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Know Your History, Purpose and Direction

CoachStation

If you have not had the opportunity to view or read any of Simon Sinek’s material regarding marketing and to ‘ Start with Why ‘, I highly recommend you spend a few minutes doing so. It is my story that I would like to share via an abbreviated version of Maddy’s case study questions and my answers.

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How Coty Reinvigorated Its Supply Chain

Harvard Business Review

In 2010, Coty was rapidly expanding through acquisitions and internal growth and needed to align, integrate, and further accelerate improvements in its supply chain. The Coty experience also informs case study examples in John P. The experiences of global beauty company Coty Inc., Kotter’s book Accelerate.).

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Requiring Companies to Disclose Climate Risks Helps Everyone

Harvard Business Review

Nobel laureate Herbert Simon’s model of bounded rationality in decision making explains how this could work. In Simon’s model, decision makers face costs when taking an action, and this makes them stick to “business as usual.”