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Lynn Lin

Month: December 2023

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Field Trips

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Denim Futures

Today, we learned about many ways in which the industry is striving for sustainable processing of denim. The session began from recycling cotton and sustainable ways to grow cotton, dyes and pigments, finishes of denim, and finally ways to upcycle denim post consumer. We saw some amazing technology which became a thought provoking journey for me.

For the business of my future, I am inspired to strive for sustainable approaches in every step of the way in my production. Although denim may not be the fabric I will mostly be working with, lessons learned today is still mostly applicable for other fabrics, such as cotton. In the future, I will be looking into detail of my fabric suppliers, ensuring not only the fabrics are produced sustainably, but also the legitimate traceability of the fabric production. Striving for fabric and production sustainability while avoiding green washing would be one of the challenges I will face in the future. In the end, I hope I can achieve 100% sustainability in my lines, such as from using all recycled materials.

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School Life

Learning Expectations

We had a guest lecturer on 28th November who reminded me of what I expected from MBA learning; lectures packed with information, including frameworks, while focusing on real life situations and real challenges businesses face, along with suggested possible solutions. I must say that up until this point, this is the first time in the school year when I felt “ah, yes, this is MBA learning”. Seldom, there were moments where I felt that what I was learning was based on industry knowledge, mostly during the OPS1 sessions. But often, I felt that the learning I received was too academic, or provided no new solutions. I was hoping to learn new things; ways to solve problems in the industry. Majority of the learning we’ve been doing so far has just been learning frameworks and trying to apply those frameworks in business cases. I wish to receive learning on new ideas, be presented with possible solutions, and be challenged to create new solutions; do things that really make a difference in a business setting. In the working world, nobody will ask us what frameworks we used. They will ask: “how can we improve the present, what solutions do you propose, and how should we achieve it?”

And I must say, class discussions haven’t been helpful for my learning. I have not seen them as a good use of time. Nothing new is being generated in these discussions. I rather go read another article.