Harvard Business

APRIL 12, 2018

In January, fashion retailer H&M came under fire for an advertisement featuring a young black boy in a green hoodie bearing the words “coolest monkey in the jungle.” Most agencies admitted they were focused on attracting diverse talent but had not been dedicating resources to establishing an inclusive culture.

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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.

Company 103

Company Management Resources Fashion 103

CaseInterview.com

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Sometimes, the advantage is a physical asset (we have factories in 30 countries), other times it is a skill (Apple), or a culture. 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.

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Case Interview Consulting Fashion Interviews 89

Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 16, 2014

Back in 2001, Enron collapsed in spectacular fashion and Arthur Andersen , Enron’s auditor of 16 years, was implicated in the accounting scandal and ultimately went out of business. Cultural Integration. Firstly, cultural integration is a difficult and delicate process. Cultural integration may be the least of PwC’s worries.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

In focus groups we’ve run, customers report that one of their biggest sources of frustration is the feeling that they’re being treated in a generic, robotic fashion and that the rep is trying to rush them off the phone rather than taking the time required to make sure their issue is resolved. AHT is a culture killer.

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Metrics Video Fashion Report 125

Johanna Rothman

MARCH 15, 2018

Part of what makes an agile transformation difficult is the cultural change required. Agile approaches change the organizational system of work and the organization’s culture. Cultural change rarely occurs fast. Cultural change is a journey. As with all agile cultural change, your journey is your own, too.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 5, 2018

If you want a distributed culture, it’s not going to happen by accident. So for the inside sales teams, we still needed to be distributed, but distributed in a co-located fashion. You need to apply your particular culture to the equation to truly embrace it in whatever ways make sense for you and your employees.

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Harvard Business

JULY 6, 2016

For all the virtues of popular culture reflecting the potential of a multigenerational society, there is much we can do to help life better imitate art–by fostering the kinds of mutually-beneficial, cross-generational relationships being depicted in films like those mentioned above.

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Successful Independent Consulting

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

With LinkedIn and personal websites widely used to promote careers, the idea of independent management consultants having a printable résumé may seem old-fashioned. 6 new global process owners clearly identified and now accountable for monitoring process metrics to support the shift to a continuous improvement culture.

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Consulting Examples Case Interview Fashion 150

Harvard Business

MAY 8, 2017

From day one, Hiesinger began executing a plan for repositioning the declining core of steel manufacturing by divesting less profitable product lines, focusing on higher-margin custom manufacturing, and even opening 3D printing centers to fashion components such as parts for wind turbines. They Use Culture Change to Drive Engagement.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 13, 2017

But whether we are among those who use our devices to work remotely , or we are just obsessed with them because of the culture we live in regardless of how much time we are spending on “work,” it’s time to shift our attention to what tech-body balance could look like.

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Report Deloitte Fashion Course 149

Harvard Business

AUGUST 11, 2016

High-end restaurants and boutiques (selling art books, handbags, footwear, high-concept athletic togs) are arrayed around the outside and on the top of the garage, while a fashion retailer occupies a striking, 1,800-square-foot glass cube on the fifth floor. “It’s more like a cultural building than a commercial building.

Fashion 70

Fashion Retail Real Estate Case Study 70

LSA Global

MAY 28, 2019

Decision Making Culture. With the advancements in data analytics and artificial intelligence, more leaders are asking about the pros and cons of a fact-based vs. an intuition-based decision making culture. Defining Workplace Culture. Defining Workplace Culture. A Fact-Based Decision Making Culture.

Culture 31

Culture Biotechnology Data Fashion 31

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

While business-to-consumer (B2C) firms in industries like fashion, beauty, toys, and consumer electronics have traditionally spent the most on influencer marketing, collaborating with a variety of different influencers across multiple campaigns, B2B firms are also increasingly turning to local influencers to engage their target customers.

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B2B Education Media B2C 124

Tom Spencer

MARCH 16, 2014

Fashions, fads, trends, role models, and influential personalities. Cultural and sporting events. Social norms (e.g. people tend to take holidays in summer). Buying patterns and consumer preferences (e.g. brand preferences, and attitudes toward product quality, customer service, fair trade, green, and organic). Technological.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 20, 2017

A strong, transparent, and trust-driven culture plays a central role in driving a scale-down decision and in managing the process as the it unfolds. From the day he had opened his business some 16 years earlier, he’d built a culture that valued transparency, trust, teamwork, and creativity. Home Run Media’s Turning Point.

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Media Company Culture Software 106

Seth Godin Blog

JANUARY 28, 2021

Fashion is everywhere. Instead, we make them in the context of culture, of our surroundings, of ‘people like us do things like this.’ ’ We choose to align with a segment of the culture and take our cues from them. If it’s you, if it’s us, then fashion is working for us. And sometimes it is.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

Moreover, since less narcissistic leaders can be expected to outperform their more narcissistic peers, one would expect the evolution of leadership to result not only in smarter, better-managed organizations but also in organizational cultures that are increasingly humble and self-critical. Insight Center. The 21st-Century CEO.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 26, 2017

In our use, though, we mean to evoke the work of cultural anthropologist Grant McCracken in books such as Chief Culture Officer , where he distinguishes between “fast culture” and “slow culture.” Fast culture drove not just the meteoric rise of Buzzfeed but its continuous remodeling process.

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Culture Trends Fashion Development 71

Seth Godin Blog

MAY 16, 2014

But most of the time, culture moves forward on the basis of a simple question: "Do people like me do something like this?". And so, new fashions (of all sorts) come from unexpected places, not from the arbiters of what''s correct. If the answer is ''no'', most of us wait.

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Fashion Software Culture Productivity 51

Seth Godin Blog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

” When we encounter a fashion, a film or some other cultural artifact that the critical establishment has celebrated, it’s easy to not understand it. To move the culture forward, we need to have the empathy to imagine what others are seeing, liking and talking about. Taste, after all, is unevenly distributed.

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Film Fashion Culture 40

Seth Godin Blog

JUNE 20, 2023

Culture seeks shortcuts. It extends to the ways we demonstrate which box we’ve chosen–fashion, pro sports, even the tech we use or how we speak. The oldest shortcut is: “Friend or foe?” ” If we know the answer to that, a whole bunch of time gets saved, and fear is reduced as well.

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Fashion Sports Course Culture 49

Seth Godin Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2014

People thrive on mass celebration, but as our culture has fragmented, these universal observances are harder to find. Given a choice, though, many people take the choice—and so, as the culture fragments, we move away from the center and to the edges.

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Fashion Travel Culture Groups 54

Harvard Business

AUGUST 26, 2016

Consider a few examples: Trends in religious growth are one of the best predictors of fashion-related categories. In areas where Christianity is growing, sales of Western-style formal fashions are likely to grow too, since Christianity usually carries a strong acceptance and influence of Western culture and clothing.

Fashion 70

Fashion Education Data Trends 70

Seth Godin Blog

MAY 26, 2024

I hope it’s pretty clear that most of us would like to work in a culture like this. Instead, we have the chance to sign up to work hard on solving useful problems in a way that’s generative and resilient. But if we don’t work at it, it disappears.

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Fashion Media Culture Marketing 46

Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 5, 2017

The culture is really crisp with very intelligent people around; in fact, some of the “best” longest-standing McKinseyites in the world are in NYC and McKinsey has significant support staff in the office as well. In New York, Bain is located at 1114 Avenue of the Americas on the 43rd Floor.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 8, 2017

We’ve found three main obstacles to realizing analytics’ full value, and all of them are related to people, not technology: the organization’s structure, culture, and approach to problem solving. A large fashion retailer ran into this issue. As it turned out, a simple logistic regression was almost as effective.

Methodologies 71

Methodologies Data Analysis Retail 71

Seth Godin Blog

MAY 16, 2021

When it collides with culture, culture often demands we stand still. It’s easier to sell a new fashion or a sports team than it is to sell public health. There’s a long history of culture pushing back on the smart, generous, safe interventions that ultimately become standard. And disease is frightening.

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Fashion Sports Culture Course 44

Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2017

The visionaries and winners have seen the opportunities, addressed the challenges, and adapted to the expectations of the digital customer, while those with less flexible minds, cultures, and business models are rapidly falling away. Digital transformation requires enterprise alignment.

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Enterprise Insurance Insurance Agile 71

Harvard Business

JULY 7, 2016

They were in a conference room in Lima watching a focus group in Surrey, England, via Skype as the group discussed the fashion ponchos designed and manufactured by Alejandra’s five-year-old company, Tela. Accuse Saira of cultural misappropriation? Ricardo chuckled. “They know they’re being watched,” he said.

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Case Study Case Studies Study Fashion 113

Harvard Business

MARCH 12, 2018

He’s the CEO and self-titled “Head Coach ” of Björn Borg, the Swedish sports fashion company named after the tennis star. ” “We have so much to learn from sports culture”, Bunge continued. Henrik Bunge is one such leader. He will always know how he performs.

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Company Sports Exercises Fashion 71

1 to 1

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

When does hustle culture become abusive and dangerous? Toxic company cultures are all too common in modern businesses. One in five Americans have left a job in the past five years due to bad company culture, according to a recent SHRM report on workplace culture. SK: A lot of companies have mission statements.

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Culture Company Fashion Media 26

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 3, 2016

It’s not any easier to get rejected in that fashion, and writing that way undercuts your authority as a decisionmaker. Delivering bad news is tough, and in different companies or cultures these examples may sound either overly harsh or too nice. You’ll need to find your own language depending on the context and the culture.

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Examples Case Interview Research Guidelines 121

Harvard Business

JULY 27, 2018

Consultants are sometimes accused of trying to hoodwink their clients with smoke and mirrors, using management fashions or buzzwords for their own benefit. For instance, lawyers from a top firm responded positively to Latin expressions, as they were part of legal work culture and showed intellectual sophistication.

Consulting 133

Consulting Fashion Management Study 133

SkillQuo

MAY 16, 2018

Diversity of thought, and diversity of race and cultures. Companies that want to establish themselves as forward thinking versus old-fashioned, must employ individuals from all backgrounds. Diversity: There are two types of diversity. Typically, you cannot have one without the other.

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Trends Fashion Data Efficiency 71

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 4, 2017

But in the name of authenticity and disruption, what they end up perpetrating is cultural assassination: they corrode norms of decency, trust, and cooperation in ways that are hard to repair even after they are gone. Shared interests and a common culture alone won’t keep us civilized. It takes justice, too.

Leadership 71

Leadership Fashion Culture Tools 71

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 19, 2016

Cultural values may also contribute to the disconnect between Asians and leadership in the U.S., For example, Eastern cultural norms encourage humility and deference to authority – but leaders in Western cultures are usually required to command authority and to promote themselves and their ideas.

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