Tommy Hilfiger’s Adaptive Clothing Line: Making Fashion Inclusive
Harvard Business
NOVEMBER 28, 2023
How should the fashion company scale its adaptive fashion line?
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The Lingering Cost of Instant Fashion
Harvard Business
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
Consumers should understand the side effects of business models — particularly the privatization of profit and the socialization of costs, including human and environmental harm.
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262: Babette Ballinger—How Does A Woman Tackle The Fashion Industry? Head On
On the Brink Podcast
APRIL 12, 2021
As a fashion designer and owner of her own apparel sales firm, Babette had to constantly re-invent herself, learn how to run a business, and deal with the challenges of sustaining successful partnerships with men. Hear how one woman made her mark in an industry of men.
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The Myth of Sustainable Fashion
Harvard Business
JANUARY 13, 2022
Despite high-profile attempts at innovation, the industry has failed to reduce its environmental impact so far.
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Casual Apparel Outperforms High-End Fashion
BCG
DECEMBER 13, 2016
In the wake of the recent financial crisis, the global fashion and luxury industry established a solid record of extremely strong value creation. Thirty-nine of those companies are in fashion and luxury. From 2011 through 2015, the fashion and luxury companies returned an annualized TSR of 15%.
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What Real Sustainability Would Look Like in the Fashion Industry
BCG
JULY 14, 2017
Article Friday, July 14, 2017 To maintain its current growth trajectory, the global fashion industry must address its environmental and social footprint.
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Why Playing with Your Food is Critical for Consultants
David A Fields
SEPTEMBER 11, 2018
You’d also play with your food; catapulting carrot sticks and fashioning finger art with your mashed potatoes. When you stood well under three feet tall, you chortled with unbridled glee at your father’s silly faces and merrily tried to ride the family dog. What a hoot! Now that you lead a consulting firm, I doubt [ ]
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How Innovation and Collaboration Can Accelerate Sustainability in Fashion
BCG
JULY 14, 2017
Article Friday, July 14, 2017 To maintain its current growth trajectory, the global fashion industry must address its environmental and social footprint.
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Lessons from More Than 1,000 E-Commerce Pricing Tests
Harvard Business
MARCH 19, 2024
At most small and medium-sized e-commerce retailers, prices are typically set and updated in an ad hoc fashion without one clear owner. The process often starts by using a gross margin target, followed by some comparison with competitors, and then some adjustments from there.
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How to Strengthen Your Curiosity Muscle
Harvard Business
NOVEMBER 3, 2023
It shows interests, prompts discovery, and finally, leaves all involved parties changed in some form or fashion — all by way of a simple question of who, what, when, where, why, or how. Curiosity is a skill that is useful in every context, whether it be in the workplace or in the lives of your loved ones.
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How Footwear Startup Allbirds Is Decarbonizing Fashion
Harvard Business
JANUARY 25, 2022
The footwear startup advanced its environmental mission, while staying ahead of competitors.
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Let the Urgency of Your Customers’ Needs Guide Your Sales Strategy
Harvard Business
JULY 6, 2023
This article provides a process for segmenting prospective customers in this fashion and creating a sales strategy. When companies are creating profiles of possible target customers, there is a dimension they often overlook: the urgency of the need for the offering.
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Making the Air in the Office Cleaner
Harvard Business
JULY 5, 2023
This article describes three steps that organizations can take to improve air quality in a cost-effective fashion. And the recent intense air pollution from Canadian wildfires that extended across much of the United States highlighted yet another reason: forest fires.
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"Selfie" Fashion Trends: Cheap Dresses and "Rentabag"; Mish Handbag Tips
MishTalk
JULY 29, 2015
The popularity of sending "selfies" has even influenced retail sales and women's fashion. In the above video, FT’s Andrea Felsted visits online fashion retailer Asos to see how it is adapting its business model in the era of the selfie. After all, one cannot be seen in the same outfit too often! Sorry ladies, sold out.
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Boost Your Online Presence Using Warm Website Photography with Suzanne Rothmeyer
Consulting Matters
JUNE 8, 2023
Plus, don't miss Suzanne's valuable insights into the power of fashion, preparation, and collaboration when creating your visual brand. Learn how to build trust and relationships with your audience by showcasing a warm and authentic image of yourself on your website.
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How Global Companies Can Create a Consistent Customer Experience
Harvard Business
AUGUST 30, 2023
In the past, companies could limit expansion in a more controlled fashion to just one market at a time. Building a global company is easier, but also more nuanced and complex, than ever before. In the digital age, global growth is far more continuous and incremental in nature.
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And it can also do that
Seth Godin Blog
FEBRUARY 23, 2024
Fashion Advice : Provide fashion advice, including outfit suggestions based on occasion, weather, and personal style. Business Name & Slogan Creation : Generate creative and relevant business names and slogans based on industry and key values.
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How Large Companies Prepare for Project Management Challenges
PM Alliance
FEBRUARY 23, 2024
And with the large number of individuals involved in coordinating resource usage, the project team’s ability to accurately forecast, track, and adjust resources and their allocation in a timely fashion is often a significant burden.
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"The Conclusion Trap" is Out! (Copy)
Markovitz Consulting
JUNE 3, 2020
As with all my books, I don’t talk about Toyota, use Japanese, or refer to lean in any fashion. In a (delightfully) short 70 pages, I discuss what organizational solution jumping looks like; explain why we do it; and present a four step process for how we to avoid doing it.
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Can the Construction Industry Be Disrupted?
Harvard Business
JULY 10, 2023
Industry observers routinely deride the lack of technological sophistication in the construction industry, and have pigeon-holed it as old-fashioned and lagging behind more forward-looking and purposeful industries such as manufacturing. Construction is often maligned as the industry that technology left behind.
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Creating Genuine Human Connection in a Post-Pandemic World w/Kyle Duford Ep#124
Strategic Planning and Management Insights
OCTOBER 14, 2021
A former magazine editor, he also spent a bunch of his career with a focus on the fashion, outdoor and sports industries through the eCommerce and digital lens. To learn more about The Brand Leader and the work the agency is doing, visit their website: The Brand Leader.
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Tom Spencer
JUNE 4, 2015
She entered journalism in the 1980’s and claims to have had no particular inclination towards fashion. Although, after gaining some exposure to the fashion runways working with the British edition of GQ, she says that she ultimately found herself as the editor of Vogue.
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Delivering a Personalized Shopping Experience with AI
Harvard Business
MAY 17, 2022
What’s next for fashion shopping app, THE YES: improving the algorithm or investing in customer acquisition?
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The lonely zone
Seth Godin Blog
JANUARY 23, 2023
Once the cause or fashion or tech is clearly working, it’s easy and fun to say “me too.” For many, the goal is to be the deciding vote, the donation that gets a cause over the goal, the person who counts. And often, we enjoy piling on. When it might not work.
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Which team?
Seth Godin Blog
JUNE 20, 2023
It extends to the ways we demonstrate which box we’ve chosen–fashion, pro sports, even the tech we use or how we speak. ” If we know the answer to that, a whole bunch of time gets saved, and fear is reduced as well. The labeling goes beyond which team, cadre, tribe or village someone is part of. And then it can get toxic.
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Want A Seat At The Table? You May Need To Start Your Own Business.
On the Brink
APRIL 13, 2021
In the latter half of the 1960s, a massive disruption was underway in the US fashion industry. Before WWII, America dominated the globe in garment manufacturing, employing over 2 million people. After the war, that all changed, from where garments were made to who designed them.
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The appraisal is dead. Long live the appraisal.
The Management Centre
MARCH 7, 2021
Old fashioned? Appraisals are not about fashion. Far from ushering in the demise of appraisals, in recent months I’ve repeatedly been asked to support our customers with creating new annual processes, reviewing their approach, and helping them to formalise their performance management system. I don’t think so. They are conversations.
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The network scam
Seth Godin Blog
NOVEMBER 24, 2023
If you can pump oil or sell cheap disposable fashion or benefit from subsidized cheap beef, it’s only because other people are joining you in sharing a short-term outlook on the world. Without a society of others sharing the same belief, it wouldn’t work. Perhaps climate denial is also a kind of network scam.
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38 Competitive Advantage in Consulting and in Life
CaseInterview.com
NOVEMBER 26, 2019
For example, I have two acquaintances who, in high school, both had an eye for fashion and design. The other (who was not nearly as academically talented) decided to pursue a career in fashion. She works for one of the major fashion labels. because she is just that good at fashion. As I approach 40 years of age (geez.
Placebos and objective reality
Seth Godin Blog
NOVEMBER 13, 2022
Entire industries (like fashion) are built on bringing people something that changes the way they interact with themselves and the world. They can alleviate pain, make wine taste better, improve our golf swing and even grow hair. Because the placebo is so powerful, we spend a lot of time and money on it.
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Raising Money the Old Fashioned Way
The Nonprofit Consultant
APRIL 10, 2006
They call this one-on-one, in-person fundraising a return to raising money "the old-fashioned way." Old-fashioned" maybe, but you stick with what works. This, the Times says, is in response to donors no longer responding to phone calls (thanks to caller ID) and being burnt out on TV telethons, etc.
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Why you should take notes by hand
Consultants' Consultant
JULY 4, 2018
Consultants Consultant: Old-fashioned note taking makes information easier to retrieve in your head. Pencil and paper notes are a better synthesised set of ideas than typed notes. Here’s Dan Pink’s 99 second video summary of the research. Here’s the original research paper.
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Avoiding Fads and Fashions in Org Design: Talent Management Video Interview with Amy Kates
Kates Kesler
DECEMBER 15, 2014
Talent Management magazine recently interviewed Amy Kates. Click here for a five minute video on why trends and styles have no place in organization design.
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Cobbled together
Seth Godin Blog
DECEMBER 19, 2021
And when you register for an old-fashioned wedding, they might try to persuade you to make sure your plates match your furniture… For everything else, the coordination of a matched set is almost always replaced by the utility of things cobbled together over time.
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The coordinators
Seth Godin Blog
JANUARY 28, 2021
Fashion is everywhere. While many fashion systems are more open and permeable than before (there aren’t three TV networks, there are a million YouTube channels) there are still gatekeepers and narrative setters. If it’s you, if it’s us, then fashion is working for us. And sometimes it is. Who benefits?
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A Year-End Mega-Episode! Our Predictions for 2021
Harvard Business
DECEMBER 23, 2020
Youngme, Felix, Mihir, Rebecca, and Rawi swap predictions for 2021 — from business to politics to fashion.
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The Downside of Looking Good
CaseInterview.com
DECEMBER 11, 2019
Normally, I try to wear a somewhat fashionable winter hat (if that's even possible), but it was so cold I bought one of those super fluffy hats that generously covers your ears, heavily insulated and padded. For the high-fashion women of Manhattan, that wasn't cold enough to cross their vanity temperature thresholds.
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It was only a matter of time
Seth Godin Blog
DECEMBER 13, 2022
If fusion arrives in a workable fashion in the next few years, the entire world changes, forever, and for the better. Geopolitics and the axis of colonialism/petrostates will be quickly rewritten. Climate issues will be transformed.
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People Problems
The Consultants Peer Group
JULY 17, 2023
Everyone sees it and you are thusly labelled and, in a insidious fashion, are training the other employees that unacceptable behavior is acceptable, with no consequences. If you choose the path of seeming least resistance, accepting the problem, you are avoiding the problem and its ramifications. Not a palatable route?
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Lifelong High Performance, the Japanese-American Way
Strategy+Business
AUGUST 29, 2017
Could the next big management fashion be a hybrid of Japanese and U.S. A few companies in Tokyo are experimenting with a prototype approach that combines competitive high performance with a nurturing environment for lifelong employees -- innovation and job security together.
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How to Provide Safe and Comfortable In-Person Training as People Return to the Office
Clarity Consultants
OCTOBER 28, 2021
Instead, proceed in a methodical fashion. Filling a classroom or conference room to the brim with employees isn’t just going to feel unsafe to many; it’s going to feel oddly crowded, especially in comparison to the social distancing standards most people have been following. Don’t be overzealous with your reintroduction.
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Servant Leadership: A Better DNA for Leaders
Rick Conlow
JANUARY 17, 2023
Consequently, he is changing his industry with cheaper quality fashion while having an ethical conscience of its impact on customers, employees, the community, and the environment. Persson’s goals are quality in the clothing line, safety, and financial stability for all employees. Pulling It All Together.
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