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. Developing a bold but executable strategy starts with making sure leaders have addressed the questions of “What are we great at?”

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 29, 2016

By applying sophisticated big data analytical techniques, we have developed a method for optimizing the customer experience investments that directly drive increased emotional connection and, thereby, greater customer value and financial returns.

Retail 132

Retail Apparel Financial ROI 132

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.

Retail 71

Retail Apparel Media Fashion 71

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

APRIL 25, 2017

It’s an apparel manufacturer called 99Degrees Custom. Instead, by using robotics, lean processes, and agile systems, 99Degrees Custom is allowing new jobs to be created using “sew free and wearable technologies, on-demand manufacturing, and fastest-turn development and production cycles.”

Apparel 107

Apparel Chemicals Journal Agile 107

Management Consulted

OCTOBER 16, 2016

BTS Group specializes in digital technology, leadership development, sales training, and assessments. However, the firm operates in five main practice areas: Assessments, Business Acumen, Leadership Development, Sales Training, and Strategy Execution. Leadership Development. Research & Development. Business Acumen.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 3, 2017

The experience of a European discount apparel retailer illustrates the power of a disciplined price-perception program. As a result, the company achieved its desired “price image” as a value retailer, developed a more strategic approach to pricing, and increased revenues by roughly 1%.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

The company offers a subscription clothing and styling service that delivers apparel to its customers’ doors. By measuring the impact of modified information in the stylist interface, the company is developing a systematic way to measure improvements in human judgment. This is where the work interface comes into effect.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Only 13% of directors in the energy and utilities industry consider innovation to be a major strategic challenge, but the swift growth of renewable energy companies and such developments as the use of drones for monitoring oil and gas production suggest that no industry is impervious to the forces of innovation.

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Telecommunications Survey Biotechnology Industry 125

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

One CEO we know worried that some principles developed by his senior team were too generic to help them evaluate different operating model options. Once the blueprint is developed, we find that the best CEOs focus not only on the capabilities that matter, but on the individuals and teams that matter. ” he asked.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 2, 2014

Starting in the late 1980s , academic researchers began to develop sophisticated predictive techniques to answer that question. Gerd Gigerenzer , director at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, has been making the case for decades that heuristics often outperform statistical models. What they found surprised them.

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Retail Apparel Financial Case Interview 70

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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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

In the apparel sector, for instance, the unusually warm winter temperatures across Europe and the U.S. Drawing upon the UK’s retail sectors for empirical evidence, we developed a methodology to assess and hedge the exposure of sales to weather risks. last year triggered shortfalls in sales, store closures, and job cuts.

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Cash Flow Apparel Financial Small Business 71

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

The show, which employs a flagship “edutainment reality” TV format, follows the journey of nine young and aspiring innovators from around the region as they attempt to develop and create their inventions at the laboratories of Qatar Science & Technology Park, a member of QF.

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Apparel Pharmaceuticals Film Talent 70

Harvard Business

JUNE 17, 2016

Consider the sports apparel company Under Armour. Its goals are extremely ambitious; it is not just a pioneer in developing new fabrics for active wear, but in developing wearable electronics. You are likely to discover, along the way, that you lack the capabilities you need, and must develop them from scratch.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Just look at Uber to understand the importance of diversity and product safety or at car manufacturers scrambling to develop a competitive advantage in electric cars as countries seek to decarbonize their economics and fight pollution. In both cases, social and environmental metrics matter for the business’s financial success.

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Chemicals Industry Metrics Financial 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. The solution that Fayez and his team have developed correlates customer behaviors and their interactions with the retailer’s online product catalog.

Retail 76

Retail Engineering Apparel Data 76

Harvard Business

MAY 22, 2018

The automotive industry is being disrupted by electric vehicles and self-driving cars, just as home appliances is being disrupted by the Internet of Things and smart appliances, home entertainment by on-demand content providers, and apparel by online personal stylists such as Stitch Fix and Trunk Club. Proprietary research A.T.

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Automotive Sales Software Apparel 71

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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Harvard Business

JANUARY 5, 2018

But over and over again in our three decades of experience as talent development and retention specialists, we’ve seen that companies consistently overlook half of them. These are jobs in R&D, technology, and other areas vital to a firm’s strategic direction, product development, and process efficiency.

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Talent McKinsey Apparel Company 72

Harvard Business

JUNE 9, 2016

For example, if the CEO makes controversial public statements, has personal relations with an employee or contractor, or develops a reputation for being rude, overbearing, or verbally combative, the board must decide what merits investigation. It must also decide whether to address matters publicly or privately.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Lance Best, the CEO of Barker Sports Apparel, was meeting with Nina Kelk, the company’s general counsel, who also oversaw human resources. “I did talk to that leadership development firm last year,” he said. The feedback in the 360-degree reviews was supposed to be anonymous.

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Case Studies Case Study Study Sales 132

Kates Kesler

JANUARY 25, 2013

Take Nike, marketing a core brand across a number of consumer categories with hundreds of footwear and apparel products all over the world. It’s time to design organizations and develop leaders to make the conflict work – to pull all of the value possible out of the diverse assets of the business. Nike’s money-making matrix.

Apparel 56

Apparel Talent Report Productivity 56

Tom Spencer

NOVEMBER 30, 2019

Nordstrom, Hudson’s Bay, or Holt Renfrew), store closure and business development cases will be common (hint: it is crucial to calculate NPV and the implication of closing/opening a store in an area). In particular, the narrower focus means that the same kinds of cases will recur more often than in general consulting interviews.

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Case Interview Interviews Consulting Case Study 78

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.

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Benchmarking Methodologies Company Apparel 103

Kai Davis

APRIL 24, 2020

Like ‘Veterinary Clinics’ or ‘Accountants’ or ‘Direct To Consumer Apparel Stores on Shopify.’. business development for ”) that you’ve worked with in the past independently or as part of a job? That means you want to move away from niches like ‘Small Business’ and move towards niches that are targeted and specific.

Apparel 40

Apparel Conference Small Business Industry 40

Kai Davis

MAY 30, 2020

Like ‘Veterinary Clinics’ or ‘Accountants’ or ‘Direct To Consumer Apparel Stores on Shopify.’ Q1 : What are niches, industries, or types of businesses (e.g., “business development for “) that you’ve worked with in the past independently or as part of a job?

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Apparel Conference Industry Small Business 40

Harvard Business

JUNE 3, 2016

To develop a BDN, you work backwards, or right to left, from the agreed investment objectives and the expected benefits, and map the required changes to structures, processes, work practices, and how staff would need to work through to the new technology necessary to enable and sustain those changes. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture.

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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. In foods, beverages, health, beauty, and apparel local variations really do matter. Global brands (and aspiring global brands) often represent only a portion of the company’s growth potential.

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The Fearless Marketer

AUGUST 20, 2018

Developing a focused strategy is the most complex and challenging of the Five Pillars. That’s the power of a focused marketing strategy. You need to identify the right marketing strategy for your business, but even more important is the way you organize and implement the strategy.

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Marketing Industry Strategy Strategy 110

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Over the course of several months, a digital platform was developed that could capture every fan interaction (whether a mobile check-in at the stadium, a profile update on the website, or a merchandise purchase online), deliver targeted promotional campaigns, and collect club mentions and other data from social media.

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Sports Industry Data Media 70

1 to 1

JULY 29, 2022

Oftentimes, the user experience developed by a company for its customers overlooks critical components of the underlying intents the customer wants resolved through their customer experience (CX),” says Ravi Bharadwaj, executive director of corporate strategy at TTEC.

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Data Apparel Automotive Balance Sheet 29

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

In the developed world, we enjoy better medicines, connectivity, and mobility than most of us could have imagined even 20 years ago. The effects of technology on humans depends on how we choose to develop and use it. For all of the uncertainty and anxiety in headlines today, the world is a much better place than it has ever been.

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Education Enterprise Productivity Examples 70

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. They will benefit the most from being mentored.

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Energy Airlines Culture Retail 70

Buzzsprout

JULY 13, 2023

They specialize in creating custom apparel for fundraising campaigns. This could include any specialized knowledge, such as photography or personal development. Creators can upload their designs to Redbubble and earn a commission on each sale. Bonfire Bonfire is a platform that has grown in popularity for podcasters.

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Harvard Business

JULY 30, 2018

The responses , from 270 corporate leaders in strategy, innovation, and research and development roles, were illuminating. Are they looking for ideas to streamline operations and serve customers better, or developing new business models around existing products? To be constructive, we also asked about the things that foster innovation.)

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Company Survey Apparel Culture 133

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 20, 2016

At the state level, New Jersey passed a big new gas tax , and Oregon , Illinois , and California developed robust energy and climate policies. In this case, Levi’s had spent a decade identifying great ways to cut water use in the apparel value chain. All of this will affect companies of all stripes.

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Energy Chemicals Banking Financial 70