Tanveer Naseer

MAY 19, 2015

One can appreciate the importance of this question by looking at the failures of leaders like former BP CEO Tony Hayward, who during the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill voiced his frustration with all the media attention on this environmental disaster by saying how he just ‘wanted to get his life back’ Or when Chip Wilson, founder of athletics (..)

Leadership 100

Leadership Self-aware Learning-by-Doing Apparel 100

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2011

costofweddings.com estimates that the average couple spends $24,000 per wedding, probably an underestimate once one adds up a year's worth of planning for apparel, beauty treatments (including weight loss), officiants and music, venues and catering, and numerous other services. CEOs must beware. In the U.S., Not exactly.

CEO 16

CEO Apparel GDP Audience 16

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2012

trillion, with annual expenditures increasing from $2 trillion in 2010 to more than $6 trillion in 2020. By 2010, the number had risen to 221 million. Besides Burberry and Dunhill, two Italian brands, Armani and Ermenegildo Zegna, and one German brand, Hugo Boss, dominate the apparel market.

Marketing 9

Marketing Apparel Short-term Fashion 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2013

When I would listen to CEOs, I heard them say things like we're going to use five percent less materials in five years or make a product with 10 percent less material. Then I met three people — a Dutch CEO, a Welch education expert and a German scientist — who saw things in a very different way. I had no experience here.

Company 10

Company Apparel Engineering Welch 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

By lowering the "China price," the world's low-cost manufacturer is doing to solar what it did to the apparel and electronics sectors: driving higher-cost producers (usually in the West) out of business. Portugal transformed its electric grid from 17 percent renewables to 45 percent in just five years (as of 2010).

Energy 8

Energy Apparel Cost Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

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. In fact, she literally wrote the book on it.

Airlines 8

Airlines Energy Self-aware Learning Curve 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Ok, this one is cheating a bit, but on a fundamental level, the top themes in green business haven't actually changed too much ( see the 2010 list ). CEO Peter Loscher declared Germany's plans to move aggressively toward renewables "the project of the century.". for " every manufacturer, component, and process in apparel production."

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15