Kevin Eikenberry

DECEMBER 9, 2010

There is still time to vote for Steve or our other great nominees for the Best Leadership Blog of 2011. He’s also a multiple year nominee for Best Leadership Blog. You still have until midnight December 14th to vote. Are you showing by your example that you are a continually learning leader? Do it now !

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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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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.

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Chris Brady

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

I am in retail sales and the person who trained me how to tell always told me, "make friends with everyone you can, because you never know what you will want from them in the future. Posted by: Tonyten | February 23, 2010 at 08:41 AM Chris, I have finally realized what it means to have true friends.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

subprime mortgages, instead doing business the old-fashioned way, with 80 percent of revenues derived from retail banking. Santander has also done a good job at leveraging its promising position, by embarking on a number of aggressive acquisitions since 2008. Social Media UY says: January 11, 2011 at 11:31 am [.]

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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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COO Crisis Management Crisis Blog 34

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2014

For a retailer, it’s extremely useful to know whether a customer will be back or has abandoned you for good. As they reported in a paper published in 2008 , rule-of-thumb methods were generally as good or even slightly better at predicting individual customer behavior than sophisticated models. What they found surprised them.

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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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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2014

For a retailer, it’s extremely useful to know whether a customer will be back or has abandoned you for good. As they reported in a paper published in 2008 , rule-of-thumb methods were generally as good or even slightly better at predicting individual customer behavior than sophisticated models. What they found surprised them.

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Simon Retail Uncertainty Apparel 8

Strategy Driven

MARCH 21, 2011

Named to Time magazine’s first list of the twenty-five most influential Americans, the business world lost one of its rare geniuses when he passed away in September of 2008. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc. This content is intended for personal and non-commercial use only. All rights reserved.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Getting around these retailing hurdles will require flexibility and creativity. Helped by a central government subsidy of 3,000 RMB per store, Suguo helps remodel retail outlets and keeps them stocked. In 2008, the Chinese government launched a four-year program to increase the penetration of consumer electronics in rural areas.

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Marketing Franchising Retail Budgeting 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

In the aftermath of the US financial crisis in 2008, companies from North America and Europe rushed into China, seeking to grow both sales and profits. If customers don’t link across regional or municipal borders, as they do in the retail and healthcare industries, size won’t matter.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2014

The malfunction caused major delays shipping toys to retailers. Not surprisingly, many of those retailers refused to pay when the toys finally did arrive, too late for the holiday season. BlueArc was venture-funded, but in 2008 VC money was getting hard to find. BlueArc’s new product hit the market and was an instant success.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

For 2011, it all added up to $4.8 Then in 2008, it acquired P&G's Folgers brand and made it the foundation of a new coffee division. Smucker's impressive annual results cap a decade in which the 4,500-employee firm achieved compound annual revenue growth of 23% and per-share earnings growth of 14%. billion in sales.

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Brand Strategic Fit Retail McKinsey 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2013

In 2011, for the third year in a row, the Euromonitor International market research firm ranked Haier as the top appliance brand in the world, calculated its retail volume share as 7.8 In 2008 he was ready to take yet another big bite, making a surprise purchase of Anheuser-Busch, to create AB Inbev, the world's largest brewer.

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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. million in 2011. Representation of women on boards of S&P 500 companies declined to 16% in 2011 from 16.6% I was raised by a professional mother and my grandmother built a retail business and did not retire until she was 80.

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Trends Power Simon Real Estate 265

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2015

Since its refurbishment in 2008, for example, The Heineken Experience in Amsterdam has become one of the city’s top attractions. This popularity has enabled Heineken to raise admission prices by more than 60 percent since 2009 and increase retail sales per capita by 100 percent from 2009 to 2014.

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Brand Storytelling Trout Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2016

The bank has since fired 5,300 employees for the illegal behavior and eliminated retail bank sales goals entirely. According to Stumpf’s testimony, a board committee became aware of the fraud “at a high level” back in 2011. At best, problem-raisers will be ignored; at worst, they will lose their jobs. Why risk it?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2013

UK-based Marks & Spencer launched "Plan A" in 2007 , aiming to make the company the most sustainable retailer in the world by 2015 and incorporate sustainability attributes, such as sustainable cotton or wood, into every product it sells by 2020 (currently one-third of its products have Plan A attributes).

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Metrics Chemicals Simon Energy 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2014

And by 2011, a mere 21% of Americans had received any training within the past five years. It''s through this lens that the company''s recent hire makes brilliant sense: David Plouffe, President Obama''s 2008 campaign manager. Retail Technology' Back in 1979, for example, young American workers received 2.5

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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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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2012

From the first quarter of 2007 to 2008 bankruptcy filings for small businesses grew 33%. From first quarter 2008 to 2009, bankruptcy filings leapt by 75%. The results are staggering: same-store sales are up 55% from the first half of 2011 to the same period in 2012.

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TSR Apparel Consultative Uncertainty 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2016

But it also has implications for areas outside of entertainment, such as marketing, fashion, tourism, and retail, where commercial AR apps have already been increasing in numbers and popularity. The first commercial AR application appeared in 2008. These early systems superimposed virtual information on the physical environment (e.g.,

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Tourism Technology Content Fashion 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2013

In 2011, for the third year in a row, the Euromonitor International market research firm ranked Haier as the top appliance brand in the world, calculated its retail volume share as 7.8 In 2008 he was ready to take yet another big bite, making a surprise purchase of Anheuser-Busch, to create AB Inbev, the world's largest brewer.

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Globalization Chief Financial Officer Class Licensing 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2014

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. After waiting patiently, Costco became a customer, and by 2011, Dave’s sales rocketed to $50 million.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2012

From the first quarter of 2007 to 2008 bankruptcy filings for small businesses grew 33%. From first quarter 2008 to 2009, bankruptcy filings leapt by 75%. The results are staggering: same-store sales are up 55% from the first half of 2011 to the same period in 2012.

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TSR Apparel Consultative Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2013

From 2008 through 2011, we were just up against challenge after challenge to keep our business in play. Even in more robust economic times, any retail business has to cope with seasonality. For me, that Drucker issue came at a time that Patina was deeply struggling. You're in Santa Fe, which is known as a tourist destination.

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Coaching Tip

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

Back in 2011, for instance, a federal court found that Abercrombie & Fitch, the clothing retailer, discriminated when it rejected a Muslim job seeker who interviewed in a headscarf, or hijab. Nonetheless, in 2008 Heather Cooke, an Abercrombie hiring manager in Tulsa, Okla., On February 25 the U.S.

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Miles Anthony Smith

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Terri Blackstock A New York Times best-selling author and a recipient of numerous awards like the Christian Retailers Choice Award and Carol Awards to name a few, Terri has more than 7 million books sold worldwide. One of her objectives in writing is for her readers to know that they’re not alone, and all trials in life have a purpose.

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Miles Anthony Smith

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Terri Blackstock A New York Times best-selling author and a recipient of numerous awards like the Christian Retailers Choice Award and Carol Awards to name a few, Terri has more than 7 million books sold worldwide. One of her objectives in writing is for her readers to know that they’re not alone, and all trials in life have a purpose.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Prior to this, only 2007-2008 saw this many annual deals, and before that the single-year peak of 2000 saw “just” over 40,000 deals. Hospitals , too, are merging horizontally when they can, as did pharmacy retailers. The efficiencies of online business have continued to fell the old giants of retailing.

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Automotive Retail Restructuring Chemicals 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2011

In The Age of Hyperspecialization (July-August 2011, co-authored by Tom Malone of MIT and Tammy Johns of Manpower), we note that the division of labor, a development that transformed the way physical work was accomplished during the industrial revolution, may now be poised to redefine how knowledge work gets done in the 21st century.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Lululemon, the upscale retailer of yoga clothing, is doing great. Except when it''s not, which is becoming increasingly common — see the sheer pants crisis , the abrupt resignation of a CEO , a poorly-received job ad to replace said CEO, and a bit of media heat over a 2011 murder that occurred in a Bethesda store.

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Supply Chain Company Crisis Crisis Management 8

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. billion (yes billion) dollars. This isn’t the first time Hsieh has sold a company. Hsieh is completely convincing in expressing this vision.

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CEO Retail Mission Statement Blog 46

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

Now, platforms like AngelList, WeFunder, and Republic enable ordinary retail investors to participate in this stage of a company’s growth. ’ Remember that many younger investors grew up in the 2008 recession and perhaps never trusted the stock market.

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Real Estate Rate of Return Finance Innovation 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

Today, there’s an investment seemingly every week; venture-capital investment in the tech sector increased from less than $30 million in 2011 to more than $1 billion in 2013. In 2008, under the National Framework for Innovation and Enterprise (NFIE), the government launched the Early Stage Venture Investment Fund program.

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