Women on Business

JANUARY 18, 2011

Katrina Markoff launched her gourmet chocolate company in 1998. Instead, she left some of her chocolate samples with the Neiman Marcus buyer, and the next day he called and asked for more, which he left in the company’s break room. Katrina leads her company with a focus on keeping her staff creative and relaxed.

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The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Already we’ve seen retail demand falling to unprecedented levels, with reduced mobility also causing demand for oil to plummet. It’s prompted economists to predict a recession that is twice as deep as that experienced after the 2008 financial crisis.

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Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 3, 2010

This may seem harsh, but an office succeeds and fails as a whole, and all the individuals need to be responsible for the overall success of the company. This can be giving another company a chance to rise up past you. INFANTRYMAN’S CREED “I forsake not my….my my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless.

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The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

What is perhaps important to note in discussions around the impact of technology on jobs is that the companies investing so heavily in AI actually grew their workforce by 15%. The paper highlights how the youth labor market is typified by high levels of consumer-facing roles in sectors such as hospitality, fitness, and retail.

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Osborne Report Marketing Technology 84

Eric Jacobson

MAY 11, 2021

All three types can be gained by working for a big company before launching a venture. If you launch a beverage brand or a fashion apparel company, industry experience is super valuable. Eisenmann : Consider three types of prior experience that can be valuable for an entrepreneur.

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Succession Entrepreneur Case Study Apparel 65

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

I am just going to put an example that will immensely help you understand the significance and uncertainty of starting a new company. Consider an employee who is well-recognized(of course due to his performance), highly-benefited, and well-settled with an XYZ company, but due to certain issues, he has to find another company.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

With Black Friday behind us, Cyber Monday upon us, and retail's make-or-break season in high gear, many of us are interacting more than usual with front-line service employees. What better moment to re-read "Putting the Service-Profit Chain to Work," which was originally published in 1994 and reprinted as a "classic" in 2008.

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Retail Heskett Franchising COO 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2016

Early last year, our company, Duarte Inc., We had turned our org chart on its side, so that nearly every person in the company either had a new boss or was a new boss. Remember how Howard Schultz launched his renewed vision for Starbucks when he returned to the company as CEO in 2008? We had moved to a different building.

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Company Mission Statement Bond Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

We studied the sector for three years and came up with some very interesting findings about the “adjustment costs” that companies incur when they disrupt themselves. electric utilities during 2008-2015—a period in which the decentralized model was in its uncertain, nascent phase.

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Company Disruptive Innovation Decentralization Software 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2018

No industry is failing faster than retail. Just last month, the 125-year-old Sears—once the world’s largest retailer— filed for bankruptcy. No matter how well P&G reorganizes itself, it can’t reverse the decline from $83 billion in sales in 2008 to $65 billion in 2017 without learning some new tricks.

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Brand Retail Incubator Merchandising 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

An engaging conversation with a helpful retail employee. And the conversation didn’t take place on H&M.com or the company’s mobile app. Although the use of brands’ mobile apps has exploded since 2008, “brand app fatigue” is starting to settle in. It happened on Kik, a third-party messaging app.

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Company Brand Learning Curve Merchandising 8

Rajesh Setty

JUNE 26, 2011

During a 16-year span, Mr. 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.

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Mission Statement Retail Entrepreneur Books 34

Strategy Driven

MARCH 21, 2011

Michael Hammer and Lisa Hershman provide the tools for focusing on work that creates real value for customers, including: How to get people to move from ‘worm’s-eye view’ of thier jobs to a ‘bird’s-eye view’ – to understand what the company really does and the role they have in achieving results.

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Hammer Chief Executive Officer Metrics Process 50

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2015

In this article adapted from their new book, Jerry Davis and Chris White explore what makes some companies more fertile for social innovation — that is, the ongoing (rather than one-off) initiatives that have positive social impact while promoting the core mission of a business. Changing Your Company from the Inside Out.

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Innovation Company Supply Chain Open-book 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2016

Companies that grow face a predictable problem: over time, the business becomes way too complex for its own good. I see this a lot in companies that have moved heavily into what I call the “exploitation” phase of a competitive advantage , or the phase that comes after the initial launch and successful ramp-up.

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Company Competitive Advantage Bureaucracy Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2017

million people who work as retail salespeople and cashiers and in food prep and service — the three largest occupations in the United States — earn poverty-level wages and have unpredictable schedules, few opportunities for success and growth, and little meaning and dignity in their jobs.

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Merchandising Retail Competitive Advantage Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

While the contractions in business activity along global supply chains will cause companies to cut capital investments and inventories, we should remember that this is only the first leg of the phenomenon. Consequently, although companies should cut costs now, they should be on the lookout for the quick rebound that is likely to follow.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Retail Crisis Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2014

Many midsized companies dream of joining the Fortune 500 someday or of becoming the next General Electric, Microsoft, or Amazon. This lack of adaptability is not a problem in most small companies. This lack of adaptability is not a problem in most small companies. Take Instagram, the San Francisco-based social media company.

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Operations Company Supply Chain Short-term 8

Roundtable Talk

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

Know your values… as an individual and as a company. 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. It pays for leaders to be a little bit paranoid. 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.

Simon 10

Simon Retail Uncertainty Apparel 10

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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Entrepreneur Licensing Newsletter Books 28

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. subprime mortgages, instead doing business the old-fashioned way, with 80 percent of revenues derived from retail banking. Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr. Ives Sharon Drew Morgen Hank Moore Jamie P.

Brand 64

Brand Globalization Banking Long-term 64

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

Meanwhile several industries are caught smack in the middle of major disruptions — media, retail, and automotive, just to name a few. Let's take a look at retail, the cornerstone of the 20th century consumer economy. Even after the crash of 2008, I heard many executives in the U.S. Yet the U.S. in Sweden and 2.3

Management 15

Management GDP Retail Automotive 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2018

How to make your company more nimble and responsive. An example of the difficulties of competing for dependence can be seen in the rise of the “ DIY-economy ,” which was particularly pronounced after the 2008 recession. Interestingly, customers have varied preferences for retailers depending on the product category.

Stress 10

Stress Insourcing Uncertainty Retail 10

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.

Simon 8

Simon Retail Uncertainty Apparel 8

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. Around the same time, the French beauty company, L’Oréal, said it would stop selling its flagship brand, Garnier, in the country. And Western Internet companies such as Yahoo!,

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain Retail Chemicals Marketing 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2013

Companies seeking to create scalable social businesses need a measurement system that monitors their progress in delivering social benefits and economic value. It tracks the number of participating young people and retailers and the performance of retailers over time. But it, too, remains very much a work in progress.

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System Merchandising Retail Class 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2016

One that defines the company’s vision, communicates the strategy, and embodies the culture. It says who you are as a company. Research shows that our brains think of companies not as objects but as people. It may sound a bit strange at first, but the same is true for your company. Specific but with room to grow.

How To 8

How To Brand Retail PR 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2015

Sure, the Internet has created new applications and great companies — Google, Facebook, Amazon, Twitter, and the all-important cloud. But many of the largest Internet companies have for the most part taken revenue from existing companies without growing the total economy. Others followed suit. Those are the direct effects.

Retail 8

Retail Automotive Efficiency Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Companies that don't go rural, we believe, are making a major mistake. Getting around these retailing hurdles will require flexibility and creativity. One, companies should use franchising to scale up quickly. Four, companies can piggyback off established sales and after-sales service networks such as Haier's.

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Marketing Franchising Retail Budgeting 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2014

The 42 members of this purchasing coalition formed in 2008 include Mayo Clinic, Swedish Covenant Hospital, and Sanford Health. An example of this type of collaboration is VHA’s Upper Midwest Consolidated Services Center (USMCSC). Those numbers yield a very different type of supplier/customer conversation.

Health Care 8

Health Care Retail Mayo Pharmaceuticals 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. When we focus on the puzzle of the man, we overlook important, hidden elements of the company: the paradox of its history, its processes and routines, and its shared, embedded culture of innovation.

Succession 8

Succession Humphrey Business Model Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

Between 2001 and the end of 2008, for example, no less than 15 U.S. Around 2008, however, something unexpected occurred. United Airlines first introduced checked-bag fees and other extras in February 2008, but within months all the other major carriers, except Southwest, joined them. airlines filed for bankruptcy.

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Airlines Industry Transportation Travel 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2014

At such a time, company leaders must relentlessly focus on one thing: unearthing cash and holding onto it. But midsized companies typically need millions of dollars to survive. Midsized companies need to be far more cash-conscious — even penurious — when their markets go sour. Not growth, or even profits.

Crisis 8

Crisis CFO GAAP Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2016

In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, there was a lively debate among policy makers and academics about whether a similar gap “ between the skills workers have and the skills businesses say they need ” contributed to the increase in unemployment. The labor force adjusted to a new technology replacing an older one.

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Skills Education Policies Learning-by-Doing 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

Austin's 2008 HBR article "High Margins and the Quest for Aesthetic Coherence." I appreciate that he goes against the cutting-quality tactics that, unfortunately, I've seen so many companies turn to in an age where fast fashion is the norm. I really applaud Robert D. Design can never be compromised.

Storytelling 9

Storytelling Long-term Fashion Brand 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

According to research presented at the 2012 Audio Branding Congress , congruent sound cues can increase the speed of a visual search for products (a key for success in both online and retail settings), as well as improve the perceived taste of food and wine (PDF). SNCF’s Audio Logo, 2008. SNCF’s Audio Logo, 2012.

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Brand Advertising B2C B2B 10