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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Kevin Eikenberry

DECEMBER 9, 2010

It’s your job to recruit, cultivate, and develop the up and coming Extreme Leaders in your midst. You’ve heard it before: develop people. However… The most overlooked way to develop Extreme Leadership in others is to let them participate in your development. You still have until midnight December 14th to vote.

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Workshop Blog Learning-by-Doing Video 179

Terry Starbucker

MAY 29, 2014

It wasn’t hard to like Sarah Young as soon as we walked into her downtown store back in 2010, when we first moved to Portland. Before SaySay) I’d always worked retail as a part-time job in addition to my full time “real” job, because I loved it. Pick the right target demo in a crowded market.

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Succession Merchandising Finance Learning-by-Doing 396

Women on Business

JANUARY 18, 2011

The steps she took next to bring her chocolates to a larger market would bring her great success over the course of the next decade. 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. Katrina didn’t give up.

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Press Release Magazine Entrepreneur Discount 133

Coaching Tip

JULY 9, 2013

Tom Borders told me that they decided to hire a CEO whose experience was in retailing versus a strategic marketing expert. The new retail-oriented CEO decided to close down their website, fire their internal website experts and contract out information technology by having their books sold through Amazon.com. Related articles.

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Chief Executive Officer eBook Leadership Leadership Styles 97

Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 12, 2016

Guest post from Michael Klassen : After three decades of working in marketing, I thought I had heard or read nearly every story of innovation and entrepreneurship out there. Along with products, Haight-Ashbury hippies conceived of innovative ideas that transformed product development and advertising.

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Apparel Innovation Advertising Industry 120

CoachStation

MARCH 7, 2016

Finally, it has forced me to think about and clearly articulate answers to the excellent questions that Maddy had developed. If you have not had the opportunity to view or read any of Simon Sinek’s material regarding marketing and to ‘ Start with Why ‘, I highly recommend you spend a few minutes doing so. What does that even mean?

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Self-aware Ethics Tools Finance 146

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2011

What did 2010 look like for you and your company? OnPoint Consulting’s 2010 Execution Gap Maker Round-Up… Execution Gap Maker #1: BP (Need I say more?) Execution Gap Maker #2: Nokia Nokia’s share of the worldwide market for mobile phones continued to slip in 2010. Did you struggle to regain your post-recession footing?

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Execution Company 360-Degree Feedback Cooper 68

Mike Cardus

JANUARY 25, 2011

Situation Marketing team consisted of 12 people. Following interviews with each person and observation of the team in action the following areas were chosen for focus; Marketing team was lacking trust and understanding of themselves and others on the team. All rights reserved. Powered by WordPress.

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Case Study Team Building Team Leadership 110

Women on Business

AUGUST 16, 2012

In 2010 Forbes listed Groupon as one of the world’s fastest growing corporations. Groupons impressive growth came at a time where retailers were desperate for increased sales and their membership based deal platform was a fantastic way to market and bring in new customers with little or no cost.

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Project Incentives Retail Business Model 209

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

The reforms include changes to retail, airlines, broadcast and power sectors. The changes in retail are significant; Wal-Mart, IKEA, and Tesco can now compete against indigenous retailers in India. Fifty-one percent Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) is permitted in Multi Brand Retail (MBR). trillion market.

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Retail Supply Chain Business Model Globalization 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

metros that increased their productivity, average wages, and standard of living from 2010 to 2015, only 11 metros achieved inclusive economic outcomes. One of us is an urban theorist, the other a community-focused real estate developer. The Union Market challenge. A recent Brookings analysis found that of the 30 U.S.

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Real Estate Development Long-term Short-term 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2012

Last week, I moderated a "Super Session" at this year's annual National Retail Federation " Big Show." Powered by local, mobile, and social media, online retail is becoming something that no long-time, card-carrying NRF member might reasonably have anticipated. Ultra-Specialization: Ultra-specialist sites unlock latent demand.

Retail 15

Retail Fashion Merchandising Apparel 15

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Special Edition 50 – An Interview with Marshall Fisher, co-author of The New Science of Retailing examines the use of analytics to improve an organization’s supply chain performance in a way that ultimately enhances the bottom line. Thank you again for listening to the StrategyDriven Podcast !

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Supply Chain Retail Bottom-up Newsletter 57

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2014

When Raja Rajamannar became CMO of MasterCard Worldwide in 2013, he moved quickly to transform how the credit card giant measures marketing. But the real power and full potential of data was not being fully realized by marketing. As an ingredient brand, Intel often struggled to link marketing to P&L impact. Inside Intel.

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Finance Marketing P&L ROI 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2010

For me, 2010 was the year when I let go of theories and focused on realities, most notably the real challenges of leading in the 21st century. While 2010 brought opportunities for some — promotions, unexpected opportunities, and new possibilities — for others, life took a downturn. I changed my game.

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Leadership Crisis Banking Learning-by-Doing 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Here's my attempt to capture what I see as the most important stories affecting the greening of business in 2010. The drought in Russia destroyed 40% of its wheat crop, so Putin pulled wheat — 1/6 of the global trade in the crop — off the global market, driving up wheat prices. The market for renewables is growing fast.

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Supply Chain Retail Globalization Price 15

Terry Starbucker

DECEMBER 27, 2009

But nothing continues in a market over time without continued demand. Then theres all those other fun things like developing a culture that represents the owner’s values and beliefs, etc. And I really did come back with a new-found respect for the “retail civility&# demonstrated by the Parisians.

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Open-book Price Blog Learning-by-Doing 311

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2016

A decade ago, the Mach 3 razor was Gillette’s premium offering for men, until the Fusion line was launched in 2006 at a 40% price increase, followed by the Fusion ProGlide in 2010 and the Fusion Proshield Flexball in 2016—to name a few of the brand’s major releases. times the cost of mainstream ice creams.

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Mass Marketing Marketing Price Brand 8

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

The Benevolent Dictator : Empower Your Employees, Build Your Business, and Outwit the Competition by Michael Feuer and Dustin Klein What does it require to take a concept rapidly and effectively from mind to market? And though it’s not easy, this means reining in your hard-to-handle employees while still developing their talents.

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Motivation Management How To Retail 52

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2018

The paltry market for organic wine around the world belies the fact that over the past half century, countless organic winegrowers and vintners have dedicated great effort to creating a larger market for the category, without much success. ” Organic wine was not strongly embraced by distributors and retailers, either. .”

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Organization Chemicals Retail Reputation 10

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 26, 2011

The Benevolent Dictator : Empower Your Employees, Build Your Business, and Outwit the Competition by Michael Feuer and Dustin Klein What does it require to take a concept rapidly and effectively from mind to market? You can afford to invest in developing someone who is interested in developing.

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Bottom-up Sharpe Follow-up Retail 50

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 15, 2010

SAS – Providing organizations with THE POWER TO KNOW ® SAS is the leader in business analytics software and services, and the largest independent vendor in the business intelligence market. Becca has also acted as the product marketing manager for a wide array of technology solutions.

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Resources Process Constraint Objective 50

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2015

Now that the general idea of combining ethics and shopping has become a mainstream concept, there is a developing a backlash against the idea that consumers might effect change through their purchasing habits. ” I understand the attraction to markets and their efficiency; I am a marketing professor.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

In 2011, we published an article in HBR examining the surprisingly rapid growth of African economies and consumer markets. a year between 2010 and 2015, considerably slower than the 5.4% from 2000 to 2010. from 2010 to 2015, compared with 4.1% between 2000 and 2010. trillion.

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Globalization Long-term GDP Marketing 8

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 10, 2011

The Benevolent Dictator : Empower Your Employees, Build Your Business, and Outwit the Competition by Michael Feuer What does it require to take a concept rapidly and effectively from mind to market? The Benevolent Dictator recognizes that entrepreneurship is a gauntlet. To read Michael Feuer’s complete biography, click here.

Innovation 50

Innovation How To Retail Motivation 50

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2012

market share of more than 80%, with Schick a distant second. The blade cartridges for its latest-and-greatest razor, the top-selling Fusion ProGlide , retail for around $4 each, leaving Gillette with what must be incredibly lucrative gross margins. But dominant market share creates its own growth challenges.

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Innovation Glocalization Supply Chain Retail 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

The bullwhip effect is the amplified response to demand signals as one moves “upstream” in the supply chain: from retailers to manufacturers to suppliers to commodity providers. Here’s a hypothetical illustration of the bullwhip effect: A retailer might experience an X% drop in sales owing to some external event.

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Supply Chain Retail Crisis Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Wired reported late last year, "The top 10 Web sites accounted for 31% of US page views in 2001, 40% in 2006, and 75% in 2010." Amazon is now a primary source of traffic for thousands of third-party retailers. In effect, they are turning online advertising into a lead generation play to deliver better ROI for marketers.

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CPA CPM Advertising Disintermediation 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2015

’ the questions must be asked, ‘WHY did we start doing WHAT we’re doing in the first place, and WHAT can we do to bring our cause to life considering all the technologies and market opportunities available today?’” In 1921, two brothers started the company to serve the ham radio market.

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Brand Merchandising Retail Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2012

As unit economics enable ever cheaper smart phones (the lowest price in the market is now $65), their penetration will rise. It's a reflection of what's happening in the domestic retail space more broadly. Infibeam's founder projects growth of the retail economy from $400 billion today to $1 trillion by the end of the decade.

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Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Conference Wireless 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2013

If lucky, a start-up grows and develops a success formula. retailer, spent the last three decades improving its supply chain processes, and designing and launching a series of services, including smaller local convenience stores and online shopping. and in its home market in the U.K. Not anymore.".

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Organization Supply Chain Customer Intimacy Stress 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

But the conditions seemed to be ripe for one to develop. If you had asked Singaporeans in 2010 to identify a successful local start-up, they might have paused for a few minutes before mentioning Creative Labs. That company was a pioneer in the audio component market, having entered the MP3 market before Apple.

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Entrepreneur Incubator Venture Capitalist Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

Moreover, the population is aging and the size of the labor force is set to plateau in 2016 (See “China’s Labor Market” chart below). In fact, China is already experiencing a labor shortage: Wages are rising and it is losing its labor-cost advantage to other developing countries. China Economy Global business'

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GDP Supply Chain Globalization Technology 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

The tales of two companies, cell phone accessories retailer Cellairis and skin care products maker Rodan + Fields, illustrate the dangers of top-level strategic tinkering. They had the epiphany that they could use cheap retail space – the carts that sit in the middle of shopping malls – to sell mobile phone accessories, mostly cases.

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Strategy Wireless Company Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2014

It developed an outstanding supply chain for fish and became a dining out routine for millions of Americans, especially on its famous “endless shrimp” days. Check out my 2010 case study of the brand for more background.). Successful retail concepts always peak at some point. What to Whom” as I call it.

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Brand Supply Chain Price Case Study 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2014

Consider how many people have to keep the secrets: factory workers, supply chain workers, and retail employees. Founded in 2010, Xiaomi is one of the biggest Chinese smartphone companies. All this secrecy comes at a price, both in the supply chain and by creating a difficult workplace. We both use iPhones, not Xiaomi products.

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Productivity Products Supply Chain Price 8