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.

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Rajesh Setty

SEPTEMBER 1, 2008

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Rajesh Setty

OCTOBER 14, 2008

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Steve Jobs landed the number one spot in our ranking of the best CEOs in the world, published in HBR in January 2010. In our CEO ranking, we used three metrics to score a CEO ( see the January 2010 article for the methodology ). Steve Jobs combined creativity with discipline, and innovation with scale. million, a 35.4%

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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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Human Capital Real Estate Human Resources Disruptive Innovation 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

As I think about companies that compete on consistent, low cost, reliable operations, most have or had leaders who were process innovators, such as Herb Kelleher at Southwest Airlines, Sam Walton at Wal-Mart, Ray Kroc at McDonalds, Jeff Bezos at Amazon.com, and Fred Smith at FedEx.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2011

This blog post is part of the HBR Online Forum The CEO's Role in Fixing the System. It closed out the 2010 fiscal year with €11.97 billion in retail managed resources, of which €8.43 It has resulted in positive cash flows, occupancy of over 90%, and higher levels of customer and employee satisfaction in 2010.

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CEO Creativity Automotive Participative 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2011

The innovation research identifies the tyranny of large numbers as a common (and vexing) problem for leaders as companies grow, well documented by Harvard Business School Professor Clayton Christensen in The Innovators Solution , Jim Collins in How the Mighty Fall , and by Scott Anthony on this blog.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

The theme of the big event was "Technology-led Transition and Innovation-driven Development," which sounds broad. The Alert delivers the latest blog posts from HBR.org directly to your inbox every morning at 8:00 AM ET. The theme of the big event was "Technology-led Transition and Innovation-driven Development," which sounds broad.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

The Conversation Blogs The Conversation Is HR Too Important to Be Left to HR? 8:07 AM Tuesday November 23, 2010 by Armin Trost | Comments () Email Tweet This Post to Facebook Share on LinkedIn Print Too often I hear even HR people saying, "HR is too important to be left to HR." All rights reserved.

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CIO Guidelines Telecommunications Emotional Intelligence 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Over the next few months, well each be authoring posts in this blog to test-drive ideas and invite input as the research progresses.) The Alert delivers the latest blog posts from HBR.org directly to your inbox every morning at 8:00 AM ET. More from Tom Davenport Want Value From Social?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

The Conversation Blogs The Conversation Are You Working Over the Thanksgiving Holiday? The Alert delivers the latest blog posts from HBR.org directly to your inbox every morning at 8:00 AM ET. All rights reserved. Harvard Business Publishing is an affiliate of Harvard Business School.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

In new or young high-growth industries where barriers to entry are low, innovation rates are high, demand is very hard to predict, and the relative positions of competitors are in flux, a company can often radically shift the course of industry development through some innovative move. But it didn't need to.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Umair Haque Blogs Umair Haque On: Global business , Competition , Economy The Irish Banking Crisis: A Parable 4:33 PM Monday November 29, 2010 | Comments () Email Tweet This Post to Facebook Share on LinkedIn Print Once upon a time, there was a country where bankers disappeared. All rights reserved.

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Banking Crisis Merton Guidelines 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

The Alert delivers the latest blog posts from HBR.org directly to your inbox every morning at 8:00 AM ET. More from The Conversation Google Changes the Playing Field on News Read More » Subscribe to HBR Close Trackbacks TrackBack URL for this entry: [link] No trackbacks have been made to this entry. All rights reserved.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Here's my attempt to capture what I see as the most important stories affecting the greening of business in 2010. To keep this to almost blog length, it's going to be quick, so see the links for more on these stories. My first couple of blogs of the New Year will look at water strategy. trillion by 2020. Zero is the new black.

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Supply Chain Retail Globalization Price 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2012

The blade cartridges for its latest-and-greatest razor, the top-selling Fusion ProGlide , retail for around $4 each, leaving Gillette with what must be incredibly lucrative gross margins. This is an excellent story of reverse innovation in action.but the story has only just begun.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 15, 2010

Through innovative solutions delivered within an integrated framework, SAS helps customers at more than 45,000 sites improve performance and deliver value by making better decisions faster. While at SAS, she has led research studies, authored white papers, articles, and blogs and spoken on leveraging business analytics to improve performance.

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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. So throw Frederick W. Does your "which" ignite your "what"?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

In a blog post , Eric Weigle and Abe Epton described Googles new approach to giving "credit where credit is due." The Alert delivers the latest blog posts from HBR.org directly to your inbox every morning at 8:00 AM ET. In a blog post , Eric Weigle and Abe Epton described Googles new approach to giving "credit where credit is due."

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Ok, this one is cheating a bit, but on a fundamental level, the top themes in green business haven't actually changed too much ( see the 2010 list ). One of my favorite new partnerships is the new Sustainable Apparel Coalition , an impressive mix of powerful retailers, apparel manufacturers, and NGOs.

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