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. As Dahl puts it, there are various “logs” that stand between us and our objectives. People and businesses are looking for opportunities. What kinds of opportunities?

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Real Estate Magazine Rogers Long-term 66

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2015

Consumers go to retail stores to find out what is available at what prices—in other words, in large part, to get information. Rather than having stores in shopping centers, retailers will construct massive warehouses and home-deliver products directly. So robots will play a more important role in retail’s future.

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Technology Retail Transportation Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

For 2011, it all added up to $4.8 The idea is that a business unit that no longer fits one company's objectives can become the foundation of new growth somewhere else. Smucker's impressive annual results cap a decade in which the 4,500-employee firm achieved compound annual revenue growth of 23% and per-share earnings growth of 14%.

Brand 13

Brand Strategic Fit Retail McKinsey 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2013

My colleague, Linda Deeken, and I did some analysis of the top 75 Food & Beverage categories sold in classic retail channels that Nielsen measures for a 4 year period from 2007-2011. But you don''t have to be a market leader like Gillette for Category Growth as a growth strategy to work.

Price 8

Price Franchising Marketing CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2013

The objective of most Chinese enterprises is to export products and earn foreign currency," he told Harvard Business School researchers in the 1980s. In 2011, for the third year in a row, the Euromonitor International market research firm ranked Haier as the top appliance brand in the world, calculated its retail volume share as 7.8

Globalization 15

Globalization Chief Financial Officer Class Licensing 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. Julian Watt/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Bank of America recently considered a $5 fee for customers to get their own money via their debit card because they have to find a way to fund all those retail storefronts. Case in point: Gap missed many of its performance numbers in 2011 by believing that their only interaction with their customers happened at the cash register.

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Banking Business Model Supply Chain Mass Marketing 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

Smartphone sales in 2011 are estimated to reach 468 million units, a 57% increase over 2010. Though AllStays isn't connected to Wal-Mart, the app is probably good for the retailer: Think of all those early-morning shopping visits.). This post is part of the HBR Insight Center Growing the Top Line.

Brand 11

Brand B2C Market Segmentation Travel 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

While competitors like Compaq and IBM sold PCs through retailers, distributors, and resellers, Dell sold directly to its customers, offering highly customized PCs at a time when the cost of computers was high enough to still require significant tradeoffs. Dell''s success can be attributed in large part to its "direct model."

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Rivkin Succession Short-term Case Study 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2016

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. Pokémon Go hits all of these targets , and it offers useful direction for designing future AR games.

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Tourism Technology Content Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2013

On June 14, 2011, JCP appointed Apple Store star Ron Johnson as CEO to replace what activist investor Bill Ackman derided as the completely failed regime of then-CEO Mike Ullman, who had apparently badly mismanaged JCP for his seven years at the helm. It has been a surreal two years for shareholders, customers, and employees of J.

Strategy 8

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

There had been a number of philosophical objections posed to this approach through the years — among them the argument that employers possess more power and information than individual workers in most labor markets, allowing them to push wages below the optimal level in the absence of collective bargaining or government intervention.

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Price Policies Fashion Proposal 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2013

The objective of most Chinese enterprises is to export products and earn foreign currency," he told Harvard Business School researchers in the 1980s. In 2011, for the third year in a row, the Euromonitor International market research firm ranked Haier as the top appliance brand in the world, calculated its retail volume share as 7.8

Globalization 8

Globalization Chief Financial Officer Class Licensing 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2013

From 2008 through 2011, we were just up against challenge after challenge to keep our business in play. Even in more robust economic times, any retail business has to cope with seasonality. It connects the actual making with the object itself. For me, that Drucker issue came at a time that Patina was deeply struggling.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2014

He arrived as President at Quaker Foods North America in 2011 to find a strong, trusted brand with nutritional oatmeal products, but he knew there was an opportunity to build upon the legacy of this iconic brand. They engage, tell the big story of why you do what you do, listen, and model desirable behaviors.

Balanced Scorecard 8

Balanced Scorecard Innovation Globalization Micromanagement 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2015

During the 2013 holiday season shopping period, Target was the object of then the biggest cyber attack on a retailer. Three years after the 2011 hack that compromised payment data of millions of Sony gaming users, Sony had to deal with a massive data breach targeting its pictures industry.

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Price Long-term Banking Short-term 8

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 15, 2010

Whether you are developing a mathematical optimization or just trying to drive more effective and efficient use of resources across the organization, the resource optimization model should be based on the objective, decision variables and constraints. The following five steps can help you make the most of this optimization framework.

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Resources Process Constraint Objective 50

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

Product-service movement at retail levels. Applications of your work toward other departments’ objectives. 7 Stages in Making a Case for Business Funding: Link to a strategic business objective. Unclear objectives produce more failures than incompetence, bad work, bad luck or misdirected work. Inventory costs.

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Budgeting Planning Strategic Planning Competitive Advantage 50

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

The CMOs will need to be much more attuned to the business objectives and strategies of the company in general and the CEO in particular, while the CEO must become more immersed in the customer perspective. In our experience, there are specific steps CEOs and CMOs can take to develop a working relationship that is dynamic and useful.

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CEO Marketing Hotels Long-term 8

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 10, 2011

Being a good manager means accomplishing objectives through others. 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.

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Innovation How To Retail Motivation 50

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2011

Many innovative ideas became the victims of in-fighting among managers who had competing objectives. The LESSON : Leader behavior must be aligned with company objectives and values. It developed the NOOK and has devoted significant space in its retail stores to display and promote it, and it has a broad online library.

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Execution Company 360-Degree Feedback Cooper 68

Miles Anthony Smith

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Terri Blackstock A New York Times best-selling author and a recipient of numerous awards like the Christian Retailers Choice Award and Carol Awards to name a few, Terri has more than 7 million books sold worldwide. One of her objectives in writing is for her readers to know that they’re not alone, and all trials in life have a purpose.

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Film Meyer Books Travel 52

Miles Anthony Smith

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Terri Blackstock A New York Times best-selling author and a recipient of numerous awards like the Christian Retailers Choice Award and Carol Awards to name a few, Terri has more than 7 million books sold worldwide. One of her objectives in writing is for her readers to know that they’re not alone, and all trials in life have a purpose.

Film 52

Film Meyer Books Travel 52

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

These tried-and-true tools of the retail trade might not be as sexy as other forms of marketing. These instruments share a common objective: to influence purchase decisions by equipping consumers with incremental spending power for specific brands and retailers. What does this mean for retailers and brands? Gift cards.

Brand 8

Brand Loyalty Retail Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2014

But in terms of their objectives and planning horizons, there is often a yawning gap between these private and public sector players. We designed a one-day workshop for planning and, in 2011, took it on the road to venues across the country. It’s difficult for the public sector to coordinate planning across regions and modes.

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Planning Scenario Planning Transportation Workshop 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2013

Their fast-growing companies work in almost every industry, from online retail to manufacturing to professional services, and together they have created more than 200,000 jobs and generated revenues of more than $5B in 2011. So What Does This Mean?

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Entrepreneur Business Model Long-term Goal 8