Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2012

It's emerged as this season's hot holiday pricing strategy for online retailers such as Amazon and Best Buy: dynamic pricing. That's the strategy, employed by industries such as airlines, in which a seller moves prices up and down quickly, charging similar customers different prices for the same product or service.

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Retail Price Strategy Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Back in 2011, the McKinsey Global Institute published a report on the transformational potential of big data—and it would take a supercomputer to process all of the articles that have appeared since then urging companies to get on board before some digital disruptor renders them obsolete.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

Dealing with today’s digital disruption begins by understanding how it differs from past industry changes. After all, stories of the end of our industry as we know it have been a trade press staple for decades. In 2011, the average tenure dropped to 18 years. No industry is immune. There is significant opportunity.

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Technology Industry GDP Content 8

N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

So, in today’s post I’ll examine the power of disruption as a key business driver… Disruptive business models focus on creating, disintermediating, refining, reengineering or optimizing a product/service, role/function/practice, category, market, sector, or industry. Why didn’t IBM see Dell coming?

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

Manage Your Email: Regardless of your job, your location, or your industry, email likely takes up a significant portion of your time – while not always producing the best results. She has worked across a range of industries including retail, government, transport, oil and gas, and human services. Then return to your work.

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Productivity Products Strategy Covey 50

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2011

Our most-read slideshow in 2011 was " Difficult Conversations: Nine Common Mistakes." Economy, Industry by Industry. Rounding out the if-you-don't-understand-history-you're-doomed-to-repeat-it vein, we took a look at 50 years of turbulence in across several major industries. How Retailers Are Reinventing Shopping.

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Video Porter Charisma Customer Loyalty 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2015

Michael Levie, a seasoned hotel executive, and Rattan Chadha, a successful retail entrepreneur, were having dinner. The topic of conversation was the hotel industry. Both men thought that the industry was stale and too homogeneous relative to the diversity of customers it sought to serve. It ain’t happening.

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Industry Hotels Travel Airlines 8

Strategy Driven

JULY 13, 2011

As with the other measures, what is important varies by industry. Retailers historically need trained stored managers, a few great merchandisers, and, in most cases, store staff with a customer service orientation. We advocate that companies choose their own set of metrics tailored to their industries and strategies.

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ROIC Balanced Scorecard Metrics McKinsey 62

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2011

Meanwhile behemoths such as McKinsey and BCG, to maintain their above-industry-average growth rates and keep their global office networks humming, have broadened what they do and moved down the food chain. Marakon , which put value-based management at the core of its strategy concentration, is essentially defunct. Monitor & Co.,

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Consultative Strategy McKinsey Porter 15

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 21, 2011

One retail CTO summed it up well at a recent SAS event when he said, “We don’t want to just struggle through and be hanging by our fingertips when the economy recovers. Look to the founding era of your industry and identify best practices that became too expensive to maintain during the ‘60s and ‘70s. What kinds of opportunities?

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Real Estate Magazine Rogers Long-term 66

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2018

Through historical research and many interviews, we found several ways in which early stumbles in the organic wine market created marketing problems that the industry still struggles to overcome. First, the conventional wine industry saw it as a threat. As a result, many distributors and retailers were hesitant to add it sell it.

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Organization Chemicals Retail Reputation 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2012

Tim Cook took over as CEO in 2011. Jobs' deep multi-industry experience paid profound dividends. First, he tackled the computer industry and then took on the entertainment world (via Pixar). He learned both industries under high-risk conditions where his own wealth was at stake and success highly uncertain.

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Supply Chain Retail PR Industry 15

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

Genuine case studies of small businesses a retail shop, small manufacturing business, and medical office – are used throughout, so you can compare the way your business works to the case studies, and to industry norms. Consider leaving a comment! This content is intended for personal and non-commercial use only.

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Finance Uncertainty Case Study Competitive Advantage 50

Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2018

For companies in industries with razor-thin margins , as in the grocery business, responding to these dynamics may help increase the volume on which success depends. After they finished making their choices, they were shown a photo of a three-pack of chewing gum in a retail display. What might our results mean for retailers?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

Troubles at Tesco, the UK’s leading retailer, are mounting. If round after round of profit warnings was not enough – group operating profits fell 20% between 2011 and 2013 and are likely to fall another 30% in 2014 — the company recently announced it had overstated its first-half profit by about $400 million. How did this happen?

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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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Retail P&L Price Advertising 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2013

These are the images many outsiders have of the medical marijuana industry. 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. And I still do now. The list goes on.

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Industry Retail Banking Brand 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

Some companies that made the list were obvious choices; for example, the biggest online retailer now gets most of its profit from cloud services (Amazon). While Amazon has expanded its core retailing platform into new categories, such as food and streaming content, in parallel it has built the world’s largest cloud computing enterprise.

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Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

The bullwhip effect is the amplified response to demand signals as one moves “upstream” in the supply chain: from retailers to manufacturers to suppliers to commodity providers. Here’s a hypothetical illustration of the bullwhip effect: A retailer might experience an X% drop in sales owing to some external event.

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Supply Chain Retail Crisis Operations 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.

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Supply Chain Retail Chemicals Marketing 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2013

Faced with the recession, and the growing dominance of Amazon and other online retailers, many American malls are becoming ghost towns. Stores are closing — especially big ones — and new retailers aren’t stepping up to fill the empty spaces. Louis Cardinals in 2006 and 2011, when the team won the World Series.

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CIO Real Estate Retail Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2018

The auto industry is a case in point. Writing in the Sloan Management Review, Boston College professor Gerald Kane noted that 87% of executives surveyed indicated that digital technologies will disrupt their industries to a great or moderate extent. As a result, many B2B companies remain stuck in a stalemate.

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Strategy B2B Insurance Business Model 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2012

The Indian government sponsored the introduction of 3G services in 2011 with a $30 billion spectrum auction. As in China several years ago, there's a reluctance to pay for goods using the Web; most of today's online transactions are in the travel industry (representing 87 percent of a $6.3 billion e-commerce sector, says Avendus).

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Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Conference Wireless 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2011

And Apple's share performance skyrocketed between the time we compiled the data and when he stepped down on August 24, 2011. Jobs' final scorecard for his entire tenure from 1997 to 2011 is: Country-adjusted total shareholder return: 6,682%. Industry-adjusted total shareholder return: 6,621%. His tenure had not ended.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

You''re CEO of a once great company, now beleaguered on all sides by competitors and a rapidly changing industry. In a 2011 paper , researchers from HBS, Columbia, and the University of Chicago looked at the success of 472 tech buyouts based on a novel measure: patents. Mergers & Acquisitions Strategy Tech industry'

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Rivkin Succession Short-term Case Study 15

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.

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Strategy eBook Library Open-book 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2018

Large companies in industries ranging from retail, to aerospace, to financial services are buying talent and technology to develop new digital capabilities and reinvent themselves quickly. Notably tech firms acquired an average 250 tech companies annually between 2002 and 2011 and 350 in the years since.

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Company Business Model Price Technology 8

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 19, 2017

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. We found several major factors. And while this study focused on U.S.

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Skills Management Succession Bottom-up 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2016

The bank has since fired 5,300 employees for the illegal behavior and eliminated retail bank sales goals entirely. According to Stumpf’s testimony, a board committee became aware of the fraud “at a high level” back in 2011. ” If this mentality pervades the bank, it could exacerbate an existing industry bias.

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Banking Committee Leadership Ethics 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

Looking at the merger in terms of continued consolidation within the cable industry, however, misses the bigger picture. There is no cable industry. The multi-front digital onslaught will inevitably generate more consolidation among incumbents, and ultimately the emergence of a new industry structure.

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Technology Content Information Technology Franchising 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2016

The launch of Pokémon Go this summer was a huge success—both for the gaming industry and for Augmented Reality (AR). But it also has implications for areas outside of entertainment, such as marketing, fashion, tourism, and retail, where commercial AR apps have already been increasing in numbers and popularity.

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Tourism Technology Content Fashion 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2012

billion , entrepreneurial companies with technology at their core have disrupted entire industries and threatened or eliminated incumbents. A 2011 IBM study of over 3,000 CIOs revealed that CIO-CEO alignment is stronger than ever, with traditional companies aggressively investing in technology innovation.

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Technology Venture Capitalist CIO ROI 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2017

On July 1, 2011, the Australian Government amended the Corporations Act introducing the “two-strikes” rule. Highly diversified across food retailing, hardware, office supplies, department stores and industrial products, its current CEO, Richard Goyder, is stepping down to be replaced by an internal appointee, Rob Scott.

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Execution Banking CEO Morale 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2013

Bain & Company recently surveyed about 750 employees across industries in Brazil, China, India, Germany, the UK, and the U.S. Statoil , a Scandinavian energy company, launched a climate and energy program in 2011 that nominates 10 senior executives to take part in a year-long program.

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Metrics Chemicals Simon Energy 9

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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Trends Power Simon Real Estate 265

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 26, 2015

Over the last decade, we have been conducting field research on how dozens of companies in a range of industries (including entertainment, software, financial services, manufacturing, retail, consulting, and business process outsourcing) orient new employees. buying an airline ticket or configuring a printer).

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Power Outsourcing Self-aware Airlines 8