HR Digest

MARCH 8, 2023

In 2015, the #MeToo movement revived a national conversation about sexual harassment and assault , prompting survivors to share their stories and call for accountability. The movement highlighted the widespread prevalence of sexual misconduct in various industries, including entertainment, politics, and the corporate world.

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The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

The data revealed some interesting patterns, including some unexpected connections between industries such as credit cards and air travel, while also being a fairly accurate barometer of the overall health of industries, with the likes of oil and gas and pharmaceuticals doing well, whereas retail and telecoms struggled.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2016

Retail profits are plummeting. Sure enough, the Census Bureau just released data showing that online retail sales surged 15.2 percent between the first quarter of 2015 and the first quarter of 2016. But before you dump all of your retail stocks, there are more facts you should consider. Stores are closing.

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The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 20, 2021

“It appears that these general declines apply across industries, with the exception of the construction and wholesale & retail sectors where expenditure per trainee appears to have risen between 2011 and 2017, though average days per trainee declined in these sectors.” in 2011 to 6.4 ” Training participation. .

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

But there’s a surprising insight in the data released by the National Retail Federation : 36% of shoppers reported that all of their purchases were on sale; 11% made that claim in 2015. Analysts attribute this more than 300% increase to widespread discounting by retailers. In what appears to be an increasingly healthy U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2016

Big box retail stores are losing relevance, while e-commerce and specialty stores grow in appeal. As a result, big box retail must shift its strategy — from competing on access and selection to staging big experiences and providing big discounts. is over-retailed. Several dynamics have produced this trend: The U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2017

According to the Guardian , approximately 45% of all fruits and vegetables, 35% of fish and seafood, 30% of cereals, and 20% of meat and dairy products are wasted by suppliers, retailers, and consumers every year. Before, retailers relied on intermediaries to move goods from the warehouse to the store. billion to 9.8

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 23, 2015

Victor is co-author of Lead Inside the Box: How Smart Leaders Guide their Teams to Exceptional Results , (Career Press, July 2015) which is now available at Amazon.com , Barnes & Noble and other retailers. Today, Victor is a consultant and speaker who teaches strategy and leadership skills to clients around the world.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2018

The new tax law creates a major business opportunity for other retailers as well — if their leaders are wise enough to take advantage of it. Retailers, many of whom have been paying the full tax rate, are going to benefit substantially. Take a retailer that makes 15% pretax income. This year is expected to be even worse.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 9, 2015

Let’s say that you own a retail store. If you run an ISP business, you could work with retailers that sell computers to offer your services to their customers. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Customer loyalty cards are one of the best ways of gaining insights into how people spend their money.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2018

When Naomi Simson founded RedBalloon, an online gift retailer that sells personal experiences, she was pioneering the category in Australia. By 2015, RedBalloon was delivering more than four million customers to businesses across Australia and New Zealand that offered “experiences.” Yuichiro Chino/Getty Images.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

The inaugural version of our Top CHRO List was published on Forbes in 2015. Dierdre O’Brien, SVP of People at Apple : A 30 year Apple veteran, O’Brian is another CHRO who wears multiple hats also leading the retail and online teams at Apple. Few people know what makes UPS run as well as Thomas.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2015

The year 2015 was a pivotal time when humanity turned more decisively toward building a thriving and sustainable world. Here are eight cross-cutting themes and stories from 2015 that are driving us toward a sustainable world (and two that are doing the opposite): 1. in the first six months of 2015, 70% was renewable.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 11, 2015

That engagement is imperative to growing the reader relationships that drive word of mouth, positive reviews, strong brand connections, and retail book sales. The multiple benefits of creating long-form content remain, and the pressure and risk around a traditional retail book launch are removed. Consider leaving a comment!

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Strategy Driven

MAY 15, 2015

Widget manufacturing companies team with retail management experts to open a string of widget stores. Distribution centers and networks for retail products. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. A formal roll-up or corporation to provide full-scope professional service to customers. Consider leaving a comment!

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Steve Farber

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Here’s a sample of how bad things really are: The National Automobile Dealers Association’s 2015 Dealership Workforce Study (the most current study of its kind) found that car sales consultants had the highest turnover at 72 percent annually (non-luxury turnover was 80 percent, luxury turnover was 48 percent).

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Steve Farber

MARCH 27, 2017

Neil Gill faced this challenge in 2015 when he took over as president and CEO of Dogtopia , which offers daycare, boarding, and spas to canines at more than 40 location across North America. And it needed all of the franchisees and their team members to buy into and live a shared culture.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

Rasmus is author of the book “One Second Ahead – Enhancing Performance at work with Mindfulness”, published by Palgrave MacMillan, October 2015. She has worked across a range of industries including retail, government, transport, oil and gas, and human services. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 18, 2015

While the retail industry crisis has been well-reported, particularly with respect to dwindling foot traffic to brick-and-mortar stores. Amid improved consumer confidence, with the April 2015 confidence index of 95.2 Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. well above April 2014's 81.7 Consider leaving a comment!

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2015

The top 10 companies in the Global Empathy Index 2015 increased in value more than twice as much as the bottom 10 and generated 50% more earnings. The Most (and Least) Empathetic Companies, 2015. Online Retail. Online Retail. Ironically, the most empathic FTSE companies are a bank and a tobacco firm. Alibaba Group.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Similarly, in Ontario, Canada, where for 90 years beer was sold primarily by a government-licensed monopoly retail chain owned by a consortium of major global brewers, the grocery and convenience stores had long lobbied the government for alcohol retail deregulation.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2014

Of all the ways the world changed in 2014 — economic, cultural, technological, all three — which will matter most to us in 2015? Retail Is More Digital Than Ever, but the Physical Store Is Doing Just Fine. E-commerce Is Not Eating Retail. How Data Visualization Answered One of Retail’s Most Vexing Questions.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2016

million Series D in November 2015 — Dollar Shave Club had been valued at $630 million, according to Pitchbook. In 2015, the company’s shifting portfolio was even reflected in its re-classification on the S&P and MSCI indexes from “packaged food” to “personal products.”

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Now Amazon can supplement that knowledge with direct, proprietary insights about the offline retail world. What Amazon will now study in the brick-and-mortar world – and more importantly, what it learns and how it applies the insights – can transform consumer retail in the United States. Changing price perception.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2016

How this is applied will vary by retailer. The retailer offers a monthly subscription service for fitness and athleisure apparel and accessories. Due in part to this innovative approach, Fabletics drew more monthly unique website visitors on average in both 2014 and 2015 than competitors Lululemon and Athleta.

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HR Digest

JULY 16, 2021

Nearly 32% of companies had dedicated recognition budgets in 2019 compared to 21% in 2015. . Zappos, an online e-retailer, has a peer-to-peer format. Retail workers who put in work on holidays receive a similar award at alternative times. A culture of peer-to-peer appreciation goes a long way in employee job satisfaction.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 13, 2015

Prime is the lynchpin of Amazon’s plan to rub out brick and mortar retailers. With “free” expedited shipping, the goal of Prime is unabashedly clear: make Amazon the first-choice retail product provider for consumers. Amazon emerged a clear victor in that virtual retail grab.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2018

Yet, according to recent consumer research from Kantar Retail, 71% of consumers now claim that loyalty incentive-programs don’t make them loyal at all. CVS Pharmacy, the retail pharmacy of CVS Health, offers another example. Timing is everything. Under Armour, Inc. offers a good example.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2012

An Indian investment bank, Avendus, projects 376 million Indian Net users by 2015. Morgan Stanley projects that 3G penetration will reach 22 percent by 2015. A leapfrog effect will mean that three of every four Net users will do so by 2015. It's a reflection of what's happening in the domestic retail space more broadly.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2016

The top 10 companies in the Global Empathy Index 2015 increased in value more than twice as much as the bottom 10, and generated 50% more earnings (defined by market capitalization). This is evidenced by the drop in Deutsche Bank from 40th in 2015 to 110th this year and by Wells Fargo plummeting from 20th to 130th.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2017

To answer this question, we conducted a large-scale field experiment at a major retail chain in Sweden. For the remainder of the stores, a daily quota (more temporally frequent) plan was implemented for the entire month of May 2015. Our research was in a retail setting and concerned items with relatively short sales cycles.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2016

A 2015 Nielsen Global Sustainability Report found that 43% of consumers say that a company’s commitment to social value “very heavily” or “heavily” influenced their purchase decisions. Take Humble Bundle , a leading online retailer of digital games and eBooks. In 2015, more than $10.5

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2017

Early results of an experiment at The Gap provide hope that there might be a remedy for one of the most controversial labor practices in retailing and other service industries, such as hospitality, health care, and call centers. And it’s an inexpensive way for retailers to help make workers happy about their companies’ practices.

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Retail Survey Operations Sharpe 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

Let’s look closely at the 2015 top 10 brands in the U.S. The grocery retailer Publix is consistently praised by customers and industry insiders for its convenience, superior store design, consistent quality, and customer-service orientation. These are the 2015 top 10 disrupters in the U.S.: Threat of Disrupters.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2017

In 2015, around 40% of new PV installations were accompanied by a battery. Around the world in 2015, additions of renewable power capacity outpaced other forms of electricity generation —coal, gas, oil, and nuclear—combined. At the same time, we’re also seeing the decentralization of power production.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2015

The top 15% of private label shoppers across all food, drug, club, and mass channels account for 50-65% of private label sales for that particular retailer. But they’re not just important for private label sales — they also account for 40-55% of total sales for the retailer. To our surprise, we were wrong.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

a year between 2010 and 2015, considerably slower than the 5.4% from 2010 to 2015, compared with 4.1% trillion in 2015 to $3.5 Today, however, many investors and business leaders are asking whether Africa’s growth has run out of steam. from 2000 to 2010. between 2000 and 2010. trillion by 2025.

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