Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2013

Just as important, Johnson was trying to significantly change the retailer''s merchandise offerings and hence, its customer base. It can''t revert to its past strategy because the chain was spiraling downwards before hiring Ron Johnson in late 2011. From 2007 to 2011, the chain store''s operating profit dropped from $1.9B

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2012

Remarkably, the leading challenger is online retailer Amazon, with its Kindle Fire tablet. In industries ranging from consumer electronics to construction and from media to mining, the firms seizing the lead are those that can best align ecosystems of offers and partners. The innovation game is changing.

Strategy 15

Strategy eBook Library Open-book 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

In 2011, we published an article in HBR examining the surprisingly rapid growth of African economies and consumer markets. Growth has slowed sharply among oil exporters and North African countries affected by the 2011 Arab Spring democracy movements—but the rest of Africa posted accelerating growth at an average annual rate of 4.4%

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Globalization Long-term GDP Marketing 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.

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain Retail Chemicals Marketing 9

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. The list goes on.

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Industry Retail Banking Brand 10

Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2012

Women’s skills were more flexible and they held more ‘knowledge’ positions than their male counterparts, particularly in the manufacturing and construction industries. million in 2011. Representation of women on boards of S&P 500 companies declined to 16% in 2011 from 16.6% million women-owned businesses in the U.S.,

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Already in 2011 the Chinese spent more time on the Internet than watching TV , while in the U.S. The Chinese government plans to move 250 million rural residents into newly constructed towns and cities by 2025. For example, if every province in China achieves a 50% penetration rate, 135 million new Internet users will come online.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2015

Michael Levie, a seasoned hotel executive, and Rattan Chadha, a successful retail entrepreneur, were having dinner. As a result of these decisions, citizenM’s construction costs are 40% lower than other 4-star hotels and staffing is 40% lower too, but occupancy rates (consistently above 95%) are considerably higher.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2013

One industrial producer of state-of-the-art equipment packs its big mobile units with collapsible exhibits which it can set up quickly at construction sites. Cisco Systems, known for its digital telephone switches and routers, had four 25-foot vans touring the country from 2004 to 2011 , to events put on by its channel partners.

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Terry Starbucker

DECEMBER 27, 2009

Don’t protest Walmart pre-construction and then immediately take your business there once the inevitable store opening occurs. And I really did come back with a new-found respect for the “retail civility&# demonstrated by the Parisians. Protest with your wallet. Del, I had a GREAT vacation!

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2011

In The Age of Hyperspecialization (July-August 2011, co-authored by Tom Malone of MIT and Tammy Johns of Manpower), we note that the division of labor, a development that transformed the way physical work was accomplished during the industrial revolution, may now be poised to redefine how knowledge work gets done in the 21st century.

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Supply Chain Health Care Globalization Trends 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2011

Our 2011 study, "Let's Play Brand," attempts to understand some of the implications of this "meta-game-mentality" for brand builders and marketers. At MTV, we have long suspected that understanding the relationship between Millennials and game play is one of the keys to understanding the generation as a whole.

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