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. Many retailers are responding with across-the-board price promotion strategies. Unemployment remains high. cost per meal) or at an individual unit level.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2011

As 2011 comes to a close, the editors of HBR.org are taking a look back at the most popular blog posts of the year to find out what most preoccupied you, our readers. HBR's 11 Most Popular Blog Posts of 2011. Four Ways Women Stunt Their Careers Unintentionally. Penney's new CEO on how to create an irresistible retail experience.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

Why didn’t Folgers recognize the retail consumer demand for coffee and develop a Starbucks type business model? Let’s just take a moment and look at a few notable examples of what happens to companies that become complacent…Why didn’t the railroads innovate? Why didn’t IBM see Dell coming?

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Roundtable Talk

JULY 21, 2010

From the outside, Zappos.com is a successful online retailer, but from the inside Zappos.com has created a mission that is about creating happiness. billion (yes billion) dollars. This isn’t the first time Hsieh has sold a company. Hsieh is completely convincing in expressing this vision.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 26, 2011

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. billion sale in his 16 years as CEO Beating the competition is never easy. This content is intended for personal and non-commercial use only.

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Roundtable Talk

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

On December 8 th , we’ll be meeting with Christine Magee of Sleep Country Canada to talk about her leadership lessons from close to two decades of building Canada’s best known mattress retailer. Click here to register for that session (12 seats only). Hope to see you then. Happy leading!

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2012

Tim Cook took over as CEO in 2011. Tim Cook's career followed a very different path. Employees on the factory floor and in the retail stores are on the move, and it's not a completely positive journey. No wonder Apple retail employees receiving about $12 an hour are scratching their heads at the obvious inequity.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2013

I should know: Many of my former colleagues, friends, and family members mentioned these stereotypes in 2011 when I accepted a job helping launch a new publication covering the business aspects of this emerging sector. Technology, marketing, retail, HVAC, construction, and manufacturing pros. And more are joining every day.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2012

I had to step back and think about the themes in my own career and what I’ve been hearing this year from women all over the country. million in 2011. Representation of women on boards of S&P 500 companies declined to 16% in 2011 from 16.6% In many ways, the answer is a very appreciative “Yes.”. As of 2010, only 2.4%

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2010

One of the most memorable moments was listening to an executive of a British bank rescued by the government, who told his audience that the economic crisis had been a breakthrough moment in his career. I hope 2011 will be a calmer ride, though I very much doubt this will be the case. What we are learning is priceless," he said.

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Leadership Crisis Banking Learning-by-Doing 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

The company had, and still has, extraordinary assets: iconic products, a huge number of skilled employees, many of whom had built careers at Campbell, and a broader community made up of supportive consumers and customers — lots of them. That's quite a foundation on which to stage a comeback.

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Tanveer Naseer

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

Max Brown (to learn more about the book and the numerous book retailers where you can buy a copy, click here to check out the book page on my website ). You see, early in my career, I was shy and reserved. Neil was a spirited, crusty New Englander who wouldn’t let me inhabit the role of the victim for a second. I isolated myself.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

Today, there’s an investment seemingly every week; venture-capital investment in the tech sector increased from less than $30 million in 2011 to more than $1 billion in 2013. In a previous generation, both would have likely followed a lucrative career in the government or perhaps even stayed overseas.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2014

He arrived as President at Quaker Foods North America in 2011 to find a strong, trusted brand with nutritional oatmeal products, but he knew there was an opportunity to build upon the legacy of this iconic brand. Earlier in his career he worked at EDS (an IT services provider), where he learned how to run IT as a business.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2012

A 2011 IBM study of over 3,000 CIOs revealed that CIO-CEO alignment is stronger than ever, with traditional companies aggressively investing in technology innovation. Big-box retailers, like Best Buy, now have large, fast growing e-commerce businesses. In recent years, incumbents have fought back.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2011

Researchers in the fields of business, economics, and psychology maintained their relentless pursuit of knowledge in 2011, discovering, among other things, that a joke can get you a raise and that it's OK to mimic your customers. Among customers who solicited salespeople for information about an MP3 player, 78.8% from nonmimickers.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 10, 2011

One of the most important lessons I’ve learned in my career is that respect doesn’t have to be won by giving orders and demanding adherence to those orders. 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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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Starting that year, however, it began diverting cash from its profitable toy brick business into an array of adjacencies: theme parks, television programs, watches, retail stores, plastic toys without the brick system, video games, and even a Steven Spielberg–cobranded “movie studio in a box.” By 1993 the company had $1.3

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