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.

Retail 15

Retail Supply Chain Business Model Globalization 15

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.

Retail 14

Retail Apparel Supply Chain Agility 14

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

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.

Retail 8

Retail Supply Chain Merchandising Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2013

More and more shoppers are finding that online shopping offers greater convenience, lower prices, more information, and a more personalized user experience that makes buying online preferable to going to a store. Retailers can’t tell what shoppers looked at but didn’t buy, or whether they forgot something that they likely needed.

Retail 8

Retail Loyalty Discount Media 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

The “turnaround plan” recently announced by McDonald’s includes an aggressive program to manipulatively boost its stock price via stock buybacks, an activity that has become the major focus of its corporate strategy over the past decade. ” In 2014, McDonald’s expended $3.2 The winners.

Price 8

Price Franchising Short-term CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2016

A decade ago, the Mach 3 razor was Gillette’s premium offering for men, until the Fusion line was launched in 2006 at a 40% price increase, followed by the Fusion ProGlide in 2010 and the Fusion Proshield Flexball in 2016—to name a few of the brand’s major releases.

Mass Marketing 8

Mass Marketing Marketing Price Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2018

.” Organic wine was not strongly embraced by distributors and retailers, either. As a result, many distributors and retailers were hesitant to add it sell it. Whole Foods Market, which by 2010 accounted for over one half of organic food sales in the United States, did little to promote organic wines.

Organization 10

Organization Chemicals Retail Reputation 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2014

Consumers have more products, brands, and retailers to choose from than ever. Pricing is much more transparent. The authors of a 2010 HBR article shared two test situations with introverted or extroverted leaders and tested how they reacted to proactive suggestions from employees. According to Nielsen, nearly half of U.S.

Marketing 14

Marketing Retail Advertising Brand 14

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 26, 2011

Sure, you’ll hit something with a shotgun, but the price in doing so seldom provides the big payback. 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.

Bottom-up 50

Bottom-up Sharpe Follow-up Retail 50

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.

Productivity 13

Productivity Products Retail Telemarketing 13

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% We set about investigating the financial costs and benefits of the uptake of sustainable and deforestation-free beef by ranchers, slaughterhouses, and retailers in Brazil. of revenues).

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Net Present Value Retail Cost of Capital 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.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Retail Crisis Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

metros that increased their productivity, average wages, and standard of living from 2010 to 2015, only 11 metros achieved inclusive economic outcomes. The mix of warehouse retail and traditional retail also creates an interesting juxtaposition that lends itself to greater consumer discovery and cross-pollination among users and consumers.

Real Estate 13

Real Estate Development Long-term Short-term 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2016

Its stock price had fallen in recent months, making it a more attractive buy and it is underexposed in emerging markets, representing a large growth opportunity, particularly for a company such as Unilever that does the majority of its business in emerging markets. 1 razor brand, saw its market share fall from 71% in 2010 to 59% in 2015.

Business Model 8

Business Model Retail Brand Henderson 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Lower resource prices and higher levels of sociopolitical instability have taken their toll: Africa’s real GDP grew at an average of 3.3% a year between 2010 and 2015, considerably slower than the 5.4% from 2000 to 2010. from 2010 to 2015, compared with 4.1% between 2000 and 2010.

Globalization 8

Globalization Long-term GDP Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2013

workers say they are "not engaged" or "actively disengaged" with their work, according to Gallup''s ongoing study of the American workplace from 2010 through 2012. That may sound like a lot, but it''s less than 5% of total retail spending (even in a recession) and less than half of what just one retailer, Wal-Mart, sells annually.

Disintermediation 8

Disintermediation CRM CIO Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2015

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. Amazon’s extremely efficient distribution system replaces retail stores and their employees. million in 2010. Those are the direct effects.

Retail 8

Retail Automotive Efficiency Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2014

All this secrecy comes at a price, both in the supply chain and by creating a difficult workplace. 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. We both use iPhones, not Xiaomi products.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Supply Chain Price 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2014

Check out my 2010 case study of the brand for more background.). Successful retail concepts always peak at some point. The value of a brand is twofold: it communicates about the product offering: the category (shoes), quality (middling), service (none), price (affordable), but in addition it also stands for the target market it serves.

Brand 8

Brand Supply Chain Price Case Study 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2013

A prosumer camera is one that is borderline professional grade but a price point in between a consumer camera (few hundred dollars) and a professional camera (few thousand dollars). Prosumers can be the guide to finding unmet demand on the price/value curve. Roche allows you to monitor and manage your own diabetes like a doctor.

Price 8

Price Mass Marketing B2B Quality 8

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. McDonald's raised prices three percent in early 2012 and by the third quarter, faced the first drop in same-store sales in nine years.

Career 12

Career Company Bureaucracy Long-term 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

Instead, you can rethink what it means to be in the retail-banking business, or the industrial-distribution business, or the office-cleaning business. Doyle became CEO in 2010, after some troubled years , when the company’s growth was slow and its stock price was stuck, a lame $8.76

CEO 8

CEO Open-book Price Innovation 8

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. retail businesses lose about $40 billion annually because of the theft of cash alone. Such government safety net programs kept some 25 million people out of poverty in 2010. pays a price as well of a different kind.

Cost 8

Cost Transportation Banking Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2013

Their distribution systems make CSD items available in virtually every retail format, in every country in the world, and have cost efficiencies that emerging brands cannot achieve. CSD has immense scale — $74 billion in annual retail sales in the US alone — and soda is purchased by 96 percent of US households.

Maturity 8

Maturity Merchandising Retail Brand 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

MARCH 8, 2012

As unit economics enable ever cheaper smart phones (the lowest price in the market is now $65), their penetration will rise. It's a reflection of what's happening in the domestic retail space more broadly. Infibeam's founder projects growth of the retail economy from $400 billion today to $1 trillion by the end of the decade.

Venture Capitalist 13

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Conference Wireless 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2017

Headlines in the business sections of newspapers rarely read like this: Jane Doe Hires Well, Stock Price Soars. I became the CEO of a manufacturing company in 2010 after a completing management buyout with some outside investors. A former waiter or retail delivery person fit the bill much better than an education bureaucrat.

Content 8

Content Engineering Education Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2011

The company promised back in 2009 to bring out a Wi-Fi Flip in early 2010. If the "innovation obvious" answer is "cut prices," that speaks volumes about your firm's innovation culture. My third innovation obvious is equally obvious: Why not a daily QR code in a 7-11 or other retail outlet to promote a product or service of the day?

Wireless 12

Wireless Management Telecommunications Innovation 12

Terry Starbucker

DECEMBER 27, 2009

It’s NOT about the lowest price, as you point out. i wrote about this here a few weeks ago ( [link] ) as relates to the American Booksellers Assoc suing Target, Walmart and Amazon for price cutting and threatening the local bookseller industry. One that will last a LIFETIME. How powerful is THAT?! What a missed opportunity here.

Open-book 311

Open-book Price Blog Learning-by-Doing 311

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 3, 2011

In June 2010, I queued outside an Apple store for a couple of hours to secure a new iPhone 4. For instance, if you want to buy in a year's time, Best Buy will pay you 40% of the price of your old phone. That cost me a little time but it netted me much more than 40% of the phone's purchase price. Let's do some math.

Insurance 12

Insurance Price Entrepreneur Cost 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2012

The Wall Street Journal says that Prada's dazzling numbers reflect Chinese consumers' increasingly refined tastes, making Prada's high quality leather goods, with high price points and subtle logos, that much more attractive. trillion, with annual expenditures increasing from $2 trillion in 2010 to more than $6 trillion in 2020.

Marketing 9

Marketing Apparel Short-term Brand 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2014

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. In 2010 we joined forces to improve access to critical medicines.

CEO 11

CEO Supply Chain Operations Brand 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Innovations like Amazon price checks, or changes to healthcare or shipping enabled by mobile phones, are becoming commonplace. GM established a corporate innovation group in Silicon Valley in 2010 to look at advanced technologies related to the Internet and mobile connectivity, “infotainment”, and self-driving cars.

Innovation 8

Innovation Telecommunications Technology Entrepreneur 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. One of every five Wal-Mart stores is in Mexico, where it is now the largest retailer. Was its market dominance worth the price? Wal-Mart made headlines recently for all the wrong reasons.

Execution 12

Execution Retail Report Policies 12

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

MARCH 10, 2014

The Boston Innovation District’s meteoric real estate prices are pushing the very entrepreneurs who made the district sexy towards neighboring districts where rents have not tripled since 2010. The $19 billion sale of WhatsApp’s to Facebook made Koum and Acton, overnight, vastly wealthier than their next door neighbors.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Supply Chain Real Estate Entrepreneur 8