Terry Starbucker

OCTOBER 9, 2011

Adam is currently right in the middle of his leadership journey, overseeing a large staff at a very successful retail operation. He also has previous leadership experience at other prominent companies. His primary focuses have been talent selection, employee engagement, and leadership development.

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Leadership Tactics Management Maturity 296

In the CEO Afterlife

JUNE 8, 2016

Speciality coffee shops are competing with retail brands for consumers’ attention in the grocery aisle, new coffee formats are being introduced (such as single-cup brewing systems), and U.S. wholesale grocers (prior to Bell’s arrival in 1977), which meant its market share inside competitive retailers was, naturally, quite low. “By

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Women on Business

JANUARY 18, 2011

Katrina Markoff launched her gourmet chocolate company in 1998. Instead, she left some of her chocolate samples with the Neiman Marcus buyer, and the next day he called and asked for more, which he left in the company’s break room. Katrina leads her company with a focus on keeping her staff creative and relaxed.

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Press Release Magazine Entrepreneur Discount 133

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 6, 2020

You could also have a falling out with someone in the company, making it difficult to focus on what needs to be done. A loss in revenue is bound to happen at some point in a company’s lifestyle, but it’s best to get out if the revenue is in a constant decline. So how do you sell your business and justify it?

Real Estate 67

Real Estate Stress Retail Banking 67

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Few industries are being disrupted as drastically as the retail industry. More retail purchases are moving online, and a growing number of manufacturers now sell to consumers directly, cutting out retailers entirely. It’s either adapt to the new environment or step aside and make room for a competitor who can.

Retail 8

Retail Chief Executive Officer Supply Chain Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2012

What are the top business-to-business sales trends for 2013? All companies and their salespeople are well versed on the logical arguments for selecting their product. Unfortunately many companies don't perform any type of win-loss analysis so they don't understand their customers in these regards. Win-Loss Analysis Studies.

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Trends Analysis Politics Technology 15

Strategy Driven

JULY 13, 2011

Performance measurement typically drives much of the way a large company works. Supplementing profits with ROIC and revenue growth is a step in the right direction to ensure that the profits a business earns are actually creating value, not simply over-consuming capital that another company could better deploy.

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ROIC Balanced Scorecard Metrics McKinsey 62

Chartered Management Institute

MAY 3, 2023

Kind regards, Ian 19 April Dear all, CMI's chief executive Ann Francke has been commenting on the importance of leadership in getting company culture right. Commentators from a number of industries – from motor retail to media planning – have shared views on this important subject. You can learn more in FE News.

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Policies Article Skills Learning-by-Doing 121

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2018

One way to narrow the divide is through the use of worker buyouts, in which ownership of a company transfers from a single person or a small number of people to the workers of the company. million companies employ one in six workers nationwide, or close to 25 million people. Gore and Associates, are leaders in their industries.

ESOP 9

ESOP Company Cooper IAM 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

That trend has accelerated in recent years. A new paper by economists Jan De Loecker and Jan Eeckhout argues that the problem isn’t confined to finance, or even large international corporations. They argue that this rise in markups explains some of the most disconcerting and perplexing trends in the U.S. manufacturing.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Retail Price Trends 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2018

No industry is failing faster than retail. Just last month, the 125-year-old Sears—once the world’s largest retailer— filed for bankruptcy. That’s why P&G has been restructuring for 20 years “ without much to show for it ,” according to one former finance manager.

Brand 9

Brand Retail Incubator Merchandising 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Is Retail Dying? Plus, How Are Companies Spending their Tax Cuts? Youngme, Mihir, and Felix discuss whether the “retailpocalypse” is real, try to figure out how companies are spending their Trump tax cuts, debate whether share buybacks are a good thing or a bad thing, and offer their picks for the week. In this LIVE!

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Download Airlines Retail Brainstorming 11

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. People decry the scandals and rest assured that such doings are not happening in their companies. Where are the next trends and opportunities? Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr.

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Ethics Cost Crisis Learning-by-Doing 60

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Some major companies have announced plans to boost employee pay. Are these recent wage increases merely necessary in light of a tightening labor market, or could they start a broader trend that may change our economic growth trajectory? Today, that trend has slowed slightly in both countries, contributing only 0.3

Crisis 8

Crisis Retail Long-term Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

More than 85% of retail banking transactions are now digital. So are we witnessing the death throes of brick-and-mortar retail banking? That may be why some leading banks are bucking the branch-closing trend. Finance Internet Retail' Reconfiguring the branch network.

Banking 8

Banking Retail Open-book Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

Since its bankruptcy in 2012, Kodak has been a poster child for innovation incompetence: After inventing the world’s first digital camera in 1975, the conventional story goes, myopic managers allowed a bloated company to let inertia drive it off a cliff. “How could they not have seen it coming?” ” we ask.

Company 8

Company How To Technology Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2018

For example, the California Data Collaborative is a data pooling effort among a coalition of water utilities, cities, and water retailers to create an integrated, California-wide platform to provide accurate technical analysis and better inform water policy and operational decision making. These include: Situational awareness and response.

Company 8

Company Policies Media Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

retail banking competitor; and. retail banking competitor; and. It's not hard to see why: Ring-fencing retail banking and prioritizing depositors can easily be presented as protecting innocent voters from the wiles of unscrupulous bankers. Consider retail banking. And then there are the mobile telephone companies.

Banking 9

Banking Retail Competitive Advantage Report 9

Harvard Business Review

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.

Retail 8

Retail Quinn Real Estate Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Likewise, in a more focused study of eight large public pension funds, we found that none are using startup companies as a main source for innovation. Instead, they tend to perpetuate the status quo: 75% predominantly rely on large, established vendors and relationships to source their investment technology.

Operations 8

Operations Intangible Assets Venture Capitalist Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

Informal retail and cash purchases are the norm, and that has its risks and costs. With no means to track sales, little data is available, and channels are too fragmented for companies to forecast production and distribution with any degree of accuracy. These trends are not limited to customers.

Banking 8

Banking Retail Wireless Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2016

And you probably won’t even know you’ve been affected until it’s too late to prevent significant damage to your company’s finances, operations, and reputation. The DBIR offers companies straightforward recommendations to reduce their chances of falling victim to cybercrime.

Content 8

Content Industry Finance Report 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2017

and European companies have spent the past 20 years concentrating more and more of their manufacturing in East Asia to reduce costs by exploiting labor-arbitrage opportunities and address the promise of that rapidly growing market. Our argument has been that a number of trends have leveled the playing field around the globe.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Chemicals Uncertainty Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Among other things, there is growing demand from both retail and institutional investors to align their capital with better environmental and social outcomes, and more resources going into index fund or quasi-indexing products. By banding together, firms in an industry can make life harder for free riders who seek to act less responsibly. .”

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Asset Management Chemicals Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

One was an “ indigenization ” program requiring companies such as Nestle, British American Tobacco, Anglo American Platininum, and Barclays, to hand majority stakes to black Zimbabweans. The move scared away foreign investors, starving Zimbabwe of much-needed capital – a trend that was exacerbated by U.S.

Banking 8

Banking First-mover Advantage Politics Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2014

An Accenture survey conducted last year found that only one in five companies said that they were “very satisfied” with the returns they’ve received from analytics to date. The retailer example mentioned above used root cause analysis to answer the question around what factors contributed to an unsuccessful marketing promotion.

Root Cause Analysis 8

Root Cause Analysis Metrics Analysis Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2014

An Accenture survey conducted last year found that only one in five companies said that they were “very satisfied” with the returns they’ve received from analytics to date. But the survey also found that only 33% of businesses in the U.S. and Western Europe are aggressively adopting analytics across the entire enterprise.

Root Cause Analysis 8

Root Cause Analysis Metrics Analysis Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Yet, last month it joined with the California State Teachers’ Retirement System to send a letter to Apple’s board warning about the effects of the company’s devices on children. The same month, Blackrock CEO Larry Fink sent a letter telling companies that his firm would consider social responsibility when making investments.

CEO 8

CEO Short-term Long-term Aggregate Demand 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2015

That has coincided with marketing’s increased influence on strategy, driven by the unprecedented level of insights into customer behavior and trends that are now possible through analytics. CROs are deeply familiar with the troves of risk data, such as payment habits and internal credit scores, that their companies keep.

Credit Scoring 8

Credit Scoring Risk Management Finance Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2015

With growing congestion a global megatrend, companies have a choice. The technologies and trends shaping tomorrow’s businesses. For instance, Procter & Gamble’s logistics costs already exceed such key value-adding costs as manufacturing, even though the company mainly ships by land. What companies can do.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Crisis Transportation Tactics 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2016

Many leaders arrive into the C-suite having grown up in functions like Marketing or Finance and lean too heavily on instincts and cognitive biases shaped by their ascent within those disciplines. When all their well-intentioned, but separate, solutions showed up at retail, customer satisfaction never improved.

Execution 8

Execution Supply Chain Analysis Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2016

Even families without the up-front capital can rely on zero-money-down financing programs , like those offered by Solar City and other solar lease providers. There is nothing stopping the United States from following the trends in other advanced industrialized nations and allowing plug-and-play solar in America.

Technology 8

Technology Energy System Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2015

Companies can get stuck trying to analyze all that’s possible and all that they could do through analytics, when they should be taking that next step of recognizing what’s important and what they should be doing — for their customers, stakeholders, and employees. • Machine learning and cognitive computing.

Strategy 8

Strategy Supply Chain Technology Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2013

How do companies differentiate in a world where access to technology is no longer a competitive advantage? Whereas in the client/server world managing these disparate systems would have taken up the vast majority of a company''s IT budget and time, today an organization can be on dozens of job-specific, tailored solutions in days.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Competitive Advantage Information Technology How To 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2013

In business, volatility used to be more limited to the realms of finance and high tech. Many large, successful companies are creating offices in California’s Silicon Valley to spot big new trends and learn how they can transform their organization in ways they couldn’t otherwise imagine. Product Research and Development.

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Innovation Telecommunications Technology Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

Acutely aware of the competitive edges timely data offers sophisticated investors, the company's ever-entrepreneurial cofounder once proposed that Google launch a hedge fund. After all, what company on earth enjoyed greater access to more insights more quickly from more people searching for more information?

Hedge 15

Hedge Core Competence CFO ROI 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

I’m talking about the superconsumers who are inside your organization, working at every level: the fashionista who works in the mail room at the headquarters of an apparel company, or the finance manager who works for a pork brand and who eats three pounds of bacon in any given week. The passion was infectious.

Airlines 8

Airlines Energy Self-aware Learning Curve 8