Women on Business

JANUARY 8, 2011

Avon’s stock price was up 15% in 2007. Andrea Jung was an executive vice president at Neiman-Marcus before she joined Avon in 1996.  She became CEO of Avon in 1999, and in the past 9 years, she has helped to grow the company to achieve an annual revenue of $8.7

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Women on Business

JANUARY 19, 2011

It costs 5 to 10 times more to attract a new customer than it does to keep an existing one.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 12, 2011

include: MacDermid, Sanofi-Aventis, Mattel, Fisher-Price, Raytheon, USDA, Catalina Marketing, Nielsen Media, Starbucks, Fortune Brands, U.S.C., Â She has been published in leading industry magazines and ghost authored a number of chapters for books published by Linkage, Inc and Pearson Education. Johnson & Johnson and others. in Zoology.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Some of them provide free or highly subsidized care to as many as half or two-thirds of all their patients — and still earn a good enough return to attract private investors, even though Indian prices for most medical procedures are 1%–10% of U.S. Ascension has another solid reason for pursuing its strategy.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 21, 2011

Forced to do more with much less, the small businesses that have managed to survive and even thrive during these tough times have recognized one important factor: You can’t always compete on price, but you can compete on service. You might not always be able to slash your prices lower than those of your competitors.

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Learning-by-Doing Price Bottom-up Finance 62

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Annually, my firm ManpowerGroup conducts a global Talent Shortage Survey [pdf] , and remarkably, from 2010 to 2011, the percentage of employers in the U.S. Workers may be available, in other words, and may have skills, but they're not the ones employers need today or accessible at a price managers' budgets allow them to pay.

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In the CEO Afterlife

APRIL 26, 2012

Toward the end of 2010, the new CEO, Bob Dudley, promised “to move the company forward and rebuild confidence after the terrible events.” A key component of his image-building strategy was a commitment to provide regular progress updates to the public along the way. Currently, the stock price is down 35% from pre-spill levels.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

Yahoo’s forays into China started with a build strategy, which later became a buy strategy and ultimately morphed into a partnership strategy. It was an attractive offer and a step-up in value for us, considering the value of what we had contributed to 3721 and its $120 million purchase price two years earlier.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2015

Those with the best data have enjoyed distinct advantages — in commerce, for example, better understanding the market leads to better products offered at better prices, and so forth. Data has enabled strategy, but, with few exceptions, neither driven strategy nor sat at its heart. But how, and at what price?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

It simply means they can make it accessible via a technology platform that makes it easier for buyers to access it while still setting premium pricing. Projections put about 22% of all digital media being automated next year – up from just 4% in 2010. Operational convergence will drive strategy. Open ecosystems will succeed.

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