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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Retail P&L Merchandising Hedge 15

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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Retail Price Comparison Nalebuff 14

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. More from Google’s Official Blog here. Overview can be found in this book “ How to Grow When Markets Don’t &# All the best!

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Real Estate Competitive Advantage Slywotzky Licensing 28

Rajesh Setty

OCTOBER 14, 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. She has a particular interest in Media and Retail companies and their transition to a Web-centric world. And for those in all the emerging markets.

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Entrepreneur Licensing Newsletter Books 28

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 3, 2011

The Institute, which officially opened in January 2010, includes the Model Kitchen, the Testing Station for Household Devices, and what's called the "Domestic Science Laboratory." Today, consumers, not marketers, rule the roost. As consumers, we readily dictate how and when marketers reach us. Don't get me wrong.

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Productivity Products Retail Telemarketing 13

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. Unlike most rankings, it was based on a systematic analysis of stock-market performance among nearly 2,000 CEOs of the world's largest companies. Market Capitalization increase during tenure: $341.5

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CEO Collins Long-term Analysis 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

For example, marketing optimizes its activities for its own benefit and the sales and customer service functions do likewise. The end-to-end process of customer acquisition and retention — getting rid of duplicate activities and information across marketing, sales and customer service — isnt touched.

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Process CEO Insurance Banking 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

The fastest-growing segments of America''s job market — by far — are temporary and part-time employment. Just ask anyone working in the health care, financial services, automobile, retail, media, publishing, education, advertising, real estate or defense industries. A recent McKinsey & Co.

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Human Capital Real Estate Human Resources Disruptive Innovation 9

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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Books Guidelines Banking Telecommunications 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2011

Within the confines of good taste, we hope, the Brits are marketing the heck out of the wedding. 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.

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CEO Apparel GDP Audience 16

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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Ries Agility Market Segmentation Christensen 11

Terry Starbucker

DECEMBER 27, 2009

But nothing continues in a market over time without continued demand. And I really did come back with a new-found respect for the “retail civility&# demonstrated by the Parisians. Sign-up for More You can subscribe to this blog and Ill come straight to you! Ok, so why is this the case? Del, I had a GREAT vacation!

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Open-book Price Blog Learning-by-Doing 311

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Companies that correctly match their strategy-making processes to the competitive circumstances of their industry, business function, or geographic markets perform better than those that don't. By 2008 it had attracted 33,000 applications; by 2010 that number had risen to more than 550,000. But it didn't need to.

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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.) Now consider the joint judgment involved in a process of co-creation , whereby companies collaborate with customers or other partners to bring new offerings to market.

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Guidelines Education Telecommunications Emotional Intelligence 14

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."

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CIO Guidelines Telecommunications Emotional Intelligence 15

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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Guidelines Telecommunications Emotional Intelligence Balanced Scorecard 14

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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NGO Chemicals Guidelines Telecommunications 15

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. The market for renewables is growing fast. Resources get very tight. Renewables are for real and moving fast.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Retail Globalization Price 15

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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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.

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Airlines Report Guidelines Discount 14

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 15, 2010

SAS – Providing organizations with THE POWER TO KNOW ® SAS is the leader in business analytics software and services, and the largest independent vendor in the business intelligence market. Becca has also acted as the product marketing manager for a wide array of technology solutions.

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Resources Process Constraint Objective 50

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2012

market share of more than 80%, with Schick a distant second. 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. But dominant market share creates its own growth challenges.

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Innovation Glocalization Supply Chain Retail 14

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 ). Markets have a remarkable way of sorting the wheat from the chaff. While the overall carbon emissions news is not good , the renewable energy market is growing very fast.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

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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Short-term Guidelines Mass Marketing Telecommunications 15

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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