Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

State after state enacted laws to tax chain retailers , to prohibit price discounting, and to protect small merchants and the wholesalers who served them against the onslaught of the chains. A group called the Anti-Monopoly League, which claimed to represent 80,000 independent merchants, announced its intention to drive chain retailers out.

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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. Chi and Allan W. Snyder of the University of Sydney. Roediger III of Washington University. by standing 0.6

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

These drivers underpin a number of stories from 2011, but a few new themes came out as well. Here's the rest of my top 10 stories, with callouts for companies and examples that typify the trend. Coca-Cola was not alone in facing increasing costs in 2011; one of my clients, Kimberly-Clark, took an earnings hit from record pulp prices.

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