Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Figure 1: The Interbrand Best 100 Global Brands 2010 A look at two brands’ performances from this year’s table offers insight into how brands can navigate today’s marketplace. subprime mortgages, instead doing business the old-fashioned way, with 80 percent of revenues derived from retail banking. and Latin America.

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Kevin Eikenberry

DECEMBER 9, 2010

He’s also a multiple year nominee for Best Leadership Blog. You still have until midnight December 14th to vote. Prove to Others That You’re Proving It to Yourself by Steve Farber (posted 11/22/10) Extreme Leadership is not a solo act; it doesn’t happen in a vacuum.

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CO2

JULY 6, 2010

As a reminder, if you are not fully satisfied, you can return your undamaged iPhone to any Apple Retail Store or the online Apple Store within 30 days of purchase for a full refund. For those who have had concerns, we apologize for any anxiety we may have caused. We hope you love the iPhone 4 as much as we do. John Sullivan FORA.tv

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

This blog post is part of the HBR Online Forum The Future of Retail. Retailers face several challenges as they enter the 2011 holiday season. Gas prices have risen 90% from 2008 to 2010, leaving consumers with $160 billion less spending money per year. Unemployment remains high.

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Chris Brady

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Posted by: Mrdarin | February 19, 2010 at 06:32 PM Chris: Great advice, and while you are discovering, you will have so much fun. Posted by: Phyllis Hoff | February 20, 2010 at 09:03 AM I think that about nails it right on the mark! Posted by: Adam Dippold | February 24, 2010 at 01:20 AM I agree full heartedly.

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Roundtable Talk

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

On December 8 th , we’ll be meeting with Christine Magee of Sleep Country Canada to talk about her leadership lessons from close to two decades of building Canada’s best known mattress retailer. Click here to register for that session (12 seats only). Hope to see you then. Happy leading!

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Rajesh Setty

SEPTEMBER 1, 2008

© 2005 - 2010 Rajesh Setty Podcast Powered by podPress (v8.8) rajesh301 on Why MANY smart people think they deserve a better position at work? Recent Readers Visitors Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License.

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Rajesh Setty

OCTOBER 14, 2008

About Portfolio Resources eBuzz Blog Home Blog Leadership Entrepreneur Journeys – A conversation with Sramana Mitra RSS Feed Entrepreneur Journeys – A conversation with Sramana Mitra By Rajesh Setty on Tue 14 Oct 2008, 8:40 AM - View Comments I have been following Sramana Mitra ’s writings for a long time now.

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Rajesh Setty

JUNE 26, 2011

Feuer, as CEO, grew the Company to almost 1,000 stores world-wide with annual sales of approximately $5 billion before selling this retail giant for almost $1.5 In 2010, Mr. Feuer launched another retail concept, Max-Wellness, a first of its kind chain featuring over 7,000 products for head-to-toe care. billion in December 2003.

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Mission Statement Retail Entrepreneur Books 34

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

The bullwhip effect is the amplified response to demand signals as one moves “upstream” in the supply chain: from retailers to manufacturers to suppliers to commodity providers. Here’s a hypothetical illustration of the bullwhip effect: A retailer might experience an X% drop in sales owing to some external event.

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Supply Chain Retail Crisis Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2011

another 2 million manufacturing jobs were lost after 2008. The 4 million jobs lost before 2008 will probably never come back. How about the 2 million lost after 2008? From 2001 to 2010, some 20 million service jobs that could have been expected to materialize based on historical rates did not. In the U.S.,

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Retail Outsourcing Technology Education 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2015

They made a new form of retail distribution possible—the shopping center. Exhibit A: Online retailing has directly replaced many jobs and indirectly eliminated many more. Amazon’s extremely efficient distribution system replaces retail stores and their employees. million in 2010. Those are the direct effects.

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Retail Automotive Efficiency Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2013

Their distribution systems make CSD items available in virtually every retail format, in every country in the world, and have cost efficiencies that emerging brands cannot achieve. CSD has immense scale — $74 billion in annual retail sales in the US alone — and soda is purchased by 96 percent of US households.

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Maturity Merchandising Retail Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2013

retailer, spent the last three decades improving its supply chain processes, and designing and launching a series of services, including smaller local convenience stores and online shopping. In response, Dan Jones, chairman of the Lean Academy who worked with Tesco, commented that the retailer''s success is rooted in failure. "In

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2012

We saw after the 2008 recession how men lost their jobs in greater numbers than women. In a 2010 survey, a record 36% of women ages 25-29 had attained a bachelor’s degree compared to 28% of men of the same age. As of 2010, only 2.4% Yet corporate leadership still lags as does the percentage of women on U.S. corporate boards.

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Trends Power Simon Real Estate 265

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2016

Between January 2008 and February 2010, 8.8 Another approach is to ask your clients if you can not do something, just the way retail store clerks now ask people if they really want their receipts. Doing all aspects of a job seemed possible then, if you just followed some basic time management rules. million jobs were lost.

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Restructuring Seminar Productivity Products 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

This was obvious during the financial crisis in 2008, when the government invested about 4 trillion RMB to enhance growth. This is the overarching goal of China’s 2010-2015 plan. Witness the rapid growth in US productivity levels in the 1990s and 2000s in sectors such as retailing.

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GDP Supply Chain Globalization Technology 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2015

A 2010 poll by The Pew Research Center found that the public had a more positive view of them than any other institution in the country – they beat out both churches and universities, for instance, as well as tech companies. America loves small businesses. corporations and for companies considering moving production back to the U.S.

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Supply Chain Rivkin Venture Capitalist Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz has turbocharged its remarkable turnaround since 2008 not only by redesigning its product-service offerings through experience-based engagement platforms but also by gaining insights and ideas through effective dialogue with stakeholders (through its online MyStarbucksIdea platform). for Spain's financial sector.

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CEO Creativity Automotive Participative 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2010

In March 2008, Lula convened his political marketeer João Santana and Dilma to present his overall plan of making Dilma his successor. growth in the Gross Domestic Product in 2010. Three aspects of this election stand out: First, Dilma is an impressive case of succession planning.

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Politics Bureaucracy Globalization Compliance 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2015

Michael Levie, a seasoned hotel executive, and Rattan Chadha, a successful retail entrepreneur, were having dinner. In 2008, they opened their first hotel, at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport, followed by one in Amsterdam City in 2009. Immediately after opening in 2008, citizenM won the Venuez Award for “Best Hotel Concept.”

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Industry Hotels Travel Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2015

After much deliberation, we partnered with University of Chicago Medicine (UCM) in 2010. Our IMatter™ program , launched in 2008, automatically enrolls women who complete a mammogram or get a heart screening at Silver Cross. With local businesses. Enrollees get discounts at more than 100 local businesses (e.g., With physicians.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2014

Back in 2008 , we suggested that the key to Apple’s success was that it had perfected a particular disruptive strategy we dubbed “value chain disruption.” Apple quickly became the largest music retailer in the U.S. The record labels grumbled that Apple sucked the lion’s share of the profits out of the industry, but it was too late.

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Industry Wireless Advertising Content 9

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. million in 2010, when (dominated by the gains from exercising stock options) stock-based compensation accounted for 70% of total compensation.

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Price Franchising Short-term CFO 8

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. Then Costco came knocking on Dave’s doors to supply its warehouse clubs, but Dave’s had to turn the giant retailer down. million in financing for a new 50,000-square-foot bakery, which opened in 2008.

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Operations Company Supply Chain Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

By 2008 it had attracted 33,000 applications; by 2010 that number had risen to more than 550,000. One of Facebook's savviest strategic moves was to open its social-networking platform to outside developers in 2007, thus attracting all manner of applications to its site. But it didn't need to.

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Strategy Organization Committee Environment 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. jobs were gained and lost between 1990 and 2008. Half of this job growth came in health care, government, retail, and construction. The CFR paper tells the story of where U.S.

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Supply Chain Health Care Globalization Trends 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2015

The framework, introduced by Dr. Don Berwick and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement back in 2008, proposes that in order to bring about the change we seek in our bloated health care system we must “simultaneously” pursue these three aims. I must confess that I’m not a fan of the Triple Aim. So what happened at Alcoa?

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Health Care Quality Retail Cost 8

Michael Lee Stallard

JULY 15, 2010

Michael Lee Stallard Insights on Leadership and Employee Engagement Home About Hire to Speak Press Kit Develop Loyalty: Connect with Your Customers Published by Michael Lee Stallard on July 15, 2010 02:07 pm under Media Appearances , Uncategorized , connection culture , human value Now for something completely different!

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Loyalty Development McCarthy Godin 186

Roundtable Talk

JULY 21, 2010

From the outside, Zappos.com is a successful online retailer, but from the inside Zappos.com has created a mission that is about creating happiness. AD Atticus | July 25, 2010 at 8:32 PM | An awesome post, thanks for sharing! LeaderTalker | July 25, 2010 at 11:09 PM | Thanks! LeaderTalker | July 25, 2010 at 11:10 PM | Thanks!

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CEO Retail Mission Statement Blog 46

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

If you had asked Singaporeans in 2010 to identify a successful local start-up, they might have paused for a few minutes before mentioning Creative Labs. With the cautionary notes in mind, I arrived in Singapore in March 2010. Singaporeans are not,” critics would respond. “Name a Singapore start-up.

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Entrepreneur Incubator Venture Capitalist Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2016

billion in the rest of Europe over the period 2010-2015. The uncertainty could have an impact on a wider ecosystem that affects the attractiveness of the UK as a tech hub: retail, hospitality, healthcare, and financial services. billion as compared to $4.4 Decision-Making Will Be Held Hostage to Uncertainty.

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Safe Harbor Industry Uncertainty Crisis 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

Fifteen European countries have been losing momentum since 2008 in terms of their state of digital evolution – this is what we mean by a digital recession – with the Netherlands coming in dead last in our momentum rankings. European countries occupy the nine bottom spots in our list of 50.

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Crisis McKinsey Policies Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2017

But in the last two contests in which Hillary Clinton has participated, the 2008 primary and the 2016 election, she won on most of these metrics — and lost the elections. Two developments bear noting. First, and most obvious, traditional media is no longer the only way to spread the word.

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