Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2011

Five Things You Should Stop Doing in 2012. The concept of reverse innovation applies in finance, as well. Penney's new CEO on how to create an irresistible retail experience. Work is like weightlifting: Alternate stress with recovery to gradually build your capacity. Why I Hire People Who Fail. by Jeff Stibel. by Dorie Clark.

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Blog Silverman Govindarajan Letter 16

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. A 2012 academic study of a large company’s front-line supervisors concluded that, as one summary put it, “The most efficient structure is to assign the best workers to the best bosses.” Think of Ford Motor Co.

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Team Human Capital CEO Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

Campbell, the food company best known for its soups, is investing $125 million in a venture fund to help finance food startups, according to the Wall Street Journal. They should take their teams and regularly walk the aisles of Whole Foods, which is as much a greenhouse incubator of the hottest new brands as it is a retailer.

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Company Brand Venture Funding Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2012

On May 24, 2012, Goldman Sachs did something it had never done in its venerable 143-year history. For highly regulated sectors like finance, social media can be a legal minefield. Just ask Gene Morphis, ex-CFO of clothing retailer Francesca's. It tweeted. "We 132 characters for Goldman; one giant leap for the Twitterverse.

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Compliance Media Compliance Officer Policies 15

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. However, during their prime working years, most Manizalenos would move to Bogota (7 million people) or Medellin (2.5 strategic hires).

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Entrepreneur Mentor Banking Self-aware 8

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 2010, Kodak had clawed its way to No.

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Company How To Technology Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

The company’s executives said that to help finance the plan, McDonald’s would increase refranchising (turning company-owned restaurants into franchises), take on more debt (even at the risk of lowering its bond rating ), and find $300 million to cut in general and administrative expenses. million in 2014 to a high of $12.6

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Price Franchising Short-term CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2015

The marketing and sales team of one major technology vendor, for instance, partnered with risk to assemble a range of financing packages to help its mid-market clients fund upgrades, manage invoice payments, and smooth cash flows. With its 2012 London Olympics sponsorship it resolved to optimize its ads in real time.

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Credit Scoring Risk Management Finance Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2011

These losses were offset by growth in higher-value-added jobs in consulting, finance & insurance, and computer systems design. Half of this job growth came in health care, government, retail, and construction. Given the current stalemate in Washington, action on such an agenda is unlikely until after the 2012 election.

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Supply Chain Health Care Globalization Trends 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

billion, which has experienced incredible growth, with the total number of users having practically doubled each year since 2012. HelloFresh has also had impressive growth rates, with revenues reaching about $300 million in 2015, a huge increase from its $3 million in 2012. Financed by VC firms.

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Company Succession Analysis Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2012

million per year , raising $194 million net in total for them over a five-year period — a huge sum in any vernacular, and unheard of in retail charitable fundraising. There was no time to raise the capital we needed to finance the events' annual cash flow needs. The 3-Days were 75% of our business.

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Teamwork Learning-by-Doing Maturity Case Study 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2017

From 2012 to 2014, the median home price rose by 17.3%. If that displaced 20% of the 250 million cars Americans own, consumers would save $150 billion, $3,000 for every car displaced, and 1 million jobs would disappear in the automotive related industries — manufacturing, insurance, finance, etc. There are 3.5

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Retail Automotive Supply Chain Proposal 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2017

While consumer spending has proven resilient, with same-store retail sales rising 6% YOY in April , most multinational corporations are developing contingency plans to mitigate risks to their businesses and reassessing the country’s role in their global market portfolio and supply chains.

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Supply Chain Depreciation Uncertainty Marketing 9