N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

My engagements with CEOs often focus on helping them to embrace change through disruptive innovation. Why didn’t Folgers recognize the retail consumer demand for coffee and develop a Starbucks type business model? or my personal favorite, “We need to focus on our core business.&# Why didn’t IBM see Dell coming?

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Business Model Blog Disruptive Innovation Brand 305

Coaching Tip

JULY 7, 2011

Moreover, attracting and retaining talent is “at the top of the agenda” for CEOs, according to the 2011 Annual Global CEO Survey by PricewaterhouseCoopers. According to a recent survey by the National Association for Business Economics , the employment outlook by companies in the United States has soared to a 12-year high. .

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Armstrong Storytelling White Paper Brand 108

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. Penney's new CEO on how to create an irresistible retail experience. Nine Things Successful People Do Differently.

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Blog Silverman Govindarajan Letter 16

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

billion sale in his 16 years as CEO Beating the competition is never easy. 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. As CEO, he grew it to more than 1,000 stores worldwide with annual sales topping $5 billion.

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Motivation Management How To Retail 52

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2011

Our most-read slideshow in 2011 was " Difficult Conversations: Nine Common Mistakes." We sat down with Rotman Dean Roger Martin, author of Fixing the Game , to talk about the skewed incentives of CEO compensation. How Retailers Are Reinventing Shopping. Well, a girl can dream.). Video interview. Interactive infographic.

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Video Porter Charisma Customer Loyalty 15

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 26, 2011

billion sale in his 16 years as CEO Beating the competition is never easy. As CEO, he grew it to more than 1,000 stores worldwide with annual sales topping $5 billion. For those times when you need an iron hand, then you also need the wisdom to know when and how to use it. Consider leaving a comment! All rights reserved.

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Bottom-up Sharpe Follow-up Retail 50

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 21, 2011

One retail CTO summed it up well at a recent SAS event when he said, “We don’t want to just struggle through and be hanging by our fingertips when the economy recovers. Thinking long-term has led this retailer’s CEO to investigate real estate purchases at lower rates and to buy up high-end equipment now while the prices are low.

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Real Estate Magazine Rogers Long-term 66

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2011

While BCG or McKinsey will still proudly help a client devise a corporate strategy, in the eyes of many in the industry such projects have become what retailers call "loss leaders" — products you have to offer to get the customer in the door, but not where you make the real money. None sounded to me like company-defining strategic.

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Consultative Strategy McKinsey Porter 15

In the CEO Afterlife

JUNE 13, 2011

In the CEO Afterlife. by John • June 13, 2011 • Human Resources , Leadership , Strategy • 1 Comment. Our mission is to operate the best specialty retail business in America, regardless of the product we sell. CEO Howard Schultz wanted 2000 stores up and running by the new millennium. December 2011.

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Mission Statement CEO Human Resources Brand 209

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

When Deborah DiSanzo took over as CEO of Philips Healthcare in May 2012, she knew that engineering would continue to drive innovation. We have seen these forces at work in many different industries around the world, requiring a decidedly closer working relationship between the CEO and CMO. Who should lead our transformation?

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CEO Marketing Hotels Long-term 8

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

subprime mortgages, instead doing business the old-fashioned way, with 80 percent of revenues derived from retail banking. About the Author Jez Frampton is Interbrand’s Global CEO responsible for managing the firm’s worldwide interests and enhancing its strategic and creative offerings.

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Brand Globalization Banking Long-term 66

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 27, 2010

The increase in private sector jobs suggests that retail and factory jobs will continue to climb. About the Author As CEO of MyCorporation Business Services, Inc. Will the steady increase in the economy translate into a positive hiring forecast? The results are mixed.

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Uncertainty Insurance Newsletter Incentives 57

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2013

Penney and its CEO Ron Johnson have parted ways. In a "meet the new boss, same as the old boss" moment, Penney announced that its previous CEO, Myron E. Just as important, Johnson was trying to significantly change the retailer''s merchandise offerings and hence, its customer base. Failure Leadership transitions Retail'

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Merchandising Discount Retail Price 8

Building Personal Strength

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Is it the clothing retail business? I’ve been in the learning and development business for over 35 years, and CEO of Performance Support Systems, Inc., The business. Is it the restaurant business? If so, do you understand that business? Can you cook great food? Can you wait tables? Is it the military? Can you operate weapons?

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Skills Bottom-up Video Blog 44

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

Some companies that made the list were obvious choices; for example, the biggest online retailer now gets most of its profit from cloud services (Amazon). We see an interesting pattern across the professionally managed companies, those whose CEOs were hired by the board. These CEOs are what we call “insider outsiders.”

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Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 15

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! "Cool" is a moving target.

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COO Crisis Management Crisis Blog 34

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Steve Jobs landed the number one spot in our ranking of the best CEOs in the world, published in HBR in January 2010. Unlike most rankings, it was based on a systematic analysis of stock-market performance among nearly 2,000 CEOs of the world's largest companies. His tenure had not ended. companies is around six years.

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CEO Collins Long-term Analysis 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2015

Target CEO Brian Cornell decided to close the stores after determining that they would not become profitable until at least 2021. What caused the retailer’s problems in Canada, and what are the lessons learned? To entice shoppers to switch, Target had to differentiate itself from all the other discount retail choices.

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Retail Merchandising Discount Price 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2013

Faced with the recession, and the growing dominance of Amazon and other online retailers, many American malls are becoming ghost towns. Stores are closing — especially big ones — and new retailers aren’t stepping up to fill the empty spaces. Some CEOs Still Disregard Social Media (CIO Insight). SAY IT AIN'T SO.

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CIO Real Estate Retail Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2012

Tim Cook took over as CEO in 2011. Employees on the factory floor and in the retail stores are on the move, and it's not a completely positive journey. On the retail side, Apple's recent record-shattering financial performance meant that each Apple store employee produced, on average, $473,000 in sales. Cook an executor.

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Supply Chain Retail PR Industry 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2017

The idea of incentivizing CEOs and senior executives seems reasonable to most people. It was in the 1980s that the ratio of CEO to average-worker pay grew dramatically. The astronomical rates of CEO fixed pay and bonuses that we are so familiar with today are only about 20 years old. Dave Wheeler for HBR. UK, and Australia.

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Execution Banking CEO Morale 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2013

If you had told me, when I was attending college during the height of the Vietnam War, and the heyday of the counterculture, that several of the most inspiring days of my life would someday be spent with a group of CEOs of large companies, I would have said you were nuts. over the years 1996-2011. But I did last week.

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Company Self-aware Retail CEO 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2013

Penney''s CEO was a catastrophe — an assessment captured in the coverage of his ouster this week: "Former Apple Retail Guru Dumped;" "How Ron Johnson Made JCPenney Even Worse;" and my favorite: "I Am Become Ron Johnson, Destroyer of Worlds." Innovation Leadership Retail' Ron Johnson''s 17-month tenure as J.C. It''s true.

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Merchandising Retail Gordon Price 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

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.

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Strategy Wireless Company Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2013

CEO Marissa Mayer acknowledged the long odds of making the $1.1 Our research (discussed in detail in a 2011 Harvard Business Review article one of us coauthored) distinguished between two basic types of acquisitions. CEO David Karp has openly expressed his resistance to display advertising, one of Yahoo!''s

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Advertising Business Model Audience Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

Retailers such as America’s Best Buy and Germany’s Media Markt also quit China last year while after nine years, Britain’s Tesco concluded that it was unlikely to make a dent on its own in China and entered into a joint venture with a state-owned enterprise, China Resources Enterprise. Go for Broke. 2 in the market.

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Supply Chain Retail Chemicals Marketing 9

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

JULY 17, 2015

Competition from big box retailers and Amazon as well as CEO problems certainly contributed to the brand’s demise, but Radio Shack’s biggest misstep was its failure to stay true to its original purpose — equipping electronics DIY-ers and tinkerers. A better litmus test for keeping or killing a brand may be purpose.

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Brand Merchandising Retail Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2016

The bank has since fired 5,300 employees for the illegal behavior and eliminated retail bank sales goals entirely. According to Stumpf’s testimony, a board committee became aware of the fraud “at a high level” back in 2011.

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Banking Committee Leadership Ethics 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Back in 2011, the McKinsey Global Institute published a report on the transformational potential of big data—and it would take a supercomputer to process all of the articles that have appeared since then urging companies to get on board before some digital disruptor renders them obsolete.

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Industry McKinsey Early Adopters Rate of Return 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

The CEO of Wells Fargo, John Stumpf, apologized in front of a congressional panel Tuesday , saying in a statement , “I accept full responsibility for all unethical sales practices.” In early September Wells Fargo agreed to pay a $185 million fine and return $5 million in fees wrongly charged to customers.

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Incentives Banking Ethics Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2017

As Chad Syverson at the University of Chicago wryly noted in his 2011 round-up of the evidence on what drives productivity : “…no potential driver of productivity differences has seen a higher ratio of speculation to actual empirical study” than management. And while this study focused on U.S.

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Skills Management Succession Bottom-up 12

Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2012

million in 2011. Representation of women on boards of S&P 500 companies declined to 16% in 2011 from 16.6% companies have a woman CEO versus 9% globally. Another example is a woman I interviewed for a book I am writing on how CEOs have to ignite change when things fall apart. companies had all-male boards.

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Trends Power Simon Real Estate 265

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2013

Sunil Mittal, founder and CEO of Bharti Airtel, the fourth largest telecom company in the world, began his work life doing the grunt work of sales and distribution as he tried to make a living selling crankshafts to bicycle manufacturers in Ludhiana, India. Improvising and working on very tight margins is second nature. They learn fast.

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Globalization Chief Financial Officer Class Licensing 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

For 2011, it all added up to $4.8 According to chairman and CEO Timothy Smucker, 67, who is now stepping down to hand the jars to his younger brother Richard, 63, "Volume gains in the fruit spreads category were supported by investments in advertising and product innovation." billion in sales. That's a lot of PB&J.

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Brand Strategic Fit Retail McKinsey 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2014

CEOs of midsized companies who make big bets can lose the farm. The malfunction caused major delays shipping toys to retailers. Not surprisingly, many of those retailers refused to pay when the toys finally did arrive, too late for the holiday season. The importer lost millions of dollars and began running out of money.

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CFO Venture Funding IPO Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2011

Last month, Mr. President, you held a summit meeting with 20 of the nation's top CEOs to look for ways to spur job creation. But Fortune 100 CEOs are exactly the wrong people to talk to about jobs. Then, this past Monday, you appointed General Electric CEO Jeffrey Immelt to chair your new council on jobs and competitiveness.

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Entrepreneur Venture Funding Policies Offshoring 15