Apparel Development Metrics Operations 
Harvard Business
NOVEMBER 22, 2017
For every company wrestling with evolutions in its strategy, success depends as much on matching the operating model to those evolutions as it does on the soundness of the strategy itself. But exactly how do today’s companies create or update an operating model to match adaptations or wholesale changes in strategy?
Harvard Business
JUNE 7, 2016
Operations in a Connected World. 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. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture.
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Harvard Business
DECEMBER 7, 2017
All investment practices will consider environmental, social, and governance (ESG) metrics because some of those metrics are financially material, meaning decision-useful pieces of information. In both cases, social and environmental metrics matter for the business’s financial success.
Kates Kesler
DECEMBER 16, 2013
This is especially true in developing markets where competitors can move very quickly with few of the obstacles that big companies face. Agility and scale rarely co-exist in the design of the organizational operating model. In foods, beverages, health, beauty, and apparel local variations really do matter.
Harvard Business
NOVEMBER 21, 2016
The company offers a subscription clothing and styling service that delivers apparel to its customers’ doors. When it comes to recommendations, is there room for improvement in the way Amazon and Netflix operate? Stitch Fix, which lives and dies by the quality of its suggestions, has no choice but to do better.
Harvard Business
FEBRUARY 13, 2017
I talked with Rita McGrath, a professor at Columbia Business School, who together with Ian MacMillan, of the University of Pennsylvania’s business school, developed this classic methodology for planning innovation. It’s a technique that any manager can use when developing and launching a new venture.
Harvard Business
DECEMBER 20, 2016
I’m talking about the superconsumers who are inside your organization, working at every level: the fashionista who works in the mail room at the headquarters of an apparel company, or the finance manager who works for a pork brand and who eats three pounds of bacon in any given week. Adapted from. Couldn’t you reach them this way?
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