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Team Building & Leadership Process for a Retail Operation; New.

Mike Cardus

Design by 12GrainStudio Team Building & Leadership Process for a Retail Operation; New Product Launch Saturday, November 27th, 2010 Posted by: mike Team Building & Leadership process that was created for a retail organization that was preparing for a new product launch. All rights reserved. Powered by WordPress.

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Katrina Markoff Named Woman of the Year by American Express and.

Women on Business

Katrina Markoff launched her gourmet chocolate company in 1998. Instead, she left some of her chocolate samples with the Neiman Marcus buyer, and the next day he called and asked for more, which he left in the company’s break room. Katrina leads her company with a focus on keeping her staff creative and relaxed.

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HBR's Most Popular Blog Posts of 2011

Harvard Business Review

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. We can't resist including another 11 posts, a hard-to-agree-upon sampling of the ideas we were proudest to publish and discussions we most enjoyed hosting this year.

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Good Management Predicts a Firm’s Success Better Than IT, R&D, or Even Employee Skills

Harvard Business Review

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. Census to collect data on a large number of companies.

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The Brand Benefits of Places Like the Guinness Storehouse

Harvard Business Review

This popularity has enabled Heineken to raise admission prices by more than 60 percent since 2009 and increase retail sales per capita by 100 percent from 2009 to 2014. The Coca-Cola Company has seen similar success with its World of Coca-Cola in Atlanta. How leading companies connect with customers. They are inherently social.

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Is the Future of Shopping No Shopping at All?

Harvard Business Review

That number went down to 29% if the company didn''t ask for your consent first. Without consent, were people willing to have a company charge their account and send them more detergent? And by 2011, a mere 21% of Americans had received any training within the past five years. Most people (61%) weren''t.

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Ignore Costly Market Data and Rely on Google Instead? An HBR Management Puzzle

Harvard Business Review

Stefanie and Eugen had gone for a walk to finalize the details of their company's launch of a similar high-end electric bicycle, named the Oryx. Editor's note: This fictional Management Puzzle dramatizes a dilemma faced by leaders in real companies. We were able to go back to them and ask them questions: How big was your sample?

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