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New York’s Fashion Industry Reveals a New Truth About Economic Clusters

Harvard Business Review

A majority of our sample worked outside the Garment District. The Garment District’s agglomeration economies foster the freedom necessary for creativity to thrive, which is part and parcel of how great dresses are made in the first place.

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Why the Future of E-Commerce Depends on Better Roads

Harvard Business Review

This is the reassuring physical signal that his part of the never-ceasing, get-it-now economy has successfully turned one more notch on its endless loop — a cycle repeated at 2,000 similar United Parcel Service delivery hubs around the country and the world. “I am in the business of minutes,” Massie says.