Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

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Merchandising Loyalty Word of Mouth Marketing ROI 101

First Friday Book Synopsis

OCTOBER 2, 2011

Here are a few insights provided during an interview of Pamela Fields, chief executive of Stetson, the hat and apparel company “People know that they can come to me and [.]. Adam Bryant conducts interviews of senior-level executives that appear in his “Corner Office” column each week in the SundayBusiness section of The New York Times.

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Apparel Execution Company Book Value 70

Eric Jacobson

MAY 11, 2021

Rather than writing yet another how-to guide for people wanting to launch a startup, Tom Eisenmann conducted original research on startup failure to better understand startup success. Eisenmann : There are lots of excellent books about how to succeed as an entrepreneur, and aspiring founders should read them. If so, why?

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Succession Entrepreneur Case Study Apparel 65

Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 22, 2012

Are you a leader who is struggling with how to write your company's core values? You can learn from Recreational Equipment Incorporated , better known as REI -- an outdoor gear and apparel co-op.

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Reis Apparel Examples Ethics 70

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

And all successful leaders realize what Dale Carnegie explained: “The only way on earth to influence other people is to talk about what they want and show them how to get it.”. Effective leaders show people how to feel the way they would like to feel. How do leaders develop loyal, sometimes rabid, followers?

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Apparel Motivation Influence Quality 89

Lead on Purpose

JUNE 2, 2012

Perhaps one of the thorniest problems in business today, is how to create quality output without being specifically in charge. How do you drive your goals when you are not in a line on an organizational chart? My largest client is in the apparel industry with a multiplicity of brand names.

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Leadership Apparel Productivity Products 200

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

First, they must know how to effectively scale people—helping key individuals make a massive impact across the entire organization. “What makes a great CHRO, great? Many things actually. Second, they must become a trusted consigliere to the CEO. Affiliates.

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Human Resources Globalization Diversity Resources 469

Steve Farber

OCTOBER 25, 2016

And we know his latest venture, men’s sports apparel startup, Qor (pronounced “core”), is already achieving over 30% yearly growth in part because it’s replicating the Athleta culture of caring. Teno is hesitant to tell others what they “should” or “should not” do. He listened more.

Apparel 40

Apparel Energy Workshop Uncertainty 40

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.

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CEO Six Sigma How To Apparel 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2018

Take outdoor apparel retailer Patagonia. The most effective employer brands are rooted in a clear corporate purpose and set of values, which serve to attract job seekers who share those fundamental beliefs and weed out those who don’t. The company has long stood for enjoying nature and protecting the environment.

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Reputation Brand Attrition How To 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2016

The retailer offers a monthly subscription service for fitness and athleisure apparel and accessories. The third lever is to use digital technology to create a purchase experience that’s entirely unique to each customer, delivering true value to the customer as a result. Fabletics is a case in point.

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Trends Hotels Competitive Advantage Retail 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2017

” Life Is Good is an apparel company best known for colorful T-shirts with stick-figure designs, but its mission is to spread optimism and hope throughout the world, and that’s something that even warehouse employees understand. There’s a great story about a janitor that John F. Kennedy ran into at NASA in 1962.

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Apparel How To Call Center Retail 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

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Knowing when and how to act as the water around you gets hot. As I covered in my October HBR.org post, Patagonia's "Buy Less" Campaign May Lead to More Revenue , Patagonia has launched a campaign to encourage its consumers to buy only the apparel they need. Some retailers will continue this momentum. Others will not.

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Retail Apparel Supply Chain Agility 14

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. A workforce of 8,000 led by a transformational CEO, seemingly knows how to deal with the ever-changing digital world. By 2004, sales and profits were in double digit declines.

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Apparel Brand Franchising Competitive Advantage 100

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2016

Yet, more and more businesses are thinking about how to reduce consumer waste. Some retailers and manufacturers—in the apparel, footwear, and electronics industries—have launched programs to make their customers interested in preserving their products and preventing things that still have value from going to the landfill.

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Company Apparel Incentives Retail 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. This is where the work interface comes into effect.

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Company Fashion Apparel Trends 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Since then, however, it has been running up against the most important questions about how to make data labeling work: Which products "need" it? The company's efforts came on the heels of Pepsi's first foray into labeling with its Walkers potato chips brand, also in the UK.

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Supply Chain Retail Apparel B2B 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

But even for the oldest family businesses in developed economies, such as North America, whether and how to promote “family owned” in advertising, websites, social media and press releases is a more nuanced decision. ” How much the company self-identifies as a family business obviously varies.

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B2B Press Release Construction Brand 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. What to buy, what size, what shape, what material, what style.

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TSR Apparel Consultative Uncertainty 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Let’s say it’s an apparel company, right. And then you think about how new entrants come into the market. How would they get earned knowledge about how to get things done at a modern geographically distributed, dynamic and competitive enterprise? Think about this, if you think about a legacy product company.

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Content Crisis Apparel Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2015

The Freakonomics podcast “How to Save $1 Billion Without Even Trying” talks about how doctors and chefs were much more likely to buy private label in their respective fields and feel proud about doing so as an expression of their expertise. Someone who buys lots of Kirkland feels very strongly and positively about Costco.

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Price Brand Retail Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

And more recently, athletic apparel company Puma (working with my colleagues at PwC and the UK's TruCost) produced an " environmental P&L " which measured the "real" cost of carbon and other environmental inputs like water. But executives weren't charged real money.

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Price P&L White Paper Energy 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2015

Fara Howard , VP of global marketing for the shoe and apparel firm Vans, describes her brand as “an intuitive brand that leads with its heart.” They’ve figured out how to close the loop on marketing spend to effectively prove their worth. Market-driven CMOs are great listeners.

Leadership Styles 8

Leadership Styles Leadership Brand Audience 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2013

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. I read a lot to learn how our economy worked. We looked at the three biggest segments — packaging, food waste, and apparel. I talked with farmers, teachers, scientists.

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Company Apparel Engineering Welch 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

No one can say for sure how to get on a corporate board, but many people point to two routes: the first is to break into the "right" network and the second is to seek a progression of board seats that begins with, for example, a seat on a not-for-profit or community board and eventually results in appointment to a corporate board.

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Telecommunications Biotechnology Health Care Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2016

How to take advantage of the platform. Because messaging apps have surpassed social networks in popularity, companies have to reevaluate how they approach digital marketing. Companies could stand out by letting customers join a messaging channel where they receive tips for how to host a Super Bowl party. Text-to-shop.

Brand 8

Brand Real Estate Content Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

There is concern these days about how technology is replacing our jobs and estranging our connections. In the apparel industry, companies choose one path or the other between high-tech and high touch. The recent experience of Visa provides some lessons in how to transcend the tradeoff between size and speed.

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Chief Operating Officer Apparel Marketing Porter 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2015

After all, their survival hinged on figuring out how to make things click. Companies that aspire to be true innovators need to remember the role of vision and gut instinct, says Jason Berns, senior director of innovation at the athletic apparel company Under Armour. “How big could this be?

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Metrics Innovation Company Stage-Gate 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2014

In other words, business should wait to be told how to address the issue. 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. This is a broader society issue.” according to Bloomberg.com.

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Golden Parachute Apparel Trends Short-term 10

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. What to buy, what size, what shape, what material, what style.

TSR 8

TSR Apparel Consultative Uncertainty 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. Some of its most important contractors possess rare and deep expertise in key areas, such as sugar beets and how to refine them. Connectors in the middle.

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McKinsey Human Resources Reputation Brand 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. “No one really knows how to have a productive fight at work. The feedback in the 360-degree reviews was supposed to be anonymous. “Because you never booked it!”

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Case Study Team CFO Merchandising 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

The feel of Starbucks stores isn’t created merely by the layout and the décor—it exists because the people behind the counter understand how their work fits into a common purpose, and recognize how to accomplish great things together without needing to follow a script. Insight center. It just does not work.”

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Execution Strategy How To Budgeting 15

Eric Jacobson

MAY 25, 2014

Deeply influenced by the Roman emperor, Marcus Aurelius , and ancient Stoic principles , Holiday shows leaders how to turn setbacks or problems into a platform for achieving goals by controlling perceptions through swift and energetic action and true force of will. Robert Greene, who taught me how to be a great researcher and write well.

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Ryan Apparel Crisis Learning-by-Doing 56

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.

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Airlines Energy Self-aware Learning Curve 8

Strategy Driven

JULY 21, 2020

Focus on creating instructional content ‘how to’ since people find it more appealing. Pick an influencer of your niche – for instance, if you have an apparel brand, look for influencers who follow fashion. Unsurprisingly, there is plenty of competition out there, but moving ahead can be easier for you.

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Marketing Strategy Marketing Strategy Audience 68