Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

For every Apple, there is an Atari, for every Fuji a Polaroid, and for every Zara an American Apparel. Companies in the success trap over-exploit their current business models and fail to renew or grow future growth options. Why does this happen to large companies with a legacy of success? This is easier said than done.

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Company Succession Maturity Long-term 8

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

JUNE 3, 2013

Where was its leadership bench? Is the problem that P&G produces outstanding specialists in marketing but not general managers who can run the business? Because succession planning is one of the most important and consequential functions tasked to any board, we wanted to learn more about what boards were doing.

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. A lot of CEOs are being shown the door lately.

CEO 15

CEO Six Sigma How To Apparel 15

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 is successful because they bring their ‘do less better’ cultural ethic to their customers.

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Apparel Brand Franchising Competitive Advantage 100

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

For every company wrestling with evolutions in its strategy, success depends as much on matching the operating model to those evolutions as it does on the soundness of the strategy itself. Why is one insurance company deep into an agile transformation while another is experimenting with it only at the edges of its business?

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Strategy Company Banking Apparel 8

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. Second, many managers assume they should adopt the best practices of their industry and treat external benchmarking as the established path to success. First, these companies commit to an identity.

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Execution Strategy Fashion Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2018

That’s especially true, he adds, when the core business is successful and doing well. Too many companies wait for the annual strategic off-site to roll around before they address the changing dynamics of their market. One write-in response to our question about obstacles to innovation was, “Leadership ADHD.”)

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Innovation Company Budgeting Survey 15

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. A lot of CEOs are being shown the door lately.

CEO 8

CEO Six Sigma How To Apparel 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. He is a marketing professor at the University of Northern Iowa, business consultant, and the author of five books and over fifty journal articles.

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Apparel Innovation Advertising Industry 120

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. Our work with dozens of companies teaches us that individuals on the leadership team often have very different targets in mind.

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Innovation Company Venture Capitalist Business Model 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2013

But there is another leadership role that has arisen in many organizations in recent years: the Chief Digital Officer (CDO). One company had three simultaneous mobile marketing initiatives, conducted by different groups, using different tools and vendors. The CDO''s job is to turn the digital cacophony into a symphony.

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CIO Technology Apparel Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

In emerging markets, billions of people have moved out of extreme poverty. Business leaders, along with the companies they lead, will need to take an active stance, shaping the conditions for future success, rather than merely reacting to twists in the plot. Toward a New Leadership Agenda. These are the seven areas: 1.

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Globalization Supply Chain Human Capital Long-term 8

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. Good leadership certainly helps, but more often than not, the organization will revert to business as usual. The key is to look beyond just the obvious places like marketing.

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Airlines Energy Self-aware Learning Curve 8

Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

It’s been a battle to personally keep my focus on where I’m ultimately moving the company while trying to handle budgets, customer-service relationships, inventory management, and marketing. Question : How has social media made it easier for you to be successful at CED? There are no overnight successes.

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Entrepreneur Advice Apparel Audience 69

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

That “little” privately-held business has grown tremendously since its launch and currently has more than 90 physical retail locations and a highly successful eCommerce business. This principle has always been a priority for the leadership team at Vineyard Vines and it is still top of mind today. Data-Driven Marketing.

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Retail Apparel Engineering Audience 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

The ongoing failure of policy at a global level (with the important exceptions of some successes/workarounds such as new mileage targets for cars and trucks and a carbon tax in Australia ). Markets have a remarkable way of sorting the wheat from the chaff. for " every manufacturer, component, and process in apparel production."

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Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Then China’s President Xi said he’ll be attending the annual bigwig gathering in Davos for the first time, with reports of China’s interest in filling trade gaps left by Brexit and possible leadership gaps on climate left by Trump. Renewables Kept Growing and Getting Cheaper. Others want to attract and retain diverse talent.

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Energy Banking Chemicals Globalization 8