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- 24 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
Managing Alignment as a Process
market. In the 1960s, it added a line of men's casual shoes sold through company-owned retail stores. The 1970s saw a diversification into men's clothing, a new line of business (LOB) that focused on outdoor clothing for work or play. The... View Details
- 27 Nov 2017
- News
Stitch Fix Defies Odds
- 30 Apr 2015
- News
A Warehouse Dash with Rent the Runway
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
A Look at Olook
André Beisert's olook targets a very particular part of Brazil's new consumer market. "Our brand has a persona," Beisert (MBA 2009) says in his white brick office, which sits atop a small warehouse in the Vila Nova Conceição neighborhood in south São Paulo. "Her name... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Stiletto Science
MIT grad Brian Hughes (MBA ’79) is bringing technology to bear on what may result in a giant step forward for womankind. Imagine, gushed the Austin, Texas, American-Statesman (July 8, 2004), a high-heeled shoe “so cozy you can wear it all day, dance all night, and go... View Details
- 04 May 2010
- News
The History of Beauty
- 01 Dec 1999
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Water, Water Everywhere
course, weather patterns. How those factors played out, she recalled, "determined whether we got to buy our clothes or make our clothes that year." Mark noted that she never expected to find herself again in... View Details
- 19 Jul 2016
- News
HBS Startup Is Developing Tech-Enabled Jewelry to Stop Rapists
(Photo courtesy of Flare Jewelry) Is it possible to create a personal-safety device that can stop a physical assault, call for help, and collect evidence for the police? And be fashionable? Those are questions HBS students Sara de Zarraga and Quinn Fitzgerald (both MBA... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Downhill Re-Boot
HANSON: For boomers who still dare to schuss, a new way to keep them from getting cold feet. Former ski racer Denny Hanson (OPM 2, 1977) saw a lot of his contemporaries giving up skiing because they were tired of being cold and dealing with uncomfortable and ungainly... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
How Culture Drives Results
- 08 Jun 2011
- News
A Lifestyle Entrepreneur
- 30 Jan 2012
- News
Shopping Around
Calabrese: "Never mistake motion for action." Courtesy Julia Calabrese A commercial real-estate mogul who quotes Hemingway? That would be Julia Calabrese (OPM 22, 1995), CEO at London-based McArthurGlen Group UK Ltd., a leading owner, manager, and developer of designer... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Giving Back
It was in grade school that Jim Gibbons (MBA ’94) began to lose his sight due to macular degeneration, a retinal condition; by his junior year at Purdue, his vision loss was complete. Today, Gibbons is president and CEO of Goodwill Industries International, a network... View Details
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Boston Manufacturing Company Records | Baker Library
the Boston Associates. The company operated the first mill in the world to combine all aspects of the manufacture of cotton cloth under one roof. The company built its labor force by contracting with individual New England farm girls, who... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
New Releases
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 Patagonia sportswear View Details
- 22 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
An Economic Principle For Us All: Comparative Advantage
men, as compared with 120 men in England; and, similarly, that the Portuguese could produce a particular quantity of cloth (say, 9,000 yards) with just 90 men, as compared with 100 men in England. In other words, Portugal's productivity... View Details
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