Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

According to author and thought leader Simon Sinek, people buy the “why.” In this TED video , Sinek explains what he believes to be the reason for Apple’s constant innovations and their repeated successes. By Maribeth Kuzmeski Why do people do business with you? Is it because of WHAT you do or is it because of WHY you do it?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Berlinger’s brand is splashy, so they do splashy promotions. But you also know how Simon feels about bling.” ” He was referring to R&S’s strong-willed chief creative officer, Simon Carbonnier. ” “I’m ready to show my ideas to you and Simon tomorrow,” Pearl said.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2018

That fear drives their companies to invest millions into coming up with breakthrough innovations. If innovation projects are going to succeed, they’ll need to survive a handoff from an innovation team to an execution team. These labels also nicely describe the phases of innovation: Explore, Scale, and Optimize.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2011

The daily deal industry, still dominated by Groupon, is in the midst of rapid-fire innovation, presenting new opportunities — and some significant risks — for merchants. But merchants should be cautious and skeptical about these innovations. Dholakia is the William S. Mackey, Jr. and Verne F.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

This new (and alarming) data comes from pricing consulting giant Simon-Kucher & Partners, which conducts its survey every other year with the Professional Pricing Society, a professional association. HBR: Is new products’ high rate of failure really a pricing problem, or does it reflect a more fundamental innovation problem?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

For businesses of any type — but especially for retailers — Foursquare allows brands to attract, reward, and engage customers in ways that were never possible before. Innovative retailers are leveraging the growing popularity of check-ins to create fun, meaningful, interactions that encourage long-term loyalty.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2011

On recent visits to India, we have found that "innovation" is the buzzword on everybody's lips. President Pratibha Patil has even declared 2010-2020 as India's " Decade of Innovation." Biocon is one Indian company that is adapting well to this new global reality by embracing a polycentric innovation model.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

Its logo will never win any design awards, and there are no brand guidelines, but somehow this idea has grown to over 1,000 volunteer partners in every state. Simon Property Group will be collecting donations at Simon malls nationwide to support the Simon Youth Foundation (SYF) and American Red Cross.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2014

Simons—after all, he’s been around for decades, earning and donating vast amounts of money, generally enjoying life (despite the accidental deaths of two of his five adult children), and giving Dos Equis’s “ most interesting man in the world ” a serious run for his money. who walked in.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2011

In his new book, Retromania , English music critic Simon Reynolds claims that innovation in popular music is in decline. If this is true, a big cultural change is upon us — the end of popular music as the great lab bench for our culture, as the defining innovator of our time. The innovation was now spreading.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2015

The tech companies mobilizing their users are owning the request: you find the call to action on their website, in their app, or in an email with their branding. For consumer brands, public perception can act as a limit on corporate political speech—why promote a specific candidate if a majority of your customers will disagree with you?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2013

Now, drones are moving from the battlefield to your neighborhood, and it's about to create a brand new industry right along with it. Currently, Geologists like Jan Grygar are using drones to take high-definition photographs, while Simon Jardine and his business, Eye In The Sky, are using drones to sell aerial photography.

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