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. But that’s an unfair oversimplification.

Management 8

Management Short-term Constraint Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2013

consumer durables & apparel, retailing, education, media, hotels, restaurants & leisure); Consumer Staples (e.g., aerospace & defense, construction & engineering, industrial conglomerates, professional services, textiles); IT & Telecommunications (e.g., oil, gas & consumable fuels, electric, gas and water utilities); Financials (e.g.,

Telecommunications 9

Telecommunications Health Care Talent Management Biotechnology 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2013

We looked at the three biggest segments — packaging, food waste, and apparel. Renault has a 230 million Euro remanufacturing business with engines and gear boxes. The remanufactured cars leave the factory with the same warranty as a new engine. So give me an example of how this would play out for, say, a car manufacturer.

Company 10

Company Apparel Engineering Welch 10

Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 12, 2016

By the end of the decade, Fred had opened the nation’s first organic/natural supermarket, café, trade union, and distribution center – almost single-handedly engineering what has become a $200 billion-plus collection of industries devoted to selling and distributing natural/organic food.

Apparel 120

Apparel Innovation Advertising Industry 120

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2011

Competitors in the auto, computer, and apparel industries frequently rely on the same suppliers and distributors, and to keep them healthy need to make sure that the overall industry does well. Even with this added understanding, cooling down the competitive engine is difficult for most.

Apparel 15

Apparel Pharmaceuticals Finance Licensing 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2013

consumer durables & apparel, retailing, education, media, hotels, restaurants & leisure); Consumer Staples (e.g., aerospace & defense, construction & engineering, industrial conglomerates, professional services, textiles); IT & Telecommunications (e.g., oil, gas & consumable fuels, electric, gas and water utilities); Financials (e.g.,

Succession 8

Succession Telecommunications Biotechnology Real Estate 8

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.

Retail 11

Retail Long-term Short-term Apparel 11

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. This role is common in technology, engineering, and life sciences companies, where domain expertise in narrow and arcane areas can be crucial to market success.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey Human Resources Reputation Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2015

In this approach, new entrant companies (often players from outside healthcare—retail, software, electronics, and apparel) focus on empowering and creating a better experience for consumers by providing detailed, personalized health information and advice. The Bartender strategy represents a much more dramatic transformation.

Technology 8

Technology Retail Apparel Customer Loyalty 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

And the more growth opportunities stretch beyond a company’s current capabilities, the more the company needs to build systems to manage the unique nature of these opportunities (the kind we describe in more depth in our recent article “ Build an Innovation Engine in 90 Days ” and our 2012 e-book Building a Growth Factory ).

Innovation 9

Innovation Company Venture Capitalist Business Model 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

consumer durables & apparel, retailing, education, media, hotels, restaurants & leisure); Consumer Staples (e.g., aerospace & defense, construction & engineering, industrial conglomerates, professional services, textiles); IT & Telecommunications (e.g., oil, gas & consumable fuels, electric, gas and water utilities); Financials (e.g.,

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Biotechnology Health Care Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

In the apparel industry, companies choose one path or the other between high-tech and high touch. Their mission to increase the number of women engineers led to an entirely new kind of product that combines storytelling and building. There is concern these days about how technology is replacing our jobs and estranging our connections.

Chief Operating Officer 8

Chief Operating Officer Apparel Marketing Porter 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2014

After a terrible fire killed many workers in Bangladesh apparel factories, European retailers Primark and C&A worked to establish long-term compensation funds for victims and their families. Short of “owning” the problem, this still acknowledges that others associate the problem with you, and you are in a position to make a difference.

Golden Parachute 11

Golden Parachute Apparel Trends Short-term 11

Strategy Driven

JULY 21, 2020

Have you seen a featured snippet right on the top of the search engine results page – SERP? Pick an influencer of your niche – for instance, if you have an apparel brand, look for influencers who follow fashion. You can address the audience’s queries, complaints, and regularly host live sessions. Aim for Position ‘Zero’.

Marketing Strategy 68

Marketing Strategy Marketing Strategy Audience 68

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

Like many competitors in the apparel industry, Vineyard Vines has kept their operations lean in order to preserve operating margins. From these analytics, Bluecore dynamically builds intelligent, triggered campaigns that can be run across email and social media channels, or can be used to optimize search engine marketing.

Retail 8

Retail Apparel Engineering Audience 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

The extreme weather seriously disrupted coal production , one of the most important economic engines in the country. On the use side of the water issue, companies with products that depend on water in production (beverages) or in use (shampoo, apparel) are also seeing the writing on the wall and getting creative.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2016

Inevitably, not all of the final pitches were winners but, to Facebook, the potential for uncovering groundbreaking innovations is worth pulling a couple hundred engineers away from their everyday tasks. Late-night thinkers enjoyed a 1AM meal to refuel. It can be as simple as challenging teams to brainstorm uses for an oddly shaped object.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Banking Brainstorming Participative 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2013

consumer durables & apparel, retailing, education, media, hotels, restaurants & leisure); Consumer Staples (e.g., aerospace & defense, construction & engineering, industrial conglomerates, professional services, textiles); IT & Telecommunications (e.g., oil, gas & consumable fuels, electric, gas and water utilities); Financials (e.g.,

Talent Management 8

Talent Management Company Telecommunications Management 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Deep concerns about labor conditions, wages, and equity take root: From tragedies in Bangladeshi apparel factories to minimum wages in the U.S. Travesties like the death of more than 1100 workers at the Rana Plaza apparel factory in Bangladesh are increasingly unacceptable to the buying public.

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain McKinsey Apparel Energy 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

In a study of 41 stores of a women’s apparel retailer , for example, Saravanan Kesavan and his co-authors found that all of the stores were understaffed significantly during the peak periods of the day, while they were significantly overstaffed during the rest of the hours.

Software 9

Software Management Retail How To 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2014

TV ad expenditures and accounted for most of the e-commerce that year: Apparel, telecom, travel, pizza, and online services and content. Within two minutes of the ad appearing on TV, there was a 30% spike in direct website visits by those who typed “Target.com” and indirect visits by those who used a search engine.

Advertising 9

Advertising Brand Apparel Audience 9

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. Here are the winners, in alphabetical order, with links to their stories and hacks: Ashoka's Hybrid Value Chain: Revving the Engine of Sustained Global Prosperity and Social Value. Hack by Valeria Budinich, Ashoka.

Organization 14

Organization Cooper McKinsey Long-term 14