Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2011

costofweddings.com estimates that the average couple spends $24,000 per wedding, probably an underestimate once one adds up a year's worth of planning for apparel, beauty treatments (including weight loss), officiants and music, venues and catering, and numerous other services. In the U.S.,

CEO 16

CEO Apparel GDP Audience 16

Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 12, 2016

Judith Goldhaft employed the assistance of fabric designer and fellow hippie gal, Jodi Palladini, to create an apparel design that would permit San Francisco’s homeless women to sell their very own fabric creations. This, at a time when most Americans had no idea what yogurt was.

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Apparel Innovation Advertising Industry 120

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2013

So in 2010, I started this foundation and coined the "circular economy" term to help frame the concept. So we went to McKinsey in 2010 to ask them to help us and write a report , focused on the European Union, that answered three questions. We looked at the three biggest segments — packaging, food waste, and apparel.

Company 10

Company Apparel Engineering Welch 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

By lowering the "China price," the world's low-cost manufacturer is doing to solar what it did to the apparel and electronics sectors: driving higher-cost producers (usually in the West) out of business. Portugal transformed its electric grid from 17 percent renewables to 45 percent in just five years (as of 2010).

Energy 8

Energy Apparel Cost Entrepreneur 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.

Airlines 8

Airlines Energy Self-aware Learning Curve 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Ok, this one is cheating a bit, but on a fundamental level, the top themes in green business haven't actually changed too much ( see the 2010 list ). Value chain and transparency partnerships growing: The apparel industry bands together. for " every manufacturer, component, and process in apparel production."

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Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2014

To come to these, and other, conclusions, we constructed a massive dataset of television advertising in 2010 ( the year tablet sales skyrocketed ). TV ad expenditures and accounted for most of the e-commerce that year: Apparel, telecom, travel, pizza, and online services and content. billion in U.S.

Advertising 10

Advertising Brand Apparel Audience 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2012

While GILT and its rivals sell across verticals (apparel, home, travel, kids, local), OKL deals in just one big one: home. Extreme Service: Not long ago, Net-À-Porter , the full-price fashion site acquired by Richemont in 2010, represented the ultimate in service: beautiful packaging; personal shoppers, new selections every day.

Retail 15

Retail Fashion Merchandising Apparel 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2017

It’s 50 times Walmart’s 2010 supply chain goal , and it sets a high bar for others to aspire to. In apparel, this is more than aggressive. And while 1 billion is only a fraction of global emissions, which run in the 40-billion-ton range annually, it’s a lot for one company to take responsibility for.

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Supply Chain Health Care Apparel Leadership 11