Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 27, 2010

The increase in private sector jobs suggests that retail and factory jobs will continue to climb. The issue at the heart of this uncertainty involves limited access to capital at a time when banks are reluctant to lend. Unfortunately, few expect a change in the 9.6 percent unemployment rate. The results are mixed.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2011

As retailers tally up sales from the crucial holiday period, the early returns look good: spending rebounded in 2010, with MasterCard reporting a 5.5 percent — and the 2010 holiday season may mark the first time that online spending accounts for more than 10 percent of all gift purchases. Online spending jumped by 15.4

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2014

For example, in the credit card business, understanding the importance of deals with issuing banks is critical. While marketing might focus on maximizing card transactions, or swipes, finance understands that not all swipes are equal (depending on the deal with a given bank). Inside Intel. Organizational Anachronisms Exposed.

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Finance Marketing P&L ROI 13

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

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Comments The Right CEO Personality for Process Improvement I recently argued that in industries such as distribution and logistics (Amazon, FedEx, UPS), process manufacturing (Exxon), insurance (Aetna), restaurants (McDonalds), and retail banking (Bank of America, Citibank, Wells Fargo), continuous process improvement is essential.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2014

There is no fee charged to retailers who use it and no exorbitant interest rates lying in wait for consumers. The unbanked pay four times more in fees to access their money than those with bank accounts, and they pay $4 higher fees per month for cash access on average than those with formal financial services. It’s safe from hackers.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2012

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% My third example is a woman who is running a very successful business in the Midwest providing medical attire (scrubs) in fun retail environments all over the country. of the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2017

A nearly $150 million settlement is pending for the fake-account scandal that roiled the bank last year, and a new scandal has emerged: Recently it has been alleged that thousands of customers were signed up for insurance without their knowledge. ’s largest banks? What explains the divergence in the fortunes of two of the U.S.’s

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2012

An Indian investment bank, Avendus, projects 376 million Indian Net users by 2015. It's a reflection of what's happening in the domestic retail space more broadly. Infibeam's founder projects growth of the retail economy from $400 billion today to $1 trillion by the end of the decade. billion e-commerce sector, says Avendus).

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Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Conference Wireless 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2017

I became the CEO of a manufacturing company in 2010 after a completing management buyout with some outside investors. A former waiter or retail delivery person fit the bill much better than an education bureaucrat. Two in particular come to mind. One had to do with hiring; the other had to do with a termination.

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Content Engineering Education Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

The Conversation Blogs The Conversation Artisans Must Balance the Books 8:12 AM Tuesday November 23, 2010 by Ndubuisi Ekekwe | Comments () Email Tweet This Post to Facebook Share on LinkedIn Print The boy was 11 years old when his father took him to live with a kinsman, a businessman with many shops in Lagos, Nigeria. All rights reserved.

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Books Guidelines Banking Telecommunications 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

Instead, you can rethink what it means to be in the retail-banking business, or the industrial-distribution business, or the office-cleaning business. Doyle became CEO in 2010, after some troubled years , when the company’s growth was slow and its stock price was stuck, a lame $8.76

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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.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Venture Capitalist Rivkin Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Spanish bank Caja Navarra's CEO, Enrique Goñi, has embraced transparency as a core principle in building its experience-based engagement platforms, believing that the time had come to change the rules as people demand transparency, participation, and responsibility. It closed out the 2010 fiscal year with €11.97

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CEO Creativity Automotive Participative 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2010

growth in the Gross Domestic Product in 2010. Dilma will presumably maintain the independency of the Central Bank. Risk Agencies, such as "Fitch Rating", declared "null effect" in the fund ratings. Dilma is likely to preserve the macroeconomic policies consolidated in the last 16 years and accountable for delivering an estimated 7.0%

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Politics Globalization Bureaucracy Compliance 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2015

In 2010, my company created an app store. Because nearly all e-commerce firms are formalized for access to the banking system, they pay taxes. Take Jumia , a leading online retailer in Nigeria that sells everything from home goods to mobile phones to health and beauty supplies. Look at my own experience.

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Entrepreneur Open-book Marketing System 8

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

MARCH 28, 2016

inch disk drives; LCD vs. CRT television; online vs. brick-and-mortar banks). It dominated the ultra-profitable, digital-photo-kiosk market, even pushing archrival Fuji out of Walgreens’s retail-pharmacy juggernaut. By 2010, Kodak had clawed its way to No. inch vs. 3.5-inch

Company 8

Company How To Technology Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2016

With help from those professionals, she established an S Corporation , got an employer identification number from the IRS , opened a business bank account, and set up payroll with Gusto. In 2010 she left her position to “look for that dream job.” These logistics took her four weeks and cost her about $1,200.

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Succession How To Consultative Project 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

In banking, Wells Fargo and Fifth Third Bancorp also announced pay increases for minimum wage employees. Looking closer at the period following the financial crisis, 2010 to 2014, we find that weak demand played a key role in the recent productivity growth decline to historic lows. percentage points. in 2014 to 2020.

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Crisis Retail Long-term Banking 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. Half of this job growth came in health care, government, retail, and construction. Many of these new jobs were a poor fit for manufacturing workers who had been displaced.

Supply Chain 12

Supply Chain Health Care Globalization Retail 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

At first, the causes of free fall appear to be external: a global financial crisis, a banking system collapse, government deregulation, or, more common, a new business model or technology harnessed by a nimble insurgent competitor. But these forms of external turbulence tend to be the trigger of free fall, not the cause. billion in revenue.

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Company How To Business Model Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

A: Best Buy, the largest dedicated consumer electronics retailer in the United States, provides a good example of a company that developed an outside-in orientation by tackling its own internal silos. Leading Innovation Is the Art of Creating “Collective Genius” How to Brand a Next-Generation Product.

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Education Execution Content Cooper 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Umair Haque Blogs Umair Haque On: Global business , Competition , Economy Making Room for Reflection Is a Strategic Imperative 11:52 AM Wednesday November 24, 2010 | Comments () Email Tweet This Post to Facebook Share on LinkedIn Print Business is, above all, busy. And maybe its too busy. Lets face it. But you might get a tiny bit closer.

Short-term 15

Short-term Guidelines Mass Marketing Telecommunications 15

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 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

While 44% of EU residents shopped online in 2014, a paltry 15% bought from another member state; barely up by six and a half percentage points since 2010, according to the European Commission’s (EC) “Digital Agenda Scoreboard 2015.” A major reason for this deficit is insufficient investment. billion).

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