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10 Tips For Successfully Opening And Managing Your Retail Store

Strategy Driven

Display Your Goods Remember the ABCs of merchandising, i.e., attractive, branded, and captivating. This is possible only by displaying your products prominently to promote your brand, captivate people’s attention, and attract them to your merchandise. So, know your audience before selling to them.

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Know When to Kill Your Brand

Harvard Business Review

’ the questions must be asked, ‘WHY did we start doing WHAT we’re doing in the first place, and WHAT can we do to bring our cause to life considering all the technologies and market opportunities available today?’”

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18 of the Top 20 Tech Companies Are in the Western U.S. and Eastern China. Can Anywhere Else Catch Up?

Harvard Business Review

Most of the digital giants in both countries are investing in artificial intelligence and other technologies that will facilitate their entry into yet other industries. Indeed, from 2011 to 2017, the GAFAM companies (Google/Alphabet, Amazon, Facebook, Apple, and Microsoft) acquired more than 65 leading-edge European technology companies.

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Market to Millennials by Getting Out of the Way

Harvard Business Review

In 2010, Nike launched the Nike+ app , which allowed runners to track and share their paths via Twitter and Facebook. Agencies like WPP have robust corporate development groups who search out new technologies to help the client brands they serve. Peer-to-peer engagement, though still in its early stages, is one way forward.

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Zappos’ CEO on Using Corporate Relocation to Preserve Customer-Led Culture

Harvard Business Review

We also lost some good people: Our star software developer loved San Francisco and decided not to leave. By 2008 we had hit $1 billion in gross merchandise sales. Since the sale, we’ve learned from Amazon’s technology: We’ve started to track some metrics Amazon tracks, and we’re learning how it thinks about warehouse operations.

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An Insider’s Account of the Yahoo-Alibaba Deal

Harvard Business Review

In May of 2005, Yahoo CEO Terry Semel, cofounder Jerry Yang, corporate development executive Toby Coppel, and I — I was then chief financial officer of the Silicon Valley internet company — went on what would turn out to be a fateful trip to China. A 2010 Harvard Business School case by Julie M.