Women on Business

JANUARY 14, 2011

An answer to this was anything but obvious, and I struggled to find one shortly after my friend Katie and I were laid off from what were supposed to be dream jobs with an online shoe retailer. We knew that choosing the latter entailed taking, quite probably, the greatest risk in the face of an unstable economy; yet, in the end, we did anyway.

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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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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

This blog post is part of the HBR Online Forum The Future of Retail. Retailers face several challenges as they enter the 2011 holiday season. Gas prices have risen 90% from 2008 to 2010, leaving consumers with $160 billion less spending money per year. Unemployment remains high.

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CoachStation

MARCH 7, 2016

As is always the case when writing my blogs, I hope that this information inspires you to think more about not only what you do but why you do it. in 2010 and started full time work in the business in 2012. This meant from a young age I knew that leading, not just managing and working with people was something I would always pursue.

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Building Personal Strength

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Wednesday, October 27, 2010 People Skills and Personal Strengths - The Bottom Line Im in a "bottom-line" mood right now. Is it the clothing retail business? Administration/management. On this blog. Copyright 2010. Kind of a "no-BS" mood. With tones of "bearing witness" mixed in. The bottom line. Is it the military?

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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. Leave a Reply Cancel reply RSS - Posts Subscribe to our Blog Brought to you by: Online MBA Rankings Join our Fan Page The Executive Roundtable Inc.

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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.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

OCTOBER 31, 2010

You’re Not the Boss of Me Skip to content Home About Me About This Blog ← The Language of Leadership in the 21st Century. As they often say in retail stores about handling merchandise, “ If you break it you own it”. Your comments seem to blend well with the election week comments posted on the Leading Blog.

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Rajesh Setty

SEPTEMBER 1, 2008

You are a new visitor to this blog. You REALLY should subscribe to our newsletter too - you will get exclusive content that is NOT featured on this blog once or twice a month. They manage their businesses (they use tools) In the web 1.0 More from Google’s Official Blog here. HELLO THERE AND WELCOME. They search 2.

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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 ). Inflation-adjusted using 2010 as base year. million, a 35.4% compounded annual growth rate.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

He wasnt a process manager. The Alert delivers the latest blog posts from HBR.org directly to your inbox every morning at 8:00 AM ET. I also argued in my last post that the CEO has a critical and unique role to play in process improvement, enabling a companys activities to be redesigned across functions and divisions. "I

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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." Talk to managers, new hires, applicants, and many others.

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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

APRIL 25, 2011

Brilliant brand management is multi-media and cause-related. There is a Royal Wedding website , a Clarence House royal wedding Twitter feed , and a live multi-media blog put together by St. A 2010 study showed that the public cost of supporting the monarchy was more than $55 million in 2009. James Palace.

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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.) If we hope for better management of large-scale endeavors, our models will have to look beyond what it takes to inform individual, or even organizational, moves.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

Just ask anyone working in the health care, financial services, automobile, retail, media, publishing, education, advertising, real estate or defense industries. As this blog observed literally three years ago: "Most people looking for a job today aren''t competing against each other. A recent McKinsey & Co.

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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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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.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

The Alert delivers the latest blog posts from HBR.org directly to your inbox every morning at 8:00 AM ET. He advises some of the world’s biggest companies on environmental strategy. Follow him on Twitter at @GreenAdvantage.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2013

Understanding the implementation plans for the health care law passed in 2010 is a complicated job for even the most seasoned policy wonks. But some of the businesses that would have been impacted by the employer mandate — in sectors like retail and food service — didn''t appear to be ready to comply with the law.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2011

HP had grown so large, to about $30 billion in sales, that Barnholt and other senior managers felt pinched to reach their double-digit growth goals. To launch HP's big new businesses, the company's managers took rigorously logical steps. in 2010, and HP has been criticized for a decade-long R&D slide.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

More on: Managing uncertainty , Risk management , Social media Join the Discussion | More by This Author | Email/Share Previous Google Changes the Playing Field on News Next The Right CEO Personality for Process Improvement Never miss a new post from your favorite blogger again with the Harvard Business Review Daily Alert email.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 15, 2010

Every performance management paradigm, every mission statement, could point to a different definition of success – and therefore to a different way to “optimally” allocate resources. Best practices for resource optimization are tied to performance management by answering questions such as: “Were recommended decisions put into action?”

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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

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.

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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 ). The best analysis of the resource scarcity mega-trend came from asset manager Jeremy Grantham. In January, China "seized" its rare earth metals (meaning it wouldn't export them anymore).

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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. AD Atticus | July 25, 2010 at 8:32 PM | An awesome post, thanks for sharing! LeaderTalker | July 25, 2010 at 11:09 PM | Thanks! LeaderTalker | July 25, 2010 at 11:10 PM | Thanks!

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