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- 31 Jan 2025
- News
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
- 30 Aug 2016
- First Look
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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Investment Banking & Securities Underwriting | Baker Library
private banker would deign to back retail stores, textile manufacturers, clothing or cigarette makers—to say nothing of the indignity of mail-order houses and five-and-ten operations—Philip Lehman led his cousins directly into such... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
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
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
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
- 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
- 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
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
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
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General Merchants to Commodities Brokers | Baker Library
business, and Lehman, Durr & Co. soon ranked among the top cotton firms in the area. When the Civil War broke out, President Lincoln imposed a blockade preventing the shipment of cotton from the South to textile manufacturers in the... View Details
- 02 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Explaining China's Crash
a number of commodities, in the process benefiting those countries that could supply them. The issue is that we may be reaching the limits to the outsourcing trend. For example, almost 100 percent of textiles in this country are now... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Making a World of Difference
their father ran successful textile and real estate businesses. Both parents believed in the importance of moral values, and in the fourth grade, the twins began studying at the Ethical Culture Society's Fieldston School. "Each week we'd... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Andrea Silbert
coffee, banana, and textile businesses, Silbert developed a strong interest in microenterprise and arrived at Soldiers Field eager to expand her knowledge. “Initially, I had a hard time trying to share my experiences with others,” she... View Details
- 04 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 4, 2016
317-013 Tolaram: Innovating in Africa Tolaram is a Singaporean company that began operations selling textiles in Nigeria in the 1970s. Executives and brothers, Haresh and Sajesh Aswani, however, saw an opportunity to create an instant... 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
- 28 Aug 2017
- Research & Ideas
Should Industry Competitors Cooperate More to Solve World Problems?
over-application and excess chemicals leaching into water systems. Wet processing is also particularly impactful. The World Bank estimates that 17–20 percent of industrial water pollution worldwide comes from textile coloration and... 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
- 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
- 14 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Getting Down to the Business of Creativity
around the same time the industry in India was getting off the ground, other entities were being formed, such as fashion magazines, new kinds of retail outlets, and the National Institute of Fashion Technology, an organization established in 1986 under the Indian... View Details