2010 Advertising Innovation Retail 
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.
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 14, 2011
This post is part of the HBR Forum, The Future of Retail. We launched in February of 2010, and within three weeks we'd beat our first-year sales goals. Having a retail presence makes sense to us for four reasons. We rely heavily on press and word of mouth and have done very little paid customer acquisition or advertising.
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Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 30, 2010
The Conversation Blogs The Conversation Breaking Up the Retail-Price Confusopoly 8:25 AM Tuesday November 30, 2010 by Joshua Gans | Comments () Email Tweet This Post to Facebook Share on LinkedIn Print This years holiday shopping season improved somewhat over last year with sales likely to top $11 billion.
Harvard Business Review
JULY 10, 2014
Consumers have more products, brands, and retailers to choose from than ever. The authors of a 2010 HBR article shared two test situations with introverted or extroverted leaders and tested how they reacted to proactive suggestions from employees. It grew to nearly $100 million in sales with minimal advertising support.
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 18, 2011
Cisco's clever little camcorder collapse provides picture-perfect insight into a pervasive innovation pathology: Ignoring — or disrespecting — the obvious. The company promised back in 2009 to bring out a Wi-Fi Flip in early 2010. Novel subtlety and nuance can be wonderful but my innovation heart belongs to obvious.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 4, 2014
Most pundits agreed on what was wrong — a lack of breakthrough innovation since the passing of founder Steve Jobs. Apple has seemingly served as an anomaly to the theory of disruptive innovation. Apple quickly became the largest music retailer in the U.S. And Nielsen has no reason to cede control of it.
Harvard Business Review
JULY 15, 2013
Workflows and innovation initiatives have been artfully reorganized around "projects" to facilitate faster, cheaper and easier contingent participation. Just ask anyone working in the health care, financial services, automobile, retail, media, publishing, education, advertising, real estate or defense industries.
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