Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

In manufacturing, the villain might be expensive or defective products, the victims are the consumers paying for them, and the hero is safe merchandise that performs as promised. ” Muhammad Yunus, the father of microcredit, has used this framework quite skillfully to explain the origins of his career.

Merchandising 8

Merchandising Health Care Software Price 8

You're Not the Boss of Me

OCTOBER 31, 2010

As they often say in retail stores about handling merchandise, “ If you break it you own it”. Announces Social Media, Branding & Diversity Strategies" by @ bizshrink. Breaking an established rule usually comes with a measure of risk.

Maturity 50

Maturity Blog Merchandising McCarthy 50

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2013

Visual and performing arts will be resurgent, especially on the local level, and they will compete effectively with broadcast media and digital media. Live performances will fuel economic booms; performers will make more money from merchandise sales at events than from albums, as Jazz Roots founder (and my friend) Larry Rosen observed.

Health Care 8

Health Care Merchandising Incubator Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2013

At the same time, consumers have formed increasingly negative perceptions of soda, fueled by media attention about its negative impact on health. This led us to focus on distributing and merchandising the product on grocery shelves, instead of in refrigerated coolers like other successful brands such as Snapple and Vitamin Water.

Maturity 8

Maturity Merchandising Retail Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2011

For emerging artists this is particularly precarious, since careers are too often ended early if a first set of recordings fail to sell. It doesn't help that most measures — the charts by which many fans learn about new music — are still based on this notion. So how should a "content producer" behave in this new environment?

Industry 13

Industry Disintermediation Merchandising Long-term 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

However, CEOs often don’t have the career background and education that would equip them to personally lead the process of new product development. This would mean, for example, working in R&D to lead pharma innovation, new product development for high tech, and product design or merchandising for fashion retail.

CEO 8

CEO Innovation Pharmaceuticals Merchandising 8

In the CEO Afterlife

NOVEMBER 4, 2012

Turns out that Linds Redding, an illustrator and designer, spent most of his career crafting advertising in the UK and New Zealand, before opening an animation studio. Economically I probably helped shift some merchandise. I’m glad I did. Towards the end of 2011, he was diagnosed with inoperable esophageal cancer.

Advertising 265

Advertising Creativity Industry Bottom-up 265

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2015

Between ticket sales, sponsorships, merchandising, and media rights, Price Waterhouse Coopers estimates global sports revenues will grow to total roughly $145 billion. The big revenue drivers in our business are TV media rights — both national and local — and ticket sales.

Price 8

Price Team Sports Franchising 8

Strategy Driven

JUNE 22, 2012

Their words overstate, get into the media and are accepted by audiences as fact. ’ What they’re really selling: Retail merchandise. When one media insists upon having exclusive name rights to a special event, that’s the kiss of death. Greatness is earned over an entire career. In One Easy Lesson.

Brand 50

Brand Analysis Advertising Software 50

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2011

Fortunately, the hiring manager (Joe", as I call him in my new memoir of working retail, Malled: My Unintentional Career in Retail ) saw things differently. Give them clean, well-designed stores where workers on the floor also have a say in choosing stock or merchandising it. He hired me, he told me later, because I was engaging.

Retail 15

Retail Supply Chain Merchandising Travel 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2014

I had worked for several businesses during my career by that time that had become conglomerates, some fairly large, and then had divested themselves of various businesses. The way I think about it is — at least in the world that I work in, sort of tech and Internet media — bundles emerge as a consequence of the current technology.

How To 14

How To Technology Industry Venture Capitalist 14