Women on Business

DECEMBER 7, 2010

This online retailer offers everything from bedroom furniture, luggage, shoes and bags, home and garden accessories, and also living room and dining furniture, like this chest of drawers. 20 Best Marketing and Social Media Blogs by Women from Forbes Includes WomenOnBusiness.com Forbes.com published a list of the top 20 marketing and.

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In the CEO Afterlife

APRIL 14, 2011

by John • April 14, 2011 • Leadership , Marketing , Strategy • 1 Comment. I’ll take an educated guess and say that P&G and Unilever top management knew absolutely nothing of the conspiracy until the regulators came knocking. Years ago, I faced this issue in the intensely competitive coffee market.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 14, 2011

An answer to this was anything but obvious, and I struggled to find one shortly after my friend Katie and I were laid off from what were supposed to be dream jobs with an online shoe retailer. We knew that choosing the latter entailed taking, quite probably, the greatest risk in the face of an unstable economy; yet, in the end, we did anyway.

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Mike Cardus

JANUARY 25, 2011

Design by 12GrainStudio Team Building & Leadership: Case Study; Increased Trust=Faster Implementation of Decisions & Problems Solved Cheaper Tuesday, January 25th, 2011 Posted by: mike The following is a true story, of value added results that come from Create-Learning’s Team Building & Leadership Processes. All rights reserved.

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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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Kevin Eikenberry

DECEMBER 9, 2010

There is still time to vote for Steve or our other great nominees for the Best Leadership Blog of 2011. Five Reasons to Make Discomfort Your Friend How to Get Lazy People to Work Ten Decisions Leaders Make Everyday Ten Ways to Make a Great First Impression Five Minutes - a Key to Successful Time Management Kevin Eikenberry: Thanks Dave!Kevin

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Women on Business

JANUARY 18, 2011

The steps she took next to bring her chocolates to a larger market would bring her great success over the course of the next decade. Katrina followed that initial success by branching out of her apartment and opening a retail store in Chicago just two-months after her chocolates launched in Neiman Marcus. Katrina didn’t give up.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Special Edition 50 – An Interview with Marshall Fisher, co-author of The New Science of Retailing examines the use of analytics to improve an organization’s supply chain performance in a way that ultimately enhances the bottom line. To read Marshall’s complete biography, click here.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

New technologies and socioeconomic trends are reshaping the retail marketplace. The IBM Institute for Business Value recently surveyed over 30,000 people in three mature and three growth markets to discover what consumers will want from retailers in the future.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

This blog post is part of the HBR Online Forum The Future of Retail. Retailers face several challenges as they enter the 2011 holiday season. Many retailers are responding with across-the-board price promotion strategies. Is the category a hedge, an investment with a greater benefit payoff or a cost to be managed?

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

The Benevolent Dictator : Empower Your Employees, Build Your Business, and Outwit the Competition by Michael Feuer and Dustin Klein What does it require to take a concept rapidly and effectively from mind to market? Before you resign yourself to living in your own not-so-amusing TV show, let me offer some commonsense management advice.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2011

As 2011 comes to a close, the editors of HBR.org are taking a look back at the most popular blog posts of the year to find out what most preoccupied you, our readers. HBR's 11 Most Popular Blog Posts of 2011. What Venture Capital Can Learn from Emerging Markets. Better Time Management Is Not the Answer. by David Armano.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

subprime mortgages, instead doing business the old-fashioned way, with 80 percent of revenues derived from retail banking. While so much expansion can be tough on a brand, Santander is moving quickly to rebrand all of its acquisitions under the Santander name and launched substantial marketing campaigns in the U.K., and Latin America.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 21, 2011

SAS – Providing organizations with THE POWER TO KNOW ® SAS is the leader in business analytics software and services, and the largest independent vendor in the business intelligence market. Consider these 11 ideas from the Radical Times Webcast series by SAS Marketing Director Jonathan Hornby: 1. What kinds of opportunities?

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Strategy Driven

JULY 13, 2011

While you can find numerous books focused on the topic of corporate finance, few offer the type of information managers need to help them make important decisions day in and day out. Examines ways to maintain and grow value through mergers, acquisitions, and portfolio management.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2011

Companies that demonstrate strategic coherence — think Wal-Mart and Coca-Cola — earn a market premium in terms of higher earnings and greater shareholder value. The big question for many leaders as they look toward 2011 is: "How can my company be one of them?". There's no doubt about it; numbers don't lie.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 27, 2010

The increase in private sector jobs suggests that retail and factory jobs will continue to climb. zurich car insurance says: January 7, 2011 at 8:09 am This clearly effects hiring as many small businesses have been able to exclude part time employees from healthcare benefits and from its total number of employees.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2011

Our most-read slideshow in 2011 was " Difficult Conversations: Nine Common Mistakes." Every December, we collect our favorite management insights from each interviewee into this slideshow. How Retailers Are Reinventing Shopping. Well, a girl can dream.). The Trouble with Salespeople. Video interview. The Tanning of America.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

The managing director needs to know when and where we're launching. Our traditional market research is telling us something else. Editor's note: This fictional Management Puzzle dramatizes a dilemma faced by leaders in real companies. Still — it's nothing compared to the cost of corporate market research.".

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2011

Some tentative conclusions: There is not much of a market for stand-alone strategy studies any more. Marakon , which put value-based management at the core of its strategy concentration, is essentially defunct. Is the highest of managerial arts — or sciences, if you prefer — dead, as some allege? Monitor & Co.,

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2013

At its core, reverse innovation describes solutions adopted first in poorer, emerging nations that subsequently—and disruptively—find a market in richer, developed nations. In 2009, two bright, young entrepreneurs in India saw a key pain point with local retailers, who had no ability to engage with their existing customers.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 26, 2011

The Benevolent Dictator : Empower Your Employees, Build Your Business, and Outwit the Competition by Michael Feuer and Dustin Klein What does it require to take a concept rapidly and effectively from mind to market? The Benevolent Dictator recognizes that entrepreneurship is a gauntlet. Consider leaving a comment! All rights reserved.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2011

All the world's apparel manufacturers and retailers have joined the race to clothe China. Meanwhile, the number of people agreeing with the statement "I build my wardrobe around different occasions and needs" rose from 36% in 2010 to 45% in 2011. Apparel retailers in China face three challenges: Geographic.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2011

We're delighted to announce the finalists for the Management 2.0 They represent multibillion-dollar global companies, government agencies, software companies, cement makers, eyeglass manufacturers, retailers, insurance providers, and tomato processors. Everyone Innovates Every Day — Collaborative Idea Management at Ericsson.

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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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Strategy Driven

MARCH 21, 2011

For well over a century managers have achieved increasing productivity on ever larger scales by dividing and subdividing work into smaller and smaller units. The modern corporation that has evolved as a result consists of many specialized functional departments, such as sales, engineering, marketing, manufacturing, operations, and finance.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2018

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. Starting in 2011, Mercedes chose to develop direct distribution capabilities for electric bicycle sales under its Smart brand.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

Despite entering the world’s largest personal care products market in 1996, Revlon was able to generate just 2% of sales from China 17 years later. One option is for multinational companies to go flat out for market leadership in China; that is, try to be either No. 2 in the market. 2 in the market. Go for Broke.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

In a study of S&P 500 and Global 500 firms, our team found that those leading the most successful transformations, creating new offerings and business models to push into new growth markets, share common characteristics and strategies. But others were surprising, given their states before embarking on transformation.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2013

Every new market I look at seems to have an Amazon-style copycat — a website that looks, functions, and sells products a lot like a well-known online retailer. In India there''s Flipkart , in Russia there''s Ozon , and in Thailand, Indonesia, and other South East Asia markets there''s Lazada. In some cases this is true.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2013

Penney''s CEO was a catastrophe — an assessment captured in the coverage of his ouster this week: "Former Apple Retail Guru Dumped;" "How Ron Johnson Made JCPenney Even Worse;" and my favorite: "I Am Become Ron Johnson, Destroyer of Worlds." Ron Johnson''s 17-month tenure as J.C. It''s true. Hubris, right? That''s just negligent.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2015

’ the questions must be asked, ‘WHY did we start doing WHAT we’re doing in the first place, and WHAT can we do to bring our cause to life considering all the technologies and market opportunities available today?’” In 1921, two brothers started the company to serve the ham radio market.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Unlike most rankings, it was based on a systematic analysis of stock-market performance among nearly 2,000 CEOs of the world's largest companies. And Apple's share performance skyrocketed between the time we compiled the data and when he stepped down on August 24, 2011. Market Capitalization increase during tenure: $341.5

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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

MARCH 29, 2012

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. Big-box retailers, like Best Buy, now have large, fast growing e-commerce businesses. A few years ago, community managers did not exist.

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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. If this occurs then all directors (except the managing director) must stand for re-election within 90 days. Is it now time to redesign the experiment? If so, how? One approach can be seen playing out in Australia.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2014

The company was hell-bent on entering a new market but knew it had to automate its warehouse to do so. The malfunction caused major delays shipping toys to retailers. Not surprisingly, many of those retailers refused to pay when the toys finally did arrive, too late for the holiday season. Their ability to execute.

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