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 9

Business Model Innovation First-mover Advantage Apparel 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

The company offers a subscription clothing and styling service that delivers apparel to its customers’ doors. When it comes to recommendations, is there room for improvement in the way Amazon and Netflix operate? One of the great benefits Stitch Fix sees from collecting and analyzing so much data is an ability to predict trends.

Company 8

Company Fashion Apparel Trends 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2017

Sears Holdings has indicated that “substantial doubt” exists about its ability to continue operations. Sears needs to reverse this trend. don’t acquire another retailer and operate it separately) and to create more value for its core customers. Analysts say that Sears may still have time to stage a turnaround.

Retail 8

Retail Brand Airlines Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

These two trends may seem separate—or, some people believe, incompatible—but together I believe they have the power to improve finance’s role in the world. On the other side, fans of active management see it as a trend that can damage market efficiency and lead to distortions in market prices.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Asset Management Chemicals Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

The best thing to share will depend heavily on the product - the labels on energy hogs like light bulbs, air conditioners, and cars should tell us the total energy use and cost to operate over a year or the product's lifetime. For milk or snacks, the energy used to get it to shelves makes sense, but again, may not be helpful for consumers.

Supply Chain 14

Supply Chain Retail Apparel B2B 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

As the recent surveys suggest, this trend has picked up pace in the last few years not only because of pressure to return manufacturing jobs to the United States but also because the economics that made off-shoring attractive in the first place have changed for the following reasons: Oil prices. For high tech industries (e.g.,

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Survey Price Apparel 8

HR Digest

OCTOBER 5, 2021

As we consider how employers have traditionally approached sourcing, reducing bias in their systems and training and engaging their teams in DEI efforts, many employers followed three consistent trends: A narrow in definition of diversity in sourcing. A lack of goal setting and DEI measurement to keep people accountable.

Diversity 98

Diversity Organization Training Apparel 98

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2014

Under Wood, Sears became a pioneer in using demographic and economic trends to anticipate customer demand. On those grounds, he says, things look bad not just for Sears and all large chain stores, which before the war were considered a threat to so many Americans’ dreams of setting up their own independent local retail operations.

Retail 9

Retail Quinn Real Estate Apparel 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2017

Alan Kurtz, MMC’s chief operating officer, was standing off to the side, and she moved to join him, but a racer intercepted her. She’d joined the company six weeks before, following a long stint as CMO of Atawear, a high-end sports apparel company. “MMC isn’t a fashion trend.

Case Study 8

Case Study Brand Proposal Chief Operating Officer 8

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

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Businesses can use these trends to reconnect with their customers and their communities. As new tools become available to build or rebuild human capital more effectively and efficiently, corporations could seek to broaden their mandate in this area, both with their own staff and in the communities where they operate.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain Human Capital Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

So, rather than take up valuable list real estate with these perennial favorites and big-picture drivers, I'll quickly list them in one big bucket of mega-trends: The rise of the consumer around the world, related to. Here's the rest of my top 10 stories, with callouts for companies and examples that typify the trend.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

Use of this relationship can lead to better operational performance. The Future of Operations. The technologies and trends shaping tomorrow’s businesses. There are some notable exceptions in industries such as online apparel retailing, where companies can view real-time, customer-purchase decisions (e.g.,

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

JANUARY 31, 2014

While many advertisers are rightly nervous about multitasking, there could be new opportunities to benefit from this trend. TV ad expenditures and accounted for most of the e-commerce that year: Apparel, telecom, travel, pizza, and online services and content. A 2011 Nielsen Co. We also focused on five industries that represented $4.2

Advertising 9

Advertising Brand Apparel Audience 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2014

Supporting this trend is a tremendous increase in capital available for “impact investing.” It’s easy to scan headlines and see undisciplined for-profit companies (take GM, American Apparel). And when we asked these entrepreneurs why, some of their reasons were just plain bad. They are not alone.

Entrepreneur 10

Entrepreneur Apparel Transportation Fashion 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Macro Trends. To cap the year, the pure electric Tesla Model S was selected as the Motor Trend Car of the Year. Aside from that overall theme, the following stories grabbed me because of their connection to larger trends. Keeping the apparel theme, um, running, check out Nike's new shoe with FlyKnit technology.

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain Constraint P&L Energy 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Nine big brands with operations in Ohio publicly pressed the state to reinstate energy efficiency and renewable energy portfolio standards. In this case, Levi’s had spent a decade identifying great ways to cut water use in the apparel value chain. These trends will continue and companies will need to adapt — fast.

Energy 8

Energy Banking Chemicals Globalization 8