Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

The tales of two companies, cell phone accessories retailer Cellairis and skin care products maker Rodan + Fields, illustrate the dangers of top-level strategic tinkering. They had the epiphany that they could use cheap retail space – the carts that sit in the middle of shopping malls – to sell mobile phone accessories, mostly cases.

Strategy 8

Strategy Wireless Company Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

McDonald’s is the world’s largest fast-food chain: It has 36,200 retail outlets in 119 countries, 6,700 of which are owned by the corporation; the rest are run as franchises. In the period 2006 through 2014, the total pay of McDonald’s CEO varied from a low of $3.6 million in 2014 to a high of $12.6

Price 8

Price Franchising Short-term CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2011

It closed out the 2010 fiscal year with €11.97 billion in retail managed resources, of which €8.43 It has resulted in positive cash flows, occupancy of over 90%, and higher levels of customer and employee satisfaction in 2010. By comparison, it had a negative cash flow and and occupancy rate of only 60% in 2006.

CEO 10

CEO Creativity Automotive Participative 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2014

In October 2010, when its founders launched their website to the world, 25,000 web viewers overwhelmed the site. As a $3 million baker in Milwaukie, OR, the firm had already outgrown the capacity of its 15,000-square-foot bakery by 2006. If they don’t, they could go out of business overnight. Later that year, Dave’s got $2.1

Operations 8

Operations Company Supply Chain Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

By 2010 the company had become the best-performing stock in the S&P 500, worth $30 per share and earning investors a return of 29 times. Yet when digital photography arrived, the company was slow to embrace it, only incorporating it into its cameras in 2006. Since then its stock has more than doubled. By 1993 the company had $1.3

Company 8

Company How To Business Model Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2011

After serving as a dean at Harvard and Stanford, he was chair of the World Bank-sponsored Commission on Growth and Development from 2006 to 2010. Half of this job growth came in health care, government, retail, and construction. Many of these new jobs were a poor fit for manufacturing workers who had been displaced.

Supply Chain 12

Supply Chain Health Care Globalization Trends 12

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!

CPA 15

CPA CPM Advertising Disintermediation 15