Tommy Hilfiger’s Adaptive Clothing Line: Making Fashion Inclusive
Harvard Business
NOVEMBER 28, 2023
How should the fashion company scale its adaptive fashion line?
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Why Playing with Your Food is Critical for Consultants
David A Fields
SEPTEMBER 11, 2018
You’d also play with your food; catapulting carrot sticks and fashioning finger art with your mashed potatoes. When you stood well under three feet tall, you chortled with unbridled glee at your father’s silly faces and merrily tried to ride the family dog. What a hoot! Now that you lead a consulting firm, I doubt [ ]
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The Lingering Cost of Instant Fashion
Harvard Business
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
Consumers should understand the side effects of business models — particularly the privatization of profit and the socialization of costs, including human and environmental harm.
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The Myth of Sustainable Fashion
Harvard Business
JANUARY 13, 2022
Despite high-profile attempts at innovation, the industry has failed to reduce its environmental impact so far.
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262: Babette Ballinger—How Does A Woman Tackle The Fashion Industry? Head On
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. Hear how one woman made her mark in an industry of men.
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Casual Apparel Outperforms High-End Fashion
BCG
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. Thirty-nine of those companies are in fashion and luxury. From 2011 through 2015, the fashion and luxury companies returned an annualized TSR of 15%.
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What Real Sustainability Would Look Like in the Fashion Industry
BCG
JULY 14, 2017
Article Friday, July 14, 2017 To maintain its current growth trajectory, the global fashion industry must address its environmental and social footprint.
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"The Conclusion Trap" is Out!
Markovitz Consulting
JUNE 2, 2020
As with all my books, I don’t talk about Toyota, use Japanese, or refer to lean in any fashion. In a (delightfully) short 70 pages, I discuss what organizational solution jumping looks like; explain why we do it; and present a four step process for how we to avoid doing it.
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Lessons from More Than 1,000 E-Commerce Pricing Tests
Harvard Business
MARCH 19, 2024
At most small and medium-sized e-commerce retailers, prices are typically set and updated in an ad hoc fashion without one clear owner. The process often starts by using a gross margin target, followed by some comparison with competitors, and then some adjustments from there.
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From Contacts to Contracts: Use a "Love List" for Solopreneur Success
Successful Independent Consulting
OCTOBER 1, 2024
Send a personalized email, LinkedIn message, text message with a.gif, or even an old-fashioned card via snail mail. Instead of meeting for a drink after work, it's BYOB via Zoom. No driving or shoes required. Anniversary. You can celebrate anything!
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Making the Air in the Office Cleaner
Harvard Business
JULY 5, 2023
This article describes three steps that organizations can take to improve air quality in a cost-effective fashion. And the recent intense air pollution from Canadian wildfires that extended across much of the United States highlighted yet another reason: forest fires.
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How to Strengthen Your Curiosity Muscle
Harvard Business
NOVEMBER 3, 2023
It shows interests, prompts discovery, and finally, leaves all involved parties changed in some form or fashion — all by way of a simple question of who, what, when, where, why, or how. Curiosity is a skill that is useful in every context, whether it be in the workplace or in the lives of your loved ones.
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"The Conclusion Trap" is Out! (Copy)
Markovitz Consulting
JUNE 3, 2020
As with all my books, I don’t talk about Toyota, use Japanese, or refer to lean in any fashion. In a (delightfully) short 70 pages, I discuss what organizational solution jumping looks like; explain why we do it; and present a four step process for how we to avoid doing it.
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How Footwear Startup Allbirds Is Decarbonizing Fashion
Harvard Business
JANUARY 25, 2022
The footwear startup advanced its environmental mission, while staying ahead of competitors.
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Let the Urgency of Your Customers’ Needs Guide Your Sales Strategy
Harvard Business
JULY 6, 2023
This article provides a process for segmenting prospective customers in this fashion and creating a sales strategy. When companies are creating profiles of possible target customers, there is a dimension they often overlook: the urgency of the need for the offering.
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Boost Your Online Presence Using Warm Website Photography with Suzanne Rothmeyer
Consulting Matters
JUNE 8, 2023
Plus, don't miss Suzanne's valuable insights into the power of fashion, preparation, and collaboration when creating your visual brand. Learn how to build trust and relationships with your audience by showcasing a warm and authentic image of yourself on your website.
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3 Steps To Building A Stand Out Portfolio With Emma Sharley: Podcast #25
Consulting Success
FEBRUARY 26, 2018
Prior to beginning her successful consultancy, Emma worked in sports marketing, fashion retail marketing, and telecommunications with companies in England including Westfield, Diane Von Furstenberg, Westpac, and T-Mobile.
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154 Art vs Business
Tom Spencer
JUNE 4, 2015
She entered journalism in the 1980’s and claims to have had no particular inclination towards fashion. Although, after gaining some exposure to the fashion runways working with the British edition of GQ, she says that she ultimately found herself as the editor of Vogue.
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60 Making the Talent Leap of Faith
Strategy+Business
MARCH 10, 2014
Rita Gunther McGrath explains why organizations need to shed their old-fashioned mentality about how they recruit people in order to fill the talent gap. For more related insights, read " The Thought Leader Interview: Rita Gunther McGrath."'
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The appraisal is dead. Long live the appraisal.
The Management Centre
MARCH 7, 2021
Old fashioned? Appraisals are not about fashion. Far from ushering in the demise of appraisals, in recent months I’ve repeatedly been asked to support our customers with creating new annual processes, reviewing their approach, and helping them to formalise their performance management system. I don’t think so. They are conversations.
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98 Competitive Advantage in Consulting and in Life
CaseInterview.com
NOVEMBER 26, 2019
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. She works for one of the major fashion labels. because she is just that good at fashion. As I approach 40 years of age (geez.
Delivering a Personalized Shopping Experience with AI
Harvard Business
MAY 17, 2022
What’s next for fashion shopping app, THE YES: improving the algorithm or investing in customer acquisition?
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"Selfie" Fashion Trends: Cheap Dresses and "Rentabag"; Mish Handbag Tips
MishTalk
JULY 29, 2015
The popularity of sending "selfies" has even influenced retail sales and women's fashion. In the above video, FT’s Andrea Felsted visits online fashion retailer Asos to see how it is adapting its business model in the era of the selfie. After all, one cannot be seen in the same outfit too often! Sorry ladies, sold out.
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Why Your Productivity Hacks Don’t Hack It
Markovitz Consulting
JANUARY 12, 2021
In a related fashion, making downtime visible is equally helpful. The principle investigator of a medical research lab I worked with instituted just such a system, and found that work got done faster and with dramatically less effort.
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How to Provide Safe and Comfortable In-Person Training as People Return to the Office
Clarity Consultants
OCTOBER 28, 2021
Instead, proceed in a methodical fashion. Filling a classroom or conference room to the brim with employees isn’t just going to feel unsafe to many; it’s going to feel oddly crowded, especially in comparison to the social distancing standards most people have been following. Don’t be overzealous with your reintroduction.
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Why you should take notes by hand
Consultants' Consultant
JULY 4, 2018
Consultants Consultant: Old-fashioned note taking makes information easier to retrieve in your head. Pencil and paper notes are a better synthesised set of ideas than typed notes. Here’s Dan Pink’s 99 second video summary of the research. Here’s the original research paper.
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How Large Companies Prepare for Project Management Challenges
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.
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MIT Media Lab’s Joi Ito on Digital Innovation and Disruption
BCG
MARCH 22, 2016
The Lab is supported by more than 80 members—including some of the world’s leading corporations—representing such diverse fields as electronics, entertainment, fashion, health care, and telecommunications.
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How Global Companies Can Create a Consistent Customer Experience
Harvard Business
AUGUST 30, 2023
In the past, companies could limit expansion in a more controlled fashion to just one market at a time. Building a global company is easier, but also more nuanced and complex, than ever before. In the digital age, global growth is far more continuous and incremental in nature.
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The Downside of Looking Good
CaseInterview.com
DECEMBER 11, 2019
Normally, I try to wear a somewhat fashionable winter hat (if that's even possible), but it was so cold I bought one of those super fluffy hats that generously covers your ears, heavily insulated and padded. For the high-fashion women of Manhattan, that wasn't cold enough to cross their vanity temperature thresholds.
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31 Positive Life Changing Quotes YOU Will Remember
Rick Conlow
JANUARY 13, 2022
” Coco Chanel, French fashion designer. ” Babe Ruth, Hall of Fame baseball player. “Success is most often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.” You have brains in your head. And you have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.” Dr. Seuss, author.
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Lifelong High Performance, the Japanese-American Way
Strategy+Business
AUGUST 29, 2017
Could the next big management fashion be a hybrid of Japanese and U.S. A few companies in Tokyo are experimenting with a prototype approach that combines competitive high performance with a nurturing environment for lifelong employees -- innovation and job security together.
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Hiring: Where to Start?
CaseInterview.com
MAY 13, 2021
Second strategy is: when you are trying to recruit somebody with a unique set of skills and you are having difficulty… I always use the example of trying to hire somebody who is a rocket scientist and is also a fashion model. Those skills sets by themselves are difficult to find, let alone both skills sets in one individual.
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The Secrets of Retail’s Repeat Top Performers
BCG
JANUARY 20, 2017
Travel and tourism, consumer durables, consumer nondurables, and fashion and luxury were the other four. Overall, from 2011 through 2015, the retail companies in our sample returned an annualized TSR of 16% (down from 21% for the five-year period ending in 2014).
Want A Seat At The Table? You May Need To Start Your Own Business.
On the Brink
APRIL 13, 2021
In the latter half of the 1960s, a massive disruption was underway in the US fashion industry. Before WWII, America dominated the globe in garment manufacturing, employing over 2 million people. After the war, that all changed, from where garments were made to who designed them.
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Can the Construction Industry Be Disrupted?
Harvard Business
JULY 10, 2023
Industry observers routinely deride the lack of technological sophistication in the construction industry, and have pigeon-holed it as old-fashioned and lagging behind more forward-looking and purposeful industries such as manufacturing. Construction is often maligned as the industry that technology left behind.
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Amazon to Sell Fiat Chrysler Cars Online: End of Car Dealerships?
MishTalk
NOVEMBER 20, 2016
Despite a massive switch from big box retailers to online shopping, car sales are still done the old fashioned way, via a network of franchised dealerships, typically selling a single manufacturer’s lineup of cars. Tesla does sell its own cars directly, but some states do no permit such sales. Now Amazon is entering the fray.
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Servant Leadership: A Better DNA for Leaders
Rick Conlow
JANUARY 17, 2023
Consequently, he is changing his industry with cheaper quality fashion while having an ethical conscience of its impact on customers, employees, the community, and the environment. Persson’s goals are quality in the clothing line, safety, and financial stability for all employees. Pulling It All Together.
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Do Independent Consultants Still Need Résumés?
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. However, in most cases it’s still necessary. This article explains why and how a consulting résumé should differ from a traditional corporate résumé.
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Creating Genuine Human Connection in a Post-Pandemic World w/Kyle Duford Ep#124
Strategic Planning and Management Insights
OCTOBER 14, 2021
A former magazine editor, he also spent a bunch of his career with a focus on the fashion, outdoor and sports industries through the eCommerce and digital lens. To learn more about The Brand Leader and the work the agency is doing, visit their website: The Brand Leader.
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Airbrushing
Seth Godin Blog
SEPTEMBER 7, 2017
When they began airbrushing the models in fashion magazines fifty years ago, no one complained much. Everyone knew, we thought, that it was some sort of make believe. But then they started airbrushing our food. And then vacations. And family photos. And brands.
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Best Practices in Client Relationship Management
Effective Managers
NOVEMBER 5, 2024
These may seem old fashioned, and it is a bit, but as a result the personal touch means a lot to clients. Show Appreciation Expressing gratitude and appreciation strengthens client relationships: Thank You Notes: Send personalized thank-you notes after meetings, project completions, or significant milestones.
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