Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

While competitors like Compaq and IBM sold PCs through retailers, distributors, and resellers, Dell sold directly to its customers, offering highly customized PCs at a time when the cost of computers was high enough to still require significant tradeoffs. Dell''s success can be attributed in large part to its "direct model." The Case of IBM.

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Rivkin Succession Short-term Case Study 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2015

The technologies and trends shaping tomorrow’s businesses. Walmart’s Retail Link offers an electronic bridge to the retailer’s suppliers, providing data on sales and inventory levels and allowing them to download purchase orders. Insight Center. The Future of Operations. Sponsored by GE Corporate.

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Supply Chain Crisis Transportation Tactics 8

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. Also consider how a company in an industry notoriously difficult to make money in, has managed to be wildly successful, where others have failed. So I convinced the plant manager they gotta bring this guy back.

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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. Also consider how a company in an industry notoriously difficult to make money in, has managed to be wildly successful, where others have failed. So I convinced the plant manager they gotta bring this guy back.

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Leadership Servant Leader Airlines Learning-by-Doing 100

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2015

This is in part because every clean energy technology is rapidly getting cheaper. For years, asset owners with longer-term horizons, like pension or sovereign wealth funds, have pressed companies to better manage environmental and social issues. In the U.S., in the first six months of 2015, 70% was renewable. Wall Street wakes up.

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Supply Chain Apparel Energy Price 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

When the well-known hedge fund manager and short-seller Jeremiah Hughes first put Terranola in the spotlight, issuing ominous warnings about unsold products, a looming patent expiration, and flawed growth projections, the considered judgment of the executive team was to do nothing. “I They even sued one fund manager. Doom and Gloom.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2014

Andy O''Connell Four Calculations Keep an Eye on the Wild Cards When Playing Alibaba's IPO Financial Times Unless you were hiding under a rock this week (or, in my case, deadlines), news of Alibaba''s IPO filing likely filled your reading list and Twitter feed. Managing yourself' Computers Everywhere!

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Power IPO Retail Wilde 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2017

Today, Amazon, Facebook, and Google are leading the AI revolution, and that’s given them a huge market advantage over most consumer goods companies and retailers by enabling them to lure customers with highly personalized, targeted advertising, and marketing. Could Liberate 50% of Managers' Time. How did it do that?

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ROI Tools Marketing CRM 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

Companies will maintain only a minimal full-time staff of executives, key managers, and professionals and bring in the rest of the required talent as needed in a targeted, flexible, and deliberate way. The second is technology. There are two reasons such a flexible work system is now plausible.

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Human Resources Bureaucracy Cost Wilde 8

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. Here are some tips brand and marketing managers can use to leverage converged media to their advantage: 1. More apps of this nature are surfacing every day.

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Media Tactics Productivity Products 8

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. The best analysis of the resource scarcity mega-trend came from asset manager Jeremy Grantham. China, China, and China. The greening of the supply chain.

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Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

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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