Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2013

Every new market I look at seems to have an Amazon-style copycat — a website that looks, functions, and sells products a lot like a well-known online retailer. E-retailers in these emerging markets are today confronting a number of fundamental issues, a large one being trust. also in 2001 ) and India ( Bazee in 2004 ).

Globalization 8

Globalization First-mover Advantage Retail Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2018

publicly listed companies from 2001 to 2015, looking at patterns of investment, growth, earnings quality, and earnings management. The trouble with short-term thinking is that in many cases, it doesn’t reward shareholders in the long term. The McKinsey Global Institute examined the performance of 615 large- and mid-cap U.S.

CEO 8

CEO Short-term Long-term McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2011

In 2001, BusinessWeek published an article entitled "Sorry, Steve: Here's Why Apple Stores Won't Work." In 2001, they called Steve Jobs "The Graying Prince of a Shrinking Kingdom." I don't think they understand the game Apple is playing. And perhaps they haven't for a long time. Not that they're alone.

Competitive Advantage 14

Competitive Advantage Software Health Care Long-term 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2015

For instance, ever since Goldman Sachs coined the term BRIC, China and India have pulled ahead of Brazil and Russia, whose growth fell below the group average between 2001 and 2013. Between 2001 and 2014, for instance, Mexico’s rank slipped from 35 to 53; Bangladesh’s from 65 to 130; and Nigeria’s from 94 to 147.

Marketing 8

Marketing Benchmarking Globalization Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

Take the example of Harvey Norman , an Australia-based household-goods retailer that operates under various brands and has stores in several countries. That was in keeping with the Corporations Act of 2001. Some companies are starting to share finer-grained results, which helps, but they need to go further.

Report 11

Report Franchising Analysis Guidelines 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

For example, Peru’s rising middle class offers an increasingly attractive choice for consumer goods and retail MNCs looking to diversify their investments beyond established markets. The three main grocery retail chains in Peru grew from 57 stores in 2001 to 155 stores in 2010. Eastern Europe, Middle East & Africa.

Marketing 8

Marketing GDP Automotive Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

The store he founded, with its iconic blue and yellow logo and functional, minimalist furniture, is the largest furniture retailer in the world. For example, when the first IKEA catalogue came out in 1951, many retailers had similar, mail-order business models. Quite the contrary.

Succession 8

Succession Humphrey Business Model Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

In 2001, Smucker's acquired Jif and Crisco from P&G, which no longer saw them as a strategic fit. Smucker's is hardly the only company capitalizing on the shrinking middle, as retailers and other consumer packaged goods makers find ways to turn contraction into growth, according to a recent article in the Wall Street Journal.

Brand 14

Brand Strategic Fit Retail McKinsey 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2012

With the Winter holiday shopping season, fashion apparel retailer Zara has been the focus of media attention — the New York Times recently profiled the innovative fast fashion business model pioneered by Zara, while Elizabeth Cline's book on the costs of fast fashion has climbed up the sales charts.

Business Model 9

Business Model Innovation First-mover Advantage Apparel 9

HR Digest

AUGUST 30, 2021

states across 80 categories, including architecture, finance, human resources, IT, social services, retail, sales, writing, and more. The website was launched in 2001 and one of the pioneers in such specialized listings. You can create your own login and even opt for messages for new listings. disABLEDperson lists jobs in all 50 U.S.

Human Resources 105

Human Resources Retail Finance Engineering 105

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2011

the first retail store, or the first iPod/iTunes product in 2001 that only worked on a Mac and had no online store). In the new book, Great by Choice , Jim Collins and Morten analyzed the 1997-2002 period and discovered something interesting.

CEO 14

CEO Collins Long-term Analysis 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2011

At a major retail bank, early signals of an emerging rift between factions — manifested in very different networks of information sharing — made it possible to save an acquisition before it came apart.

Intangible Assets 15

Intangible Assets Analysis Pharmaceuticals Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

Between 2001 and the end of 2008, for example, no less than 15 U.S. Consumer electronics retailers have combated their razor thin margins by offering additional warranties and premium installation services. Retail banks found many ways to unbundle elements of their core offering that not everyone needed, like check-processing.

Airlines 8

Airlines Industry Transportation Travel 8

Coaching Tip

JANUARY 29, 2014

The study explores net growth in private-sector business establishments from 2001 to 2012, ranking the best and worst states for new establishments post-recession and shedding light on national trends. produced between 115,000 to 210,000 net new private-sector establishments each year from 2001 to 2007. New Jersey.

Real Estate 97

Real Estate Health Care Insurance Construction 97

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2017

The companies that are most vocal about environmental and social issues tend to be big, mass-market brands — well-known retailers , consumer products giants , and tech firms that are telling a new story to consumers who increasingly care about sustainability. I’ll then discuss some of LVMH’s challenges.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Payback Period Brand Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2012

The book retail platform was not yet burning. The HBR article describes how B&N moved on multiple fronts at once: It aggressively reduced costs in its core retail business while refocusing its stores around consumer needs. But the flames were about to rise.

EBITDA 8

EBITDA How To Crisis Depreciation 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

When I stepped in to run the Campbell Soup Company in 2001, the environment at Campbell was hugely challenging. Perhaps you've heard the story. We'd lost half of our market value in just one year. We were at a strategic crossroads for our shareholders.

Company 15

Company Real Estate Retail Commitment 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

In 2007 AOL and Time Warner finally pulled the plug on the $350 billion 2001 merger that Time Warner chiefs Jeff Bewkes and Gerald Levin later called “ the biggest mistake in corporate history.”. Southwest’s decision in 2007 to hedge against increases in the price of jet fuel proved remarkably prescient.

Hedge 8

Hedge Restructuring Execution Download 8

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 4, 2013

For many years, we will be measuring how loss of corporate credibility has tainted all facets of business, in terms of remediation, replacement, litigation, make-good, rework, damage control, recovery process, settlements to victims, decreased stock market value and sagging retail sales. million jobs were affected by the.

Crisis 57

Crisis Airlines Transportation Crisis Management 57

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2013

Everyone is familiar with the primary methods Gillette used to grow: It innovated via technology (with the Sensor, Mach 3, and Fusion razors), and in 2001 it formally expanded into the women''s leg shaving market with a new brand called Venus. For decades, the shaving market was men''s facial hair removal.

Price 8

Price Franchising Marketing CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2011

In 1972, HP's first calculator, the HP-35, would retail at $400 at a time when the market for scientific calculators did not yet exist. R&D spending fell from 6% of revenue in 2001 to 2.3% The small bets approach helped HP pioneer handheld calculators. The technology was remarkable and it could fit into your pocket.

Ries 11

Ries Agility Market Segmentation Christensen 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2013

One can also see his continual intervention in markets, from banking to retail, as motivated by the same belief that government knows best, and that markets are not to be trusted. Related to its foreign exchange crisis of 2001, Argentina had borrowed substantially from the IMF and other international lenders.

Politics 8

Politics Price Simon Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2013

For instance, Apple filed applications for the original iPhone only four days before it was announced in 2007; for the original iPod in 2001, the filing was one day before release. Like clockwork, it would wait until just before unveiling a new product design to file a corresponding design patent application.

Magazine 8

Magazine Engineering Productivity Products 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2016

” Toby did everything his father asked, joining The Bozzuto Group in 2001 as a development associate. Teddy admired the organization’s mission and reinvention of the retail supply chain, so he went back to his brother and told him, “I want to work for you.” And I had to start at the bottom.”

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Supply Chain Learning-by-Doing Career 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

It’s worth noting that the companies and business units in my study were tracked between 2001 and 2007. A: Best Buy, the largest dedicated consumer electronics retailer in the United States, provides a good example of a company that developed an outside-in orientation by tackling its own internal silos.

Education 8

Education Execution Content Cooper 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

About the Research We looked at the background and performance data of 297 CEOs leading the largest companies in three different industries which are widely regarded as innovative: pharmaceuticals, high-tech, and fashion retail. There was no strong association between CEO background and firm performance in high-tech and fashion retail.

CEO 8

CEO Innovation Pharmaceuticals Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

The computer, software, telecoms, music, broadcast, publishing, photography, retail, and consumer electronics industries certainly believe so. Traditional retailers smirked and cried “niche!” ” when Ron Johnson began rolling out Apple Stores in 2001.

Automotive 8

Automotive Supply Chain Disruptive Innovation Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

companies to reverse years of enhancements and innovations in secure online transactions and data storage that power the world’s largest retail e-commerce market , valued at $238 billion. That was in 2001. As it is written, the legislation would essentially force companies to engineer defects into the their security systems.

Technology 8

Technology Globalization Software Telecommunications 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2016

“This is not happening just in retail, or in IT-producing sectors,” said Chiara Criscuolo, an OECD economist and coauthor of the report. Since 2000 productivity growth at the most productive “frontier” firms has sharply outpaced the average. “It’s happening a bit across the board.”

McKinsey 8

McKinsey Document Engineering Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Wired reported late last year, "The top 10 Web sites accounted for 31% of US page views in 2001, 40% in 2006, and 75% in 2010." Amazon is now a primary source of traffic for thousands of third-party retailers. Its retail vertical for shoes wasn't working. These are not online publishers, like Yahoo! These are tech companies.

CPA 15

CPA CPM Advertising Disintermediation 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

” For example, productivity has grown dramatically in the retail sector since 1990; inflation-adjusted sales per employee have grown by roughly 50%. Walmart went from a 3% share of the general merchandise retail market in 1982 to over 50% today. IT Does Matter. Why, then, did Apple prevail?

Software 8

Software Company Competitive Advantage Henderson 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2017

Some retailers that are big importers could see their net profits plummet by almost 80%, while exporters of manufactured goods could see their net profits soar by 50% or more (see these exhibits ). supply base: The United States suffered a net loss of nearly 19,000 manufacturing firms between 2001 and 2015, according to our analysis of U.S.

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain Chemicals Uncertainty Policies 10

In the CEO Afterlife

JUNE 8, 2016

Speciality coffee shops are competing with retail brands for consumers’ attention in the grocery aisle, new coffee formats are being introduced (such as single-cup brewing systems), and U.S. wholesale grocers (prior to Bell’s arrival in 1977), which meant its market share inside competitive retailers was, naturally, quite low. “By

Brand 100

Brand Brand Management Advertising Management 100

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2014

When Apple launched the iPod in 2001 it was interesting, but when it added the iTunes music store in 2003 an industry changed. The prevailing mobile phone model involves service carriers subsidizing the devices in return for locking consumers into two-year phone service contracts and charging them based on usage.

Business Model 8

Business Model Wireless Disruptive Innovation Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Recent research suggests that Chinese imports, over the 12 years after the country’s WTO entry in 2001, took in excess of an estimated two million jobs out of U.S. The companies to focus on would be those that import heavily from China, such as big retailers like Walmart or branded orchestrators like Apple. communities.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Offshoring Retail Education 8