Women on Business

DECEMBER 7, 2010

This online retailer offers everything from bedroom furniture, luggage, shoes and bags, home and garden accessories, and also living room and dining furniture, like this chest of drawers. I’m focusing on health and fitness, and to that end I’m inviting you to join me.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 14, 2011

An answer to this was anything but obvious, and I struggled to find one shortly after my friend Katie and I were laid off from what were supposed to be dream jobs with an online shoe retailer. We knew that choosing the latter entailed taking, quite probably, the greatest risk in the face of an unstable economy; yet, in the end, we did anyway.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

Why didn’t Folgers recognize the retail consumer demand for coffee and develop a Starbucks type business model? Let’s just take a moment and look at a few notable examples of what happens to companies that become complacent…Why didn’t the railroads innovate? Why didn’t IBM see Dell coming?

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Women on Business

JANUARY 18, 2011

Katrina followed that initial success by branching out of her apartment and opening a retail store in Chicago just two-months after her chocolates launched in Neiman Marcus. The employees loved them, and the next thing Katrina knew, her chocolates were being sold in Neiman Marcus.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2014

Small businesses are also instrumental to our innovation economy; small firms produce 13 times more patents per employee than larger firms and employ more than 40% of high technology workers in America. The potential of new technology to fill the gaps in small business lending is high. Finance Small/medium business Technology'

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

There was a time when the entry of an online alternative in a market would scare the hell out of small offline retailers. The consumer behavior was changing and the prices were getting aggressively competing; it was not easy for small retailers to keep up with their online counterparts. Take Amazon for example. marketplace model today.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2017

Where and When the Technology Might Be Deployed. By contrast, driverless vehicle adoption depends on overcoming three factors: infrastructure maturity, technology readiness, and regulation. How can we finance fleets through leasing and/or mobility securitization? What will our retail footprint be? Public policy.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2020

There was a time when the entry of an online alternative in a market would scare the hell out of small offline retailers. The consumer behavior was changing and the prices were getting aggressively competing; it was not easy for small retailers to keep up with their online counterparts. Take Amazon for example.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Small startup firms are already developing proprietary technologies — such as machine vision, deep learning, and other innovations —– that could help large investors evaluate opportunities and risks with far greater accuracy and efficiency than was previously possible. But right now that’s not happening.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2012

For highly regulated sectors like finance, social media can be a legal minefield. Just ask Gene Morphis, ex-CFO of clothing retailer Francesca's. without any compliance process or technology in place.". The combination of the right policy and the right technology can render even the most delicate of communications compliant.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

Informal retail and cash purchases are the norm, and that has its risks and costs. The second is the need to lower the costs and risk of retail and trade based primarily on cash transactions. The third is the introduction of cashless policies from regulators in countries like Nigeria, Kenya, and Ghana.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2016

Nevertheless, few would argue that information technology permanently increased unemployment. The labor force adjusted to a new technology replacing an older one. It would seem that this provides a profitable opportunity for companies that are able to be flexible in their compensation policy.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2015

A blanket policy that just tries to create another Silicon Valley can turn out to be a disaster. But these Main Street businesses employ a lot of Americans –as many as 57 million– and the policies they need are not the same as the ones required by startups. Most of these small businesses don’t actually have employees.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

Carmakers have started using 3D technology to produce parts. The technology is expected to lead to reductions in the cost of employment, capital investment, shipping and inventory as well. manufacturers, wholesalers, and retailers, according to a leading technology industry analyst. Most hearing aids in the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

After being denounced for years for its dictatorship and destructive economic policies, Zimbabwe entered a new chapter in November 2017, following the military’s removal of president Robert Mugabe, who ruled the country for 37 years. An influx of capital could also result in a revival in the formal retail sector (e.g.,

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

When I founded the nonprofit African Institution of Technology , I initially focused on helping African entrepreneurs or artisans, especially those with only primary education, develop new skills and market opportunities. People need at least a rudimentary understanding of finance to become good entrepreneurs or artisans.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2017

So four years ago, when I was CEO of GE Capital Retail Finance and tapped to lead a mega change initiative — splitting off our unit into a new, publicly traded company, Synchrony Financial — I’ll admit I viewed it as a huge challenge. Be open to creating new work policies and benefits. What did we do?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2011

My team would have people with deep functional knowledge and skills (strategy, sales, marketing, finance, and information technology) to align surrounding processes. Consider Lowe's , America's second-largest home improvement retailer worldwide, with revenue of $49 billion and more than 1,700 stores.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

The theme of the big event was "Technology-led Transition and Innovation-driven Development," which sounds broad. The Ministry of Commerce was showing how some companies "have made use of technology to.promote a low-carbon economy and environmental protection." This last article is the one that really grabbed my attention. In the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2017

Yet progress within organizations has been slow – there is still a lack of women and minorities in leadership positions, and certain industries like tech and finance are lacking diversity at all levels. And many diversity programs fail. I chose eleven CEOs: Art Peck (Gap Inc.,

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

The ideas have also been embraced by public policy makers, health plans, and the general public. From this perspective, the enthusiasm of policy makers and health plans to simply increase access to primary care as a way to address delivery challenges is a cop-out. Insight Center. Transforming Health Care. Sponsored by Medtronic.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Whereas new technologies, competitors, and business models have made products and services more affordable and accessible in media, finance, retail, and other sectors, U.S. This shift is long overdue. health care keeps getting costlier.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

Scholars were encouraged to conduct research with “managerial relevance” or possibly “policy relevance.” Instead of seeking management jobs at GM or Eastman Kodak or Westinghouse, MBAs from elite schools went into finance and consulting. The tasks are straightforward and largely supervised by computer.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

His most recent books are Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning and Analytics at Work. His most recent books are Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning and Analytics at Work.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

Yet in this short period, digital technologies have upended our world. Digital technology is widespread and spreading fast. Digital technologies are poised to change the future of work. Automation, big data, and artificial intelligence enabled by the application of digital technologies could affect 50% of the world economy.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2011

These losses were offset by growth in higher-value-added jobs in consulting, finance & insurance, and computer systems design. Half of this job growth came in health care, government, retail, and construction. He cites Germany, which values employment as a policy goal and has accepted slower income growth to maintain jobs.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2016

“This is not happening just in retail, or in IT-producing sectors,” said Chiara Criscuolo, an OECD economist and coauthor of the report. The competition story revolves around digital technology. Since 2000 productivity growth at the most productive “frontier” firms has sharply outpaced the average.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2017

Advances in manufacturing technology. All this adds up to an unprecedented level of uncertainty about trade policies and their effect. Such a policy alone could have a major impact on companies operating in the United States. Manufacturing is on the cusp of a robotics revolution. But there may be more to come.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2017

Some of those policies will help, but they’re unlikely to fully address the challenges faced by the middle class. Online retailers, like Amazon, employ about one-third the number of employees per dollar sold as conventional retailers do. There are 3.5 million professional truck drivers in our country, and about 8.7

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

And a recently released report suggests that Europe’s digital divide problem extends way beyond the Atlantic; Europe is a distant third behind North America and Asia for $100 million plus financing for VC backed companies. At the regulatory and policy levels, authorities have doggedly pursued U.S. Reforming immigration policies.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Yes, everyone would agree that we have serious economic policy issues at home about creating jobs, stimulating growth, increasing exports, improving education, investing in R&D, encouraging high-tech manufacturing — and about reconciling the cost of any governmental initiatives with significant debt reduction.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2016

Our limited sample suggests that both groups agree that board leadership should serve as champions of board diversity, but they differ on the policies they advocate to increase board diversity. Both Republicans and Democrats say the most effective board committee is audit/finance.

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