Women on Business

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

Sometimes business was lost to brick and mortar operations because of the “unprofessional” assumptions people had about work-from-home professionals. There’s no bigger bottleneck in your operation than yourself. But it wasn’t long ago that working from home was not looked upon so keenly. Build A Team.

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Succession Apparel Workshop Merchandising 239

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

This week, Microsoft is announcing an unusual initiative that it hopes will change how the company operates: an internal fee on carbon. As Microsoft takes on more of its customers' operations through cloud-based services, reliance on the utility grid creates real operational and price risk (from outages and volatile prices).

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Price P&L White Paper Energy 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2012

Many were perplexed in late 2007, when Google announced they would build a mobile operating system, seemingly far afield of their core online advertising model. Disney's business models span the media, entertainment, toy, apparel, and travel industries. Technology companies have done this particularly well.

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Business Model Advertising Retail Supply Chain 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2014

TV ad expenditures and accounted for most of the e-commerce that year: Apparel, telecom, travel, pizza, and online services and content. To come to these, and other, conclusions, we constructed a massive dataset of television advertising in 2010 ( the year tablet sales skyrocketed ). billion in U.S.

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Advertising Brand Apparel Audience 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

In the apparel industry, companies choose one path or the other between high-tech and high touch. It’s no coincidence that the Chief Algorithms Officer at Stitch Fix was formerly head of data science for Netflix, and its Chief Operating Officer, Julie Bornstein, was formerly CMO at Sephora. Size and speed.

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Chief Operating Officer Apparel Marketing Porter 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

I’m talking about the superconsumers who are inside your organization, working at every level: the fashionista who works in the mail room at the headquarters of an apparel company, or the finance manager who works for a pork brand and who eats three pounds of bacon in any given week. There can be a lot of stress in this industry.

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Airlines Energy Self-aware Learning Curve 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2017

Alan Kurtz, MMC’s chief operating officer, was standing off to the side, and she moved to join him, but a racer intercepted her. She’d joined the company six weeks before, following a long stint as CMO of Atawear, a high-end sports apparel company. “Do you work for Mendoza?” ” he asked, sounding annoyed.

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Case Study Brand Proposal Chief Operating Officer 8