Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

This post is part of the HBR Forum, The Future of Retail. In order to assess the future of retail, we need to understand the sector's current impact on our entire economy, and the direction that Washington is taking the retail industry with policies that are being shaped today. Retail contributes $2.5

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2013

In the physical world, retailers have become quite adept at following the relatively faint tracks shoppers leave in their stores, primarily through their participation in loyalty schemes. Retailers can’t tell what shoppers looked at but didn’t buy, or whether they forgot something that they likely needed.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2011

This post is part of the HBR Forum, The Future of Retail. We launched in February of 2010, and within three weeks we'd beat our first-year sales goals. So even though we originally thought of ourselves as a technology-enabled fashion brand, we've gradually been finding ways to let our customers physically interact with our products.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Finally, health care, which has been largely immune to the forces of disruptive innovation , is beginning to change. 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.

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Health Care Innovation Insurance Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

More than 85% of retail banking transactions are now digital. So are we witnessing the death throes of brick-and-mortar retail banking? Rather than going the way of Tower Records, leading banks are reinventing themselves with innovative mashups of digital technologies and physical facilities, a combination we call “digical.”.

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Rajesh Setty

OCTOBER 14, 2008

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Entrepreneur Licensing Newsletter Books 28

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2011

Cisco's clever little camcorder collapse provides picture-perfect insight into a pervasive innovation pathology: Ignoring — or disrespecting — the obvious. The company promised back in 2009 to bring out a Wi-Fi Flip in early 2010. Novel subtlety and nuance can be wonderful but my innovation heart belongs to obvious.

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Wireless Management Telecommunications Innovation 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2014

Consumers have more products, brands, and retailers to choose from than ever. The authors of a 2010 HBR article shared two test situations with introverted or extroverted leaders and tested how they reacted to proactive suggestions from employees. Why Technology Won’t End the Marketing Hierarchy. An HBR Insight Center.

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Marketing Retail Advertising Brand 14

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. The mix of warehouse retail and traditional retail also creates an interesting juxtaposition that lends itself to greater consumer discovery and cross-pollination among users and consumers.

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Real Estate Development Long-term Short-term 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

This is the overarching goal of China’s 2010-2015 plan. As the impact of the labor bonanza and capital-led phases begins to fade, productivity growth in China must increasingly come from the quality of innovation and management expertise at the organizational level. China, too, needs more technological innovation.

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GDP Supply Chain Globalization Technology 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

They must protect value by helping companies avoid unnecessary risks, and they must build value by ensuring that companies change quickly enough to address emerging competitive threats, evolving customer preferences, and disruptive technologies. In September 2010 Blockbuster filed for bankruptcy protection.

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Retail CEO Core Competence Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2016

For example, Gillette has successfully encouraged consumers to trade up again and again by continually introducing razors with the latest and greatest shaving technology. In some cases, there may not be an obvious price gap within a category, but particularly innovative brands have been able to create them.

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Mass Marketing Marketing Price Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

You don’t have to be a programmer in Silicon Valley or a gene splicer in biotech to unleash exciting innovations and create huge value. Instead, you can rethink what it means to be in the retail-banking business, or the industrial-distribution business, or the office-cleaning business.

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CEO Open-book Price Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Innovations like Amazon price checks, or changes to healthcare or shipping enabled by mobile phones, are becoming commonplace. The only sure thing, especially when it comes to technology, is continuous discontinuity. How can you build your organization’s ability to sense and respond to rapid improvements in technology?

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Innovation Telecommunications Technology Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

Workflows and innovation initiatives have been artfully reorganized around "projects" to facilitate faster, cheaper and easier contingent participation. Technology makes reviewing, refining, redesigning and revising both jobs and job descriptions as dynamic as a commodities trading desk. Who is their Salman Khan ?

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Human Capital Real Estate Human Resources Disruptive Innovation 9

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

APRIL 30, 2015

A 2010 poll by The Pew Research Center found that the public had a more positive view of them than any other institution in the country – they beat out both churches and universities, for instance, as well as tech companies. America loves small businesses. They provide income to their owners, but by definition are not job creators.

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Supply Chain Rivkin Venture Capitalist Policies 8

Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2012

In a 2010 survey, a record 36% of women ages 25-29 had attained a bachelor’s degree compared to 28% of men of the same age. As of 2010, only 2.4% Technology and the Internet are enabling women to work and run businesses more virtually, often from their homes and often with help from angel funding. corporate boards. of the U.S.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2011

What did 2010 look like for you and your company? If an organization can’t get things done, nothing else matters – not the smartest strategy, not the most innovative business model, not even game-changing technology. OnPoint Consulting’s 2010 Execution Gap Maker Round-Up… Execution Gap Maker #1: BP (Need I say more?)

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

In the past, disruption occurred at the level of discrete product and service technologies that competed to offer better value for customers (e.g., Told this way, the Kodak story is a comforting caricature of the traditional failure to adapt to disruptive technological change. By 2010, Kodak had clawed its way to No. inch vs. 3.5-inch

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Company How To Technology Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2011

Ned Barnholt is the former CEO of Agilent Technologies, the measurement company, and these days he's one of the more respected executives in Silicon Valley. The technology was great. Ironically, a much more creative and experimental approach to innovation had been central to making Hewlett Packard into a market-leading behemoth.

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Ries Agility Market Segmentation Christensen 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2013

On March 18, 2010, an Apple engineer left what looked like an iPhone 3 in a German beer garden in Redwood, California. In 2010, the PTO found a Ford design patent for a truck grille was obvious (and thus not patentable) in view of a poorly-lit, partially obstructed view from a spy photo published in a trade magazine.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2014

The Boston Innovation District’s meteoric real estate prices are pushing the very entrepreneurs who made the district sexy towards neighboring districts where rents have not tripled since 2010. But inequality can also be a great motivator, can fuel ambition, can bolster achievement, and can foster innovation.

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Venture Capitalist Supply Chain Real Estate Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2014

Most pundits agreed on what was wrong — a lack of breakthrough innovation since the passing of founder Steve Jobs. Apple has seemingly served as an anomaly to the theory of disruptive innovation. Apple quickly became the largest music retailer in the U.S. When Innovation Is Strategy. in Innovation.

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Industry Wireless Advertising Content 9

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." Follow him on Twitter at @GreenAdvantage. And on and on. In the U.S.

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NGO Chemicals Guidelines Telecommunications 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Because of the web, social media, and advances in mobile and interactive communications and information technologies, the experiences of human beings are now at the heart of value creation. It closed out the 2010 fiscal year with €11.97 billion in retail managed resources, of which €8.43 for Spain's financial sector.

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CEO Creativity Automotive Participative 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

That could involve targeting new geographies, developing new products, taking advantage of new technologies, or devising new business models. The innovation portfolio. This is a collection of budgets to fund both the projects in the innovation portfolio and the new initiatives for the core business. The investment portfolio.

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Strategy Long-term Health Care Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

The Conversation Blogs The Conversation Artisans Must Balance the Books 8:12 AM Tuesday November 23, 2010 by Ndubuisi Ekekwe | Comments () Email Tweet This Post to Facebook Share on LinkedIn Print The boy was 11 years old when his father took him to live with a kinsman, a businessman with many shops in Lagos, Nigeria.

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Books Guidelines Banking Telecommunications 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2015

The assumption is that a merger will make it easier to achieve economies of scale, develop a large but narrow network of preferably healthy patients, establish data registries, and integrate expensive technology. After much deliberation, we partnered with University of Chicago Medicine (UCM) in 2010.

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Health Care Committee Balanced Scorecard Discount 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

Smartphone sales in 2011 are estimated to reach 468 million units, a 57% increase over 2010. While the idea of reaching out to consumers via smartphone apps is clearly not new, companies have been stubbornly hesitant to embrace app technologies. Technology. It's the same inertia we saw in the early days of the internet.

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Brand B2C Market Segmentation Travel 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

” Not only has this purpose served Nordstrom well for decades, but it has helped the company overcome the multichannel challenges most retailers struggle with. One of the biggest obstacles for brick-and-mortar retailers that are trying to win online as well is internal organizational conflict.

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Airlines Energy Self-aware Learning Curve 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

In new or young high-growth industries where barriers to entry are low, innovation rates are high, demand is very hard to predict, and the relative positions of competitors are in flux, a company can often radically shift the course of industry development through some innovative move. But it didn't need to.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 13, 2011

billion to Google just a few short months ago, in November of 2010. Groupon does have a strong network externality effect, as its business relies on hundreds of representatives who sign up hundreds of retailers. Groupon is poised for its debut as a public company. Perhaps a 2. Let's say that's a 7.

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Business Model Discount IPO Customer Loyalty 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2013

Not too long ago, I was asked to give a presentation on the state of digital media and how well brands are intersecting the worlds of marketing and technology. Fifteen percent of online retail sales will take place this year via mobile devices, according to eMarketer , and that''s a 56% increase from 2012. They outnumber the PCs.

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Advertising Media Marketing Content 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2016

In 2010, Coty was rapidly expanding through acquisitions and internal growth and needed to align, integrate, and further accelerate improvements in its supply chain. How can we as leaders help our front-line teams take more action to innovate and improve how work gets done? The experiences of global beauty company Coty Inc.,

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Supply Chain Kotter Critical Success Factor Learning-by-Doing 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

His most recent books are Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning and Analytics at Work. All rights reserved. Harvard Business Publishing is an affiliate of Harvard Business School.

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Guidelines Education Telecommunications Emotional Intelligence 14

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. And I could write a book on the topic of rare earth metals, those precious elements that make nearly every green technology possible and go into every iPhone. The floods in Pakistan helped double the price of cotton.

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Supply Chain Retail Globalization Price 15