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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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.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

Increasingly, the largest retailers in markets across the country are employing sophisticated personalized marketing and thereby becoming the primary shopping destination for a growing number of consumers. Retail has entered the era of Big Data. The biggest retailers are investing accordingly.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

The most successful companies incorporate disruptive thinking into all of their business and management practices to gain distinctive competitive value propositions. Why didn’t Folgers recognize the retail consumer demand for coffee and develop a Starbucks type business model? Why didn’t IBM see Dell coming?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2011

This post is part of the HBR Forum, The Future of Retail. Between 1994 and 2011, the number of farmers markets across the United States grew from 1,755 to 7,175. In other words, these are fundamentally more human retail experiences. It's not just with pop-up vendors, though.

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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. Thank you again for listening to the StrategyDriven Podcast !

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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

JULY 19, 2017

In 2011, the average tenure dropped to 18 years. Read more from DXC Technology: Embracing Digital Change Requires a Clear Strategic Focus. Digital transformation transcends technology. Digital transformation is often viewed through a narrow technology lens, as just another mobile project or e-commerce initiative.

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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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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 21, 2011

Each issue is packed with thought-provoking content and insight into the business issues that affect all companies competing in today’s technology-driven marketplace with recent contributions by best-selling author and researcher Tom Davenport; social media guru Chris Brogan; and Myron Scholes, world renowned economist and Nobel Prize winner.

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CO2

JULY 6, 2010

RSS Feed Schedule a Call Free E-Book Assessment Test Coffee Schedule Coaching Lunch About Us CO2 Story Our Approach Our Successes Our Executive Coaches Gary B. As a reminder, if you are not fully satisfied, you can return your undamaged iPhone to any Apple Retail Store or the online Apple Store within 30 days of purchase for a full refund.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2014

Small businesses are also instrumental to our innovation economy; small firms produce 13 times more patents per employee than larger firms and employ more than 40% of high technology workers in America. In contrast, loans to larger firms have risen every year since hitting bottom in 2011, and are now up about 4% since that low point.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2017

In fact, it matters as much or more than a number of other factors associated with successful businesses, like technology adoption. Third, being located near a successful large new entrant improved practices, probably because it allows local companies to learn about best practices from leading firms.

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Building Personal Strength

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Is it the clothing retail business? Technology. The world isnt wired to make you successful. People who want to be successful should get serious work about developing themselves in all four of these areas. The business. Is it the restaurant business? If so, do you understand that business? Can you cook great food?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

Dell''s success can be attributed in large part to its "direct model." 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.

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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 is just as important to ask: What has contributed to AR’s increasing success? Aside from complex technological advances (e.g., Aside from complex technological advances (e.g.,

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2012

Remarkably, the leading challenger is online retailer Amazon, with its Kindle Fire tablet. Delivering great products is no longer sufficient for success. In the past, product-focused success depended on exploiting capabilities — in branding, manufacturing, distribution, etc. The innovation game is changing.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2012

Tim Cook took over as CEO in 2011. He learned both industries under high-risk conditions where his own wealth was at stake and success highly uncertain. Employees on the factory floor and in the retail stores are on the move, and it's not a completely positive journey. Neither bode well for the future. Fault Line #1: At the Top.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2014

Even what appears to be a small investment risk can turn into a big one, especially when information technology comes into play. 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.

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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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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

But when you look more deeply into whether those organizations are truly redefining what they are and what they do, stories of successful change efforts are exceptionally rare. 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).

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2013

Our research (discussed in detail in a 2011 Harvard Business Review article one of us coauthored) distinguished between two basic types of acquisitions. Although Geek Squad appears to be operating within Best Buy''s retail shops, it remains a service business, managed separately from the retail operation.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2013

The only sure thing, especially when it comes to technology, is continuous discontinuity. How can you build your organization’s ability to sense and respond to rapid improvements in technology? Consider General Motors, which is looking to Silicon Valley for innovative ideas and technology that could give it a competitive edge.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

The tales of two companies, cell phone accessories retailer Cellairis and skin care products maker Rodan + Fields, illustrate the dangers of top-level strategic tinkering. They had the epiphany that they could use cheap retail space – the carts that sit in the middle of shopping malls – to sell mobile phone accessories, mostly cases.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2012

As a female entrepreneur who has built a successful company over the past decade, I forced myself to look even further ahead and determine what might be coming, not just in 2013 but in the next five years or so. million in 2011. Representation of women on boards of S&P 500 companies declined to 16% in 2011 from 16.6%

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

Apple’s iPhone Upgrade Purchase Plan combines the retail prices of both a selected iPhone 6S and its AppleCare+ enhanced warranty – then divides this total amount into 24 equal monthly payments, with no interest added on. It’s like getting the latest technology for “free.”

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2013

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. Technology, marketing, retail, HVAC, construction, and manufacturing pros. And more are joining every day.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2015

This popularity has enabled Heineken to raise admission prices by more than 60 percent since 2009 and increase retail sales per capita by 100 percent from 2009 to 2014. The Coca-Cola Company has seen similar success with its World of Coca-Cola in Atlanta. The principles of destination storytelling. Know your destination.

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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. Twitter acquired TweetDeck in 2011. What successful companies are doing right. In fact, its revenues per customer for photos and prescription drugs increased sixfold.

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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. From Sentiment to Success Why Uber Just Hired Obama's Campaign Guru Wired Uber''s great and all, except for one tiny problem: A lot of countries around the world think its business model is illegal. Retail Technology'

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

You might simply Pinterest the elements you liked, including information about your space or noise limitations ("One-bedroom apartment on busy street in New York," or "suburban space that needs stuff protected from little kids"), and then have a retailer give you a personalized, optimal configuration. By using the rules of the social era.

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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

APRIL 25, 2014

But they don’t think nearly enough about operational meltdowns – technological glitches and other problems that can put them out of business. Unlike much larger companies, midsized firms usually lack deep operational and technological talent who can quickly recognize, understand, and resolve huge systems glitches.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2013

My consulting firm works with many successful market leaders with amazing market shares — 30%, 50%, 70% and even 90%. 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.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2013

Up until that March evening, Apple had been notoriously successful at concealing its new designs. Typically, the launch of a new product design includes market research, independent testing, previews to select retailers and journalists, and discussions with suppliers about how to manufacture the proposed design.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Being big was in itself a mark of success. 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. Here, let me start with three major shifts that I see: Lean , not big. Take banking as a visible example.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2011

Researchers in the fields of business, economics, and psychology maintained their relentless pursuit of knowledge in 2011, discovering, among other things, that a joke can get you a raise and that it's OK to mimic your customers. If you're a waitress, become a close-talker: Waitresses can increase their tips 22.6% by standing 0.6

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