Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2012

In the fourth calendar quarter of 2011, Christmas shoppers snapped up 15 million iPads and 37 million iPhone 4Ss. The idea that companies should only maximize shareholder value has had a stranglehold on the business world for decades. It's time to rethink this assumption. Last week, Apple reported breathtaking earnings. billion in cash flow.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Apparel Cost Morale 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Among its intimate apparel store peers — who are in the business of helping women find the perfect undergarments through a sometimes thrilling and at other times exasperating process — Journelle stands out. The results are staggering: same-store sales are up 55% from the first half of 2011 to the same period in 2012.

TSR 15

TSR Apparel Consultative Uncertainty 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

These drivers underpin a number of stories from 2011, but a few new themes came out as well. Coca-Cola was not alone in facing increasing costs in 2011; one of my clients, Kimberly-Clark, took an earnings hit from record pulp prices. Was a year like 2011 possible in a world without climate change? Was a year like 2011 likely ?

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

The week before Fashion Week in New York, now underway, is perhaps the busiest in the city’s apparel industry. To find out answers to these questions, we tracked 77 fashion designers working in the Garment District and the larger New York region over two weeks in July 2011.

Fashion 8

Fashion Industry Parcell Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Among its intimate apparel store peers — who are in the business of helping women find the perfect undergarments through a sometimes thrilling and at other times exasperating process — Journelle stands out. The results are staggering: same-store sales are up 55% from the first half of 2011 to the same period in 2012.

TSR 8

TSR Apparel Consultative Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2013

As company that markets fashion apparel, accessories, and home goods (at its namesake stores as well via its other brands, like Anthropologie and Free People), it seems reasonable to think that the perspectives of women could be useful to its board. Many shareholders agree.

Diversity 8

Diversity Proposal Apparel Benchmarking 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

In a study of 41 stores of a women’s apparel retailer , for example, Saravanan Kesavan and his co-authors found that all of the stores were understaffed significantly during the peak periods of the day, while they were significantly overstaffed during the rest of the hours.

Software 9

Software Management Retail How To 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2014

A 2011 Nielsen Co. TV ad expenditures and accounted for most of the e-commerce that year: Apparel, telecom, travel, pizza, and online services and content. First, while attention time dedicated to TV content has been rising, this is not the case for people actually paying attention to the ads on the screen. billion in U.S.

Advertising 9

Advertising Brand Apparel Audience 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2014

According to a recent JPMorgan/GIIN report , impact investors invested nearly $11 billion across 4,900 deals in 2013, up 250% from 2011. It’s easy to scan headlines and see undisciplined for-profit companies (take GM, American Apparel). Supporting this trend is a tremendous increase in capital available for “impact investing.”

Entrepreneur 10

Entrepreneur Apparel Transportation Fashion 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2012

While GILT and its rivals sell across verticals (apparel, home, travel, kids, local), OKL deals in just one big one: home. In GILT's wake, there followed a host of competitors (RueLaLa, Ideeli). But One Kings Lane (OKL) takes a different approach. Maybe 'tis better to borrow than to buy, especially at 90 percent below retail.

Retail 15

Retail Fashion Merchandising Apparel 15