N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

These Human Resource leaders represent the top 25 human resources leaders shaping careers, culture, and talent at the world’s most innovative people driven companies. While Chief Digital/Technology Officers or Chief Marketing Officers are often tagged with the innovator label, it is the CHRO who is the real innovator in 2020.

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Human Resources Globalization Diversity Resources 469

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. Today we fondly refer to these extraordinary American innovators as Haight-Ashbury hippies. Who were these people and how did they do it?

Apparel 120

Apparel Innovation Advertising Industry 120

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 8, 2015

And a large part of its success is tied to how it leverages technology in its products—and in its marketing. For example, Tesla did away with car dealers and moved customer interactions to an engaging web platform that contains all the information a prospective buyer would need, like car performance data and market comparisons.

Brand 8

Brand Apparel Software Content 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2015

These purpose driven supers felt an extraordinarily deep level of emotion for the retailer brand at levels typically associated powerful lifestyle brands in apparel and luxury goods. There are in fact Super Geos — local markets with high concentrations of supers — of both types of supers that exist in pockets across the U.S.

Price 8

Price Brand Retail Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2013

Here, Try Some Nixon and Kimchi: How the Garment Industry Came to Bangladesh Planet Money I admit it: The reference to Nixon and kimchi in the headline got me to read it, but this piece on how Bangladesh came to be a world center for apparel manufacturing held my interest. Then, with the introduction of the iPhone, they didn''t.

CTO 8

CTO Apparel Ryan Proposal 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

Starting July 1st — the beginning of the company's fiscal year 2013 — the software giant will charge all of its 100-plus global offices and datacenters a fee for every ton of carbon they produce (mostly from plugging into the electric grid, so-called "indirect" emissions). But executives weren't charged real money.

Price 14

Price P&L White Paper Energy 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2014

As the two markets homogenized into a general mass American market, focused mail-order retailers like Sears and Montgomery Ward saw sales and profits drop. Wood and Sears, Roebuck, excerpted in HBR in 1985, rural America was becoming less isolated and more like urban America. We felt defeated and powerless.”.

Retail 9

Retail Quinn Real Estate Apparel 9