What Was Considered the Source of Mickey Drexler's Inventory Problems

question 32

Multiple Choice

What was considered the source of Mickey Drexler's inventory problems at Gap?

• A) He personally approved sweatshop-affiliated contract manufacturers
• B) He wrote the code for Gap's disastrously broken inventory system
• C) The firm guessed wrong about fashion, placing big bets on trends that consumers didn't want
• D) He led a botched merger with Disney in the hopes that combining technology with the Disney Store would create a super-efficient set of shopping mall destination stores.

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