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Fashion Futures 2025: Global Scenarios for a Sustainable Fashion Industry
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Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: Forum for the Future, Levi Strauss & Co.
Publication Year: 2010
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If we understand what the future may hold we can prepare for it, spot promising new ventures and even help shape the direction it takes...
Cambodian Factories Seek Eco-Friendly Power Alternatives
Author: Marks, Simon
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: The New York Times
Publication Year: 2010
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The majority of the Cambodia’s garment factories — making clothes for brand names in the U.S. and European markets — use firewood to heat old-fashioned boilers that produce hot water for dyeing fabrics and steam for ironing.
Overdressed: The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion
Author: Cline, Elizabeth L.
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Portfolio Hardcover
Publication Year: 2012
Cheap fashion has fundamentally changed the way most Americans dress. But what are we doing with all these cheap clothes? And more important, what are they doing to us, our society, our environment, and our economic well-being?
Political Risk in the Kaesong Industrial Complex
Authors: Rice, Condoleezza; Zegart, Amy; McMurdo, Torey L.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Stanford Graduate School of Business
Publication Year: 2012
The Kaesong Industrial Complex is a 1.25-square-mile industrial park six miles north of the Demilitarized Zone in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. This case reviews the political and economic risks and opportunities of entering Kaesong through the lens of Bright Ray Apparel, a hypothetical South Korean textile manufacturing firm.
Made in America: Fashion’s Fight to Save the Garment District
Author: Skarda, Erin
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: TIME
Publication Year: 2013
It’s a myth that no one makes anything in America anymore. The heart of the U.S. fashion industry is still beating in midtown Manhattan, where a stretch of factories, warehouses, showrooms and design studios between 35th and 40th Streets and 8th and 9th Avenues are responsible for creating much of the American-designed and manufactured clothing and accessories...
School House
Author: Leipziger, Deborah
Product Type: Cases
Source: The Aspen Institute Business and Society Program
Publication Year: 2012
Rachel Weeks knew that she had what it takes to be an entrepreneur. She had the vision, guts, intelligence, and ability to work hard. Most of all she had a very good idea: to create School House, a clothing company that would pay workers a living wage. After several years of partnership with suppliers in Sri Lanka, School House faced severe challenges. Rachel decided to manufacture all of the School House product line in the United States. Will School House be able to continue its policy of paying a living wage in U.S.-based factories?
W.L. Gore: Culture of Innovation
Author: Rao, Jay
Product Type: Cases
Source: Babson College
Publication Year: 2012
W.L. Gore differs from the mainstream enterprise in a number of ways -strategy, structure, ownership, leadership, and operations. This case allows the participants to delve into each of these elements and see how they are all consistent and reinforcing one another. The main focus of the case is its "culture of innovation."
Stone-Washed Blue Jeans (Minus the Washed)
Author: Kaufman, Leslie
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: The New York Times
Publication Year: 2011
From the cotton field in rural India to the local rag bin, a typical pair of blue jeans consumes 919 gallons of water during its life cycle, Levi Strauss & Company says, or enough to fill about 15 spa-size bathtubs. The company wants to reduce that number any way it can, and not just to project environmental responsibility. It fears that water shortages caused by climate change may jeopardize the company’s very existence in the coming decades by making cotton too expensive or scarce.
Primark: £10? Ooh that's Expensive!
Authors: Villanueva, Julián; Nueno, José Luis; Ziskind, Julie
Product Type: Cases
Source: IESE Business School
Publication Year: 2011
Could Mr. Marchant continue to make Primark a UK success while at the same time adapting its unique business model to suit new geographies? Could he once and for all dispel the perennial controversy regarding Primark's one weak link: suppliers' use of cheap factory labor?
Employee Ownership and International Diplomacy: Meeting with a Representative of a Thai Worker Cooperative
Author: Colligan, James
Product Type: Mini-Cases
Source: The Beyster Institute
Publication Year: 2011
Jittra Cotshadet coordinates the Try Arm Worker Collective in Thailand which manufactures ladies' lower undergarments. She described the trials her collective faces in the current Thai political climate...
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