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. billion men’s accessory fashion industry. How did they do it?

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Apparel Innovation Advertising Industry 120

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2018

A clear one is that there are many factors, such as the economy or the desirability of your products, that can affect a company’s success as much or more than its digital capabilities. Therefore, no managers should view digital — or any other major technological innovation — as their sure salvation.

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Technology Business Model CEO Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

Following are three such innovative approaches for connecting with top talent. For people in other professions, it may be Quora, a website that hosts questions and answers on subjects from programming languages to fashion to the outbreak of the Zika virus. Don’t keep relying on the same old social media platforms.

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Marketing Strategy Hammer Media 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2015

As a result, we can rapidly innovate and improve our products. Inside the company, we sometimes refer to this initiative as “The Death of McKinsey,” an identifier not-so-loosely inspired by a blog post from Gordon Ritter and motivated further by a 2013 Clayton Christensen HBR article. All this is just the beginning.

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Health Care Benchmarking Short-term Gordon 8

Strategy Driven

JULY 5, 2013

Whether it is a public company or not, every business should fashion an Annual Report. They embrace innovations, while keeping the best traditions. Change is innovative. Some of the old ways really work better… and should not be dismissed just because they are old or some fashionable trend of the moment looks better.

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Planning Learning Curve Budgeting Learning-by-Doing 61

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

The most successful artists in this new landscape have begun to look at new business models and new industries to strengthen their existing brands. They’re extending their brand into areas like technology, gaming, fashion, and lifestyle content — essentially becoming entertainment platforms. We’ve all had to adapt.

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Business Model Merchandising Restructuring Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2015

In 2013, Ashley Stewart was on the brink of bankruptcy — its second in a little over three years. Ashley Stewart had been founded to provide plus-size fashion for women in boutique-like settings in urban neighborhoods across the United States. To give her a chance, I resigned from the board to become CEO in August 2013.

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Fashion Operations Brand Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2013

The CMS monthly status reports leading up to October 1 (especially the report for August, 2013 ) reveal increasingly desperate language and blame shifting. But under the surface, health reform is starting to look like a bigger success than even its most ardent advocates expected.”. Playing the blame game. Emphasize what’s at stake.

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Company Telecommunications CIO Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

And that will require old-fashioned, in-person persuasion. Searching the web or email will decline; already, the top five search engines saw traffic declines of up to 31% in a study done over the period December 2013 – May 2014. He has a chance to hit the reboot button on a wildly successful technology company.

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CEO Engineering Advertising Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Later in the year, tragedy struck Dhaka, Bangladesh when a fire at the Tazreen Fashion factory killed or injured hundreds of people. PepsiCo has had great success with the method , finding ways to reduce cost and risk for key brands, but execs wanted to apply the tool across thousands of products.

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Supply Chain Constraint P&L Energy 10