Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Mood-Factory introduced its first incandescent Mood-lites in 2004 and expanded the line to include flood, porch, and compact florescent bulbs in 2012. Mood-lite colors were developed by applying expert color research concepts to lighting. Mood-lites can be purchased at a Lowe’s Home Improvement Retailers. Dark Pink = Sassy.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 18, 2012

So far, Apple and Steve Jobs have changed the way computers run, revolutionized the mobile phone, and revolutionized the way music is distributed to a point that all retailers, distributors, manufacturers, producers, music groups, and recording artists are totally dependent on Apple for a sizeable share of their revenue. Develop new products?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Yesterday, Amazon.com launched Amazon Source, a program that will pay retail outlets for selling Kindle e-reading devices and accessories. Retailers can buy the products at a 6% discount and earn a 10% commission on ebook sales recorded for a given device for the next two years. of publisher revenues in 2012.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2018

” Organic wine was not strongly embraced by distributors and retailers, either. As a result, many distributors and retailers were hesitant to add it sell it. As organic wine standards were being developed in Europe and the U.S., The product was perceived as more prone to spoilage since it typically lacked added sulfites.

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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

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

According to research presented at the 2012 Audio Branding Congress , congruent sound cues can increase the speed of a visual search for products (a key for success in both online and retail settings), as well as improve the perceived taste of food and wine (PDF). SNCF’s Audio Logo, 2012. SNCF’s Audio Logo, 2008.

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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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Price Retail Business Model Christensen 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Here are three strategies for developing digital distribution approaches that minimize risk: Embrace Stealth. Starting in 2011, Mercedes chose to develop direct distribution capabilities for electric bicycle sales under its Smart brand. How can companies position for the future without putting their current business in jeopardy?

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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

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

MARCH 8, 2012

Further, we'll see a roll-out of 4G wireless services across the country in 2012. It's a reflection of what's happening in the domestic retail space more broadly. Infibeam's founder projects growth of the retail economy from $400 billion today to $1 trillion by the end of the decade. billion e-commerce sector, says Avendus).

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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

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

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

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. Since then I’ve spoken with another 200-300 analysts.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2015

Today, low-end Android smartphones retail for around $30 in many parts of the developing world, making them widely affordable to many consumer segments. 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

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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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

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Instead of that approach, Manso looked at workers over a longer time period, capturing the earnings of more than 5,000 American adults between 1979 and 2012. “Maybe the skills developed during [a] self-employment spell are useful as [a] salaried worker.”

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Entrepreneur Long-term Sample Retail 8

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. Using data from the 2012 survey, we also found that boards gave their companies'' very poor grades on talent management. Where was its leadership bench?

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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. The Unsettled Design Ethos of the Chair (The Atlantic) The Ups and Downs of Making Elevators Go (Wall Street Journal) The 2012 Daily Chart Advent Calendar (The Economist). So goes the story of George Howell.

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Health Care Software Politics Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2015

Aetna developed, launched, and studied two mindfulness programs in 2010 — Viniyoga Stress Reduction and Mindfulness at Work — in collaboration with Duke University, eMindful, and the American Viniyoga Institute. Intel began offering its Awake@Intel mindfulness program in 2012. You and Your Team. Mindfulness.

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Emotional Intelligence Stress Participative Retail 8

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. Start-ups tend to be anti-fragile; large, successful organizations tend to be fragile.

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Organization Supply Chain Customer Intimacy Stress 8

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. billion to achieve the same result.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

The leaders of these organizations immediately got the concept that the philanthropic community stood to benefit by converging on a day like this, in the same way that retailers (even though they compete aggressively) all take part in and benefit from Black Friday. It wasn’t only the charitable institutions whose attention was captured.

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Decentralization Media Follow-up Learning-by-Doing 9

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. Base-Level Sellers (door-to-door, telephone, clerks and checkers, retail sales). Mid-Level Sellers (consumer services, multi-level marketing, retailers, vendors).

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Business Development Development Learning-by-Doing Ethics 51

Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2012

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. They’re starting totally virtual companies, using the cloud for solutions and developing innovative ways to manage staff, time, family and work.

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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. — for temporary warehouse sites.

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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

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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Brand Supply Chain Price Case Study 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

What these stories and hacks offer are well-developed, highly-detailed, and battle-tested roadmaps for making that assumption a reality. Software company Rite-Solutions has developed a state-of-the-art "innovation engine" to unearth the organization's hidden genius. You can read all of those here. But don't take it from me.

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Management McKinsey Letter Retail 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2014

Etsy analyzes technical challenges on its public engineering blog , opens its professional development workshops to the local coder community, publishes success stories on its Slideshare channel, and gives away code on its GitHub repositories, all to help other software-centric firms accelerate their own learning and growth.

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Company Business Model Workshop Metrics 9

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. retail businesses lose about $40 billion annually because of the theft of cash alone. What about the costs of cash in developing economies, where cash use is much more prevalent? It’s safe from hackers.

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Cost Transportation Banking Retail 8

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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