Women on Business

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

Sometimes business was lost to brick and mortar operations because of the “unprofessional” assumptions people had about work-from-home professionals. There’s no bigger bottleneck in your operation than yourself. But it wasn’t long ago that working from home was not looked upon so keenly. Build A Team.

Succession 239

Succession Apparel Workshop Merchandising 239

HR Digest

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Leading apparel company Theory uses Mathison’s Equal Hiring Index system as its primary DEI assessment and reporting system. Through Mathison’s Index, Theory received specific actions and immediately enacted policy and operational changes that resulted in a 12-point improvement to its overall score out of 100.

Diversity 98

Diversity Organization Training Apparel 98

Strategy Driven

APRIL 1, 2020

After all, there are over 30 million small businesses operating around the United States. Most people love getting free apparel of any kind. Succeeding in business can be an uphill battle. That stacks up to a huge degree of competition. The result? It informs public perception of your product/service and facilitates future custom.

Brand 75

Brand Apparel Stress B2B 75

Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

Thankfully now we have a growing team that can assist with many of the day-to-day operations, but at times, especially at the beginning, I found it challenging to be “among the chaos” while building the business. We have our apparel releases planned for the next year, but always take into account ideas people have or suggestions for colors.

Entrepreneur 91

Entrepreneur Advice Apparel Audience 91

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

In 2014 a young employee of American Apparel tasked with finding a picture to fit in with a 4th of July celebration posted a picture of what turned out to be the Space Shuttle Challenger exploding to the corporate Tumblr account. Always keep tabs on the competition and any key developments in the field in which you operate.

Press Release 50

Press Release Apparel Brand Media 50

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2018

Apparel brands are investing especially heavily in online shopping capabilities and introducing interactive features that complement apps and websites. To get a clearer, more-complete picture, we studied actual decisions made by 1,500 apparel and footwear shoppers in the United States. Data-Driven Marketing. Sponsored by Google.

Apparel 11

Apparel Retail Fashion Brand 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2016

Workers specialize in simple, highly routinized operations. They are incentivized to complete operations as quickly as possible. Operations in a Connected World. In the mid-2000s, Nike embarked on a program to introduce lean manufacturing to its apparel suppliers in the developing world. Insight Center.

Lean Manufacturing 10

Lean Manufacturing Supply Chain Apparel Compliance 10

Eric Jacobson

MAY 25, 2014

And as I worked through the dip I saw how unprepared everyone was because we all operated on assumptions or promises that didn’t exist anymore. Then Dov Charney at American Apparel, who taught me everything I know about business today. I left college right as the financial crisis hit, which was scary.

Ryan 55

Ryan Apparel Crisis Learning-by-Doing 55

Harvard Business Review

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?

Strategy 8

Strategy Company Banking Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

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.

Business Model 10

Business Model Innovation Company Apparel 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2014

Since then, leaders from business, government, and civil society organizations have come together to address fire and building-safety issues in the apparel factories. It’s imperative that brands operating in Bangladesh join collaborations like these. But the tragedy of Rana Plaza isn’t that a building fell down.

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Supply Chain Apparel Bottom-up Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

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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Company Apparel Incentives Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

For decades, we’ve often thought of leadership profiles in unique buckets—two popular varieties were the “visionaries”, who embrace strategy and think about amazing things to do, and the “operators”, who get stuff done. It just does not work.” receive stock options and health insurance.

Execution 16

Execution Strategy How To Budgeting 16

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2015

The new approach was very successful, and Zappos scaled it by insourcing operations to increase efficiency and by expanding the product line to handbags, eyewear, and other clothing, to benefit from economies of scope. The size of the apparel market only in the U.S. And it worked. is around $225 billion.

Apparel 8

Apparel Strategy Insourcing Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2015

make your own operations more efficient. create the opportunity to invent new operations. defend against “attack from beneath” and maintain your reputation for ethical operations. Joseph , a scrap-metal recycler, in order to secure supplies for its operations. The Future of Operations. New operations.

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Supply Chain Contract Manufacturing Outsourcing Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2011

The breakthrough comes when the largest companies in a sector decide to develop a sustainability index they will all live by, as is happening now in the apparel and footwear industry. Common measurements lead to cooperative management, and the pieces fall into place.

Cost 9

Cost Products Productivity Webinar 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

Research shows that abnormal weather disrupts the operating and financial performance of 70% of businesses worldwide. 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.

Hedge 8

Hedge Apparel Risk Management Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

Use of this relationship can lead to better operational performance. The Future of Operations. As they are used by customers, smart, connected products can generate orders of magnitude more data about current operating conditions and real-time performance of products. Insight Center. Sponsored by GE Corporate.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Management Constraint Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2014

In the apparel industry alone, we’ve just seen the end of American Apparel’s Dov Charney and the ouster of Lululemon Athletica founder Chip Wilson – plus the installation of interim CEOs at Target and JC Penney following their previous leaders’ firings. A lot of CEOs are being shown the door lately.

CEO 15

CEO Six Sigma How To Apparel 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

This isn’t all that surprising given the level of innovation activity in these sectors, but directors operating in similarly disrupted sectors should take note. Just over one-fifth (22%) of boards operating in the IT and telecom industry sought tech expertise when filling their most recent board seat, higher than in any other industry.

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Innovation Short-term Telecommunications Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2012

With the Winter holiday shopping season, fashion apparel retailer Zara has been the focus of media attention — the New York Times recently profiled the innovative fast fashion business model pioneered by Zara, while Elizabeth Cline's book on the costs of fast fashion has climbed up the sales charts.

Business Model 9

Business Model Innovation First-mover Advantage Apparel 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 1, 2011

While getting accurate, timely carbon data from your own operations can be tough, gathering data from outside your four walls is a far greater challenge given the complexity and scale of most supply chains, and there's no well-defined way today to navigate it. The Sustainable Apparel Coalition offers a glimpse of one such effort.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Apparel Management Retail 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

At these locations, any money made goes first to fund operations, and additional profits go to local charities. North American restaurant chain Panera Bread is experimenting with a nonprofit variation, where the company donates a number of existing stores to its "Panera Cares" foundation.

Apparel 8

Apparel Telecommunications Transportation Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2013

Founded in 1998, Lululemon produces sports apparel for women that is fashionable, environmentally friendly, and as technically advanced as sports apparel for men. Research by Millward Brown finds that brands with a meaningful difference command a price premium 13 percent higher than weaker category alternatives.

Apparel 8

Apparel Brand Sports Advertising 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

This week, Microsoft is announcing an unusual initiative that it hopes will change how the company operates: an internal fee on carbon. As Microsoft takes on more of its customers' operations through cloud-based services, reliance on the utility grid creates real operational and price risk (from outages and volatile prices).

Price 15

Price P&L White Paper Energy 15

Harvard Business Review

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 8

Retail Apparel Engineering Audience 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

“They advised us to retain that as a strong part of who we are,” said Paul Choquette, a fifth-generation Gilbane who runs the Mid-Atlantic operation. billion, operated in an average of 15 countries, and had an average of 12,000 employees. “There’s a feel to a family business that clients in our space like.

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B2B Press Release Construction Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2012

Some senior leaders simply lean harder on their operating units, increasing their targets and demanding more growth. But when the retailer took a more careful look, it found that its best opportunity was to get people to buy more in the categories they were already shopping (such as apparel or electronics or groceries).

Retail 13

Retail Long-term Short-term Apparel 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2017

Sears Holdings has indicated that “substantial doubt” exists about its ability to continue operations. don’t acquire another retailer and operate it separately) and to create more value for its core customers. Analysts say that Sears may still have time to stage a turnaround. It might be too late to save Sears.

Retail 8

Retail Brand Airlines Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2014

Or think about the choice forced on apparel makers and retailers by a 300% rise in cotton prices over one recent 2-year period: either pass along higher costs and reduce sales, or take a hit to margins. Could we operate without fossil fuels and only renewable energy, or without using water? operations.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Apparel Constraint Brainstorming 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2011

Many companies today operate like Russian nesting dolls, where one large figure is actually made up of many smaller one. While we readily recognize such a hazard in the food and apparel industries and the need to "secure" all elements of their production chain, most other industries have yet to recognize such a hazard.

Morale 11

Morale Apparel Ethics Media 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2011

Competitors in the auto, computer, and apparel industries frequently rely on the same suppliers and distributors, and to keep them healthy need to make sure that the overall industry does well. Organizations can't operate effectively unless people share information, work together to solve problems, and help each other get the job done.

Apparel 15

Apparel Pharmaceuticals Finance Licensing 15

Harvard Business Review

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.

Company 8

Company Fashion Apparel Trends 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2014

Operations. With leading companies such as American Apparel, Bloomingdale’s, Verizon Wireless, Swatch, and London City Airport already onboard with location analytics, it will become commonplace in venues — especially for major brands — over the next several years and a major competitive gap for those that don’t adopt the practice.

Retail 9

Retail Customer Intimacy Apparel Wireless 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2016

An apparel manufacturer kicked off its hackathon with the telephone game, the one where a spoken phrase inevitably gets distorted as a series of players whisper it to each other. It could also be a process or a set of operating norms that set the stage for bigger changes.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Banking Brainstorming Participative 8

Harvard Business Review

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.

Management 8

Management Short-term Constraint Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2016

In Brazil and India , small apparel shops use messaging to alert recurring customers when a new collection has arrived and to share pictures and videos of their products. As businesses start creating messaging operations, they’d be wise to understand what customers don’t want to see from companies on these platforms.

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Brand Real Estate Content Apparel 8