In the CEO Afterlife

NOVEMBER 13, 2011

by John • November 13, 2011 • Branding , Life , Marketing • 5 Comments. I’ve never thought of the homeless as innovative or entrepreneurial. Beneath the pier and within reach of your coins from above are 5 picnic blankets spread six-feet apart, each with novel merchandising themes to entice charitable currency.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2011

The big question for many leaders as they look toward 2011 is: "How can my company be one of them?". Such capabilities could be rapid-cycle product development, point of sale merchandising, large-scale fabrication, and so on. Define precisely how your way to play adds value for your chosen customers (e.g.,

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Strategy Driven

JULY 13, 2011

Pharmaceutical companies have long needed deep scientific-innovation leadership capabilities but relatively few general managers. Retailers historically need trained stored managers, a few great merchandisers, and, in most cases, store staff with a customer service orientation. Copyright (c) 2011. About the Authors.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

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. Troubles at Tesco, the UK’s leading retailer, are mounting. Everyone shops at Aldi.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2013

Harry Gordon Selfridge, who founded the eponymous London-based retailer, did the unthinkable when he opened his first store in 1909, taking merchandise out from behind the counters so that customers could actually touch it. I want merchandise that people will desire. Innovation Leadership Retail'

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2013

Penney in November 2011 with a mandate to turn the ailing retailer around, all eyes were on him. Before that, he was the VP of merchandising for Target (or "Tar-jay"). And indeed he had a very innovative strategy for J.

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In the CEO Afterlife

NOVEMBER 4, 2012

Towards the end of 2011, he was diagnosed with inoperable esophageal cancer. But even artists have to eat, and the fuel of commerce and industry is innovation and novelty. Economically I probably helped shift some merchandise. Let’s trade. Will work for food!” as the street-beggars sign says. At least creatively speaking.

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