Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2017

These have forced AirBnB, Tesla, and Uber to make costly concessions to their operating practices or to exit certain markets altogether. The petition was seen as instrumental in getting the city council to adopt new regulations which permitted Uber to operate legally. How can new firms overcome the regulations that protect incumbents?

Licensing 8

Licensing Proposal Retail Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2017

Take the MIT Media Lab’s experiment to see whether it could estimate retail sales performance on “Black Friday,” the day following the US Thanksgiving holiday. Retailers combine data on demographics and weather to predict sales and develop merchandising plans. Neasden Control Centre for HBR.

Marketing 8

Marketing Root Cause Analysis Management Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

In May of 2005, Yahoo CEO Terry Semel, cofounder Jerry Yang, corporate development executive Toby Coppel, and I — I was then chief financial officer of the Silicon Valley internet company — went on what would turn out to be a fateful trip to China. We were optimistic about Yahoo’s future in China as the deal closed in January 2004.

Chief Financial Officer 8

Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

The band was distributing its self-produced first album, having created buzz for it in online forums and chat rooms and building a community there (this was several years before Facebook and Twitter transformed social media). Our business now operates like a tech startup, with less hierarchy and far more agility. Beyond Music.

Business Model 8

Business Model Merchandising Restructuring Fashion 8

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. These aren’t mom and pop operations anymore. We now have entire conferences dedicated to the analytics of our business and our basketball operations.

Price 8

Price Team Sports Franchising 8

Strategy Driven

JUNE 22, 2012

Business development. They take what is said at face value because they have not or don’t care to develop abilities to discern what is hyped by others. Their words overstate, get into the media and are accepted by audiences as fact. ‘Develop the Drive to Accomplish Anything.’ Running the business.

Brand 51

Brand Analysis Advertising Software 51

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Over the course of several months, a digital platform was developed that could capture every fan interaction (whether a mobile check-in at the stadium, a profile update on the website, or a merchandise purchase online), deliver targeted promotional campaigns, and collect club mentions and other data from social media.

Sports 8

Sports Brand Content Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2017

Ask people how to develop a good corporate culture, and most of them will immediately suggest offering generous employee benefits, like they do at Starbucks, or letting people dress casually, as Southwest Airlines does. When you think and operate in unique ways internally, you can produce the unique identity and image you desire externally.

Brand 8

Brand Company Operations Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

We were supposed to be coming up with ideas for improving the company’s customer experiences, but the head of operations could not think of a single new customer service idea to explore. And the development leader failed to identify any new ideas for store layout or building features. I was stunned.

Brand 8

Brand Reis Objective Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

Utilizing AgilOne, a predictive marketing cloud solution, we were able to break down data silos across marketing and operational systems, combining data from Lilly’s CRM system, website, and in-store interactions into a single unified platform to analyze and understand our consumer journey and preferences.

Marketing 8

Marketing CRM Brand Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2018

The leading companies in online search, social media, and e-commerce are all based in one or the other of these two regions. and China have essentially won in the arenas of online search, social media, and e-commerce. In many cases, as with Skype, the size of the European operation shrank after the acquisition. Insight Center.

Company 8

Company Venture Capitalist GDP Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Even outside of the tech sector, the employment of more software developers is associated with a greater increase in industry concentration, and this relationship appears to be causal. Walmart went from a 3% share of the general merchandise retail market in 1982 to over 50% today. That’s not how Vox Media does it.

Software 8

Software Company Competitive Advantage Henderson 8