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- 14 Mar 2016
- News
Spinning a New Yarn at a Family Textile Company
- 28 Apr 2009
- News
Why Brooks Brothers bought a Harverhill, Mass., textile company
- 12 May 2015
- News
Educating a Nation
- 24 May 2021
- News
Can Fabric Waste Become Fashion’s Resource?
- 03 Nov 2018
- News
The path to economic development is growing more treacherous, again
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Rounding the Bend
Illustration by Fernando Cobelo To help people visualize what a circular economy could look like and bring the challenges down to a closet-sized scale, Emily Bolon (MBA/MPA 2007) recommends the following exercise. First, make a mental tally of the number of garments... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
A Sustainable Solution for Fashion
emissions are produced by the industry, and the amount of textile waste generated each year could fill 20,000 football stadiums, Theuerkauf explains, adding that, “even in 2022, excess inventory is still put in landfills and burned.” To... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 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." Mills serves as... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
One Man Crime Wave
a textile mill, and issues of whether or not to keep or sell the mill, protect the employees and community, and maintain or forfeit personal integrity. In these, and in his thrillers, MacDonald clearly prefers small and family-owned... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Short Takes
Ownership Matters: Bringing Owners on Board In his working paper, "The Impact of Ownership Type on Performance in Public Corporations: A Study of the U.S. Textile Industry 1983-1992," HBS assistant professor David L. Kang demonstrates... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 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 Nov 2018
- News
Earning Potential
have different lines. We have a beautiful textile line, a jewelry line, and also a bedding line. The idea behind that is that the women will sell first, let's say, a jean to her friend. And then they will sell a bedding product to her... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Himalayan Journey
development of Bhutan prepared us for what we would encounter: magnificent dzongs, Bhutanese structures dating from the 17th century and built for defense as well as to serve as monasteries and/or administrative centers; Buddhist temple art; traditional religious... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
New Releases
A Stitch in Time (Second Edition) by Frederick H. Abernathy, John T. Dunlop, Janice H. Hammond, and David Weil (Oxford University Press) Spurred on by advances in information technology, a retailing revolution has been taking place during the past two decades,... 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
- 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 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 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