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New York’s Fashion Industry Reveals a New Truth About Economic Clusters

Harvard Business Review

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.

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Top 10 Green Business Stories of 2011

Harvard Business Review

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 ?

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Retail Revolution: We Ain't Seen Nothing Yet

Harvard Business Review

Powered by local, mobile, and social media, online retail is becoming something that no long-time, card-carrying NRF member might reasonably have anticipated. While GILT and its rivals sell across verticals (apparel, home, travel, kids, local), OKL deals in just one big one: home. But One Kings Lane (OKL) takes a different approach.

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