Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

Fortunately, demonstrating your skills in this area doesn't demand that you singlehandedly develop a new breakthrough product or revise the company's overall business model. Lynn headed up a product management unit for a large consumer products company.

Innovation 16

Innovation Merchandising How To Proposal 16

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2015

The brand died a slow death, beginning when Blockbuster filed for bankruptcy in 2010 and then ultimately when its acquirer, Dish Network, decided to shut down all video rental operations in 2013. The maker movement continues to expand, and demand for lower-cost electronic parts, products, and accessories remains strong.

Brand 8

Brand Merchandising Retail Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Barker had licensing deals with sports leagues to make merchandise with their logos and partnered with large brands to produce it for retail markets, and when Lance took the company over, its revenues were about £100 million. Damon retorted that Ahmed was driving Barker into the ground by essentially giving products away.

Case Study 13

Case Study Team CFO Merchandising 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2013

Since its launch in 2009, the initiative has trained more than 50,000 young people in retailing, business operations, and basic entrepreneurship concepts. The company now operates the Coletivo initiative at over 150 low-income communities across Brazil. Track Progress. Reassess the Concept and Identify New Value.

System 8

System Merchandising Retail Class 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2016

Since then the world has fallen in love with a far edgier Target, which has expanded its offerings through collaborations with such power brands as Lilly Pulitzer, Toms, Neiman Marcus, and SoulCycle, and updated product lines that break the status quo, like its latest gender-neutral kids home brand Pillowfort.

Diversity 8

Diversity Retail Discount Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

” That clean-sheet perspective emboldened Intel’s leadership to abandon memory and focus on microprocessors. They see disrupted incumbents from retail, finance, health care, transportation, professional services, and manufacturing requiring radical restructuring of assets, productivity , and innovation.

Levitt 8

Levitt Disaggregation Kaizen Call Center 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

In each iteration, we spent a lot of time thinking about what might make the best use of our existing product. In hindsight, this thinking turned out to be far less important than what we learned about leadership, control, and trust, which ultimately were reflected in how each of the businesses was created, capitalized, and staffed.

Chief Financial Officer 10

Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2013

Dunkin Donuts :> Make and serve the freshest, most delicious coffee and donuts quickly and courteously in modern, well-merchandised stores. Mission: Our mission is to be the world's premier consumer products company focused on convenient foods and beverages. Let's look at another example, this time between Starbucks and Dunkin Donuts.

Mission Statement 9

Mission Statement Sports Merchandising Brand 9

Strategy Driven

APRIL 4, 2014

Of the companies who continue to operate without a plan, 40% of them will be out of business in the next 10 years. One-third of the Gross National Product is sent each year toward cleaning up mistakes, rework, make-goods, corrective action and correcting defects. That is not a full-scope plan. Yet, only 5.1% 50% do not.

Budgeting 84

Budgeting Succession Consultative Crisis 84

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2018

In study after study for over a decade, operations researchers have found that retailers understaff during peak hours. More-stable scheduling increased sales and labor productivity. Labor productivity increased by 5%, in an industry where productivity grew by only 2.5% The results were striking. We hope not.

Retail 8

Retail Productivity Products Cost 8

In the CEO Afterlife

NOVEMBER 4, 2012

On a productive day, aside from the mountain of dead trees (recycling hadn’t been invented in 1982), stacked polystyrene coffee cups and an overflowing ash-tray, there would also be a satisfying thick sheaf of “concepts.” We were just shifting product. Our product, and the clients. This has come as quite a shock I can tell you.

Advertising 265

Advertising Creativity Industry Bottom-up 265

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2017

If your culture and your brand are driven by the same purpose and values and if you weave them together into a single guiding force for your company, you will win the competitive battle for customers and employees, future-proof your business from failures and downturns, and produce an organization that operates with integrity and authenticity.

Brand 8

Brand Company Operations Merchandising 8

Strategy Driven

JUNE 22, 2012

Some companies claim that purchasing their product is the ‘be all, end all’ panacea for life’s dilemmas. My analysis: Productivity software does no good unless one commits to change, alters behavioral traits and commits to time management. It must also focus upon people, products, processes, procedures and potential.

Brand 50

Brand Analysis Advertising Software 50