Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

Troubles at Tesco, the UK’s leading retailer, are mounting. If round after round of profit warnings was not enough – group operating profits fell 20% between 2011 and 2013 and are likely to fall another 30% in 2014 — the company recently announced it had overstated its first-half profit by about $400 million. How did this happen?

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Retail Merchandising Discount Price 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2014

Generating over $80 billion in sales in 2013, Amazon’s business model, with its ability to capture growth through disruption of retail stores, has proven to be very successful. Alibaba is not only a very successful disruptive company in China but also brings to the table a completely different business model than Amazon’s.

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Business Model Advertising Retail Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2014

In e-commerce, advances in tracking and analytics have made it possible for retailers to understand what individual customers are doing before they make a purchase, and to gather and analyze hundreds and thousands of data points to identify trends. Take Alex and Ani, which designs and retails jewelry, and Belk, a department store chain.

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Retail Chief Technology Officer Technology Merchandising 12

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.

Strategy 8

Strategy Wireless Company Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Our research also found that most major reversals of highly successful companies began because the company lost the very culture responsible for its original success. When CEO Tex Gunning took over in 2013, he spent weeks in depots and on trucks and wrote to every frontline employee asking for input.

Company 8

Company Bureaucracy Long-term Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

retail chains. Following an entrepreneurial strategy ultimately means that managers and employees of a firm act more proactively and innovatively, and they take more risks — all which is known to drive growth and increase a firm’s advantage against competitors. This is an important insight for boards and shareholders.

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CEO Letter Retail Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2014

After an unprecedented decade of growth, analysts wrote off 2013 as a year to forget for Apple. 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. for three years.

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Industry Wireless Advertising Content 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 8, 2015

The network effect, which describes how services and technologies become more valuable as more people use them, has driven the success of many internet companies. And a large part of its success is tied to how it leverages technology in its products—and in its marketing. They leverage technology in innovative ways.

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Brand Apparel Software Content 8

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? How did they do it?

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Apparel Innovation Advertising Industry 120

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

After Mugabe claimed victory in a disputed election in 2013, however, corruption increased , while the strengthening U.S. An influx of capital could also result in a revival in the formal retail sector (e.g., This has left little credit for the country’s private sector, exerting a dampening effect on business activity and growth.

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Banking First-mover Advantage Politics Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2013

Without such data it is simply too easy for competitors to let you do the hard work of innovation, then copy your insights and erode your competitive advantage. Only you have the specific transaction, "John Smith bought peas, bread, and grape nehi at 9:27 AM on March 11, 2013," and the tens of thousands like it each day!

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Competitive Advantage Customer Intimacy Supply Chain Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2013

Jules Pieri, who was recently named one of 2013’s Most Powerful Woman Entrepreneurs by Fortune Magazine, is a woman who is now reaping the rewards of standing up. Pieri is the Co-founder and CEO of The Grommet, a retail site devoted to promoting innovative, undiscovered products and the stories behind their makers.

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Learning Curve Learning-by-Doing Retail Budgeting 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2014

Small businesses are also instrumental to our innovation economy; small firms produce 13 times more patents per employee than larger firms and employ more than 40% of high technology workers in America. The majority of small businesses rely on such loans, and in the fall of 2013 alone, 37% of small businesses applied for credit.

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Technology Banking Class Real Estate 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2013

subscribers in the first quarter of 2013, a 7% increase over the previous quarter. Yet ROI leaders in our study also included telecoms, retailers, banks and high-tech companies. This last activity helps explain the appeal of Big Data to a growing number of retailers. Information & technology Innovation Strategy'

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ROI Company Learning Curve Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

The leaders of these organizations immediately got the concept that the philanthropic community stood to benefit by converging on a day like this, in the same way that retailers (even though they compete aggressively) all take part in and benefit from Black Friday. Encourage innovations on the theme.

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Decentralization Media Follow-up Learning-by-Doing 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2016

In other words, the more we believe that one has the opportunity for success based on hard work, the more we tend to think that people who skip leisure and work all the time are of higher standing. Importantly, we also confirmed this finding controlling for perceptions of product expensiveness and innovativeness as alternative explanations.

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Brand Participative Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

My colleague Andy Hargadon noted this when he did an ethnography of the renowned innovation firm IDEO in the 1990s. In other words, successful scaling means finding ways to limit the number of things that people are expected to focus on and execute. Sales doubled in 2013. Until 2013, the rocks were reevaluated every 90 days.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2013

Up until that March evening, Apple had been notoriously successful at concealing its new designs. As part of the AIA, on March 16, 2013, the United States adopted a first-inventor-to-file regime. Companies who rely on innovative product design to separate themselves from their competitors must effectively manage these risks.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2013

ended the company''s telecommuting option for employees early in 2013, and Best Buy followed suit a week later by terminating its groundbreaking, decade-old flexible work program, Results Only Work Environment (ROWE), they joined a growing trend among organizations trading flexibility for face time. When Yahoo! Prior to Yahoo!''s Both Yahoo!

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Presenteeism Career Sample Retail 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2016

The launch of Pokémon Go this summer was a huge success—both for the gaming industry and for Augmented Reality (AR). But it is just as important to ask: What has contributed to AR’s increasing success? Much more successful apps are those that can offer a more seamless experience.

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Tourism Technology Content Fashion 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

And even if you’re successful at overcoming those obstacles, it’s very hard to keep up the momentum. I spoke with Patty McCord, the former chief talent officer of Netflix from 1998 to 2013. 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

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Business shift from the retail dealer customer service mentality of Firestone shifted to a high-production tire operation. K-Mart had become the odd retailer out but still kept 1,500 stores for its reorganization. Inevitably, when retailers contract, they blame poor performance upon bad locations. In 1999, the U.S.

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Crisis Crisis Management Retail Budgeting 58

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2013

While many of these strategies apply both within and outside the consumer packaged goods industry, there is no secret sauce and all marketers should ask themselves what their unique mobile framework should be in 2013, and beyond. Use the power of mobile-at-retail and re-think the impulse purchase?.

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Strategy Advertising First-mover Advantage ROI 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2013

One can naturally debate any system that seeks to crown the world’s most innovative companies. Forbes’s mathematical approach, which calculates an “Innovation Premium” baked into a stock price, suffers from market capriciousness. Both trace their success to bringing new business models to their respective markets.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2016

“Succession between generations is a very risky project,” says Fernández-Aráoz, which is why it’s critical to talk early and openly about rules for advancement and what handing off power might look like. For your sanity and future success, it’s critical to maintain outside interests and contacts of your own.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Supply Chain Learning-by-Doing Career 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2016

This is where the opportunity lies — in collaboration that includes the final approvers, embedding legal teams in the design and innovation process. Ironically, not including lawyers in the collaborative process perpetuates the idea that they smother innovation. Remind your company that there are risks to not innovating.

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Innovation Team Compliance Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

The term “unicorns,” coined, in 2013, by Aileen Lee, founder of Cowboy Ventures , is commonly used to identify venture-backed private companies valued at $1 billion or more. …If failure is the prerequisite of success, businesses can no longer afford not to encourage risk taking. Unicorns are: Small in size.

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Company Succession Analysis Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

On the other hand, you have the media pointing out the country’s shallow middle class, growing inequality and joblessness, and a trail of multinationals frustrated by the lack of China-like success in India. Consider two success stories in India’s consumer economy: Amazon and Renault’s ultra low-cost Kwid car.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

doubled from 20% to 40% between July and December 2013, and has stayed at that level since. I studied large-scale change and innovation efforts in 56 randomly selected companies in the high-tech, retail, pharmaceutical, banking, automotive, insurance, energy, non-profit, and health care industries. Success begets success.

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Middle Management Six Sigma Taylorism Taylor 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2016

Thanks to Bezos’s vision and a highly successful, user-friendly website, by 1997 Amazon.com was the first online retailer to boast one million customers. And, determined to protect its own, India enacted a rigid FDI policy restricting foreign multibrand retailers from selling directly to consumers online. Insight Center.

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Business Model Retail Airlines Marketing 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. To give her a chance, I resigned from the board to become CEO in August 2013. Kindness : Despite our financial plight, we reintroduced a generous local charitable giving program during the 2013 holiday season.

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Fashion Operations Brand Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

They have deep resources for innovation with the ability to accelerate the penetration and adoption of digital products. Retail e-commerce sales worldwide are expected to hit $4 trillion by 2020 , about double of where it is now. In 2013 85% of the world’s transactions were in cash. Innovation and change.

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Innovation Policies Technology Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2015

Deep learning intersects with numerous fields, and it will soon aid in manufacturing, medicine, retail, utilities, and beyond. Smart virtual personal assistants: SVPAs started entering the market in 2013. Uber’s success has inspired hundreds of other entrepreneurs who want to emulate the best features of the company.

Trends 8

Trends Retail Learning-by-Doing Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2013

A generation ago, incumbents that struggled to respond to disruptive innovations had an excuse. Sifting through this work highlights three seminal moments in any disruptive innovation's development: Conception. In 2012 a number of disruptive innovations came of age. 3-D printing. The Internet of Things.

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Trends Disruptive Innovation Christensen Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

Like Silicon Valley, Singapore has strong research institutions and limited enforcement of noncompete clauses, a condition that academics now suggest can be a major driver of innovation. Like Israel, Singapore is small, with limited natural resources, which means economic growth requires innovative macroeconomic approaches.

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Entrepreneur Incubator Venture Capitalist Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2013

Ever since Amazon''s Price App appeared on the retail scene some 18 months ago, pundits have prophesized the demise of big-box retailers. There''s no question that Amazon''s innovation went right for the jugular of any volume- and price-focused retailer selling commodity goods like consumer electronics and household wares.

Retail 8

Retail Reis Merchandising Download 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2012

The retail giant's powerful buyers, or merchants, now have a sustainability goal in their performance targets and reviews. 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