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Lessons from the Best Global Brands 2010: Building trust and.

Strategy Driven

While the rules may be shifting, the long-term sustainable advantage gained by building a strong brand – a brand that builds stability, trust, loyalty, and drives a premium price – remains consistent. subprime mortgages, instead doing business the old-fashioned way, with 80 percent of revenues derived from retail banking. Dickens Jr.

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The Not-So-Secret Secrets to Making It Big: Five Surprisingly Doable Steps That Will Propel You to the Top

Strategy Driven

To help prevent this, develop a short-term plan with a six- to nine-month outlook. Also, create a longer-term plan with a seventeen- to eighteen-month strategy. Trying to cover a wider area and hoping that something resonates is inviting your efforts to fall short of the mark or even backfire.

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What Inclusive Urban Development Can Look Like

Harvard Business Review

Most cities fall well short of that ideal. metros that increased their productivity, average wages, and standard of living from 2010 to 2015, only 11 metros achieved inclusive economic outcomes. Inclusive prosperity is the idea that the opportunity and benefits of economic growth should be widely shared by all segments of society.

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How to Quantify Sustainability’s Impact on Your Bottom Line

Harvard Business Review

But we recognize that, in many businesses, resources are often allocated according to short-term, bottom-line pressures. For slaughterhouses and retailers (Brazilian operations), we also projected positive benefits: $20 million to $120 million (0.01% to 0.1% of revenues) and $13 million to $62 million (0.01% to 0.7%

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Making the Business Case for Sustainability

Harvard Business Review

In 2010, the United Nations Global Compact conducted a survey [PDF] on sustainability and found that 93% of businesses consider it important to their future success. In another example, a large US-based specialty retail chain wanted to determine the chief drivers of store energy efficiency in order to reduce usage and greenhouse emissions.

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Making Room for Reflection Is a Strategic Imperative

Harvard Business Review

Umair Haque Blogs Umair Haque On: Global business , Competition , Economy Making Room for Reflection Is a Strategic Imperative 11:52 AM Wednesday November 24, 2010 | Comments () Email Tweet This Post to Facebook Share on LinkedIn Print Business is, above all, busy. And maybe its too busy. Lets face it. So throw Frederick W.

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Tinkering with Strategy Can Derail Midsize Companies

Harvard Business Review

The tales of two companies, cell phone accessories retailer Cellairis and skin care products maker Rodan + Fields, illustrate the dangers of top-level strategic tinkering. They had the epiphany that they could use cheap retail space – the carts that sit in the middle of shopping malls – to sell mobile phone accessories, mostly cases.