Rich Gee Group

JANUARY 4, 2011

I wanted my money back – I had the receipt, I had the merchandise in perfect condition, and virtually everything in the store was on sale at that time. To make matters worse, my wife and I went through the store looking for a suitable replacement, but it was virtually empty due to the holidays. Bad Customer! You must play by our rules!

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HR Digest

FEBRUARY 5, 2022

If you’re an introvert like me, maybe you’ve found yourself wondering about the best career path for your personality type. You might have come across articles that help extroverted people but don’t know what career suits them best. Some careers that please introverts include many of the types listed below.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 28, 2018

There are alternative career paths out there and one of the best tends to be setting up your own business. Employ a merchandiser who will be able to give you advice on what types of display equipment will make your store look the most aesthetically pleasing and navigable. Being employed makes for a relatively comfortable lifestyle.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 23, 2016

Here is what will make you or anyone near you, or anyone in a job they consider beneath them, or anyone who hates work, understand the formula for emerging into a better career – certainly a better job. Looking at your job as menial rather than a steppingstone towards your career. Your internal happiness. Your attitude toward work.

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Roundtable Talk

JULY 30, 2010

← To be or not to be: can authenticity at work limit your career options? After sitting through a few career and coaching discussions over the past week involving money, titles and career satisfaction, I felt a certain quote was worth repeating: “Don’t chase the paper, chase the dream.&# Hsieh credited P.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2013

They give private talks and major speeches, write books and blogs and articles, participate in panels and events, engage in social media — activities that can generate revenue (sometimes in considerable amounts), through a combination of fees, sales of their expressions, and related merchandise.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2015

.” So in 2010, after a successful 18-year-career in high-tech PR, she quit her job to launch Stripedshirt , a company selling fashionable, feminine shirts in team colors. Mid-Career Crisis. And I’d dreamed about starting this business for years. You and Your Team. When you’re feeling stuck. What went wrong?

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Ron Edmondson

JUNE 15, 2011

Also, get out of the office and get into stores and online to understand the focus of merchandising and promotions. What would you do or advice to give someone starting their career? What is the greatest change you have seen in the workplace since you began your career? Lastly, ask the consumer.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

Lower income shoppers are also willing to pay more for categories that they see as an investment in their careers and future income. While many assume men's personal care is primarily driven by romantic relationships, in fact one of the biggest drivers of demand for men's personal care is career advancement.

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Retail P&L Merchandising Hedge 15

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.

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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”. And second, be prepared to accept the consequences that may come from circumventing or defying rules There is always the chance that circumventing a rule can cause grief for someone else, some where else in the organization or outside it.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2013

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. Already the idea of encore careers is taking hold.

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Health Care Merchandising Incubator Airlines 15

Frank Sonnenberg Online

AUGUST 22, 2023

Show off expensive merchandise? Believe that rules don’t apply to you? Dominate conversations? Make fun of people who are less fortunate? Always have to be right ? Go straight to the front of the line? Think you know all there is to know? Look down your nose at others? Steer every conversation your way? Believe you can do no wrong?

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Merchandising PR Learning-by-Doing Advice 83

Frank Sonnenberg Online

APRIL 25, 2023

The next time you’re selling a product, remember that customers expect more than merchandise; they want to buy from a person they can count on and an organization they can trust. That doesn’t happen by short-changing the customer. Everything you say and do will strengthen or weaken the bond of trust. Character matters! What Turns You Off?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2013

I had spent my career building emerging brands in the natural and organic consumer space, first leading sales and marketing for Kashi cereal, then founding SPINS, a market research firm for the natural products industry. When I saw Zevia, a new zero calorie soda, on the shelf at my local Whole Foods, I knew the brand could be a game changer.

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Maturity Merchandising Retail Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2013

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. Already the idea of encore careers is taking hold.

Health Care 8

Health Care Merchandising Incubator Airlines 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?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

But very often it goes against the grain of how they built their careers in the first place. VPs of design and merchandising suddenly see the light when confronted with consumers who are modifying, hacking, or living without their products. It turns "market research" into a far more dynamic and creative process. Where to start?

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Workshop Creativity Merchandising Airlines 15

Frank Sonnenberg Online

MARCH 10, 2020

What happens when someone shows disrespect, tells a lie , bullies a peer, uses foul language, gets into a fight, cheats to win, steals merchandise — and there are no consequences? Face the Facts or Suffer the Consequences. The line between right and wrong becomes blurred.

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Merchandising Sharpe Learning-by-Doing Commitment 118

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2011

Braun simplified its merchandising and brand strategy. It focused on retail areas near college campuses, as well as event marketing at career oriented events, where young consumers were most interested in looking more professional. Braun realized it needed to expand the precision field by targeting college age consumers.

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Management Retail Brand Merchandising 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2016

Knowing Target needed to regain merchandizing authority, Cornell jumped on the opportunity to create a connection between Target’s merchandise and products from new brands. It was through his meeting with Shechtman that a new concept for Target — its “Home for the Holidays” collection — was born.

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Frank Sonnenberg Online

MAY 14, 2019

Show off expensive merchandise? Believe that rules don’t apply to you? Dominate conversations? Make fun of people who are less fortunate? Always have to be right? Go straight to the front of the line? Think you know all there is to know? Look down your nose at others? Steer every conversation your way? Believe you can do no wrong?

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Merchandising PR Advice Learning-by-Doing 81

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2013

Analogously, this is why premium brands often sell discounted merchandise at outlet stores. It''s a shame that due to poor pricing decisions, the Rolling Stones are closing out their career amidst allegations of greed, headlines reporting on poor sales, and the taint of desperation from employing tacky discounting methods. Marketing'

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Price Discount Brand Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2015

” Multivocal leadership is not about gaining technical proficiency in multiple areas – Cosimo knew banking, but not trading, merchandising, or other areas of expertise, and he didn’t have the time to gain even nominal proficiency in other areas. That helps them to defer to the expertise of their teammates, where needed.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

.” Facebook is leading the way in offering generous bereavement leave , in the wake of COO Sheryl Sandberg’s losing her husband, but not all companies offer paid leave, so there are financial and career implications to consider. Still, even a short leave — just a few weeks — might be enough time.

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Crisis Case Study Brainstorming Supply Chain 8

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.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

It’s a sign that our projects aren’t valued and our careers are stalling out. Ethan talked about all the times he’d been told no in his career: on plans to merchandise products, sophisticated inventory control systems, and basic training handbooks. Most of us don’t like to be told no.

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Creativity Budgeting IPO Merchandising 8

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.

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Retail Supply Chain Merchandising Travel 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2016

In his career, he has created The Limited, Express, Bath & Body Works, Abercrombie, and Limited Too, and has expanded Victoria’s Secret from three stores to 1,500. Today, Leslie Wexner is CEO, chair, and founder of L Brands, a $25 billion market cap company with two primary brands, Victoria’s Secret and Bath & Body Works.

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Brand Merchandising Chief Financial Officer Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2015

We call them harmonic careerists , because many of them have constructed their working lives by combining multiple jobs rather than taking on a single monolithic career. Meg is a freelance writer, blogger, and children’s book author and merchandiser, and she owns her own marketing and PR consultancy.

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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. If you could give your younger self one piece of career advice, what would it be? You need to have a business that’s flexible enough to respond quickly.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 22, 2012

’ What they’re really selling: Retail merchandise. Greatness is earned over an entire career. In One Easy Lesson. 1 in Sales. World Class. Wealth and Riches. For All Your Needs. ‘Our Mission.’ My analysis: Beware of that phrase in advertising. It’s a sales ploy. Rolex Watches. Yes, indeed.

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Brand Analysis Advertising Software 50

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. Or there are companies that are entirely focused on merchandise sales. Andreessen: It also demonstrates a huge advantage to having to leave for a plane.

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