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- 14 Mar 2016
- News
Spinning a New Yarn at a Family Textile Company
- 15 Aug 2016
- News
Advanced Industries: A New Mental Model for a New Economy
- 07 May 2021
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A Best Buy CEO on What It Takes to Fix a Struggling Retailer
- 01 Jan 2011
- News
Karen Gordon Mills, MBA 1977
Russia to build a textile business. "Half the workers in this country are employed in small businesses. We need to make sure they have the tools to grow their companies, create stable jobs, and move our economy forward." View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Rounding the Bend
closets over the last year: the retired styles, outgrown sizes, anything you let go because it was no longer sparking joy. Now estimate how many clothes you’ve bought secondhand. “If you’re like most people, the first number is far greater than the second,” says Bolon,... View Details
- 22 Apr 2020
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Oil Prices to Remain Low, Sen Says
- 26 Apr 2017
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How Banks Can Compete Against an Army of Fintech Startups
- 01 Apr 2020
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Facebook May Be Hit Harder Than You Think by COVID-19
- 12 Mar 2021
- News
My Favorite Case
Case Howard (Ted) Greene (MBA 1967) “Ant Financial” Rebecca E. Katz (AMP 193, 2017) “Lisa Sherman” Alterrell Mills (MBA 2016) “Fenchel Lampshade” Julie Lopez Santiago (MBA 1994) “Danaher Corporation” Bala V. Sathyanarayanan (AMP 192,... 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 View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
One Man Crime Wave
novel, The Brass Cupcake, he wrote, “Today as a writer, I am a small businessman in a highly competitive field, fabricating a product for sale in a buyers’ market, and required to establish my own merchandising and marketing procedures.”... View Details
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
expanded into other parts of the country, added four production facilities, and saw sales top $7 million. In 1960, Barford sold his share of the business to his partners and returned home with his family to Toronto. The following year, he... 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 2012
- News
Made in the USA
mechanical engineering courses at Northeastern University, and two years as a second lieutenant in the Army (“doing a major’s job”)—proved to be ideal credentials for Knott’s eventual role as founder, president, and CEO of Riverdale Mills... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
"Unheard Voices" Brings to Light Three Centuries of American Women at Work
textile work. A few collections — such as the 2,500-volume R.G. Dun & Co. credit report collection and the detailed productivity studies from Western Electric Company’s Hawthorne, Illinois, plant — were... View Details
- 11 Dec 2014
- News
Fashion's Retail Revolution
department stores, but it was rare to find them in customer-facing positions, the fashion piece of the fashion retail business. To learn more about these seven HBS Alumni trendsetters, click on their photos below: Marjorie Yang Instilling View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
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New Releases
Apparel and Textile Industries is based on eight years of study. The keys to success in an age of product proliferation, the authors found, are no longer economies of scale and cheap labor but an... View Details