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- 23 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Corporate Responsibility is Changing in Asia
treaties, tariff policies, and regional trade agreements that can be put in place to enhance the effectiveness of CSR and a country's long-term competitiveness. When international quotas on textiles and garments are eliminated at the end... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 11 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
Secrets of the Successful Businesswoman
said, among the first places women worked outside the home were textile factories in Massachusetts. The work was often arduous and the hours long, but there was a curious upside, Koehn reminded the audience. That upside was a new kind of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
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
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Helping Hands for HBS
the Student Association, Herrero was impressed by what he saw of HBS as an institution. After graduation, he served as a president and board member of the HBS Club (later the Harvard Club) of Argentina. Following a long and successful career in the View Details
- 18 Nov 2002
- Research & Ideas
Enterprising Women—a History
of peak industrial or business upheavals, notably the mid-nineteenth century explosion within the textile industry and growing industrialization; the development of the national railroad system and the telegraph from 1880-1920; and the... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Linard
- 04 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 4
Cotton Manufacturing At the time of the American War of Independence (1776-1783) and for several decades after it, Great Britain dominated the global production of cotton textiles. In fact, Britain became so dominant in textile... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Strategy for Small Fish
in capabilities of their ecosystem. Such firms are woven into the fabric of the business ecosystem just as surely as the textile craftsmen and merchants and traders were woven into the textile business... View Details
Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien
- 31 Jan 2025
- News
New York, Boston Alumni Volunteer to Boost Small Businesses
When the HBS Club of New York (HBSCNY) launched its Small Business Partnership Initiative (SBPI) in 2020, its goal was to simply help small businesses survive the COVID pandemic with guidance from a small group of volunteer alumni advisors. Now, nearly five years on,... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 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
- 17 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
A Litmus Test for Entrepreneurs
was ready to do business.— Walter Kuemmerle Murthy took charge of sales, landing Infosys's first contract with a U.S. company—a six-year deal to upgrade the computer system at a large, New York-based textile distribution company. The... View Details
Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle
- 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
- 07 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Quest for Better Layoffs
layoffs project, Malden Mills, describes how a leader handled a disastrous event: Two weeks before Christmas 1995, a fire destroyed three factory buildings at a textile company, one of the largest employers in the already economically... View Details
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How the Giants of Enterprise Seized the Future
nineteenth century. From a bobbin boy in a steam-driven textile mill, where he was paid $1.20 a week, he moved on to a telegraph office, then to the Pennsylvania Railroad, and eventually to the gigantic complex of mills on the Allegheny... View Details
Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow
- 28 Aug 2017
- Research & Ideas
Should Industry Competitors Cooperate More to Solve World Problems?
Source: Cecilie_Arcurs George Serafeim has a startling suggestion to fix the world’s biggest environmental, social, and governance (ESG) problems such as water pollution, deforestation, and wealth inequality: encourage companies within industries to do less competing... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction
history of women in business to give her audience some perspective on the transformational effects of economic independence. Among the first places U.S. women worked outside the home were textile factories in Massachusetts, she noted. The... View Details
- 13 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 13
profit on these branded infant socks Kentucky Derby Hosiery Co. faces financial distress. In a generally bleak North American textile environment, Nichol ponders the most promising negotiating strategy and tactics to rescue this product... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #14: Bonita Stewart (MBA 1983) – A Career Devoted to Creating the Future
their established physical intensity targets. It will certainly not be easy, but our brands are committed and up to the challenge.” The global scope of textile emissions overall is daunting. A 2020 BBC report warned that “textile... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Damon Silvers
they shouldn’t unionize. The employer’s legal right to coercively interfere with employees’ choices is at work in a way that’s completely inappropriate. The election process itself allows for long delays in litigation and uncertainty. I worked on an organizing campaign... View Details
- 25 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 25
Co. Ltd. Founded in 1986, Red Star had become the leading department store in China for furniture and home equipment products (bathroom, lamps, textiles complements, etc.). The business model of Red Star was to provide adequate space for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne