Harvard Business

JULY 8, 2016

The American textile and apparel industries, for example, will tell you that the evidence can be found in the blood on the floor — their blood, on what used to be their floor. Experts continue to debate whether Chinese businesses are truly disruptive. For some industries in the West, this question appears a bit ridiculous.

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Company Apparel Pharmaceuticals Industry 127

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Recent analysis for a leading apparel retailer showed elasticity of customer response to promotional discounts was up to three times higher during holiday periods than during non-holiday periods and two times higher during weekends than on weekdays. The same is true for lower-ticket sub-brands and product lines at aggressive price points.

Retail 129

Retail Apparel Sales Fashion 129

Harvard Business

MARCH 21, 2018

Instead of thinking of itself merely as a sports apparel manufacturer, the company has purposefully developed a “connected fitness” ecosystem. Under Armour intends to enable these platforms to grow independently, while reaping aggregated data that can inform and expand its apparel designs. Under Armour, Inc.

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Marketing Apparel Retail Company 134

Harvard Business

JULY 13, 2017

Phil Knight, former chair and CEO of Nike, tells the story of starting the sports apparel and equipment giant after taking an entrepreneurship class at Stanford and teaming up with his former track coach, Bill Bowerman. Together (and with the help of a waffle iron) they changed how running shoes are designed and made.

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Culture Apparel Sports Company 72

Brimstone Consulting

JANUARY 13, 2023

Several states have begun to ban the use of PFAS and have put in place regulations that are disrupting product development, product selection, and corporate strategy for food brands, major retailers, toy manufacturers, automotive manufacturers, apparel and footwear companies, and many others. If not, should it?

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Apparel Chemicals Automotive Sports 73

Tom Spencer

JUNE 6, 2020

Think about apparel products: in many countries, stores are still the primary place to buy clothes whereas in China, physical stores are in decline in favour of e-commerce. Due to the boom of the internet, nearly one third of apparel and footwear was sold online in 2018 (vs 1% in 2010). Psychographic segmentation.

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Apparel Examples Retail Productivity 103

Strategy+Business

JUNE 7, 2017

The founder of the apparel company talks about how much personal growth leaders should demand -- of employees and themselves.

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Apparel Leadership Company 60

BCG

DECEMBER 13, 2016

Article Tuesday, 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. More recently, however, the industry’s performance declined somewhat—a trend that has continued into 2016.

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Fashion Apparel Tourism Trends 40

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. Babette Ballinger holds a special place in our hearts, and in my new book, " Rethink: Smashing the Myths of Women in Business. "

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Fashion Industry Apparel Retail 66

Harvard Business

AUGUST 4, 2017

The accessories and apparel designer uses in-store radio-frequency identification to send clothing items to dressing rooms, helps customers choose different styles and sizes, and shows stock availability in stores and online. But brick-and-mortar retail doors are closing, especially for apparel, as shoppers take their business online.

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Retail Apparel Media Fashion 71

Harvard Business

JULY 7, 2016

The retailer offers a monthly subscription service for fitness and athleisure apparel and accessories. The third lever is to use digital technology to create a purchase experience that’s entirely unique to each customer, delivering true value to the customer as a result. Fabletics is a case in point.

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Trends Hotels How To Retail 125

Harvard Business

APRIL 25, 2017

It’s an apparel manufacturer called 99Degrees Custom. Now in its second year, it distributes cash prizes to inspiring organizations who “are using technology to reinvent work and create economic opportunity for people below the top rung of the economic ladder.”

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Apparel Chemicals Journal Agile 112

Harvard Business

AUGUST 29, 2016

In our work with a major apparel retailer we found that among customers’ key emotional motivators were their desire to feel a sense of belonging, be thrilled by the shopping experience, and have a sense of freedom and independence.

Retail 132

Retail Apparel Financial ROI 132

Harvard Business

JANUARY 3, 2017

The experience of a European discount apparel retailer illustrates the power of a disciplined price-perception program. Data on the factors influencing perception is the foundation of a plan to build an effective price image, a plan that will likely include a mix of direct price changes and indirect tactics like rewards programs.

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Retail Survey Bain Comparison 132

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

If you walk into a department store today, you are probably talking to a guy who is untrained; he was selling vacuum cleaners yesterday, and now he is in the apparel section. It just does not work.” receive stock options and health insurance.

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Strategy Strategy Strategy& How To 140

Kates Kesler

JUNE 11, 2014

We recently completed a study for the CEO of a very well known, global sports-apparel brand company. Our sports-apparel CEO had the right idea in challenging his team to think about the organization and ask: are we fit for growth, given our strategies going forward? Learning from Big Companies.

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Apparel Healthcare Enterprise Chemicals 82

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

apparel, automobiles, retailing, media, hotels, restaurants & leisure); Consumer Staples (e.g., Additional responses from this second survey wave were predominantly concentrated in the Middle East, Asia, and Western Europe. food, beverage & tobacco, household and personal products); Energy & Utilities (e.g.,

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Telecommunications Survey Biotechnology Industry 128

Women in Consulting

JULY 13, 2018

For example, an organizational change consultant hired to provide consulting services to an apparel company would probably satisfy this part of the test even if the apparel company had an organizational effectiveness department because the company’s primary business is apparel, not organizational change services.

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Apparel Consulting Course Company 54

MishTalk

AUGUST 27, 2013

Indian shoppers are not only cutting back on big-ticket purchases such as refrigerators, TVs or expensive branded apparel but even staples including soaps, ketchup and cosmetics. Bhatia, head of the enterprise business at television maker Videocon Industries, said in an August 21 interview.

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Apparel Finance Hotels Enterprise 76

Harvard Business

JUNE 7, 2016

Some retailers and manufacturers—in the apparel, footwear, and electronics industries—have launched programs to make their customers interested in preserving their products and preventing things that still have value from going to the landfill.

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Company Apparel Retail Metrics 70

Harvard Business

MAY 16, 2018

Take outdoor apparel retailer Patagonia. The most effective employer brands are rooted in a clear corporate purpose and set of values, which serve to attract job seekers who share those fundamental beliefs and weed out those who don’t. The company has long stood for enjoying nature and protecting the environment.

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Recruiting Recruitment How To Apparel 135

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

For a sports apparel and equipment maker, for instance, the generic “improve collaboration across different categories” contains less useful direction than “make it easy for us to deliver coordinated head-to-toe apparel and footwear to stores in time for the season.”

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Strategy Strategy Strategy& Company 71

Strategy+Business

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Think high-profile consumer goods, and sports apparel comes quickly to mind. For the last few years, the world's fastest-growing major sports apparel enterprise has been Adidas. The CEO overseeing Adidas's flourishing is Kasper Rørsted, a man who spent the first half of his career in the tech industry.

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Sports Apparel Enterprise Company 33

Harvard Business

MAY 15, 2018

Nike, once an athletic apparel brand telling stories of athletic solo willpower, has now taken on a systemic nature by introducing brand experiences , such as Nike Plus, Nike Plus Training Club, Nike Plus Running Club, etc. In other words, the brand becomes the customer experience and the customer experience becomes the brand.

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Productivity Apparel System Media 71

MishTalk

AUGUST 11, 2017

The CPI rose 0.1% in July vs an Econoday consensus estimate of 0.2%. The Econoday Keynesian parrot does not like falling auto prices but is happy about rising medical prices. more…).

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Apparel 37

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Let’s say it’s an apparel company, right. They’re realizing that they’ve got to have cross-functional collaboration. Think about this, if you think about a legacy product company. And then you think about how new entrants come into the market. They will design a product faster.

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Apparel Enterprise Productivity Company 99

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

In the apparel sector, for instance, the unusually warm winter temperatures across Europe and the U.S. last year triggered shortfalls in sales, store closures, and job cuts. In the UK, no less than 18 weather-related profit warnings were issued by industry leaders.

Cash Flow 71

Cash Flow Apparel Financial Small Business 71

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 2, 2014

What they found surprised them. As they reported in a paper published in 2008 , rule-of-thumb methods were generally as good or even slightly better at predicting individual customer behavior than sophisticated models.

Retail 71

Retail Apparel Financial Case Interview 71

Harvard Business

JUNE 8, 2018

Like many competitors in the apparel industry, Vineyard Vines has kept their operations lean in order to preserve operating margins. This holiday-themed product campaign targeted two specific audiences: 1) customers who had previously viewed the holiday-themed apparel and 2) customers with a high affinity toward the product.

Retail 77

Retail Engineering Apparel Data 77

Strategy+Business

JUNE 7, 2017

Yes, according to the apparel company CEO. Is it fair to ask employees to embrace personal growth, on top of everything else they do? See also "Eileen Fisher on Leadership: The Personal Side of Organizational Change."

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Apparel Leadership Company 33

Harvard Business

AUGUST 3, 2017

” Life Is Good is an apparel company best known for colorful T-shirts with stick-figure designs, but its mission is to spread optimism and hope throughout the world, and that’s something that even warehouse employees understand. There’s a great story about a janitor that John F. Kennedy ran into at NASA in 1962.

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Apparel How To Study Productivity 72

MishTalk

AUGUST 12, 2016

Economists were shocked once again today. First, Retail Sales “Solidly” Flat, which we just covered. The Producer Price Index for … Continue reading →

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Apparel Retail Sales 28

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

That season saw Fouad Maksoud crowned the winner for his “Nano-shielding Textile Machine” innovation that uses nanotechnology to apply petrochemicals and pharmaceuticals to ordinary textiles for various purposes, such as making clothing waterproof or allowing the integration of healing medicine with apparel.

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Apparel Pharmaceuticals Film Talent 70

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

For our recent book we studied companies from a broad range of industries that operate this way, including Apple, CEMEX, Danaher, Haier, IKEA, Inditex (known for its Zara apparel business), Starbucks and many others.

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Management Apparel Industry Company 70

Kates Kesler

APRIL 17, 2016

We are working with a large apparel company now that has successfully managed a complex matrix for a number of years. Unrewarded Complexity: Unnecessary layers, P&L units, dual reporting, and duplication combined with ineffective management and business processes and metrics are the recipe for unrewarded complexity.

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Apparel Metrics Retail System 50

Management Consulted

OCTOBER 16, 2016

Marketing & Sales. Research & Development. Manufacturing. Aerospace and Automotive. Industrial Equipment. Technology. Cloud Computing. Hardware & Software. Food & Beverage. Household Products. Commercial Oil. Renewable Energy. Telecommunications. Cable Companies. Device Providers. Media & Entertainment. Healthcare.

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Groups Interviews Culture Case Interview 100

Harvard Business

MARCH 30, 2017

.” Lampert and his colleagues must make a similarly calculated and courageous move, whether that’s to merge with another retailer, integrate vertically, change the Sears store format, slash its apparel offering, or something else. Whatever it is, the objective should be to strengthen the Sears brand (i.e.,

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Turnaround Retail Airlines Apparel 70