School Announces 2024 Goldsmith Fellows
Commerce to help implement technical assistance programs focusing on energy in over 30 countries. She also served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Costa Rica, expanding a microfinance institution and launching a women’s textile cooperative.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
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Where Conservation Means Business
19th-century New England textile mill records, volumes of R.G. Dun & Co. credit reports, business archives from Lehman Brothers and Polaroid, and HBS historical records. (Read about all the collections.) Not everything in the historical... View Details
Keywords: Roger thompson
- 01 Jan 2002
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Marjorie M.T. Yang (MBA '76)
Brooks Brothers, Marks & Spencer, and Nordstrom. What isn't known to consumers is the name behind all these labels-a family-owned textile and apparel manufacturer headquartered in Hong Kong called The Esquel Group. With seventeen plants... View Details
- 31 Jan 2025
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New York, Boston Alumni Volunteer to Boost Small Businesses
Partners program coach the founders of a small textile company. The answer is the Small Business Partners program, a free virtual consulting service for established New England businesses that are owner-managed with a minimum of $1... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jan 2007
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Hansjörg Wyss, MBA 1965
understanding a company's product from the inside out—a lesson that proved particularly valuable in his post-HBS positions at various textile companies, including Monsanto Europe. The initial connection to Synthes was made through Wyss's... View Details