Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Within a couple days of each other, GM announced new eco-labels for some Chevy models , while UK mega-retailer Tesco pulled back from an important 4-year experiment in carbon labeling. Will we see the day when all products carry environmental labels with data on carbon emissions and other impacts? Recent news tells us a definitive.maybe.

Supply Chain 13

Supply Chain Retail Apparel B2B 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2012

Some senior leaders simply lean harder on their operating units, increasing their targets and demanding more growth. A few years ago, one of the world's largest retailers had literally hundreds of initiatives going after same-store sales growth. So can having a corporate reserve fund to help the operating units pay for organic growth.

Retail 11

Retail Long-term Short-term Apparel 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2012

With the Winter holiday shopping season, fashion apparel retailer Zara has been the focus of media attention — the New York Times recently profiled the innovative fast fashion business model pioneered by Zara, while Elizabeth Cline's book on the costs of fast fashion has climbed up the sales charts.

Business Model 8

Business Model Innovation First-mover Advantage Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2014

In the apparel industry alone, we’ve just seen the end of American Apparel’s Dov Charney and the ouster of Lululemon Athletica founder Chip Wilson – plus the installation of interim CEOs at Target and JC Penney following their previous leaders’ firings. A lot of CEOs are being shown the door lately.

CEO 15

CEO Six Sigma How To Apparel 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2014

It’s not been a great year for venerable retailer Sears, which is reputed to be closing 130 retail stores and laying off more than 5,000 employees. Founded in 1886 as a mail-order watch retailer, Sears was already 71 when it became an original member of the S&P 500 in 1957. We felt defeated and powerless.”.

Retail 8

Retail Quinn Real Estate Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

If I asked you to picture the consumer luxury market, you might imagine jewels, sports cars, watches, premium drinks, high-end shoes and apparel, and so on. retailers and suppliers think it’s likely there are slaves in their supply chain. A combination of high quality, glamour, celebrity, and attitude. Slavery is still a problem.

Brand 8

Brand Supply Chain Apparel Tourism 8

In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 18, 2015

Back in the ‘90s, LEGO had cluttered its corporate structure with the complexity that comes with acquiring a variety of businesses from apparel to theme parks. This vision establishes the principles for running a simple operation. Management power rests with focused strategies on two product categories, athletic shoes and apparel.

Apparel 100

Apparel Brand Franchising Competitive Advantage 100

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 8, 2015

Whether it’s a social fitness app (like sports apparel company Under Armour’s dashboard ) or an immersive experience (consider how Tesla feels more like an intelligent driving partner than a traditional car), a software layer distinguishes the product by incorporating into people’s daily lives.

Brand 8

Brand Apparel Software Content 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

This isn’t all that surprising given the level of innovation activity in these sectors, but directors operating in similarly disrupted sectors should take note. Just over one-fifth (22%) of boards operating in the IT and telecom industry sought tech expertise when filling their most recent board seat, higher than in any other industry.

Innovation 9

Innovation Short-term Telecommunications Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2016

It includes changes in how an organization interacts with its customers, citizens, or patients; in operational processes; in business models; in supply chain relationships; and in how employees use information to generate insight. Operations in a Connected World. Consider an IT investment that one European retailer was pondering.

Tools 8

Tools Supply Chain CRM Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

For our recent book we studied companies from a broad range of industries that operate this way, including Apple, CEMEX, Danaher, Haier, IKEA, Inditex (known for its Zara apparel business), Starbucks and many others. Starbucks applies its capabilities in talent management and distinctive retailing to everything it does.

Management 8

Management Short-term Constraint Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

The chief marketing officers at consumer products companies, the heads of design at luxury apparel companies, and the heads of logistics at large retailers are cases in point. But the role is becoming important in many other industries as well, such as creative arenas (for example, product design in retail) and communications.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey Human Resources Reputation Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2014

In the apparel industry alone, we’ve just seen the end of American Apparel’s Dov Charney and the ouster of Lululemon Athletica founder Chip Wilson – plus the installation of interim CEOs at Target and JC Penney following their previous leaders’ firings. A lot of CEOs are being shown the door lately.

CEO 8

CEO Six Sigma How To Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

A five-year-old online clothing retailer, its success in this area reveals how AI and people can work together, with each side focused on its unique strengths. The company offers a subscription clothing and styling service that delivers apparel to its customers’ doors. And it can’t rely solely on machines to do this.

Company 8

Company Fashion Apparel Trends 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2016

In my research, I have come across local gym owners using WhatsApp to answer clients’ questions and schedule gym visits and retailers messaging regular customers to let them know about new arrivals. Companies should focus on building an operation based on customer service to answer and be available to users when they need you.

Brand 8

Brand Real Estate Apparel Content 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2015

For example, the Spanish apparel retailer Inditex, known for its clothing brand Zara, has turned the fashion industry on its head by perfecting its capabilities in fast, fashion-forward design and rapid-response manufacturing. Operating as these companies do takes a lot of confidence.

Execution 8

Execution Strategy Fashion Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Among other things, there is growing demand from both retail and institutional investors to align their capital with better environmental and social outcomes, and more resources going into index fund or quasi-indexing products. Hiroshi Watanabe/Getty Images. The investment industry is changing.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Asset Management Chemicals Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2016

Consider the sports apparel company Under Armour. The business has a distinctive customer experience capability, a prowess at creating premium food and beverage products, and an ability to recruit and manage thousands of retail employees with high loyalty and low turnover.

Company 8

Company Engineering Apparel Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Lance Best, the CEO of Barker Sports Apparel, was meeting with Nina Kelk, the company’s general counsel, who also oversaw human resources. The team had dropped the ball on inquiries from several retailers interested in its products by failing to coordinate getting them into the company’s system quickly. Of course I have.

Case Study 11

Case Study Team CFO Merchandising 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

consumer durables & apparel, retailing, education, media, hotels, restaurants & leisure); Consumer Staples (e.g., The industry breakout was done using eight major sectors (similar to those in the Global Industry Classification Standard system): Consumer Discretionary (e.g., chemicals, metals & mining, paper & forest products).

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Biotechnology Health Care Real Estate 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. Journelle in New York City is no ordinary store. inventory counting) from sales staff.

TSR 15

TSR Apparel Consultative Uncertainty 15

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. Adapted from.

Airlines 8

Airlines Energy Self-aware Learning Curve 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2014

In fact, 98% of IR500 retailers use some form of web analytics. Location analytics firm RetailNext currently tracks more than 500 million shoppers per year by collecting data from more than 65,000 sensors installed in thousands of retail stores. Operations. And RetailNext isn’t alone. not visiting competitor venues).

Retail 8

Retail Customer Intimacy Apparel Wireless 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. Journelle in New York City is no ordinary store. inventory counting) from sales staff.

TSR 8

TSR Apparel Consultative Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

We already see companies localizing time-sensitive and highly customizable forms of production to move closer to customer demand, particularly in the fast apparel (Adidas, Zara) and automotive (Tesla) industries, thus turning global supply chains into two-way streets. “Why ‘Good Jobs’ Are Good for Retailers” 7.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain Human Capital Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2018

Retail has been constantly reinventing itself, and participants race to keep up with what feels like a series of epic shifts in consumer preferences. Apparel brands are investing especially heavily in online shopping capabilities and introducing interactive features that complement apps and websites. Insight Center.

Apparel 9

Apparel Retail Fashion Brand 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

That “little” privately-held business has grown tremendously since its launch and currently has more than 90 physical retail locations and a highly successful eCommerce business. Like many competitors in the apparel industry, Vineyard Vines has kept their operations lean in order to preserve operating margins.

Retail 8

Retail Apparel Engineering Audience 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

For decades, we’ve often thought of leadership profiles in unique buckets—two popular varieties were the “visionaries”, who embrace strategy and think about amazing things to do, and the “operators”, who get stuff done. It just does not work.” receive stock options and health insurance.

Execution 15

Execution Strategy How To Budgeting 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

So it's no wonder that business started to wake up to the serious danger that storms and shortages present to their operations, both from direct damage to property and from massive production interruptions (i.e., Value chain and transparency partnerships growing: The apparel industry bands together. business continuity").

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2015

Zappos gained market prominence in the footwear industry with a clever solution to the problem online clothing retailers have – the fact that the customer can’t try on the goods before buying them. The size of the apparel market only in the U.S. And it worked. is around $225 billion.

Apparel 8

Apparel Strategy Insourcing Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

As the argument goes, that’s good for workers, who don’t want to be bored or overwhelmed, and it’s good for retailers, whose biggest cost and revenue driver is typically labor. Our collective research has also shown that retailers really do struggle with scheduling. So what should retailers do? on Saturdays.

Software 8

Software Management Retail How To 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 1, 2011

While getting accurate, timely carbon data from your own operations can be tough, gathering data from outside your four walls is a far greater challenge given the complexity and scale of most supply chains, and there's no well-defined way today to navigate it. One real-life example of this comes from an office products retailer.

Supply Chain 14

Supply Chain Apparel Management Retail 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

Use of this relationship can lead to better operational performance. The Future of Operations. As they are used by customers, smart, connected products can generate orders of magnitude more data about current operating conditions and real-time performance of products. Insight Center. Sponsored by GE Corporate.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Management Constraint Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2012

Many were perplexed in late 2007, when Google announced they would build a mobile operating system, seemingly far afield of their core online advertising model. Disney's business models span the media, entertainment, toy, apparel, and travel industries. Here are a few MBM trends we expect to see: Manufacturer & Retailer integration.

Business Model 9

Business Model Advertising Retail Supply Chain 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2016

His prize, Victoria’s Secret, will generate $8 billion in revenue this year and operates in a dozen countries. They operated on shoestrings. Sure, they wanted a reaction to their product, retail environment, and service delivery. It has expanded to fragrance, skin care, and a variety of related apparel categories.

Brand 8

Brand Merchandising Chief Financial Officer Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2014

Or think about the choice forced on apparel makers and retailers by a 300% rise in cotton prices over one recent 2-year period: either pass along higher costs and reduce sales, or take a hit to margins. Could we operate without fossil fuels and only renewable energy, or without using water? operations.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Apparel Constraint Brainstorming 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2017

The lessons from the fans of Real Madrid, FOX Sports, and NASCAR are relevant across many industries, including consumer packaged goods, retail, and automotive. Ignite your fan engagement and apply those learnings across your business. Ignite your fan engagement and apply those learnings across your business.

Sports 8

Sports Brand Content Industry 8