Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

This post is part of the HBR Forum, The Future of Retail. In order to assess the future of retail, we need to understand the sector's current impact on our entire economy, and the direction that Washington is taking the retail industry with policies that are being shaped today. Retail contributes $2.5

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2010

For me, 2010 was the year when I let go of theories and focused on realities, most notably the real challenges of leading in the 21st century. No longer do I need to explain how globalization drives change and that leaders must adapt to a fast-changing world: the economic crisis brought this home decisively. I changed my game.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

a year between 2010 and 2015, considerably slower than the 5.4% from 2000 to 2010. New research conducted by the McKinsey Global Institute makes it clear that Africa faces real economic headwinds including declining investment and savings, and rising government indebtedness. from 2010 to 2015, compared with 4.1%

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

For the last two months, global supply chains have been experiencing the first stage of a bullwhip effect triggered by uncertainties about the severity of China’s economic slowdown. 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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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2018

.” Organic wine was not strongly embraced by distributors and retailers, either. As a result, many distributors and retailers were hesitant to add it sell it. Whole Foods Market, which by 2010 accounted for over one half of organic food sales in the United States, did little to promote organic wines.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2014

Likewise, marketing wants to clearly quantify the impact of its long-term branding efforts while finance is more focused on macro-economic drivers of marketing performance, such as interest rates, employment levels, inflation and retail sales. Inside Intel. As an ingredient brand, Intel often struggled to link marketing to P&L impact.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

It boasts 85 companies in the Global Fortune 500 list of the world’s largest corporations. In fact, China is already experiencing a labor shortage: Wages are rising and it is losing its labor-cost advantage to other developing countries. This is the overarching goal of China’s 2010-2015 plan. China Economy Global business'

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2012

Recently, I had the privilege of moderating a conference of global entrepreneurs and venture capitalists in Mumbai — an event called Founders Forum India. It's a reflection of what's happening in the domestic retail space more broadly. Indian entrepreneurs are feeling bullish about global markets.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2010

Third, for the first time in history, a presidential election process in Brazil has occurred under an institutional and macroeconomic environment of relative tranquility — despite the global economic crisis. growth in the Gross Domestic Product in 2010. This provides safety for the business community and foreign investors.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2014

Coca-Cola is one of the many companies that are making efforts to tackle the world’s greatest societal challenges — water scarcity, climate change, and even the rights of women and girls in the developing world. Thus, we operate a value creation model that is globally driven but locally focused. Consider PlantBottle.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2015

The results, published in “ Socializing Your CEO: From Marginal to Mainstream ,” show that CEO sociability has more than doubled since we began tracking the social activities of chief executives in 2010, when only 36% of CEOs were social. This high rate is in line with that of the top 50 global company CEOs we analyzed.

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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. The profound difference between today [2010] and 2005 is that good hires looked like better investments than great tweaks back then.

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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. They're failing to take control and develop a plan. Four main factors go into developing and positioning an app strategy: Brand. Global travelers don't want to be hampered by license limitations that make content inaccessible.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2011

Its successes command global respect; its failures deserve serious scrutiny. The company promised back in 2009 to bring out a Wi-Fi Flip in early 2010. The company promised back in 2009 to bring out a Wi-Fi Flip in early 2010. Cisco is an easy company to admire. But the tech giant's most recent Flip flop merits special focus.

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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. I was raised by a professional mother and my grandmother built a retail business and did not retire until she was 80. of the U.S.

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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 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. But the immediate market reaction here is fascinating.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

In new or young high-growth industries where barriers to entry are low, innovation rates are high, demand is very hard to predict, and the relative positions of competitors are in flux, a company can often radically shift the course of industry development through some innovative move. But it didn't need to.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

3 globally). It developed over 1,000 patents related to image capture that commanded billions of dollars in licensing revenues (for access to its “218” patent alone, it was paid $550 million by Samsung and $414 million by LG). By 2010, Kodak had clawed its way to No. By 2005, Kodak ranked No.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

In 2010, Steve Jobs announced Ping as a “social network for music,” like “Facebook and Twitter meets iTunes.” For the first time in history we can connect many-to-many on a global scale. Interestingly, Apple is actively developing such an ecosystem in the area of health. Consumers are now co-creators.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2016

The experiences of global beauty company Coty Inc., In 2010, Coty was rapidly expanding through acquisitions and internal growth and needed to align, integrate, and further accelerate improvements in its supply chain. where one of us is Vice President Supply Chain, suggests this “magic” can be repeatable.

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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. Unfortunately for every other country, this is a global story. Smart companies like Hitachi are trying to find solutions, such as its new plan to develop rare earth recycling technologies. When the U.S.

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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. Three thousand years ago the Phoenicians in Tyre were as globally entrepreneurial as the startupists are today in nearby Tel-Aviv. Even better.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2016

Goel advises building in downtime to do business development and networking. Jennifer Hawkins had been a nonprofit executive for over a decade when she decided to go out on her own as a community development consultant. In 2010 she left her position to “look for that dream job.”

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Economic growth has been stuck in low gear for almost a decade now, averaging around 2% a year since 2010 while productivity growth, the key to increasing living standards, has been languishing near historic lows since the financial crisis. percentage points to productivity growth in the period 2010 to 2014. percentage points.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

To learn more about how Harvard Business School can help you prepare for the challenges of global leadership, visit the program website. Q: What are some of the institutional barriers to developing an outside-in orientation? A: Developing an outside-in orientation is difficult to achieve because it requires both insight and action.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2012

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 that is not the story in developing markets, where these top-of-the-line products don't fare nearly as well.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2011

In The Age of Hyperspecialization (July-August 2011, co-authored by Tom Malone of MIT and Tammy Johns of Manpower), we note that the division of labor, a development that transformed the way physical work was accomplished during the industrial revolution, may now be poised to redefine how knowledge work gets done in the 21st century.

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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. That is, the importance of "research & development" to business innovation. obscures the tectonic economic shift in global retail. Think of them as part of the global supply chain. That's right.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2018

Elder care demands, for example, are rising with the global aging of populations. In our recent study , published in the Academy of Management Annals, we analyzed trends across 186 studies, conducted between 2010 and 2015, of work-life flexibility and its impacts. Some have already started.

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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 ). Increased demand for transparency and its close partners, (a) the quest to define and develop useful sustainability metrics and (b) the growing sustainability data explosion.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

At first, the causes of free fall appear to be external: a global financial crisis, a banking system collapse, government deregulation, or, more common, a new business model or technology harnessed by a nimble insurgent competitor. Founded in the 1930s, Lego developed a repeatable model that allowed it to grow for decades.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2018

But as the digital revolution continues to spark widespread disruption in other industries — automotive, financial services, health care, and retail — who will win? Amazon’s acquisition of Whole Foods Market is perhaps the purest expression of the blending of the digital and physical worlds of retail. trillion.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

But the conditions seemed to be ripe for one to develop. If you had asked Singaporeans in 2010 to identify a successful local start-up, they might have paused for a few minutes before mentioning Creative Labs. With the cautionary notes in mind, I arrived in Singapore in March 2010. ” Sure, I would respond.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2012

eBay : The online retailer built its first data center in 2010 (it had previously leased data center space, which is what many in the industry do) in South Jordan, Utah. But renewable energy wasn't," said Dean Nelson, eBay's senior director of Global Foundation Services. The solutions.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

The crisis we speak of has even more severe consequences for Europe’s global competitiveness. While 44% of EU residents shopped online in 2014, a paltry 15% bought from another member state; barely up by six and a half percentage points since 2010, according to the European Commission’s (EC) “Digital Agenda Scoreboard 2015.”

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Much of continental Europe is convulsed with similar combinations of disaffection , protectionism , and, in some cases, nationalism and even racism that have morphed into a more-or-less generalized anger against globalization. personal consumption expenditures in 2010 and that over half of that amount actually went to U.S. In the U.S.,

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