Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

The Conversation Blogs The Conversation Breaking Up the Retail-Price Confusopoly 8:25 AM Tuesday November 30, 2010 by Joshua Gans | Comments () Email Tweet This Post to Facebook Share on LinkedIn Print This years holiday shopping season improved somewhat over last year with sales likely to top $11 billion.

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MARCH 21, 2011

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OCTOBER 28, 2014

It’s not been a great year for venerable retailer Sears, which is reputed to be closing 130 retail stores and laying off more than 5,000 employees. Founded in 1886 as a mail-order watch retailer, Sears was already 71 when it became an original member of the S&P 500 in 1957. He predicts that Sears will be a big loser.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2016

Many startup CEOs adopt this “visionary entrepreneur” leadership style. So she and her boss agreed to have her lead the development of a pop-up store, which required collaboration with finance, sales, and product teams. That’s not what I had in mind. Don’t get me wrong — Daniel’s intentions are good.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2016

The bank has since fired 5,300 employees for the illegal behavior and eliminated retail bank sales goals entirely. In examining what took them so long to react, Stumpf’s comments portray a leadership team that refused to believe the sales fraud could be systemic in a culture such as theirs. ” Deterrents to speaking up.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2017

So four years ago, when I was CEO of GE Capital Retail Finance and tapped to lead a mega change initiative — splitting off our unit into a new, publicly traded company, Synchrony Financial — I’ll admit I viewed it as a huge challenge. Change management certainly tested us. I just didn’t know in what ways.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2018

” The email contained a link to a 2017 article one of us wrote for HBR, and suggested the CMO read it before their meeting. ” Like many of the CMOs described in the 2017 article, she was initially hired to focus on downstream commercialization roles, such as overseeing advertising.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

A recent Fortune article on John Reed, the former co-CEO of Citigroup, reported that a decade ago he tried to convince the newly formed Citigroup board (the result of the $70 billion merger of Citicorp and Travelers Group in 1998) to bring in a new CEO and that both he and Travelers CEO Sandy Weill should leave. We all have.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Barker had licensing deals with sports leagues to make merchandise with their logos and partnered with large brands to produce it for retail markets, and when Lance took the company over, its revenues were about £100 million. “I did talk to that leadership development firm last year,” he said. He needed to fix this.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

Doing digital M&A right means upending the way most companies approach financing, due diligence, and merger integration. Let’s start with financing the deal. Meanwhile, because digital targets tend to be expensive, acquirers are limited in their ability to use stock to finance a deal. Sponsored by DXC Technology.

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DECEMBER 13, 2013

Then again, that’s sort of what Bogle’s been doing since 1974, when he took a crisis that was all about him — he’d been fired by his business partners — and somewhat inadvertently turned it into something that was about defending the interests of retail investors everywhere. In finance, that’s a pretty hard case to make.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2017

Yet progress within organizations has been slow – there is still a lack of women and minorities in leadership positions, and certain industries like tech and finance are lacking diversity at all levels. created a program called Women and Opportunity that aims to develop women for future leadership roles at Gap.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Zimbabwe’s new leadership faces a challenging task. Even before announcing his new cabinet, Mnangagwa installed a key reformist, Patrick Chinamasa, as acting finance minister, tasked with tackling corruption and re-engaging with international institutions to unlock funds to ease liquidity shortages.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Organizations that move into developing nations to help small technical businesses, must help those businesses manage their finances. People need at least a rudimentary understanding of finance to become good entrepreneurs or artisans. People need at least a rudimentary understanding of finance to become good entrepreneurs or artisans.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

Out of 20 feature articles in the business section on November 15th, for example, five were all about the glories (and sometimes challenges) of green. The article shows how the Dutch firm AkzoNobel is growing in China, particularly through products that help customers reduce environmental footprint in the shipping and building sectors.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Thats different in IT, accounting, or finance. Take over responsibility and leadership. Thats different in IT, accounting, or finance. Take over responsibility and leadership. Yes, they are closer to the business and should know better what they need to do so they can meet their business goals.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

” That clean-sheet perspective emboldened Intel’s leadership to abandon memory and focus on microprocessors. They see disrupted incumbents from retail, finance, health care, transportation, professional services, and manufacturing requiring radical restructuring of assets, productivity , and innovation.

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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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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2017

The current innovation model in the finance sector is designed to generate the highest possible short-term returns. Its recent launch of Marcus , an online retail bank, is a particularly promising signal. Startups alone won’t fill that vacuum: Stewards must emerge from the old guard of financial services. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Leadership & Developing People Book. Both of those leaders are now CEOs — one of a $10 billion retail chain and another of a specialty eyewear company. from their articles in trade magazines, on lists of speakers at relevant conferences, or from referrals of leaders in your company. Further Reading. Marc Effron.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Good leadership certainly helps, but more often than not, the organization will revert to business as usual. ” Not only has this purpose served Nordstrom well for decades, but it has helped the company overcome the multichannel challenges most retailers struggle with. Time is a finite resource, but energy is not.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

Executive directors are usually selected for their leadership qualities; they often have experience with generalized management or leadership experience rather than narrow expertise or technical acumen. Why should knowledge of IT be an exception? The truth is that many industries today employ outdated technology.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

He explained why he thinks so in a recent HBR article.) At one American retailer, an autonomous ensemble of algorithms replaced the entire merchandising department. Human leadership defers to demonstrable algorithmic power. CEOs and executive leaderships should be wary of mashing up or hybridizing these separate approaches.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

Some companies that made the list were obvious choices; for example, the biggest online retailer now gets most of its profit from cloud services (Amazon). While Amazon has expanded its core retailing platform into new categories, such as food and streaming content, in parallel it has built the world’s largest cloud computing enterprise.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

He has written two popular Harvard Business Review articles and authored eighteen books, including the national bestseller Driven to Distraction, that have sold millions of copies. His forthcoming book, Shine , is due out in January from Harvard Business Review Press.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2016

As part of our ten-year longitudinal study on executive transitions, which included more than 2,700 leadership interviews, we did a rigorous statistical analysis (including more than 90 regression analyses) to isolate the skills of the top-performing executives.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Up to this point in the article, I was entertained and amused, perhaps because of my statistical background, but I didnt see how this rational argument would change many minds when it came to our irrational valuation of human life. Then the article related another airline safety issue that did not depend on the value of human life.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2016

Real digital transformation requires transformation at a deeper level—transformation of the leadership team’s core beliefs. In retailing, leaders worry about customer retention and dollar per square foot. Changes at the surface create small, local differences. Changes of belief percolate throughout an organization.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

As Tom Davenport, Larry Prusak, and I talk to people about our current research, we hear broad support for its central thesis: that good judgment is not only something required of individuals in leadership positions; it is something that must be embedded in organizations as a whole.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2017

Through a coordinated, systemic, prolonged intervention with dozens of institutions and thousands of individual participants, new growth of the local companies we trained has directly created over 1033 jobs, fueled by dozens of new private sector financings. strategic hires). day, scale-focused workshops and related activities.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2017

All of these issues rushed back to mind recently when the political leadership at the current U.S. Lacking capital, truckers purchased new vehicles through financing provided by these very same trucking companies. Payments for the vehicles were then deducted from pay, leaving little in compensation for the workers.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2018

We have written extensively on shareholder activism , and one of us coauthored a study in the Journal of Finance showing that, on average, activists produce value for targeted companies. Pension funds differ from mutual funds or index funds, which differ from retail. The potential for a true alliance fizzled as the battle was joined.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

More on: Economy , Finance , Global business Join the Discussion | Email/Share Previous Making Room for Reflection Is a Strategic Imperative Never miss a new post from your favorite blogger again with the Harvard Business Review Daily Alert email. And perhaps failing to recognize that is whats really at the root of this great crisis.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

One pharmacy retail chain CEO who wasn’t particularly good at investor relations simply hired people who were better and entrusted them with that duty. And they constantly review the 60 percent to decide if really need to do them or can delegate them to others.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2017

Financing is managed through a collaboration between Geisinger Health and our health insurance company, Geisinger Health Plan (GHP). For example, our initial instinct was to have registered dietitians carry much of the clinical work and leadership burden.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

Yet, most CEOs were never trained on how to be CEOs, with all the responsibility, people skills, leadership and ethical management that must go along with the job. Retailers make 70% of their earnings in the fourth quarter of each year. They have not really been in the decision making and leadership processes, as they should have been.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

We’ve found that CEOs of big pharmaceutical companies, for example, are more likely to have a background as company lawyers, salespeople, or finance managers, than one in medicine or pharmaceutical R&D. There was no strong association between CEO background and firm performance in high-tech and fashion retail.

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