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How Retailers Can Appeal to Lower-Income Shoppers

Harvard Business Review

Retailers face several challenges as they enter the 2011 holiday season. These lower-income shoppers think like savvy CFOs and are willing to pay more for categories that provide a usage benefit as well as a variety of economic benefits for their own "household P&L.". cost per meal) or at an individual unit level.

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How to Create Remarkable Teams PART 2 – Collaboration

Ask Atma

So the designer teaches everyone about UX/AI, the coders teach about their development methodology, the project managers teach about agile protocols, and the sales people describe what it is like in the field. Emotional control – successful anger and/or frustration management. Curiosity – inclination to learn.

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Chain Stores vs. Amazon

Harvard Business Review

The other new law, the Unfair Trade Practices Act, prohibited retailers from selling any item below cost, including an imputed share of the cost of doing business, and also required a chain to charge uniform prices throughout the state save for differences attributable to transport costs. The brothers who ran it, George L.

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Building a Software Start-Up Inside GE

Harvard Business Review

It made a massive investment (more than $1 billion) to build a software “ Center of Excellence ” in San Ramon, California to manage the data explosion created by the increasing intelligence of its industrial machines. Bill Ruh was selected in 2011. The first step was to hire someone to run it. ” Hiring for Growth.

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The 787's Problems Run Deeper Than Outsourcing

Harvard Business Review

While the first 787 was originally scheduled to be delivered back in 2008, a string of delays and cost overruns meant that deliveries didn't start until 2011. Time and cost blew out accordingly. Unfortunately, things haven't quite worked out as planned. Lawyers will probably need to get involved.

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Top 10 Green Business Stories of 2011

Harvard Business Review

These drivers underpin a number of stories from 2011, but a few new themes came out as well. Malthus strikes back: Coca-Cola takes an $800 million hit on commodity costs. 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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Decoding The Truth Of Leading Multi-Generational Workforces

Tanveer Naseer

And that is the issue of how to effectively manage a multi-generational workforce. “Generational differences in work-related attitudes: A meta-analysis”, Journal of Business and Psychology, 27(4), p. “How ‘Gen X’ Managers Manage”, in Osland J.S., & Rubin I.M. & Coulon, L.

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