Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2011

As retailers tally up sales from the crucial holiday period, the early returns look good: spending rebounded in 2010, with MasterCard reporting a 5.5 percent — and the 2010 holiday season may mark the first time that online spending accounts for more than 10 percent of all gift purchases. Online spending jumped by 15.4

Price 14

Price Retail Strategy Discount 14

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.

Price 8

Price Retail Competitive Advantage Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 13, 2011

billion to Google just a few short months ago, in November of 2010. The benefits of Groupon (discounted prices and access to vendors you may not have known about) are largely optional or discretionary — it isn't the kind of service one uses for essential goods and services. Groupon is poised for its debut as a public company.

Business Model 15

Business Model Discount IPO Customer Loyalty 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2015

Others may simply see no alternative to trying to keep the brand going at any cost, even if that means aggressive discounting, cheap licensing, or other tactics that erode long-term brand value. But by the 1990’s, big box retailers had taken over the market and the Service Merchandise brand no longer offered meaningful differentiation.

Brand 8

Brand Merchandising Retail Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2015

After much deliberation, we partnered with University of Chicago Medicine (UCM) in 2010. Enrollees get discounts at more than 100 local businesses (e.g., Participating retailers are promoted on the Silver Cross website, at health fairs, and on all marketing collateral. car repair shops, hair salons, home improvement stores).

Health Care 8

Health Care Committee Balanced Scorecard Discount 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2015

Michael Levie, a seasoned hotel executive, and Rattan Chadha, a successful retail entrepreneur, were having dinner. In both 2010 and 2011, TripAdvisor voted citizenM “The Trendiest Hotel in the World.” The topic of conversation was the hotel industry.

Industry 8

Industry Hotels Travel Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

A passenger jet belonging to a cut-rate airline had recently crashed into the Florida Everglades, and Kinsley argued in Slate that it was appropriate for discount airlines to be more dangerous than the major carriers. The reasoning went as follows (I have approximated Kinsleys numbers to make the arithmetic easier). All rights reserved.

Airlines 14

Airlines Report Guidelines Discount 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Umair Haque Blogs Umair Haque On: Global business , Competition , Economy The Irish Banking Crisis: A Parable 4:33 PM Monday November 29, 2010 | Comments () Email Tweet This Post to Facebook Share on LinkedIn Print Once upon a time, there was a country where bankers disappeared. All rights reserved.

Banking 15

Banking Crisis Merton Guidelines 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2011

from the same period in 2010. But B&N is the only legacy retailer to create its own devices — and rather than offer a single reader as a defensive move, it took the offense with a frequently updated family of products that are promoted prominently in-store. In the first quarter of 2011, industry-wide book sales were down 2.5%

Strategy 15

Strategy Retail Long-term Short-term 15

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. obscures the tectonic economic shift in global retail. Once significant distinctions between coupons, coops, discounts, and promotional currencies are blurring into nothingness. That's right. Contestification.

Innovation 16

Innovation Supply Chain Business Simulation Advertising 16

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

By 2010 the company had become the best-performing stock in the S&P 500, worth $30 per share and earning investors a return of 29 times. The company’s problems were compounded by the decline of traditional photo stores and the rise of the internet and discount camera retailers. By 1993 the company had $1.3

Company 8

Company How To Business Model Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2017

” During the volcanic ash crisis of 2010, what it offered wasn’t prize-winning stories about the roots of the eruption or its health implications, but an app (Hitchhiker’s Central) that allowed readers to share travel plans and offer rides to each other. Second, negative coverage can have unintended consequences.

Media 11

Media Advertising Fixed Costs Content 11