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Retailers Can’t Rely on Holiday-Season Gimmicks Like They Used To

Harvard Business Review

Retailers will win this holiday season by creating advantages in other ways, among them: brand strength, distribution, service, and customer experience. All of these require year-round dedication to management and marketing, rather than once-a-year sales gimmicks.

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How to Improve the Engagement and Retention of Young Hourly Workers

Harvard Business Review

They shared five key insights for employers looking to improve retention and engagement, including how to improve manager training, diversity and inclusion, and scheduling. Train frontline managers to support people and process. How can companies help their managers become more effective?

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7 Steps to Deliver Better Customer Experiences

Harvard Business Review

We were supposed to be coming up with ideas for improving the company’s customer experiences, but the head of operations could not think of a single new customer service idea to explore. They were happy to maintain the age-old silo between marketing and operations. I was stunned. If such confusion can exist at a high-growth, $2.5

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