Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2013

And apparently the 130-year-old retailer has become so adept that it’s stopped giving away advice over the phone and started selling data management services under the B2B brand MetaScale. billion drop in revenue leading to losses of $930 million (after 2011’s $1.1 But with a $1.7 billion revenue drop resulted in a $3.1

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2015

Riding on the inputs of such third-party developers and their popular applications, Walgreens enhanced overall customer engagement with its retail stores. The API is the core engine driving this strategy. Then TweekDeck, a third-party developer, built a better user interface on top of the Twitter engine. Insight Center.

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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. In China, the five largest retailers account for only 10% of the total retail market , so most customers have to buy items in mom-and-pop stores. Chinese users are also more engaged than Americans are.

Advertising 12

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2014

And by 2011, a mere 21% of Americans had received any training within the past five years. Plouffe engineered this through data — collecting it among potential voters and then micro-targeting based on the intelligence the campaign gathered. Retail Technology' Back in 1979, for example, young American workers received 2.5

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2013

On March 18, 2010, an Apple engineer left what looked like an iPhone 3 in a German beer garden in Redwood, California. Or does the fact that the engineer lost the prototype in public somehow break the disclosure chain back to the inventor? Another patron later picked it up from a barstool. All’s well that ends well.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2014

Deservedly vaunted venture capitalist Tom Perkins’ callous, arrogant and elitist recent comments should not serve as an expedient excuse to overlook an important “dirty little secret” about entrepreneurship, the acknowledged engine of economic growth: successful entrepreneurship always exacerbates local inequality , at least in the short run.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2011

Here, too, start-ups are the driving engine of our nation's global innovation leadership. Everyone else has a voice in Washington — Big Business, retailers, insurers, doctors, bankers, and every other interest grouping you can think of. But unfortunately, entrepreneurs are still largely invisible to policy makers.

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Entrepreneur Venture Funding Policies Offshoring 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2015

Michael Levie, a seasoned hotel executive, and Rattan Chadha, a successful retail entrepreneur, were having dinner. In both 2010 and 2011, TripAdvisor voted citizenM “The Trendiest Hotel in the World.” You can’t] create a boat that has an engine, is a row boat and a sailboat all in one.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2013

It's a powerful economic engine, and it propels a whole fleet of income statements. Now in its fourth decade, Star Wars is consistently among the top-five licensed toy brands, bringing in retail sales of more than $3 billion in 2011. "It While the movies pulled in some $4.4 Add to that another $3.8

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

I really do," she said to Eugen, the Oryx's chief engineer. This story was inspired by " Forecasting private consumption : survey-based indicators vs. Google trends," by Simeon Vosen and Torsten Schmidt, in the Journal of Forecasting (September 2011). Will Big Data Kill All But the Biggest Retailers? More >>.

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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. 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. Was a year like 2011 possible in a world without climate change? Was a year like 2011 likely ?

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Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2010

They'll increasingly be a source of, and resource for, innovation differentiation in 2011, if not for your organization, then for the firm you most dread competing against. Where professionals once wrote memos to be read, 2011 begins an era in which documents are written with touch both in mind and on fingertips. That's right.

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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. But she also realized that the company needed to develop greater marketing muscle to drive a commercial transformation. As she put it, “Our markets are going through dynamic change. That was very helpful.”.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 4, 2014

That 2% includes all the doctors, lawyers, accountants and engineers… those of us who actually advise. Employee theft and shoplifting accounting for 15% of the retail cost of merchandise. In 2011, the Department of Commerce estimated that there were 27.5 35% of employees steal from the company.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 10, 2011

He is also CEO of Max-Ventures, a venture capital and retail consulting firm, and founder and CEO of Max-Wellness, a comprehensive health and wellness retail chain that launched in 2010. billion sale in his 16 years as CEO Beating the competition is never easy. This content is intended for personal and non-commercial use only.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

As the argument goes, that’s good for workers, who don’t want to be bored or overwhelmed, and it’s good for retailers, whose biggest cost and revenue driver is typically labor. Our collective research has also shown that retailers really do struggle with scheduling. So what should retailers do? on Saturdays.

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Software Management Retail How To 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

By now everyone knows the story: Kodak went into a free fall that led to bankruptcy in 2012 because it failed to respond to the disruption of digital technology — even though one of its own engineers invented a technology for capturing a digital image in 1975. Other companies can do the same. Build a Re-Founding Team.

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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 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

This begins with building a “simulation engine” by effectively re-creating the shelf of the evaluated category in order to test volume “lift” from the newly designed packaging through third-party software. Price Pack Architecture Innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

Snapchat, an idea conceived in 2011, is now valued around $16 billion, with more than 100 million active users who send an average of over 400 million snaps per day. Similarly, Flipkart, the largest online retailer in India, has so far raised an impressive amount of around $3 billion in nine rounds of equity financing.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

In 2011, venture capitalist Marc Andreessen declared that “software is eating the world.” ” For example, productivity has grown dramatically in the retail sector since 1990; inflation-adjusted sales per employee have grown by roughly 50%. ” Its appetizer seems to have been smaller companies. IT Does Matter.

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