Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2017

A D2C initiative can involve one platform or many, depending on things like image, objectives, target audience, and what’s feasible in a given market. At Procter & Gamble, for instance, technology says it’s time to remind parents about Pampers, while analytics says that direct marketing is the best way to do it.

Retail 8

Retail Brand Apparel Discount 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2016

The American textile and apparel industries, for example, will tell you that the evidence can be found in the blood on the floor — their blood, on what used to be their floor. Experts continue to debate whether Chinese businesses are truly disruptive. For some industries in the West, this question appears a bit ridiculous.

Business Model 10

Business Model Innovation Company Apparel 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2011

China is America's third-largest export market, behind Canada and Mexico, accounting for 7% of US exports as of August 2011. Because of the constraints imposed on real estate development by Beijing, the demand for steel, and scrap, is likely to flatten and even fall. Most of these imports went to American multinational giants.

Apparel 14

Apparel Real Estate Automotive Globalization 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2018

The automotive industry is being disrupted by electric vehicles and self-driving cars, just as home appliances is being disrupted by the Internet of Things and smart appliances, home entertainment by on-demand content providers, and apparel by online personal stylists such as Stitch Fix and Trunk Club. Data-Driven Marketing.

Automotive 8

Automotive Brand Technology White Paper 8

In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 18, 2015

This can mean expanding product lines, entering new markets and geographies, line extending brands, acquiring new businesses, creating projects, and adding layers of management to manage the self-created complexity. Intuit develops financial and tax preparation software for small business, accountants and the general public.

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Apparel Brand Franchising Competitive Advantage 100

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2014

Starting in the late 1980s , academic researchers began to develop sophisticated predictive techniques to answer that question. Gerd Gigerenzer , director at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, has been making the case for decades that heuristics often outperform statistical models. What they found surprised them.

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Simon Retail Uncertainty Apparel 10

Strategy Driven

JULY 21, 2020

Likewise, it has hit the business industry, bringing some tech-savvy innovations, especially for the marketing department. In today’s tech-savvy world, escaping the advantages of digital marketing is impossible. Surprisingly, the new decade brings a whole bunch of new competitive marketing strategies. Have a look below.

Marketing Strategy 68

Marketing Strategy Marketing Strategy Audience 68

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

.” The report, conducted together with Kennesaw State University’s Cox Family Enterprise Center, surveyed the 25 largest family businesses in each of the 21 top global markets. Some emerging-market countries also appear to have a cultural bias leading to distrust of family businesses, according to the Edelman Trust Barometer.

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B2B Press Release Construction Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2016

Measuring Marketing Insights. By applying sophisticated big data analytical techniques, we have developed a method for optimizing the customer experience investments that directly drive increased emotional connection and, thereby, greater customer value and financial returns. Insight Center. Sponsored by Google Analytics 360 Suite.

Retail 14

Retail Apparel Motivation Attrition 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2015

That’s why CMOs need to develop four types of leadership, which are based loosely on Gartner’s Intelligent Brand Framework. The idea is to identify your power center — which one best represents your natural capabilities — and develop skills to flex across these leadership styles. It resonated.

Leadership Styles 8

Leadership Styles Leadership Brand Audience 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2011

Ideally that sustainability could be achieved through market mechanisms — which would be possible if the products that took a bigger toll on the planet also cost more to buy in stores. In a sustainable economy, businesses would serve consumer needs in ways that did not reduce the ability of future generations to meet theirs.

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Cost Productivity Products Webinar 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2017

Retailers such as ALDI and Walmart have used price to position themselves against traditional competitors in their markets, pinching margins all around. Financial asset managers have been out-price-cutting one another in exchange-traded funds in a bid to gain market share. Improving perception.

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Price Retail Discount Tactics 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2016

Consider the sports apparel company Under Armour. Its goals are extremely ambitious; it is not just a pioneer in developing new fabrics for active wear, but in developing wearable electronics. Where are the markets with opportunities? You’ll start with in-market leverage, growing within your core.

Company 8

Company Engineering Apparel Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Just look at Uber to understand the importance of diversity and product safety or at car manufacturers scrambling to develop a competitive advantage in electric cars as countries seek to decarbonize their economics and fight pollution. In both cases, social and environmental metrics matter for the business’s financial success.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Asset Management Chemicals Long-term 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. Along with products, Haight-Ashbury hippies conceived of innovative ideas that transformed product development and advertising.

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Apparel Innovation Advertising Industry 120

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2018

The responses , from 270 corporate leaders in strategy, innovation, and research and development roles, were illuminating. Too many companies wait for the annual strategic off-site to roll around before they address the changing dynamics of their market. To be constructive, we also asked about the things that foster innovation.)

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Innovation Company Budgeting Survey 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

Speaking out primes the market, builds anticipation, helps a radical idea sound familiar, and for those whose name becomes associated with the idea, thought leadership offers entree to circles of potential future backers and supporters. Artisans' cooperatives help market products from diverse artists. Build collective clout.

Entrepreneur 16

Entrepreneur Cooper Apparel Bureaucracy 16

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Citibank Asia, which has a strong customer loyalty position in most of its markets, decided to change its operating model to double down on customer relationships to counter locally based competitors. How do they ensure someone owns each customer experience or “journey” on an end-to-end basis? ” he asked.

Strategy 8

Strategy Company Banking Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2013

Given the forecasts of uncertain global economic growth, we might expect companies to hold off from hiring new employees and to limit whatever international hiring they do to emerging markets. We also find that companies in developed areas plan to hire in other developed regions (e.g., Asia into North America).

Telecommunications 9

Telecommunications Health Care Talent Management Biotechnology 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2014

Starting in the late 1980s , academic researchers began to develop sophisticated predictive techniques to answer that question. Gerd Gigerenzer , director at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, has been making the case for decades that heuristics often outperform statistical models. What they found surprised them.

Simon 8

Simon Retail Uncertainty Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2014

In the apparel industry alone, we’ve just seen the end of American Apparel’s Dov Charney and the ouster of Lululemon Athletica founder Chip Wilson – plus the installation of interim CEOs at Target and JC Penney following their previous leaders’ firings. Then develop a profile limited to a few must-haves.

CEO 15

CEO Six Sigma How To Apparel 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2013

During this time Reebok and Nike were blood rivals and neck and neck for the number one position in the market. With the Freestyle, Reebok had identified a market that Nike had completely missed — women''s aerobics. Advertising Branding Marketing' Sales really took off when Cybill Shepherd wore a pair to the 1985 Emmys.

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Company Apparel Brand Advertising 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

What advantage do we have — or can we create — in the market, and how do we maintain and extend this advantage? What is our promise to the market and to customers? What is our company great at doing? What is needed to execute against that promise?

Management 8

Management Short-term Constraint Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Others double down on their most loyal customers on the theory that they can build on an already strong market position and emotional connection. Instead, they let a small startup develop the first low-cost electric toothbrushes. Why do companies so often miss out on these opportunities? It takes faith and determination to find it.

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Organization Apparel Retail Fashion 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2015

They avoid getting trapped on a growth treadmill, chasing multiple market opportunities where they have no right to win. Instead, they are clear-minded about what they do best, developing a solid value proposition and building distinctive capabilities that will last for the long term. What other capabilities do we need to develop?

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Execution Strategy Fashion Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

But over and over again in our three decades of experience as talent development and retention specialists, we’ve seen that companies consistently overlook half of them. These are jobs in R&D, technology, and other areas vital to a firm’s strategic direction, product development, and process efficiency.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey Human Resources Reputation Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2015

Two-thirds of our respondents, for instance, said that they were tracking the number of projects in their development pipeline. Market share, cost reductions, and profit margins of new businesses are examples of impact metrics. The other type of metric, an “impact” metric, shows that the ship is actually going somewhere.

Metrics 8

Metrics Innovation Company Stage-Gate 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2014

Brands in categories from apparel to automotive to sporting goods to spirits are licensed. It can boost brand exposure and expansion without significant investment, helping companies enter international markets or play in new product categories without having to incur the usual product development costs and risks.

Brand 9

Brand Licensing Apparel Merchandising 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2011

In reality, each country needs the other to succeed in order to thrive — to finance growth, secure export markets, train talent, transfer technology, and more. For example, pharmaceutical firms license compounds to each other and co-promote products in different markets. Facilitate discussion between competitors.

Apparel 15

Apparel Pharmaceuticals Finance Licensing 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Identifying this so-called “growth gap” is critical, because the bigger the gap, the more a company needs to look beyond its current offerings, markets, and business models to find growth opportunities. By reaching new customers in current markets? There are two ways to set revenue targets.

Innovation 9

Innovation Company Venture Capitalist Business Model 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2014

Business by now has a well-developed playbook for dealing with such sustainability issues. Henry Ford understood this, paying the workers at Ford more than their counterparts at other industrial companies, reasoning that helping to expand the new middle class was a way to expand the market for Ford’s product. Take an Interest.

Golden Parachute 11

Golden Parachute Apparel Trends Short-term 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2012

Many chase market share they'll never get. A lot of companies throw money at the problem — more R&D, more marketing, more sales people. My experience suggests that growing organically is a skill companies can develop, not an advantage they temporarily gain as a result of a hot product or successful business model.

Retail 11

Retail Long-term Short-term Apparel 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2013

Many wonder why an academy company like P&G, historically known for developing talent, did not, or was not able to, promote a successor from within its ranks. Is the problem that P&G produces outstanding specialists in marketing but not general managers who can run the business? Where was its leadership bench?

Succession 8

Succession Telecommunications Biotechnology Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2014

In the apparel industry alone, we’ve just seen the end of American Apparel’s Dov Charney and the ouster of Lululemon Athletica founder Chip Wilson – plus the installation of interim CEOs at Target and JC Penney following their previous leaders’ firings. Then develop a profile limited to a few must-haves.

CEO 8

CEO Six Sigma How To Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2016

For example, if the CEO makes controversial public statements, has personal relations with an employee or contractor, or develops a reputation for being rude, overbearing, or verbally combative, the board must decide what merits investigation. Among the companies in our sample, share prices declined by a market-adjusted 3.1% (1.1%

CEO 8

CEO Sample Reputation Press Release 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2015

Reflecting this broader viewpoint, the company began to expand its market footprint, by, for instance, investing in a start-up that planned to sell furniture via the internet. In contrast to Starbucks, the Virgin brand strategy is a high-wire act that requires incredible management and marketing skill and creativity.

Brand 8

Brand Banking Apparel Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

However, outside North America they tend to be more optimistic about emerging economies: 36% of directors in Asia, 24% of directors in Australia and New Zealand, and 23% of directors in Africa predict faster growth in emerging economies than in developed countries in the next three years.

Politics 8

Politics Telecommunications Policies Biotechnology 8