Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2014

In January 2013, Chip Blankenship, CEO of GE Appliances issued a challenge to the newly formed team: “You’re going to change every part the customer sees. At their training center in Louisville, they bounced ideas and product prototypes off of retail salespeople who came to learn about GE’s products. You won’t have a lot of money.

Ries 10

Ries Waterman Finance Competitive Advantage 10

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

DECEMBER 13, 2013

Technology, marketing, retail, HVAC, construction, and manufacturing pros. billion in 2013 – up about 15% from the year before, according to our 2013 Marijuana Business Factbook. Earlier this year, we projected that sales will hit $6 billion by 2018. And more are joining every day. The list goes on.

Industry 10

Industry Retail Banking Brand 10

LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

Actually, this project started probably three or four years ago when Paul’s last book came out, which is called Jumping the S-Curve. LARRY: No, but they shut … This is just in the last six months they’ve announced they’re shutting all the rest of their retail locations. I haven’t found one anywhere near my town.

Early Adopters 60

Early Adopters Rogers Disruptive Innovation Innovation 60

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Meanwhile, in a survey of 89 institutional investors by Callan , 43% of respondents said they incorporate sustainability factors into their investment decisions — up 21 percentage points from 2013. The UN, for example, has outlined 17 broad Sustainable Development Goals for 2030.

Execution 10

Execution Incentives How To Committee 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

For example, Peru’s rising middle class offers an increasingly attractive choice for consumer goods and retail MNCs looking to diversify their investments beyond established markets. The three main grocery retail chains in Peru grew from 57 stores in 2001 to 155 stores in 2010. Eastern Europe, Middle East & Africa.

Marketing 8

Marketing GDP Automotive Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

As an organization or project grows, and as its challenges change, it not only needs to recognize new priorities, it needs to delete or deemphasize old ones. Sales doubled in 2013. Until 2013, the rocks were reevaluated every 90 days. The average order size is 1,500 pounds.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Brainstorming Proposal CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

When a new project comes in, the manager does not devise a plan to complete it. At Decathlon, a sports equipment retailer with 80,000 employees , their form of corporate liberation is strongly supported by the CEO. billion in revenue in 2013. Instead, she asks the team to do so. The results have been impressive.

Team 14

Team Scientific Management Taylorism Taylor 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2016

The bank has since fired 5,300 employees for the illegal behavior and eliminated retail bank sales goals entirely. They had a fuller discussion in 2013–2014 — around the time when media reports of the illicit behavior first surfaced. For many in finance, projecting an aura of self-reliance is part of what garners respect.

Banking 10

Banking Committee Leadership Ethics 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

A recent headline, “JCPenney Releases 2013 Sustainability Report,” reads like the punch line to a bad joke. One that is exemplified by efforts like GE’s Ecomagination project, which involves developing alternative-fuel engines and other products that address today’s environmental crisis and drive economic growth.

Brand 12

Brand Supply Chain Price Operations 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2014

Since achieving first-year sales of $175,000 in 2006, it has increased that number by four orders of magnitude: in 2013, Etsy sold $1.35 With handmade soap selling for $4-6 a bar, while mass-produced soap retails for about $1, sellers can do fine with small, loyal customer bases. cut of sales. billion in merchandise.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Supply Chain Technology Parcell 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. The second #GivingTuesday will happen on December 3, 2013.

Decentralization 9

Decentralization Media Follow-up Learning-by-Doing 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2013

subscribers in the first quarter of 2013, a 7% increase over the previous quarter. How else did the companies projecting the greatest ROI from Big Data differ from underperformers? Yet ROI leaders in our study also included telecoms, retailers, banks and high-tech companies. million apiece on it last year.

ROI 8

ROI Company Learning Curve Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

One 2013 study illustrates this well. We saw this play out in retail, banking, telecommunications, and the fast food industry as well. And in one retail organization we worked with, we found that the difference between a low-ToMo and high-ToMo sales associate was 30% in revenues. Insight Center. Sponsored by Citrix GoToMeeting.

Motivation 8

Motivation Company Airlines Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

The existence of this parallel economy is a substantial drag on the Indian economy: According to recently released data , only about 1% of Indians paid taxes on their earnings in 2013. Finally, India does not have reliable national retail sales data, so statisticians have to use production figures to estimate consumer spending.

Banking 10

Banking GDP Policies Real Estate 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2013

In fact, a survey of retail managers suggests that a majority think customers are happier getting preferential treatment in public than in private. It''s an attractive value proposition: It''s projected to be a big part of the 13.4% growth in digital ads between 2013 and 2014. Journal of Consumer Research.

Advertising 8

Advertising Video Ethics PR 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2015

It sometimes seems as if Frederick Winslow Taylor’s unfinished project is around right the corner: A time-and-motion utopia in which managers can track almost any aspect of employee behavior on a second-by-second basis. In 2013, at the U.S.

Company 8

Company Long-term Bureaucracy Taylorism 8

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. “Recognize you may get more opportunities than others,” Lachenauer says.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Supply Chain Learning-by-Doing Career 8

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 25, 2013

The common denominator was open communications with customers, where other retail centers try to stifle mention of incidents. They can be turned from disasters into opportunities to project corporate strengths. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. The process of strategy development is not esoteric.

Crisis Management 81

Crisis Management Crisis Risk Management Budgeting 81

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2016

Then the lawyers step in, ask questions, and kill the project — or reduce it to a shadow of its potential. A leading professional services firm signed up 1,000 people to Slack groups before confidentiality lawyers closed down the project because it was cloud-based. I hear these stories all the time. Where are the risks?

Innovation 8

Innovation Team Compliance Retail 8

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. Change leaders are visionaries.

Middle Management 13

Middle Management Six Sigma Taylorism Taylor 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2015

Toward the end of 2014, Google researchers unveiled a new project that uses neural networks and deep learning to identify multiple elements of a scene without human assistance. Deep learning intersects with numerous fields, and it will soon aid in manufacturing, medicine, retail, utilities, and beyond.

Trends 8

Trends Retail Learning-by-Doing Banking 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. They attempted nearly 34 projects that failed before developing an iPhone app called Picaboo, which was subsequently rebranded as Snapchat.

Company 8

Company Succession Analysis Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Over one-third of the world's largest companies surveyed by the Carbon Disclosure Project are already seeing the impacts of climate change on their business. The retail giant's powerful buyers, or merchants, now have a sustainability goal in their performance targets and reviews. Five Questions For 2013. on to 2013.

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain Constraint P&L Energy 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

distributors, retailers, and so on. A 2013 Pew Research survey found that business executives ranked ninth out of 10 professions in terms of social contribution, only placing ahead of lawyers. And Americans convinced everything is now made in China might be interested to know that products made in China accounted for only 2.7%

Globalization 8

Globalization Education Policies Survey 8