Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

That’s because even after they determine the right ways to use information to delight their customers, managers must address one equally important challenge. They must update decades-old management systems so they can embrace new digital opportunities. Where we land is firmly in the face of a management paradox.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2015

a year between 1964 and 2012 to only 2.1% In retail, for instance, productivity could increase by another one-third in developed economies and double in emerging economies between 2012 and 2025. We see a rich pipeline of innovation ahead in both developed and emerging economies. over the next 50 years.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

Its gross domestic product has surged from less than $150 billion in 1978 to $8,227 billion in 2012 (see “China’s GDP” chart below). percentage points in 2003-2012. In fact, China is already experiencing a labor shortage: Wages are rising and it is losing its labor-cost advantage to other developing countries.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2012

So, naturally, watching their profit margin drop precipitously as customers flock to these other retail centers, Best Buy is trying to figure out a way to compete. In this month's HBR, Professor Clayton Christensen and I have an article that describes how to develop core business strategy in the face of disruption.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2012

In 2012, some estimate that information is doubling every 18 months and that the doubling time is shortening such that it will be doubling in a matter of days or weeks by the end of the year. Hopefully, your job is providing that sort of development in the normal course of your day-to-day work, plus any company-sponsored training.

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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. Here are three strategies for developing digital distribution approaches that minimize risk: Embrace Stealth.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2012

A few years ago, one of the world's largest retailers had literally hundreds of initiatives going after same-store sales growth. But when the retailer took a more careful look, it found that its best opportunity was to get people to buy more in the categories they were already shopping (such as apparel or electronics or groceries).

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2015

How would you react if you observed a peer, employee, or manager doing so? And mindfulness research is convincing many managers that investing in reflection, openness, and thoughtfulness will have a positive impact on employees and on the bottom line. Intel began offering its Awake@Intel mindfulness program in 2012. Mindfulness.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2013

Many wonder why an academy company like P&G, historically known for developing talent, did not, or was not able to, promote a successor from within its ranks. What kind of signal did this choice send to P&G''s top managers? We now see they are also struggling to do a good job managing their own talent responsibilities.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2013

If lucky, a start-up grows and develops a success formula. retailer, spent the last three decades improving its supply chain processes, and designing and launching a series of services, including smaller local convenience stores and online shopping. The danger is that their management approaches cannot sense or respond to shocks.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2014

Starting in 2012, my colleagues and I began taking a closer look at the hands-on experience of data scientists. At Stanford, I conducted 35 interviews of data analysts from 25 organizations across a variety of sectors, including health care, retail, marketing, and ?nance. IT management Technology'

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

In 2012, $10 billion in sales were made through mobile channels. This trend has created an opportunity to develop engaging content that increases brand awareness. In 2012, it delivered 200 million rewards, with redemption rates of 10 to 25 percent per reward. "Mobile first." That''s expected to rise to $30 billion by 2016.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

In 2012, $10 billion in sales were made through mobile channels. This trend has created an opportunity to develop engaging content that increases brand awareness. In 2012, it delivered 200 million rewards, with redemption rates of 10 to 25 percent per reward. “Mobile first.”

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Coaching Tip

JANUARY 29, 2014

The study explores net growth in private-sector business establishments from 2001 to 2012, ranking the best and worst states for new establishments post-recession and shedding light on national trends. The number of private-sector business establishments grew just 2 percent from 2009 to 2012 after growing 12 percent from 2001 to 2007.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

As the Institute of Medicine highlighted in a 2012 report , this gap in knowledge contributes to variation in care and suboptimal outcome. With the arrival of more advanced analytics such as IBM Watson , we can imagine more intelligent system such as MD Anderson’s Oncology Expert Advisor that one of us (Lynda) previously developed.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2012

president of Simon Associates Management Consultants. In 2012, according to the State of Women-Owned Businesses Report from American Express Open, there are more than 8.3 In 2012, over 50% of dentists are women, as are 47% of medical students. Her husband left his real estate firm to run her office and manage the company.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

Informal retail and cash purchases are the norm, and that has its risks and costs. More people have mobile money accounts than bank accounts in at least nine African countries, up from four in 2012. The second is the need to lower the costs and risk of retail and trade based primarily on cash transactions.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2014

The team transformed Gap’s products and stores and helped the company grow faster than any other retail brand at the time. More recently, SpaceX, the rocketry and spacecraft company founded by legendary entrepreneur Elon Musk, developed its Falcon 9 launch vehicle for just over $300 million. Leading teams Managing people'

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2015

The assumption is that a merger will make it easier to achieve economies of scale, develop a large but narrow network of preferably healthy patients, establish data registries, and integrate expensive technology. We attracted many new doctors when we opened a replacement hospital in 2012, ultimately doubling the size of our medical staff.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2012

This is especially true when you're trying to rekindle your retail business after decades of doing work elsewhere. It was just 20 years ago this week that a British software engineer sent the world's first text message, "Merry Christmas," to a manager at Vodafone. So goes the story of George Howell. — Andrew O'Connell. .

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Strategy Driven

JULY 6, 2012

Corporate executives must develop themselves for the next level and to be useful to their companies and communities in the future. Business development. They came from training, team building and people management perspectives. People who are managed by others. It’s lonely at the top. by Hank Moore. The Big Picture.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

But when I learned that our retail partners had recently started asking about the impact of our sustainability programs, I agreed that Cabot would undergo the rigorous B Corp certification process to provide an objective measure. In 2012, Cabot became a certified B Corp. Our story is not unique.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2013

Here in the Guardian , two business professors offer a practical solution to all three problems using developing nations’ supply chains. But that’s not what HHL Leipzig management school and BCG found when they looked at 225 start-ups that PE firms bought from one another between 2006 and 2012.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2014

Buffer builds tools to help businesses manage and analyze their social media activity. Etsy offers its 1,00,000+ merchants a range of opportunities — such as online classes, in-person workshops, and video tutorials — to help them improve how they brand their stores, market their products, and even manage their inventories.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2016

Some retailers and manufacturers—in the apparel, footwear, and electronics industries—have launched programs to make their customers interested in preserving their products and preventing things that still have value from going to the landfill. At the same time, offering repair supports the perceived quality of its products.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2014

It developed an outstanding supply chain for fish and became a dining out routine for millions of Americans, especially on its famous “endless shrimp” days. in 2012, with 2% more guests. Successful retail concepts always peak at some point. Red Lobster got its start bringing fresh seafood to landlocked parts of the US.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2016

In the three years since December 2012 (the date of the Sandy Hook killings) the U.S.-based When it comes to technological development for safer guns, it is a task assigned to the Departments of Defense, Justice and Homeland Security — not to the U.S. ” Good management is an ample supply at the gun manufacturers.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2015

We also found that the professionals we spoke with at Accenture, in offices on three continents, consistently lauded the firm for its willingness to support innovations, from Accenture Development Partnerships to professional programs for First Peoples in Canada and support for call centers in native communities.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2014

There is no fee charged to retailers who use it and no exorbitant interest rates lying in wait for consumers. For businesses, paper money has to be managed: it must be stored, guarded, and accounted for. retail businesses lose about $40 billion annually because of the theft of cash alone. It’s safe from hackers.

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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. But Microsoft’s management saw in LinkedIn a valuable new sales channel that the market had missed. Julian Watt/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2017

Located in the heart of Colombia’s coffee region, in 2012 Manizales was a good place to grow up and get an education, and an even better place to retire, safe and surrounded by beautiful scenery. actual developments that are more achievable) can be much more prevalent than people think. strategic hires).

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

Since its bankruptcy in 2012, Kodak has been a poster child for innovation incompetence: After inventing the world’s first digital camera in 1975, the conventional story goes, myopic managers allowed a bloated company to let inertia drive it off a cliff. A misunderstood story. By 2005, Kodak ranked No. digital-camera sales (No.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2014

As we were a product-centric organization, the shopping experience had played a supporting role, with individual elements of the experience managed by different organizational silos. In 2012, Electrolux leadership decided this had to change. Capability building puts an emphasis on developing “transformation champions.”

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2014

billion in retail sales of licensed merchandise worldwide in 2012, fueled by the popularity of its Marvel Comics properties. However, when managed appropriately, even these downsides can actually benefit brand owners. Licensing can generate big business for brands. Disney alone reported $39.3

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2014

Business by now has a well-developed playbook for dealing with such sustainability issues. Between 1976 and 2012 the share of US income earned by the top 1% almost tripled, rising from 9% to 24%. It’s time to recognize that income inequality is a sustainability issue, too. And directly, the trends are literally unsustainable.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2017

We call this ever-moving frontier of AI’s development, the paradox of automation’s last mile : as AI makes progress, it also results in the rapid creation and destruction of temporary labor markets for new types of humans-in-the-loop tasks. A hybrid of humans and AI is remaking retail, marketing, and customer service.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2013

After opening up retail locations throughout the United States, the American stores were flooded by foreign buyers purchasing iPhones in bulk in order to take them back and sell them to the scores of people yearning for these products overseas. His answer? "We We didn''t. It just kind of happened.". Take Apple as a prime example.

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