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Doing Well By Doing Good With Darrin Williams, CEO Southern Bancorp

N2Growth Blog

Darrin Williams , CEO of Southern Bancorp, may have been a little surprised when a world-class business school professor came knocking at his door. For two decades she focused on organizations that were doing nothing short of reinventing capitalism by introducing innovative new business models.

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Unilever’s Big Strategic Bet on the Dollar Shave Club

Harvard Business Review

And it’s a telling tale about whether the consumer products industry can get a digital business model right. While Dollar Shave Club represents a growing share of the razorblades market, it is still tiny, it operates with low margins, is made up of an irreverent albeit engineering-savvy team – and is, as yet, unprofitable.

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The Future Economy Project: Advice from Sustainability Experts

Harvard Business Review

We then virtually convened the project’s advisers for a roundtable discussion about what they viewed as the major issues raised in the interviews, and their own counsel for executives wishing to create long-term value through a sustainable business agenda. Henderson : I’ve seen the same effect in my own work.

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There Are Still Only Two Ways to Compete

Harvard Business Review

Back in the early 1960s, the great Boston Consulting Group founder and strategy theorist Bruce Henderson asserted that there was only one way to successfully compete: gain a relative market share advantage over all competitors so as to have lower costs than all of them. New Business Models. Photo by Andrew Nguyen.

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Being the World's Largest Ad Agency Might Not Be Something to Brag About

Harvard Business Review

This week''s merger announcement between Omnicom and Publicis, two ad and marketing agencies with a combined 2012 revenue of $23 billion, involved glasses of champagne. Kaizen, Japanese for "continuous improvement," is Toyota''s self-described business model. Google''s All "Who Cares?". You Can''t Eat a Check.

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What Is Strategy, Again?

Harvard Business Review

Aggressive outsourcing and partnering to improve efficiencies (perhaps a reference to “ The Origins of Strategy, published in 1989 by the granddaddy of strategy consulting, BCG founder Bruce Henderson). Focusing on a few key success factors, critical resources, and core competencies (maybe a reference to C.

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How Software Is Helping Big Companies Dominate

Harvard Business Review

“How long does it take for her to interact with a market that isn’t nearly monopolized?” have grown more concentrated in the past 20 years, meaning that the biggest firms in the industry are capturing a greater share of the market than they used to. Its primary business model is to create content and sell ads.