Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2016

Experts continue to debate whether Chinese businesses are truly disruptive. The American textile and apparel industries, for example, will tell you that the evidence can be found in the blood on the floor — their blood, on what used to be their floor. For some industries in the West, this question appears a bit ridiculous.

Business Model 8

Business Model Innovation Company Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2018

The responses , from 270 corporate leaders in strategy, innovation, and research and development roles, were illuminating. That’s especially true, he adds, when the core business is successful and doing well. The culture at large companies is typically built on a foundation of operational excellence and predictable growth.

Innovation 13

Innovation Company Budgeting Survey 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Increased demand for transparency and its close partners, (a) the quest to define and develop useful sustainability metrics and (b) the growing sustainability data explosion. business continuity"). Value chain and transparency partnerships growing: The apparel industry bands together. The greening of the supply chain.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2015

Leaders of large enterprises struggle to balance the need to make their core business more efficient with the need to move nimbly to new processes and business models, particularly in the face of threats from disruptive startups. The size of the apparel market only in the U.S. This is a fact we know, and know well.

Apparel 8

Apparel Strategy Insourcing Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2016

Consider the sports apparel company Under Armour. Its goals are extremely ambitious; it is not just a pioneer in developing new fabrics for active wear, but in developing wearable electronics. You are likely to discover, along the way, that you lack the capabilities you need, and must develop them from scratch.

Company 8

Company Engineering Apparel Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2012

Some senior leaders simply lean harder on their operating units, increasing their targets and demanding more growth. But when the retailer took a more careful look, it found that its best opportunity was to get people to buy more in the categories they were already shopping (such as apparel or electronics or groceries). Celebrate it.

Retail 10

Retail Long-term Short-term Apparel 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

The athletic apparel giant has also engaged a broad base of partners (and competitors) in innovation toward that goal. Greg Koch tells the story of how plant managers around the world have absorbed their connection to the communities in which they do business, and work hard to earn the "social license" to operate.

Organization 13

Organization Cooper McKinsey Long-term 13