Strategy Driven

AUGUST 31, 2019

Since I launched Fresh n’ Lean in 2010, I’ve been committed to breaking those stereotypes while getting affordable, pre-made organic meals to as many people as possible. She’s the CEO and founder of LA-based Fresh n’ Lean , the largest nationwide organic meal delivery service in the country. About the Author.

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Organization Retail Construction Planning 50

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2015

When it comes to social media, today’s CEOs have made a remarkable transition over the past five years. We audited a range of sites and platforms to see how CEOs are engaging socially and compared these results to its 2010 and 2012 findings. WANTED: #CEO for our iconic british brand.

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Media CEO Video Chief Executive Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2017

For the past several years, Wells Fargo has been run by MBAs, while Bank of America’s CEO since 2010, Brian Moynihan, has a law degree from Notre Dame. Might this difference in education influence how CEOs behave when it comes to setting a course and trimming corporate sails? One possibility is the tone at the top.

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CEO Accrual Accounting Pharmaceuticals Banking 8

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. Click here to register for that session (12 seats only). Hope to see you then. Happy leading! "Cool" is a moving target.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

billion sale in his 16 years as CEO Beating the competition is never easy. I launched a number of successful business ventures, including OfficeMax and my newest business, Max-Wellness, a new and unique health and wellness retail chain. As CEO, he grew it to more than 1,000 stores worldwide with annual sales topping $5 billion.

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Motivation Management How To Retail 51

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? Copyright 2010. I’ve been in the learning and development business for over 35 years, and CEO of Performance Support Systems, Inc., Kind of a "no-BS" mood.

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Skills Bottom-up Video Blog 44

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

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. If the CEO doesnt play this role, process improvement stays comfortably within functional boundaries. He wasnt a process manager.

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Process CEO Insurance Banking 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2011

This blog post is part of the HBR Online Forum The CEO's Role in Fixing the System. Apple under the leadership of Steve Jobs offers a metaphor for the future role of the CEO as a co-creative engagement orchestrator. It closed out the 2010 fiscal year with €11.97 billion in retail managed resources, of which €8.43

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CEO Creativity Automotive Participative 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2011

A 2010 study showed that the public cost of supporting the monarchy was more than $55 million in 2009. For the wedding, I've seen estimates of $80 million in revenues to hotels in London and retailers selling souvenirs such as dishes, pillows, and playing cards. CEOs must beware. Not exactly.

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CEO Apparel GDP Audience 16

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 26, 2011

billion sale in his 16 years as CEO Beating the competition is never easy. As CEO, he grew it to more than 1,000 stores worldwide with annual sales topping $5 billion. For those times when you need an iron hand, then you also need the wisdom to know when and how to use it.

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Bottom-up Sharpe Follow-up Retail 50

Rajesh Setty

JUNE 26, 2011

During a 16-year span, Mr. Feuer, as CEO, grew the Company to almost 1,000 stores world-wide with annual sales of approximately $5 billion before selling this retail giant for almost $1.5 In 2010, Mr. Feuer launched another retail concept, Max-Wellness, a first of its kind chain featuring over 7,000 products for head-to-toe care.

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Mission Statement Retail Entrepreneur Books 34

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2014

Muhtar Kent, the Chairman of the Board and CEO of Coca-Cola since 2009, talks about how the beverage company is imbedding sustainability into its business. We also have our distribution network, which connects us directly to the 24 million retail customers we visit every week.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 27, 2010

The increase in private sector jobs suggests that retail and factory jobs will continue to climb. About the Author As CEO of MyCorporation Business Services, Inc. Unfortunately, few expect a change in the 9.6 percent unemployment rate. Will the steady increase in the economy translate into a positive hiring forecast?

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Uncertainty Insurance Newsletter Incentives 57

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

In September 2010 Blockbuster filed for bankruptcy protection. When a board resembles the CEO in mindset and outlook, it’s a recipe for a gatekeeper board, not a challenger board. The good news was that Blockbuster had a good 10 years to prepare for the new environment. In this case, value protection was not enough.

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Retail CEO Core Competence Competitive Advantage 8

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. His tenure had not ended. companies is around six years.

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CEO Collins Long-term Analysis 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Now Amazon can supplement that knowledge with direct, proprietary insights about the offline retail world. What Amazon will now study in the brick-and-mortar world – and more importantly, what it learns and how it applies the insights – can transform consumer retail in the United States. Changing price perception.

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Price Retail Competitive Advantage Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

The tales of two companies, cell phone accessories retailer Cellairis and skin care products maker Rodan + Fields, illustrate the dangers of top-level strategic tinkering. They had the epiphany that they could use cheap retail space – the carts that sit in the middle of shopping malls – to sell mobile phone accessories, mostly cases.

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Strategy Wireless Company Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

The bullwhip effect is the amplified response to demand signals as one moves “upstream” in the supply chain: from retailers to manufacturers to suppliers to commodity providers. Here’s a hypothetical illustration of the bullwhip effect: A retailer might experience an X% drop in sales owing to some external event.

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Supply Chain Retail Crisis Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

metros that increased their productivity, average wages, and standard of living from 2010 to 2015, only 11 metros achieved inclusive economic outcomes. EDENS, of which the latter is CEO, has led the revitalization of the 45-acre Union Market district in Northeast Washington, DC. A recent Brookings analysis found that of the 30 U.S.

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Real Estate Development Long-term Short-term 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2015

The brand died a slow death, beginning when Blockbuster filed for bankruptcy in 2010 and then ultimately when its acquirer, Dish Network, decided to shut down all video rental operations in 2013. But by the 1990’s, big box retailers had taken over the market and the Service Merchandise brand no longer offered meaningful differentiation.

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Brand Merchandising Retail Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2013

retailer, spent the last three decades improving its supply chain processes, and designing and launching a series of services, including smaller local convenience stores and online shopping. In response, Dan Jones, chairman of the Lean Academy who worked with Tesco, commented that the retailer''s success is rooted in failure. "In

Organization 8

Organization Supply Chain Customer Intimacy Stress 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

Instead, you can rethink what it means to be in the retail-banking business, or the industrial-distribution business, or the office-cleaning business. A few weeks ago, I spent a day in Detroit as part of a CEO Summit organized by Business Leaders for Michigan, an association of the state’s biggest companies.

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CEO Open-book Price Innovation 8

Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2012

In a 2010 survey, a record 36% of women ages 25-29 had attained a bachelor’s degree compared to 28% of men of the same age. As of 2010, only 2.4% companies have a woman CEO versus 9% globally. Another example is a woman I interviewed for a book I am writing on how CEOs have to ignite change when things fall apart.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2016

1 razor brand, saw its market share fall from 71% in 2010 to 59% in 2015. The economic slowdown in China has slowed brick and mortar retail in the country. Dollar Shave Club has shown that the shaving market can still be transformed – thanks to an online subscription model, a memorable brand, and a strong consumer experience.

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Business Model Retail Brand Henderson 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

A manager in a retail company demanded a promotion during the recession, because he was "indispensable," he said. The CEO, who had cut her own pay to save jobs, fired him instead. Former CEO Tony Hayward defeated himself and damaged the company in the public mind by issuing bitter statements about how unfair this was.

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Career Company Bureaucracy Long-term 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2013

Their distribution systems make CSD items available in virtually every retail format, in every country in the world, and have cost efficiencies that emerging brands cannot achieve. CSD has immense scale — $74 billion in annual retail sales in the US alone — and soda is purchased by 96 percent of US households.

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Maturity Merchandising Retail Brand 8

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. A former waiter or retail delivery person fit the bill much better than an education bureaucrat. My best business decisions have always been around people. Two in particular come to mind.

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Content Engineering Education Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2010

growth in the Gross Domestic Product in 2010. Fernando Luzio is the CEO of Luzio Holistic Strategic Vision, a consulting company, and a professor of strategy at Universidade de Sao Paulo. Risk Agencies, such as "Fitch Rating", declared "null effect" in the fund ratings. I'd like to know what you think.

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Politics Bureaucracy Globalization Compliance 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

McDonald’s is the world’s largest fast-food chain: It has 36,200 retail outlets in 119 countries, 6,700 of which are owned by the corporation; the rest are run as franchises. In the period 2006 through 2014, the total pay of McDonald’s CEO varied from a low of $3.6 In 2014, when the pay of McDonald’s CEO was $6.4

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Price Franchising Short-term CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2012

trillion, with annual expenditures increasing from $2 trillion in 2010 to more than $6 trillion in 2020. By 2010, the number had risen to 221 million. At The Boston Consulting Group, we estimate that by the end of the decade, Chinese consumers will spend approximately $41.5 In 2005, fewer than 50 million credit cards were issued.

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Marketing Apparel Short-term Brand 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2015

After much deliberation, we partnered with University of Chicago Medicine (UCM) in 2010. The Silver Cross CEO and each partner organization’s CEO often phone each other (as a routine or an informal check-in). Participating retailers are promoted on the Silver Cross website, at health fairs, and on all marketing collateral.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2012

It's been nearly a year since Nokia CEO Stephen Elop shot off his burning platform memo as a way of shaking up the phone company's leadership. The book retail platform was not yet burning. By 2010, it would have been too late to act, as we saw with the Border's bankruptcy. But the flames were about to rise.

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EBITDA How To Crisis Depreciation 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

It was a closed-door meeting of top digital CEOs from major media brands — not only old line players like Disney, BBC, and ESPN, but also new ones like Huffington Post, Gawker Media, and EverydayHealth. Of the top five terms in 2010, two were "Facebook.com" and "Facebook Login." It was a star-studded event.

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Media Short-term Taylorism Taylor 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2014

In October 2010, when its founders launched their website to the world, 25,000 web viewers overwhelmed the site. The CEO must shift the culture toward one that prizes execution just as much as sales. Then Costco came knocking on Dave’s doors to supply its warehouse clubs, but Dave’s had to turn the giant retailer down.

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Operations Company Supply Chain Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2015

The best CEOs, like Steve Jobs and A.G. Consider the case of Blockbuster , whose CEO John Antioco had proven himself as both a manager and a leader. He then launched Total Access , a service that allowed customers to use the Web and retail stores interchangeably. Every organization needs both.

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IT Strategy Strategy Operations Resistance 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

Smartphone sales in 2011 are estimated to reach 468 million units, a 57% increase over 2010. Once again, too many CEOs are hesitating. Though AllStays isn't connected to Wal-Mart, the app is probably good for the retailer: Think of all those early-morning shopping visits.). They're failing to take control and develop a plan.

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Brand B2C Market Segmentation Travel 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Along with Reed Hastings, Netflix’s founder and CEO, she wrote a PowerPoint presentation on Netflix culture. ” Not only has this purpose served Nordstrom well for decades, but it has helped the company overcome the multichannel challenges most retailers struggle with. In fact, she literally wrote the book on it.

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Airlines Energy Self-aware Learning Curve 8