Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

According to Whole Foods co-CEO Walter Robb, these future stores will feature “modern, streamlined design, innovative technology, and a curated selection” of lower-priced organic and natural foods. food retailer in a few years). As millennials would write— facepalm. My dismay is not about the concept.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2013

Everyone is curious about how big data is going to play out, what's in store for wearable technology and just what, exactly, the screen of the future will look like — and how consumers will interact with it. Here are five new attributes that I think marketing agencies will need to develop to survive: 1. Models of leanness.

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Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

The world’s largest online shoe retailer went from 8 million $ to 1 billion $ annual revenue in 7 years. Back when you started leadership development working with those unions, how did servant leadership come to you? We’ll teach you our technology. And in the end, leadership development and character development are one.

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Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

The world’s largest online shoe retailer went from 8 million $ to 1 billion $ annual revenue in 7 years. Back when you started leadership development working with those unions, how did servant leadership come to you? We’ll teach you our technology. And in the end, leadership development and character development are one.

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Leadership Servant Leader Airlines Learning-by-Doing 100

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

It looked like a stuffed animal — a cartoonish plush bird with a beetling brow and goofy eyes — but it contained a microphone, tiny speaker, headphone jack, computer chip, and enough speech-recognition and voice-generation technology to engage in sassy banter in Mandarin. When product-development companies in the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2015

Today, this sort of thing is possible not just for online experiences; it’s possible for physical experiences as well — and not just retail shopping. Another offering that taps the power of the Internet of Things and Big Data (and in whose development I was directly involved) is Disney’s MyMagic+. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2015

Brands are using Snapchat to provide exclusive, limited-time opportunities to fans, closing the gap between virtual and in-store retail experiences. Taco Bell got it right with the launch of the Cool Ranch Doritos Locos Taco, sending customers on a wild goose chase to get the news about this new product.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

From relentless demand for resources to bamboo-like 9% growth to vicious competition for the technologies and industries of the future, China will be the big story for a long time. So one technology and company failed miserably (and perhaps the government made a bad investment choice). The greening of the supply chain.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2015

To start, the UN, in a parallel with the climate negotiations, released in September the ambitious Sustainable Development Goals. This is in part because every clean energy technology is rapidly getting cheaper. Mega-retailer Target, for example, assesses thousands of products it sells and scores them on sustainability performance.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2015

At the same time, technologies like selfie sticks, Fitbits, and wearable video cameras are making people comfortable monitoring their own calorie consumption, sleep patterns, heart rate, friends, family, and daily experiences. Product and package designers can see how people open, store, and use their purchases “in the wild.”

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