Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

The post is replete with great tech-based solutions to help you organize your mess of ideas, but the most valuable advice — to me, at least — is more philosophical than practical: it’s best to think of creativity as a bank account, Henry says, so don’t be so quick to make withdrawals. The answer is a resounding "yes."

Banking 8

Banking Merchandising Class Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

One retailer I know saw a 35% bump in sales when it gave customers the option of picking up merchandise in its stores that they had bought online.). All members (men and women) receive a 10% discount on merchandise. But that alone will not save many retailers’ physical stores.

Merchandising 11

Merchandising Retail Reis Discount 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

This once-common practice involves retailers placing merchandise aside after a customer makes a down payment (typically 10 to 20% of full price). If all payments are not made by the agreed-upon deadline, the merchandise is returned to the showroom and all monies paid refunded less a $10 cancellation fee. Our economy.

Merchandising 11

Merchandising Retail Price eBook 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2012

Risk management isn't exclusive to banking. You can imagine the closed-door debates between a cavalier merchandiser and a wary data analyst played out at a retailer: "I know it's a big inventory order, Charlie, but don't worry. Pharmaceutical manufacturers, insurers, and retailers invest millions in risk avoidance. We can cover it.".

Merchandising 11

Merchandising Risk Management Supply Chain Retail 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2015

These manufacturing and logistical choices used to be made qualitatively by merchandisers. For example, data can enter banks in a significant number of different formats, which often presents a challenge for transcription and translation for accurate data consumption.

Delegation 8

Delegation Supply Chain Merchandising Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2013

Mr. Johnson bet big on a new pricing policy: instead of weekly flyers advertising blow-out discounts, the general merchandise retailer moved to offering low prices every day. Bank would barely be making ends meet. Convinced that consumers were sick of playing the fake discount game, CEO Ron Johnson pledged to stop the madness.

Price 8

Price Discount Retail Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2017

Retailers combine data on demographics and weather to predict sales and develop merchandising plans. Banks and lenders have predictive analytics engines that tell the lender the probability that a customer will pay them back.

Marketing 8

Marketing Root Cause Analysis Management Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

Banks use algorithms to suggest new products to customers, online retailers deploy them to set and change prices, and media companies rely on them to recommend and deliver streaming content and ads. They help companies track customers, cross-sell to them, and promote products.

Marketing 8

Marketing Banking Merchandising Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2013

Rawley explains in this Columbia Ideas at Work piece: “If you’re coming from a New York bank and starting up a new hedge fund, even if you are well connected in New York, you’re competing with people who are also well connected. There are a lot of hedge funds chasing dollars in New York, but very few in Missouri.”.

Hedge 8

Hedge Meyer Merchandising Price 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2018

By March 2016, Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi had invested in some 55 startups, generating products from power banks to air purifiers. .” What Peltz suggested is exactly what Xiaomi is already doing. Of these companies, 29 were incubated from the ground up by Xiaomi, and four were already unicorns worth over $1 billion.

Brand 10

Brand Retail Incubator Merchandising 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2014

A better look at the merchandise, and the benefits of touch and feel – but even more, for expertise that could guide their choice. Since its “Slow Banking” redesign in 2003, Oregon-based Umpqua Bank has provided ample seating, free coffee, and wifi to its customers, and offered up its branches for meetings, workshops, and concerts.

Retail 8

Retail Reis Price Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2014

Wells Fargo has become the most valuable bank in the world by sticking to its strategy of building a value proposition around selling more products per customer than anyone else. But the capabilities — from merchandising to managing store staff and operating the supply chain — are very different for a small-store format.

Company 8

Company Supply Chain Airlines Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2015

” Multivocal leadership is not about gaining technical proficiency in multiple areas – Cosimo knew banking, but not trading, merchandising, or other areas of expertise, and he didn’t have the time to gain even nominal proficiency in other areas.

Team 8

Team Self-aware Diversity Merchandising 8

Strategy Driven

JUNE 22, 2012

’ What they’re really selling: Banking. Banks buy money wholesale and sell it to borrowers at retail rates. Banks are now trying to compete with financial planners and investment banking houses. ’ What they’re really selling: Small business banking services. In One Easy Lesson. 1 in Sales.

Brand 50

Brand Analysis Advertising Software 50

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2018

And the sales numbers appear to bear that out — with Thomson Reuters reporting a 61% increase in the amount of sold-out merchandise at Nike stores in the 10 days after the campaign launched compared to the 10 days before the ad appeared. So, specifics matter.

Brand 9

Brand Analysis Merchandising Advertising 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2017

Usage data analytics in the hands of artists at last, to attract the right merchandisers and distributors, plan promotions, and crowdfund resources for future creative collaborations with other artists. Consumers can view films on their mobile devices in exchange for bitcoin.

Creativity 10

Creativity Film Decentralization Reputation 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Over the course of several months, a digital platform was developed that could capture every fan interaction (whether a mobile check-in at the stadium, a profile update on the website, or a merchandise purchase online), deliver targeted promotional campaigns, and collect club mentions and other data from social media.

Sports 8

Sports Brand Content Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

for example, set up a unit like this in the early 1980s; merchandising, IT, and supply chain worked together to develop the company's celebrated direct-store-delivery capability, enabled by handheld devices that Frito-Lay developed itself. Frito-Lay Inc.,

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Real Estate Short-term Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2015

Peter is the CEO of a coaching company, as well as a software developer, business strategist, philosopher, linguist, food-magazine publisher, and operator of a nonprofit healthy-food bank. Meg is a freelance writer, blogger, and children’s book author and merchandiser, and she owns her own marketing and PR consultancy.

PR 8

PR Long-term Consultative Career 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2017

And the ongoing decline in merchandise trade long predates any changes in political sentiment. According to World Bank data , merchandise trade grew from 16% of global GDP in 1990 to 26% by 2008. Political headwinds have almost nothing to do with the inability of merchandise trade to keep up with growth in world GDP.

Merchandising 9

Merchandising GDP Supply Chain Globalization 9