Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2012

Penney's revitalization is a new "Fair and Square Every Day" pricing strategy. Penney is typically sold at a 50% discount from list price. Prices will also now end in "0" instead of "99" and price tags will list just one price (instead of including the de rigueur "previously sold at a higher price" convention).

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

Since the start of 2016, oil prices have swung between $27 and $42 per barrel, about a quarter of the 2008 peak crude oil price of $145. On February 16, oil ministers from Saudi Arabia, Russia, Qatar, and Venezuela agreed to a tentative deal to freeze their production in an attempt to boost prices.

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Price Energy Airlines Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2016

Winning with low prices is not merely a game of math in which you stay one notch below the competition; it is far more a game of culture and attitude. It takes a special kind of company, from the CEO on down, to make a low-price position sustainable and profitable. The groundbreaking price war in the U.S. Don’t fight them.

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Price Airlines Govindarajan Advertising 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2014

In the case of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, the most impressive fact few reporters choose to explore in any depth is that the Boeing 777’s engine was capable of communicating long after the pilots went silent. While many major industries have yet to create “IoT” products, that’s not the case with jet turbines.

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Airlines Supply Chain Management Engineering 8

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 29, 2012

Here are more painful ‘reputation’ questions about your company and your products : What are you doing to build it? What are you doing to innovate it? Apple is the classic example of a brand, with products that back it up. Only Apple stands alone not comparing themselves to other products unless it’s a joke.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 21, 2011

Through innovative solutions delivered within an integrated framework, SAS helps customers at more than 45,000 sites improve performance and deliver value by making better decisions faster. To learn more about SAS, its products and services, visit www.sas.com. Improve productivity. Innovate quickly. Innovate constantly.

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Real Estate Magazine Rogers Long-term 66

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2011

We recently attended the World Economic Forum's India Economic Summit 2011 in Mumbai, where we moderated several panels and workshops on the topic of innovation. The experience gave us some insights into a unique approach to innovation called jugaad , which entrepreneurs and enterprises are practicing in complex emerging markets like India.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

On Friday, Microsoft slashed the price of Windows 8.1 The magnitude of this price cut was surprising; all that was missing was a pitchman screaming “If you call now, we’ll throw in a free Tae Bo workout DVD — a $29.95 Instead of the regular $50 per unit license fee, if you act right now the price is $15.

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Discount Airlines Price Licensing 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2015

Aggressive moves by airlines to migrate frequent flyer metrics from miles flown to dollars spent have caused bargain-hunting road warriors worldwide to whine about “disloyalty programs.” Airlines have clearly calculated that customers who spend more are more valuable to them than customers who fly more.

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Customer Loyalty Loyalty Airlines Hotels 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

In the 1900s, French mathematician-economist Leon Walras envisioned prices in a market economy being set by an auctioneer (since known as the “Walrasian auctioneer”) conducting continuous auctions for all kinds of commodities. Most markets “clear” by having prices signal producers to make just enough that purchasers are willing to purchase.

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Strategy Black-Scholes Airlines Price 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 8, 2015

Their innovation efforts tend to be focused wholly on the creation of new value; meanwhile, the question of how exactly they will be compensated for it usually goes unexamined. Pricing textbooks certainly all assume they do, or at least that they want to achieve a certain profit level under given constraints. Why is it that?

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Balanced Scorecard Company Price KPI 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2018

It was a national distributor of milk and other dairy products and in it, farmers occupied two roles. Once it adopted the six-step method, these outcomes were identified as “reducing employee turnover and increasing productivity and innovation.” The same group of stakeholders can occupy more than one role.

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Strategic Planning Planning Document Airlines 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2012

can be a powerful way to enable innovation, because it forces you to go beyond superficial demographic markers that correlate with purchase and use to zero in on frustrations and desires that motivate purchase and use. It is a simple way to visualize opportunities for innovation. Circumstance. Constraints. Compensating behaviors.

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Sample Innovation Software Airlines 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2011

And within another 15, the nascent automobile industry found itself rocked by yet another innovation: Henry Ford's system of mass production, which obliterated hundreds of competitors who could not produce cars as quickly or cheaply. innovators. Innovators, however, can either be linear or non-linear. entrepreneurs.

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Heron Shaw Entrepreneur Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2016

A second set of entrepreneurs focus on information goods and think of IT as the product. But today there is a third approach, one that will become the dominant path for most entrepreneurs, especially those building information products. How Digital Business Models Are Changing. Sponsored by Accenture. No strategy is static.

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Entrepreneur Airlines Construction Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2014

Southwest Airlines’ decades-long strategy of “short-haul, high-frequency, point-to-point, low-fare service” produced what was not only one of the best-performing airlines in the U.S. For over 50 years, Wal-Mart has pursued essentially the same strategy of “offering the lowest price so its customer can live better.” Strategy'

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Company Supply Chain Airlines Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2014

From the moment Facebook announced in February 2014 that it had bought the mobile messaging service WhatsApp, everyone’s been talking about the price that CEO Mark Zuckenberg parted with for the acquisition. Tencent enjoys the advantages of a giant social network as well as a history of innovation.

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Norton Globalization Price Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2012

Thanks to disruptive innovations , much of our world today looks radically different than it did just a decade or two ago. Air travel used to be inevitably expensive and cumbersome — until Southwest Airlines. Why does the public sector seem so completely immune to innovations that deliver more for less over time?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2017

Each presents distinct opportunities for profit and competitive advantage, from product improvements to new revenue streams to possible industry game changers. Innovate products, services, and processes. Use data to uncover hidden insights, and use those insights to create or improve products, services, and processes.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

The reforms include changes to retail, airlines, broadcast and power sectors. Business Model Innovation. How can multinationals develop innovative business models with "small store" formats to promote convenience, yet give consumers lower prices through economies of scale in purchasing and supply chain efficiencies?

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Retail Supply Chain Business Model Globalization 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

A passenger jet belonging to a cut-rate airline had recently crashed into the Florida Everglades, and Kinsley argued in Slate that it was appropriate for discount airlines to be more dangerous than the major carriers. The chance of getting killed in a crash on a given flight on a major airline is roughly 1 in 10 million.

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Airlines Report Guidelines Discount 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2011

Apple, Google, Berkshire Hathaway, Southwest Airlines, Procter & Gamble. I spend much of my time visiting organizations of many different shapes and sizes, in many different fields, with very different business strategies, product offerings, and organizational cultures. Who are the Top Five organization's on Fortune's list for 2011?

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Company Collins Airlines Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2017

Because similar gaps exist between dozens of other hospital technologies, and clinicians are asked to perform hundreds of steps each day to deliver evidence-based care, unnecessary errors occur, and providers’ productivity has fallen , even while spending on technology has ballooned. But we are far from where we should be.

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Technology Health Care Wireless System 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Some years ago, the then-CEO of Air Products told me that it took his team two months to decide and plan layoffs, two weeks to do them, and two years to recover. This blog post is part of the HBR Online Forum The CEO's Role in Fixing the System. As former Procter & Gamble CEO A. But that's not what goes on.

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CEO Benchmarking Long-term Banking 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

Everyone says they are in favor of open innovation and co-creation. Co-creation involves working on new product and service ideas together with the customers who are going (you hope) to buy them. When you need to transform a brand or product, you can't just do the same things better," Brown said. You need to do something new.

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Workshop Creativity Merchandising Airlines 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2012

A similar pattern hold for airlines. Of the 70,000 companies with market data available, more than 42,000 earned shareholder returns (dividends + stock price appreciation) below inflation. A list of the top 20 banks today contains only seven that were on the list a decade ago. And for telecom. And for many others.

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Creativity Long-term Kotter Cost of Capital 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2011

The business world is overflowing with products and services and designs and marketing campaigns that are adequate. The most successful companies, products, and brands have figured out how to become the most of something. The real challenge — and the huge opportunity — is to turn something adequate into something amazing.

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Airlines Mission Statement Sharpe Brand 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Meanwhile, business was free to focus on generating growth, productivity, innovation, and, ultimately, societal wealth. Software, sensors, and analytics are shifting value creation from stand-alone products to combinations of products and services. Essential background. “People Are Angry About Globalization.

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Globalization Supply Chain Human Capital Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Auto dealers have long taken trade-ins, reducing the purchase price for a new car by the value of the used car handover. How could cars sitting empty in employee parking lots all day be used productively, with a return to employees? One company's waste could be another company's productivity-enhancer.

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Finance Strategy Banking Retail 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2013

It consumes 20% less fuel than an equivalent 767; which, given today's increasing fuel prices and airlines' diminishing profit margins, should make it an extremely desirable aircraft. In the creation of any truly new product or product category, it is almost invariably a big advantage to start out as integrated as possible.

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Outsourcing P&L Airlines Price 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2014

But the real power of the partnership comes from their ability to bring the best of each of their departments—as well as pricing, operations, and other groups—to bear in exploiting those micromarket opportunities. Products can then provide feedback on when to get maintenance and when the product will have reached the end of its useful life.

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Marketing Guidelines B2C Analysis 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2014

Labor’s negotiators took productivity gains as their touchstone and bargained for commensurate wage gains. Involved employees come up with more innovative ideas, figure out how to solve problems, and go the extra mile for customers. The union says to management, We’re here to make your business more productive and profitable.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2015

Barriers to entry are withering, innovations are easily copied, and disruption is everywhere. Puzzling anecdotes abound: Microsoft has missed out on a series of new products in the past decade, yet as Don Sull points out , it continues to be highly profitable. The current investigation into airlines notwithstanding, the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2013

This area of innovation is where mobile payment companies want to play, especially in markets where such technology is less than ubiquitous. We asked Square''s CFO and Operations Lead, Sarah Friar , for perspectives on this technology, what it means for marketers, and how to manage in the world of mobile innovation.

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CFO Loyalty Technology Definition 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2015

People Express, for example, is a business simulator that provides players with a rich inside perspective on starting and managing an airline. In each simulated time period, the player makes strategic decisions and receives feedback from past decisions—on how fast to grow, how to set prices, or how aggressively to advertise.

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Seminar Learning Curve Strategy Comparison 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2011

When stock markets gyrate and growth prospects darken, it's tempting to rein in innovation programs and hoard cash. While businesses shouldn't react to economic uncertainty in knee-jerk fashion, the recent tumble in equity prices cannot be ignored. The company has invested in this brand's innovation in many ways.

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Innovation Fixed Costs Airlines Business Model 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

The price of Android phones probably will rise in the short term. But the gravest concern we've heard, that the ruling creates a legal climate that will stifle innovation, is unfounded. Some of the concerns being raised are valid. Bloggers and reporters are pushing this idea from a business- or technology-oriented mindset.

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