HR Digest

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Kathleen Wilson-Thompson: Ensuring the health and safety of our team members, customers and communities is our top priority, and I will provide just a few examples. Prior to this, she was Senior Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer for Walgreens since 2010.

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Eric Jacobson

JULY 1, 2013

It was admired by many as a breakthrough in marketing thinking but was also controversial because of its surprisingly obvious thesis: that emotional connections are at the heart of sustained relationships between producers, retailers, and consumers. In 2010 Advertising Age magazine named Lovemarks one of their "ideas of the decade."

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Books Advertising How To Retail 50

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 31, 2021

In this article, we will give you ten examples of AI in our everyday lives. Do you remember the image of artificial intelligence you had in 2010? Based on a few particularly relevant examples, see for yourself how much artificial intelligence has changed the world in recent years. It was not yet anchored in our daily lives.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

This blog post is part of the HBR Online Forum The Future of Retail. Retailers face several challenges as they enter the 2011 holiday season. Gas prices have risen 90% from 2008 to 2010, leaving consumers with $160 billion less spending money per year. For example, the men's shaving category successfully raised prices and sales.

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Retail P&L Merchandising Hedge 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

The reforms include changes to retail, airlines, broadcast and power sectors. The changes in retail are significant; Wal-Mart, IKEA, and Tesco can now compete against indigenous retailers in India. Fifty-one percent Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) is permitted in Multi Brand Retail (MBR). But there are restrictions.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2011

While Black Friday and Cyber Monday were successful days for the retail sector, these two days alone are not a panacea to the sector's performance challenges. Some retailers will continue this momentum. The difference between the two sets of retailers? Smart retailers jump out of the pot before it boils. Others will not.

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Retail Apparel Supply Chain Agility 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2017

To embrace this market shift, retailers will need to experiment with a range of technologies and strategies across marketing, supply chain, and merchandising. When eyeglass maker Warby Parker launched in 2010, its founders had $2,500 seed funding and impressive business school pedigrees. Shopping virtually with augmented reality.

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Chris Brady

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Posted by: Mrdarin | February 19, 2010 at 06:32 PM Chris: Great advice, and while you are discovering, you will have so much fun. Posted by: Phyllis Hoff | February 20, 2010 at 09:03 AM I think that about nails it right on the mark! Posted by: Adam Dippold | February 24, 2010 at 01:20 AM I agree full heartedly.

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Mike Cardus

JANUARY 25, 2011

Focusing on the communication skills for decision making & problem solving , using real-time examples from the organization. It’s remarkable what can happen in the workplace when leaders learn practical team building skills that help them interact more effectively with their employees and lead by example. All rights reserved.

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Case Study Team Building Team Leadership 110

Women on Business

AUGUST 16, 2012

In 2010 Forbes listed Groupon as one of the world’s fastest growing corporations. Groupons impressive growth came at a time where retailers were desperate for increased sales and their membership based deal platform was a fantastic way to market and bring in new customers with little or no cost.

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Project Incentives Retail Business Model 209

CO2

JULY 6, 2010

For example, we sometimes display 4 bars when we should be displaying as few as 2 bars. As a reminder, if you are not fully satisfied, you can return your undamaged iPhone to any Apple Retail Store or the online Apple Store within 30 days of purchase for a full refund. We hope you love the iPhone 4 as much as we do. John Sullivan FORA.tv

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Letter Blog Executive Coaching Strategic Planning 74

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2013

In the physical world, retailers have become quite adept at following the relatively faint tracks shoppers leave in their stores, primarily through their participation in loyalty schemes. Retailers can’t tell what shoppers looked at but didn’t buy, or whether they forgot something that they likely needed. Internet Retail'

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Retail Loyalty Discount Media 8

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Special Edition 50 – An Interview with Marshall Fisher, co-author of The New Science of Retailing examines the use of analytics to improve an organization’s supply chain performance in a way that ultimately enhances the bottom line. Thank you again for listening to the StrategyDriven Podcast !

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Supply Chain Retail Bottom-up Newsletter 57

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

The Benevolent Dictator gives you no-nonsense how-to advice and examples that have worked. 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. billion sale in his 16 years as CEO Beating the competition is never easy.

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Motivation Management How To Retail 52

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 26, 2011

The Benevolent Dictator gives you no-nonsense how-to advice and examples that have worked. He is also CEO of Max-Ventures, a venture capital and retail consulting firm, and founder and CEO of Max-Wellness, a comprehensive health and wellness retail chain that launched in 2010.

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Bottom-up Sharpe Follow-up Retail 50

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2016

For example, Gillette has successfully encouraged consumers to trade up again and again by continually introducing razors with the latest and greatest shaving technology. In 2015, for example, small food and beverage manufacturers drove nearly half of category growth , while the top 25 manufacturers could only take credit for 3%.

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Mass Marketing Marketing Price Brand 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

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

Asia offers a good example of this push to frontier markets. For example, on the Indonesian archipelago, supply chain and distribution logistics present serious challenges — with logistics costs at 24% of GDP, compared with the regional average range of 9-11%. Asia Pacific. He responded, “for us, China and India are Asia.”

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Marketing GDP Automotive Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

For slaughterhouses and retailers (Brazilian operations), we also projected positive benefits: $20 million to $120 million (0.01% to 0.1% These ranges were wide due to the relative size of the different players in the supply chain (for example, a company that has higher revenues will realize greater benefits than a smaller firm).

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2014

For example, in the credit card business, understanding the importance of deals with issuing banks is critical. Consider Intel, which began eyeing Big Data’s potential to quantify marketing’s contribution to revenue in about 2010. This has reframed the conversation to balance the interests of both sides. Inside Intel.

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Finance Marketing P&L ROI 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2015

For example, vacuum tube mainframe computers were replaced by computers based on integrated circuits. They made a new form of retail distribution possible—the shopping center. Exhibit A: Online retailing has directly replaced many jobs and indirectly eliminated many more. million in 2010. million in 2000 to 19.9

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Retail Automotive Efficiency Engineering 8

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2011

What did 2010 look like for you and your company? OnPoint Consulting’s 2010 Execution Gap Maker Round-Up… Execution Gap Maker #1: BP (Need I say more?) BP provides a devastating example of what can happen when this isn’t the case. Did you struggle to regain your post-recession footing? Were employees engaged and focused?

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Execution Company 360-Degree Feedback Cooper 67

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2015

Here are some specific examples of the types of programs these forward-thinking companies are implementing: Google prides itself on being socially conscious, offering employees substantial benefits and perks, including more than a dozen mindfulness courses. They also say the program helped them better handle stress and defuse emotions.

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Emotional Intelligence Stress Participative Retail 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% From my own experience with clients, there are three women I would like to highlight as examples of these trends – women succeeding despite moments of turmoil or tremendous changes.

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Trends Power Simon Real Estate 265

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 3, 2011

The Institute, which officially opened in January 2010, includes the Model Kitchen, the Testing Station for Household Devices, and what's called the "Domestic Science Laboratory." A vast swath of e-retailers followed Amazon's example. Shopzilla, and its Bizrate site, skipped product reviews to host retailer reviews.

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Productivity Products Retail Telemarketing 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

In September 2010 Blockbuster filed for bankruptcy protection. For example, one highly successful, privately-held producer of canned foods actively sought a board member who could challenge management to think differently but who would still fit with the company’s family-oriented governance culture.

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Retail CEO Core Competence Competitive Advantage 8

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. Companies don’t want to be left behind.

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Media CEO Video Chief Executive Officer 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. They were a best practice example in 2007. Toyota''s fiscal 2013 profits were more than four times its earnings in 2010, and three times 2012''s.

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Organization Supply Chain Customer Intimacy Stress 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2012

The New York Times exposed the international retail giant's history of bribing Mexican government officials in order to dominate that market. Take Wal-Mart, for example. The Bribery Act, for example, gives U.K. Wal-Mart made headlines recently for all the wrong reasons. If you're digging a hole, stop. Again, stop digging.

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Execution Retail Report Policies 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

Leaders defeat themselves when they seek gain when others suffer, for example, raising prices in a time of high unemployment when consumers have less to spend, to ensure profits when sales are down. A manager in a retail company demanded a promotion during the recession, because he was "indispensable," he said.

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Career Company Bureaucracy Long-term 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2013

In another example, last year the Internet cried foul when the Susan G Komen foundation decided to yank funding for Planned Parenthood, and the outcry caused the non-profit to reverse its decision within days. And in 2010, Greenpeace attacked Nestlé with a viral video over its use of unsustainable palm oil.

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Media Public Relations Brand Video 9

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. For example, he had been of the opinion that anybody we hired had to have fifteen years of experience in the type of manufacturing we were doing. Two in particular come to mind. Let’s start with the latter.

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Content Engineering Education Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2014

Consider how many people have to keep the secrets: factory workers, supply chain workers, and retail employees. Founded in 2010, Xiaomi is one of the biggest Chinese smartphone companies. All this secrecy comes at a price, both in the supply chain and by creating a difficult workplace.

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Productivity Products Supply Chain Price 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2015

A 2010 poll by The Pew Research Center found that the public had a more positive view of them than any other institution in the country – they beat out both churches and universities, for instance, as well as tech companies. America loves small businesses. corporations and for companies considering moving production back to the U.S.

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Supply Chain Rivkin Venture Capitalist Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Whereas new technologies, competitors, and business models have made products and services more affordable and accessible in media, finance, retail, and other sectors, U.S. Since its founding in 2010, Iora has attracted more than $123 million in funding and now operates 37 practices serving 40,000 patients in 11 states. Insight Center.

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Health Care Innovation Insurance Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2014

For example, we’re working to achieve water neutrality by 2020. Our micro distribution centers (MDCs) in Africa, many of which are run by women, help our beverages reach small shops and kiosks that can’t be served by more trucks and vans and create value for our business, our retail and restaurant customers, and the broader communities.

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CEO Supply Chain Operations Brand 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2014

There is no fee charged to retailers who use it and no exorbitant interest rates lying in wait for consumers. Examples of such fees are those charged for payday lending, buy-here-pay-here auto loans, and check cashing. retail businesses lose about $40 billion annually because of the theft of cash alone. It’s safe from hackers.

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