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...Seoul made him quit sport for manufacturing. His initial venture making jackets was a flop. "We had only one kind of material, in seven colors," he says. "It took us three years to sell them all." The experience made him see that it might be smarter to outsource design and production and concentrate on retail. He envisaged a chain of Li Ning shops, capitalizing on the goodwill that his name retained as memory of the Seoul snafu faded. "I realized if I ran the company by myself it wouldn't be a success," he says. So he began taking...
...COMPANY: Septwolves SECTOR: Garments REVENUE IN 2008: $242 million THE LESSON: Western design must adapt...
...member Work Team is led by Harvard Business School’s Senior Associate Dean for Planning and University Affairs Peter Tufano ’79, Director of the Institute of Politics Bill Purcell, and Graduate School of Design Professor Alex Krieger...
...Reuss brought back experts from GM operations in Australia and Thailand to work on North American sales and marketing initiatives. "We needed expertise," explained Reuss, whose latest re-organization also sent Bryan Nesbitt, who had been general manager of the Cadillac Division since last fall back to GM's design staff where he will be in charge of GM's advance design studio. "Bryan's very talented. We need his expertise in design," said Reuss. (See pictures of American muscle cars in movies...
What was the most powerful motivator for writing Avatar? -Marc Monroe, Paris One powerful motivator was the opportunity to do a mega-design project, where you get to design everything--the vehicles and the creatures and the plants and everything that's in front of the camera. (Watch the interview with James Cameron...