American Apparel Gets Adult Supervision

摘要

On a recent conference call with American Apparel store managers, someone asked how to fix a printer. Embattled founder and Chief Executive Officer Dov Charney, whose company lost $86 million in 2010 and disclosed last month that a cash crunch could tip it into bankruptcy, piped up that he would look into it. "He should have said 'I will have somebody else do it,'" says Martin Staff, a veteran apparel executive brought in last month as chief of business development. "That's the conversion from a small company to a large company, and I think he's still learning."