In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 18, 2015

This can mean expanding product lines, entering new markets and geographies, line extending brands, acquiring new businesses, creating projects, and adding layers of management to manage the self-created complexity. With 60% of annual sales coming from innovative new products, it is clear that LEGO has not been idle.

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Apparel Brand Franchising Competitive Advantage 100

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

Entrepreneurs and innovators are supposed to be happily self-directed. Speaking out primes the market, builds anticipation, helps a radical idea sound familiar, and for those whose name becomes associated with the idea, thought leadership offers entree to circles of potential future backers and supporters.

Entrepreneur 16

Entrepreneur Cooper Apparel Bureaucracy 16

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

For every Apple, there is an Atari, for every Fuji a Polaroid, and for every Zara an American Apparel. Fast forward a few years, and lower growth means fewer interactions with new, demanding customer groups and less inspiration to innovate. Eventually the company is likely to be out of touch with changing market requirements.

Company 8

Company Succession Maturity Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2013

Others gain new responsibilities in strategy, M&A integration, or innovation. But there is another leadership role that has arisen in many organizations in recent years: the Chief Digital Officer (CDO). One company had three simultaneous mobile marketing initiatives, conducted by different groups, using different tools and vendors.

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CIO Technology Apparel Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

In emerging markets, billions of people have moved out of extreme poverty. Meanwhile, business was free to focus on generating growth, productivity, innovation, and, ultimately, societal wealth. Toward a New Leadership Agenda. The promise of global progress has become a reality for many — but not for all.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain Human Capital Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

Right now, the market price of carbon is very low, so Microsoft is charging a small amount per ton. Pricing carbon on your own, without a real market in place, is hard, which is why there are so few examples of companies doing it. Even so, they will collect north of $10 million, which is enough to buy offsets.

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Price P&L White Paper Energy 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2014

As the two markets homogenized into a general mass American market, focused mail-order retailers like Sears and Montgomery Ward saw sales and profits drop. Competition Leadership Retail' Wood and Sears, Roebuck, excerpted in HBR in 1985, rural America was becoming less isolated and more like urban America.

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Retail Quinn Real Estate Apparel 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Good leadership certainly helps, but more often than not, the organization will revert to business as usual. The key is to look beyond just the obvious places like marketing. I’ve found that managers who fully embrace a superconsumer strategy learn more from their consumers through increased empathy.

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Airlines Energy Self-aware Learning Curve 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

While "running out" isn't really the right phrase, it's clear that delivering many commodities to market is getting harder and more expensive (we don't dig for oil a mile under the ocean for the heck of it). Markets have a remarkable way of sorting the wheat from the chaff. trillion market for clothes and shoes.

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Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

But as I’ve done for the last 4 years, I’ll attempt to summarize some of the latest stories about the big environmental and social pressures on business, and how some innovative companies are dealing with them. The clean tech markets keep growing fast: three of the world’s biggest economies — the U.S.,

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain McKinsey Apparel Energy 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

This popular triumph of the “ heuristics and biases ” literature pioneered by psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky has made us aware of flaws that economics long glossed over, and led to interesting innovations in retirement planning and government policy. The same for an apparel business. Then make it simple. Less was more.

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Uncertainty Kahneman Banking System 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Then China’s President Xi said he’ll be attending the annual bigwig gathering in Davos for the first time, with reports of China’s interest in filling trade gaps left by Brexit and possible leadership gaps on climate left by Trump. days of innovation). Renewables Kept Growing and Getting Cheaper.

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Energy Banking Chemicals Globalization 8