Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Activists’ interventions are often described, favorably or not depending on your point of view, as slashing and burning, taking out cost, and engaging in financial engineering. Now, you will have to translate your strategic thinking into a value creation plan that your management team and board will embrace.

Management 8

Management Short-term Constraint Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2016

They do so by building powerful growth engines. If you build a robust growth engine on a strong foundation, rather than seeking individual opportunities, you can be confident knowing that sustainable expansion will follow. Consider the sports apparel company Under Armour. How do we add value in ways that others do not?

Company 8

Company Engineering Apparel Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Identifying this so-called “growth gap” is critical, because the bigger the gap, the more a company needs to look beyond its current offerings, markets, and business models to find growth opportunities. Business models that can prosper at structurally lower price points are the engines that power true market disruption.

Innovation 9

Innovation Company Venture Capitalist Business Model 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2015

As with the original Gold Rush of the 1840s, we believe two principal business models will emerge: Goldminers , who dig deep in one major area, and Bartenders , who offer customized and convenient options to address routine needs. The Bartender strategy represents a much more dramatic transformation.

Technology 8

Technology Retail Apparel Customer Loyalty 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2013

She started an eponymous foundation focused on understanding a better way for the economy to manage its resources. We have three billion new middle class consumers coming into the world and there's more and more pressure to find out how to manage these resources. The business model changes. The marketing model changes.

Company 10

Company Apparel Engineering Welch 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2012

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). One is surrendering to the business cycle — under-investing in the down part and over-investing in the up part. Celebrate it.

Retail 11

Retail Long-term Short-term Apparel 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

The best analysis of the resource scarcity mega-trend came from asset manager Jeremy Grantham. The extreme weather seriously disrupted coal production , one of the most important economic engines in the country. Value chain and transparency partnerships growing: The apparel industry bands together.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15