Women on Business

JANUARY 18, 2011

Katrina followed that initial success by branching out of her apartment and opening a retail store in Chicago just two-months after her chocolates launched in Neiman Marcus. The employees loved them, and the next thing Katrina knew, her chocolates were being sold in Neiman Marcus.

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The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

The report attempts to develop a risk register of jobs that are vulnerable to any fallout from COVID-19 and indeed the digital transformation that society is undergoing as a result of the pandemic. What’s more, such jobs are often part-time or casual, and youth unemployment was already extremely vulnerable due to this. Help needed.

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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. They’re starting totally virtual companies, using the cloud for solutions and developing innovative ways to manage staff, time, family and work. These women are testers, trying new ideas and experimenting with new business models.

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Trends Power Simon Real Estate 265

Coaching Ourselves

APRIL 18, 2023

We have been collaborating with top management and business thinkers since 2008 to develop expert content in the form of peer learning discussion guides. You may know about CoachingOurselves turnkey programs but read on to discover additional ways to connect and develop leaders of all levels!

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Coaching Ourselves

APRIL 18, 2023

We have been collaborating with top management and business thinkers since 2008 to develop expert content in the form of peer learning discussion guides. You may know about CoachingOurselves turnkey programs but read on to discover additional ways to connect and develop leaders of all levels!

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Schein Mintzberg Participative Content 26

Kevin Eikenberry

DECEMBER 9, 2010

It’s your job to recruit, cultivate, and develop the up and coming Extreme Leaders in your midst. You’ve heard it before: develop people. However… The most overlooked way to develop Extreme Leadership in others is to let them participate in your development. You still have until midnight December 14th to vote.

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Workshop Blog Learning-by-Doing Video 179

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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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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Sports Letter Ryan Blog 122

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. Here’s why.

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Merchandising Retail Competitive Advantage Technology 8

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

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

Meanwhile several industries are caught smack in the middle of major disruptions — media, retail, and automotive, just to name a few. Gregor replied that policies developed in a time when energy inputs got cheaper every year were not very useful these days, because the effect of more expensive energy inputs was basically unthinkable.

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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. Starting in the late 1980s , academic researchers began to develop sophisticated predictive techniques to answer that question. This resistance to state-of-the-art statistical models has frustrated the academics.

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Simon Retail Uncertainty Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2018

For retailers, that difference has big implications for the problem of assortment — how many variations of a single product to offer. For retailers, understanding the dynamics of assortment is critical for attracting and keeping customers. Think of a swimsuit desired for beachwear versus swimming laps.)

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

This blog post is part of the HBR Online Forum The Future of Retail. Retailers periodically update their product assortments, deleting slow sellers and adding new products in response to shifts in consumer demand or to accommodate new offerings from suppliers. Sales declined 40% and the retailer is in bankruptcy.

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Planning Retail Chemicals Fashion 12

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

OCTOBER 2, 2014

For a retailer, it’s extremely useful to know whether a customer will be back or has abandoned you for good. Starting in the late 1980s , academic researchers began to develop sophisticated predictive techniques to answer that question. What they found surprised them.

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Simon Retail Uncertainty Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2018

” Technological developments are often interesting to discuss in relation to relevance. For instance, numerous smartphone apps have been developed that do not solve any actual problems. An example of competition for preference is the retail industry, which has long been a battleground for customer preferences.

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Stress Insourcing Retail Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

economy: the long-run decline in labor’s share of income; the decline in low skilled wages; the decline in labor force participation; the reduction in labor market mobility both between firms and across regions; and the slowdown in productivity growth since 2008. Those giant retailers brought even lower prices. manufacturing.

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Supply Chain Retail Price Trends 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. Michael Hammer was a bold and revolutionary thinker, the coauthor of Reengineering the Corporation, the most important business book of the 1990s.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2013

The International Integrated Reporting Council is developing a common framework for companies to submit "integrated reports" on their financial, environmental, social, and governance performance. Develop a solid business case based on how social improvement will directly improve business performance. Make the Business Case.

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System Merchandising Retail Class 8

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

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

Scibelli restructured the HR department by hiring a director of organizational development from the outside (since they didn't have this function) to help people adapt to process changes. Scibelli himself came from the retail sector. Build an organizational development group in HR that includes operational improvement.

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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. IKEA’s success did not result from the kind of planful strategy development that is still taught in some business schools. Quite the contrary. Some were planned, but many were unplanned.

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Succession Humphrey Business Model Real Estate 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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Supply Chain Health Care Globalization Trends 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

electric utilities during 2008-2015—a period in which the decentralized model was in its uncertain, nascent phase. Think here of enterprise-software developers such as Microsoft, SAP, and Oracle, who are undergoing the disruptive change to cloud-based software service. Costs and benefits.

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Company Disruptive Innovation Decentralization Software 8

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.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 1, 2011

The Economist 's June 2 article " Following the footprints " explores the latest developments in carbon reporting and what companies are learning as they wade into the challenges of measurement. One real-life example of this comes from an office products retailer. In 2008, Dairy Management Inc.

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Supply Chain Apparel Management Retail 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2012

You might think that the corporate human resources function doesn't have much of a role in improving business processes, such as product development, operations, customer service, or distribution. HR can propel or inhibit process improvement because it has an outsized influence on people: how they are recruited, rewarded, and developed.

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Human Resources Operations Compliance Maturity 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2016

Remember how Howard Schultz launched his renewed vision for Starbucks when he returned to the company as CEO in 2008? So, to align company leaders, Schultz gathered 200 senior managers from around the world, sent them out to local retail shops to better understand the customer’s point of view, and then brought everyone back together.

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Company Mission Statement Bond Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2011

And I'd also want team members who knew how to get people to adopt new skills and attitudes — experts in incentives, training and development, culture, communication, stakeholder management, and redeployment. These are "people skills.". Most process engineering starts out as a project," Coco explained. "We

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Six Sigma Skills Team Compliance 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

But over and over again in our three decades of experience as talent development and retention specialists, we’ve seen that companies consistently overlook half of them. These are jobs in R&D, technology, and other areas vital to a firm’s strategic direction, product development, and process efficiency.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2013

If lucky, a start-up grows and develops a success formula. 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. Start-ups tend to be anti-fragile; large, successful organizations tend to be fragile.

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Organization Supply Chain Customer Intimacy Stress 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2013

When we surveyed over 300 global executives between 2008 and 2009, one of the primary concerns they expressed was their inability to compete long term without a solid innovation engine that can grow their top line. Develop Creative Discontent. Apple created the online entertainment business retail pivot.

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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.

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CFO Venture Funding IPO Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2016

We term these product launches “minivations” and they are the result of product developers who don’t realize just how much value their offerings would provide to customers. A few years ago, a Silicon Valley-based manufacturer of electronics components developed a product that would become a breakthrough in its category.

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Productivity Products Price Arkes 8

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

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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