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JULY 6, 2010

As a reminder, if you are not fully satisfied, you can return your undamaged iPhone to any Apple Retail Store or the online Apple Store within 30 days of purchase for a full refund. Pulse Meme Feed What Is Your Brand Against? For those who have had concerns, we apologize for any anxiety we may have caused.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2012

Last week, I moderated a "Super Session" at this year's annual National Retail Federation " Big Show." Powered by local, mobile, and social media, online retail is becoming something that no long-time, card-carrying NRF member might reasonably have anticipated. Zulily has been adding 40 to 50 new brands a week.

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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. Although we created Warby Parker as a brand to be predominately sold online, we quickly learned that customers wanted physical contact. But, something magical happened.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2010

These six ideas emerged in 2010 as powerful "innovation invitations" and seem sure to intensify in power and influence. They'll increasingly be a source of, and resource for, innovation differentiation in 2011, if not for your organization, then for the firm you most dread competing against. That's right. Contestification.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2012

Gillette (now a brand of P&G), reportedly has had a U.S. 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. Recently, P&G has completely reversed the innovation approach at Gillette.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

OCTOBER 31, 2010

They stifle creativity and innovation. As they often say in retail stores about handling merchandise, “ If you break it you own it”. If we are to encourage the innovators of our time we must also accept that rules should be subject to rigorous question and challenge. Now I’m off to watch a juggling show.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Persuading consumers to pay more for a product by introducing some kind of “premium” element into it has always been a challenging task—but it was one that big, established brands had managed with a reasonable amount of success until recent years. Smaller brands have been picking up the slack.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2014

Consumers have more products, brands, and retailers to choose from than ever. And it is far easier to complain and talk back to brands, thanks to social media. 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.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

DISH Networks, the owners since 2011 of video rental giant Blockbuster, announced Wednesday the shuttering of all remaining company-owned retail locations and of Blockbuster’s DVD-by-mail service. In 2010, the once-unbeatable company declared bankruptcy. postal service. Blockbuster ultimately launched its own digital download service.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

You don’t have to be a programmer in Silicon Valley or a gene splicer in biotech to unleash exciting innovations and create huge value. Instead, you can rethink what it means to be in the retail-banking business, or the industrial-distribution business, or the office-cleaning business.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

For slaughterhouses and retailers (Brazilian operations), we also projected positive benefits: $20 million to $120 million (0.01% to 0.1% We set about investigating the financial costs and benefits of the uptake of sustainable and deforestation-free beef by ranchers, slaughterhouses, and retailers in Brazil. of revenues).

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2014

Consider how many people have to keep the secrets: factory workers, supply chain workers, and retail employees. Founded in 2010, Xiaomi is one of the biggest Chinese smartphone companies. Apple Innovation' All this secrecy comes at a price, both in the supply chain and by creating a difficult workplace.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2014

Stock analysts now view such expenditures as essential to a company’s long-term brand and value. For example, developing our PlantBottle innovation — a fully recyclable packaging made of up to 30% renewable plant material — took significant upfront investment but we felt it made good sense, especially with oil prices fluctuating.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

Many iconic brands dot the shopping districts of the major cities. This is the overarching goal of China’s 2010-2015 plan. As the impact of the labor bonanza and capital-led phases begins to fade, productivity growth in China must increasingly come from the quality of innovation and management expertise at the organizational level.

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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. In fact, he occupied the corner office in our brand-new manufacturing plant. A former waiter or retail delivery person fit the bill much better than an education bureaucrat. Two in particular come to mind.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

Smartphone sales in 2011 are estimated to reach 468 million units, a 57% increase over 2010. But apps of this type won't differentiate a company in the consumer's view — in fact, they can damage the brand, posing the risk that the company will be seen as a tech laggard. Companies can take one of several positions on branding.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2014

The Boston Innovation District’s meteoric real estate prices are pushing the very entrepreneurs who made the district sexy towards neighboring districts where rents have not tripled since 2010. The brand new Google Buses protest movement is fueled by similar fears. Entrepreneurship, per se, can create many social goods.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2012

And although the retail giant's green efforts have done a lot to showcase the company's commitment to sustainability, sometimes Walmart gives its critics some legitimate ammo, like the recent revelations and allegations of corruption in its Mexican operations. Of course not. But the immediate market reaction here is fascinating.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2013

The average consumer did not have access to the quality of equipment that professional athletes and healthcare providers had, until breakthrough innovation created higher quality yet affordable options. Professional chefs have also grown in cachet, and hence so have professional kitchen brands like Viking and Sub Zero.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

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." You want to build an employer brand? You want to build an employer brand? Im sick about it.

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CIO Guidelines Telecommunications Emotional Intelligence 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

I’m talking about the superconsumers who are inside your organization, working at every level: the fashionista who works in the mail room at the headquarters of an apparel company, or the finance manager who works for a pork brand and who eats three pounds of bacon in any given week.

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Airlines Energy Self-aware Learning Curve 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2013

Not too long ago, I was asked to give a presentation on the state of digital media and how well brands are intersecting the worlds of marketing and technology. Fifteen percent of online retail sales will take place this year via mobile devices, according to eMarketer , and that''s a 56% increase from 2012. They outnumber the PCs.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2015

This was not a brand-new way of thinking for us: For more than a decade, we have had a successful partnership with Lurie Children’s Hospital in Chicago. After much deliberation, we partnered with University of Chicago Medicine (UCM) in 2010. If not, can we become the best on our own?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2015

When it comes to discovering unmet customer needs and innovation opportunities, there’s no substitute for in-the-moment, in-context observation for making meaning out of the complex weave of emotion and rationality that drives consumer behavior. And you don’t need a Ph.D.

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Document Marketing Learning-by-Doing Travel 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2013

I met Slovenian entrepreneur, Sandi Cesko, in 2007 when his Ljubljana -based multi-channel retail operation, Studio Moderna , had about $70 million in sales. Obamacare is creating more opportunities for entrepreneurs by boosting a new market to address a brand new social priority. Economy Entrepreneurship Innovation'

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Entrepreneur IPO Incentives Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

Leading Innovation Is the Art of Creating “Collective Genius” How to Brand a Next-Generation Product. 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.

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