Leading Blog

AUGUST 30, 2021

It is a well-written story that takes us from his days as a student-athlete through his formative years working his way up in bars and restaurants from busboy to manager, to the wild ride founding and growing Texas Roadhouse into the international success it is today. Instead of offering discounts, focus on product and service quality.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Jody Steinhauer began The Bargains Group in 1988 from her kitchen table by purchasing a variety of different clothing and reselling it to discount clothing stores. …And the Clients Went Wild! : And the Clients Went Wild! Perfect your marketing mix and win with …And the Clients Went Wild!

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

For example, as a designer/writer, my skills are not well applied to bookkeeping or financial management. Have collaboration goals and processes well-defined so that expectations MATCH. Media momentum is much like a wild fire—the power of one well-placed match can ignite dramatic pyrotechnics! Mine your backyard.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

The crux of Groupon's business model involves offering highly-discounted deals to subscribers by email. Consumers, of course, love big discounts. This is because drastic discounts devalue a product and are often viewed as acts of desperation. Many of the companies making deep-discount offers via Groupon wind up disappointed.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2014

Tackling climate change — and thus keeping the world inhabitable — is an achievable goal, but it will become prohibitively expensive if we wait to act. A key target for Ceres’ work, and the main audience at the conference, is the group of institutional investors who manage tens of trillions of dollars in assets for long-term performance.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2018

For too many managers, the technology’s costs often rival its benefits. Any HR manager using such a system needs to be aware of its limitations and have a plan for dealing with them… Algorithms are, in part, our opinions embedded in code. Smarter algorithms require smarter risk management.

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