Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 5, 2013

That is “good advice in general,” Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke told attendees at the Fourteenth Jacques Polak Annual Research Conference , in Washington, D.C In 1907, it was to save consumer’s retail deposits, in 2008 corporate wholesale funds. earlier this month. Perhaps the vehemence comes from how the money was used.

Banking 50

Banking Crisis Morale System 50

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 9

Retail Quinn Real Estate Apparel 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Now Amazon can supplement that knowledge with direct, proprietary insights about the offline retail world. What Amazon will now study in the brick-and-mortar world – and more importantly, what it learns and how it applies the insights – can transform consumer retail in the United States. Changing price perception.

Price 8

Price Retail Competitive Advantage Long-term 8

Strategy Driven

MARCH 21, 2011

The people who work in a given department all focus on the same departmental goal— advertising promotes sales, shipping moves the product, procurement buys the parts— and they report to the executive in charge of their department, who measures their performance and rewards or penalizes them according to the department’s own metrics.

Hammer 50

Hammer Chief Executive Officer Metrics Process 50

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2017

The blizzard of conferences, initiatives, articles, and reports on how to prepare for the changes technology will bring to our economy is important. But let’s say that automation really does reduce retail and restaurant employment. Work currently does not work for millions of Americans.

Merchandising 8

Merchandising Retail Competitive Advantage Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Our Meaning and Purpose at Work report , released today, surveyed the experience of workplace meaning among 2,285 American professionals, across 26 industries and a range of pay levels, company sizes, and demographics. The magnitude of this number supports one of the findings from Shawn’s recent study on the Conference for Women.

Creativity 15

Creativity Report Conference Mentor 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2015

Kate Heiny, who very recently departed as the director of sustainability at Target, told the crowd at this summer’s sizable Sustainable Brands conference that: “With their words and wallets, our customers are asking for more [sustainable products].” That seems to be changing. And it’s not just happening at Target.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Chemicals Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2012

Or perhaps you’ve taken advantage of wine-retailer Oddbins' discount for customers who avoid official Olympic sponsors. Locog, the official Olympic organizing committee, says it can "take a joke," The Guardian reports. and then, in rather smaller font, adding "London, France"? I’LL TAKE BACON ON THAT. — by Carla Yengo-Kahn.

Marketing 12

Marketing Committee Discount Retail 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2012

The story goes back to January 21, 2009, during Cook's inaugural conference call with investors after Jobs announced his medical leave of absence. The very first question, Lashinsky reports, was from an analyst who wanted to know whether Cook might replace Jobs permanently and how the company would be different if he did.

Banking 19

Banking Airlines Retail Advertising 19

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2017

Factory workers, manual laborers, and workers in retail stores, restaurants, or hospitals have to be at their place of work at specific times to be productive. Sitting in an office cube or in a conference room attending endless, poorly-run meetings is unlikely to be how your company’s strategic or product issues are best solved.

Real Estate 12

Real Estate Constraint McKinsey Cost 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

The subsequent mobile revolution created challenges for retailers who found customers flocking to online alternatives. A 2015 report by Boston Consulting Group (BCG) estimated the digital economy would contribute $4 trillion to the GDP of countries in the G-20 during 2016, and would continue to grow at a rate of 10 percent per year.

Technology 8

Technology Industry GDP Content 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2017

That the CHRO role, although at first it may look career limiting, can have more impact than any other position reporting to the CEO? He had to ask her four more times, including once on a conference call with the whole executive team, before she finally relented. That’s precisely what we found.

Quinn 14

Quinn Execution CFO Forrester 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2017

A report from Frost & Sullivan found that the global cybersecurity workforce will have more than 1.5 Some of our recent additions to the security team came from unexpected career fields such as retail, education, entertainment, and law. ” The need is real and well-documented. million unfilled positions by 2020.

Education 13

Education How To Industry Career 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2013

Among the select few to address the 6,000 faithful with tales from the leading edge of data analytics at this June''s Hadoop conference will be Netflix, Yahoo — and Sears. For three years, AdAge reports, Sears has been using Hadoop to get a handle on the 100 million customers in its databases.

B2B 8

B2B Maturity Retail Conference 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2017

This should be obvious to all of us; after all, decisions don’t just materialize from the ether, ready to be executed on by managers sitting in a conference room primed to act. A former waiter or retail delivery person fit the bill much better than an education bureaucrat. People make decisions. Early on, I saw this as a problem.

Content 8

Content Engineering Education Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2016

Standing on stage on September 9, 2014 at Apple’s Worldwide Developer’s Conference (WWDC), Tim Cook announced, “We’ve created an entirely new payment process, and we called it Apple Pay.” And should retailers agree to take the new payment method? She paid in the blink of any eye. PayPal went on deathwatch.

Retail 8

Retail Business Model Press Release Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2016

A smart controller had been producing monthly reports for years that nobody read. Another approach is to ask your clients if you can not do something, just the way retail store clerks now ask people if they really want their receipts. Close your door, if you have one, or find a conference room. Pick a time, and stick to it.

Restructuring 8

Restructuring Seminar Productivity Products 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2014

The story of MBH Architects, a northern California firm that designs retail stores, conveys an important lesson on how to survive such a cash crisis. Retailers halted construction on new stores and shuttered underperforming ones. And crisis it was in 2008, the same year the U.S. Then, the great downturn hit.

Crisis 8

Crisis CFO GAAP Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2011

All this economic uncertainty has given managers more to cope with, and some of my favorite — and our most popular — multimedia tackled the perennial people-management challenges, whether the person in question is a direct report, a customer, or thine own self. How Retailers Are Reinventing Shopping. Video interview.

Video 15

Video Porter Charisma Customer Loyalty 15

Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 7, 2016

The first, Ready-Now Leaders: Cultivating Women in Leadership to Meet Tomorrow’s Business Challenges by DDI and The Conference Board, identifies “confidence” as one of the few but significant leadership differences between the sexes. The research also provides a snapshot view and analysis of gender diversity across countries and industries.

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Diversity Globalization Transportation Industry 120

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Steph and Tina, one of her grad-school classmates at MIT's Media Lab, were driving to Chicago for a conference and heard an ad on the radio for the language-learning company SimpleLanguage. "I and sold through high-end retailers such as The Sharper Image and Hammacher Schlemmer. Fun or Functional? I'll be in Shanghai next semester.

Case Study 8

Case Study Retail Learning-by-Doing Education 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

I refuse to dignify this attack with a response,” said Henry Guillart, the CEO, just hours after Hughes had given his initial negative presentation at an investor conference in New York. for his part, said the company should launch an aggressive PR campaign, encouraging reporters to examine the company’s assumptions and forecasts in detail.

Case Study 8

Case Study CFO Hedge PR 8

Women on Business

OCTOBER 28, 2011

A few years later, I left Target and the scheduling insanity of retail and decided to go into an office environment. So Kevin and I had a bunch of really hard conversations, and every single time, I would dread going into the conference room. Don’t report me to HR, but it means, don’t sweat the small stuff. I hated it!

Leadership 172

Leadership Policies Price Learning-by-Doing 172

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2011

On Tuesday, Amazon.com reported third-quarter earnings that fell far short of Wall Street's expectations. Below is a snapshot of Amazon's portfolio of disruptive businesses: • Amazon Retail — disrupting traditional retailers. Amazon Kindle — disrupting the paper book format and paper book retailers.

Christensen 13

Christensen Retail Long-term Incubator 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2014

He reported that when PwC increased their flex options they saw higher productivity in return. Shake Shack’s CEO, Randy Garutti, reported that his employees deserve (and receive) $10/hour as a starting wage. The Council of Economic Advisors released a report at the conference , noting: Mothers are increasingly household breadwinners.

Morale 8

Morale CEO Bottom-up Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2015

I go to a lot of health care conferences and of late there’s a seemingly obligatory slide that crops up in nearly every PowerPoint. ” If that sounds like what you’d expect from a retail clinic, it should come as no surprise.

Health Care 8

Health Care Quality Retail Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2016

Material here focuses on specific business issues and includes third-party resources (analyst reviews, research reports, etc.). This material validates the proposed solution through customer success stories, research reports, product fact sheets, etc. Decide – Deeper content that provides more product-specific information.

Company 8

Company Content Information Software 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2017

We became regular attendees at an annual transgender health conference, where conference-goers can learn about everything from surgical advances in gender transition procedures to mental health treatments uniquely suited to transgender individuals’ experiences. ” –Transgender man, retail.

Self-aware 8

Self-aware Survey Process Participative 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2014

The debates ( pro and con ) around these projects have brought data journalism out of its niche in digital media conferences and trade publications into the limelight. How Data Visualization Answered One of Retail’s Most Vexing Questions. These new media outlets have been received with both praise and criticism.

Offshoring 10

Offshoring Media Analysis Project 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2017

Canonical examples are cigarette smoking or pollution, or a store manager in a large retail chain pursuing actions that benefit his individual store but damage the parent company’s brand.) This is the prisoner’s dilemma of reporting amid competition: Following your self-interest does not always further the collective good.

Media 12

Media Advertising Fixed Costs Content 12