Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2017

Financial asset managers have been out-price-cutting one another in exchange-traded funds in a bid to gain market share. But when managers reduce prices, a fundamental question sometimes goes unasked: Will customers notice and respond as expected? Price wars have broken out in consumer industries around the world.

Price 14

Price Retail Discount Tactics 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2017

Support from employers makes or breaks the deal, creating either a manageable new reality or the need for a backup plan (or even an exit). Some organizations have implemented a policy that no meetings will start prior to 9:30 AM or end later than 4:30 PM. Making the Most of Existing Child Care Realities. Help with back-up care.

Stress 12

Stress Company Banking Cost 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2012

A metaphor attributed to John Maynard Keynes maintains that using monetary policy to fight a severe recession is like "pushing on a piece of string." When the problem is inflation, pushing up interest rates (pulling on a string) is a pretty effective policy tool — ask anyone who lived through the Volcker recession of the early 1980s.

Short-term 11

Short-term Banking Long-term Policies 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2012

boss, Ina Drew , the former head of their unit in of the bank's, the Chief Investment Office (CIO); and CEO Jamie Dimon, to whom the CIO reported who oversaw the CIO. Drew quickly retired after the losses, and Iksil and Macris are, according to news reports, leaving the bank. Its purpose: to remedy unfair windfalls.

CIO 8

CIO Committee Risk Management Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2014

Yet for each Radio Shack and Barnes and Noble fighting for its life, there are still those beloved corner stores and discount chains that manage to thrive. It didn’t help that even the local mainstays were being challenged by online competitors discounting the products they sold at retail.

Retail 8

Retail Reis Price Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2013

For the past several years, EU politicians have been locked in shortsighted and often self-defeating policies for bailing out troubled euro zone countries. After 10 years, the bondholder would be allowed to covert his bonds into natural gas at a 10% discount to the going rate. So, why would anyone be interested in buying these bonds?

GDP 8

GDP Bond How To Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2013

But Nordstrom''s generous return policy and customer service has been highly effective. How about even "discount brands" like Southwest and its bags-fly-free campaign? Commerce Bank (now TD Bank) found free coin changing machines drove new accounts. Consumers felt it meant the bank wouldn''t nickel and dime them.

Strategy 8

Strategy Company Sample PR 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

If businesses are to continue using personal data to create value for themselves and for their customers, they will need to manage it as carefully as they would money, in four key ways. for a bank to provide data security protections to its customers’ social media accounts). Maintain trust to avoid data runs.

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Cost-Benefit Analysis Reputation Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

Manage culture by setting expectations appropriately. Manage the arduously long sales cycle. Of course, time is money, and in light of the long selling cycles, creative financing is often the name of the game: banks will sometimes step up to finance part of a firm contract with a large customer. Partner with procurement.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Collins Golden Handcuff Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2013

Obviously, it's a story worth investigating, as executives at established corporations and startups alike wonder, how does such a young organization grab so much attention — and a billion customers — regardless of whether people "like" their product or their privacy policies, or its stock is so volatile?

Innovation 8

Innovation Engineering Discount Learning-by-Doing 8

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Current management of both companies were ill-advised on handling the crises. K-Mart, long the dominant discount chain had gotten comfortable with its leads over competitors. Resulting from inflexible conditions, obsolete policies-procedures, procrastination, attitude, resistance to innovation, failure to change.

Crisis 58

Crisis Crisis Management Retail Budgeting 58

Strategy Driven

MARCH 2, 2012

99.99999 percent of actual management consultants come from five basic career orientations and fit onto one of the five branches of The Business Tree : Technical or niche industry orientation. Entrepreneurial, small business management. Human resources management. Academic, research. What They Claim They Do. Growth strategies.

Consultative 60

Consultative Short-term Budgeting Strategic Planning 60