Skip Prichard

JULY 15, 2019

Nike entered the wearable fitness tracker market in 2012 with its FuelBand, supported by a world-class brand, significant advertising, and functional advantages. Unfortunately, it didn’t have the market share head start enjoyed by Fitbit (launched Tracker in 2008) and Jawbone (launched UP in 2011).

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2018

On March 25 mighty Uber bowed out of Southeast Asia by selling its operation in several countries to local rival Grab. Grab, which launched its service in 2012 with 40 drivers in Malaysia, came late to the ride-hailing game, only after Uber had established a formidable position in the United States.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 22, 2012

This is not written to take swipes at responsible branding, marketing and advertising. Advertising fulfills many essential niche needs. Business-to-business publication advertising. My analysis: Beware of that phrase in advertising. Branding is a sub-set of marketing, which is a sub-sub-set of corporate strategy.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2015

It’s the operating system, applications, and, of course, the access to data. For brands, advertising to the data-constrained presents both creative and distribution challenges. In 2012, Amazon reported that one second of latency in page loading cost the company an average of $1.6

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2013

Yes, his site was definitely taking classified advertising away from papers, he would say. In 2012, the Pew Charitable Trusts said in its latest State of the News Media report, "the operating margin for Gannett was 9.9%, New York Times 5.4%, McClatchy 15.1%, E.W. The Washington Post operated at a 9.2% Scripps 6.9%

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2013

The company spends virtually nothing on advertising. In the US alone, sales grew 40 percent in 2012. Sales in the US have eclipsed those in the UK, and the company posted a 26 percent increase in 2011 and 15 percent increase in 2012. The company now has over 200 stores, and sales soared from US $40 million to US $1.37

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2013

Search began to come of age in the late 1990s as Yahoo, AltaVista, and Google emerged, but the real coming out party was when Google honed its business model tying search results to paid advertising that companies purchased through its AdWords auction. In 2012 a number of disruptive innovations came of age.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2014

To do so, it had to come up with a brand of management all its own, centered around “people analytics,” a quantitative approach to hiring and operations. Earlier this year, Google’s SVP of People Operations, Laszlo Bock, wrote about its latest “people analytics” experiment.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

Twitter has operated in this market since 2006, so almost everyone who wanted to try Twitter has tried it. Finally there is India, where in 2012 there were 150 million Internet users. With free 24/7 advertising on key broadcast media, it is no wonder that Twitter grew so quickly. So China is out of the picture.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2015

Since 1996, and even during the most recent recession, private network operators in the U.S. In sharp contrast, European network operators who are unable to recover their investments continue to fall farther behind. network operators invested $600 per household compared to $389 in the EU. The result is that the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2016

billion has been hacked from the Boleto Bancário, a payment method managed by the Brazilian Federation of Banks, since 2012. They tend to operate in disciplined networks on a larger, international scale. According to an investigative report carried out by the RSA research group, the equivalent of about $3.75

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2014

How much would it cost to have similar media coverage through a traditional advertising campaign? AdvertisingAge reports that in 2012, Samsung increased its U.S. advertising budget more (percentage-wise) than any other high tech company. Probably way more than Apple’s lawyer bills. So why has Apple not sued Google?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2013

They'll conduct lengthy product evaluations and talk to existing users of the products to ensure they work as advertised. From the customer's standpoint, the cost of the salesperson's solution was prohibitive because the perceived value of the operational benefits did not justify the price. Price versus Value. 800 Pound Gorilla.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

Yet ad blockers have been around almost as long as online advertising — certainly as long as we’ve had browser add-ons and extensions. But that’s what you get when you visit most advertising-supported commercial websites, whether you want it or not. Google followed in 2012. Insight Center. In a word, tracking.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

Drive down a typical highway and you'll see a succession of billboards, each one a stand-alone advertisement for a single brand. My company understands that we do not operate in a bubble. Even when peace has returned, post-conflict nationalization has been seen in many countries, with business losing billions in operational assets.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2018

Generally, these mergers create opportunities for operating efficiencies and innovative new products and services with the combined assets of the merging companies. million viewers since 2012. It’s still not fully clear why the Justice Department chose to break with that thinking and oppose the AT&T deal.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2015

Old local giants like the e-commerce business Kalahari , the advertising firm InMobi , and e-classified site Mocality retrenched, reorganized, or closed down. The optimism about Africa clouds some obvious challenges any operator in the continent will confront. In the end, we closed them. We were not alone.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

Genesys, a pioneer of customer experience and call center software, has offices across the globe, and it’s growing quickly, having acquired 10 companies since 2012. Part of its success is that the company supports a collaborative work environment and boasts transparent operations from the top down. Looking for Millennials?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2017

Remember that classic moment in the 2012 presidential campaign when Mitt Romney uttered the phrase “ binders full of women ”? Many are like Kala: everyday people, typically paid a low, flat rate, working independently or through temp agencies, many operating outside the United States.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

Worse still, the real issue, which is the possibility of lightening the real debt load by rescheduling payments and extending maturities (but without affecting the nominal value due to Greece’s official creditors), has been pushed away, and some in Germany would want to renege on a 2012 deal which reduced interest rates and extended payments.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2012

According to a 2012 survey by Jobsite, 54% of recruiters use Twitter, 66% Facebook, and a whopping 97% LinkedIn, as recruitment tools. If you've ever shopped for a pair of shoes on Zappos and then seen those same shoes advertised to you the next time you visit Facebook, this has already happened to you.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2018

Since 2012, M&A activity has increased dramatically in both number of deals and size of transaction, with the yearly value of global M&A deals tracking above $4.5 When a new direction was chosen, it would reflect the best elements of both cultures and operating approaches.” John Gichigi/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

Greg Koch tells the story of how plant managers around the world have absorbed their connection to the communities in which they do business, and work hard to earn the "social license" to operate. Natura Cosmeticos , the $3 billion Brazilian cosmetics company, was founded on the idea of "well-being" for all.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2013

They'll conduct lengthy product evaluations and talk to existing users of the products to ensure they work as advertised. From the customer's standpoint, the cost of the salesperson's solution was prohibitive because the perceived value of the operational benefits did not justify the price. Price versus Value. 800 Pound Gorilla.

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Telecommunications CRM Price Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Within marketing, you have brand, communications, advertising, and digital. Marketing, IT, store operations, and loyalty programs are all connected. “Our customer is in a store, then she’s reading a magazine, then she’s online. To make silos disappear. . Every company has silos.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

Instead, they’re taught to focus on their income statement and optimize their operations around preserving profitability. On a short-term basis, the only thing they can expect in return for focusing on data is the headaches that follow from explaining, justifying, and evaluating their operations to colleagues and investors.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2013

It is estimated that they currently have about seven thousand of them (and Congress asked for about $5 billion worth of more drones in 2012). What makes it all that more interesting, is that those fictional numbers aren't even close to the staggering reality of how many drones are in operation.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

When he saw TripAdvisor.com start to pick up traffic, he decided to pursue an online advertising based business model with banner ads. Advertisers are brought to the site and driven mainly through self-service channels, so there is no need for a large sales force or account management team.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2016

The scrappy startup, launched in 2012, offered a blades-by-subscription service for as little as $3 a month and quickly grew to a team of 45 engineers and 3.2 Buttoned-down Unilever just paid $1 billion dollars for the Dollar Shave Club. million subscribers. Analysts had valued it for far less: in its most recent funding round — a $90.7

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2015

million in the 2006 off-year cycle to more than $300 million in the 2012 presidential cycle. Consider what Aetna faced in 2012. This includes funding advertising that targets or promotes a specific candidate as long as it’s independent from the candidate and party committees. million to the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Quarterly profits have only increased 5% since 2012 , but investors’ valuations of those profits (as measured by earnings per share) has increased 59% over the same period. This means all R&D is subtracted from operating income in the year it’s expended, while the payoffs to R&D don’t occur until future periods.

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