Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2017

The executives included heads of HR, innovation, IT, and diversity, and they represented a range of industries and sectors (tech, manufacturing, retail, professional services, education, startups, and others). Based on those conversations, I identified three environments that matter most to employees: cultural, technological, physical.

Short-term 17

Short-term Diversity Long-term Survey 17

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2017

The blizzard of conferences, initiatives, articles, and reports on how to prepare for the changes technology will bring to our economy is important. But let’s say that automation really does reduce retail and restaurant employment. Ability to Implement New Technologies.

Merchandising 8

Merchandising Retail Competitive Advantage Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

A few have announced year-end bonuses ( AT&T, Comcast ) or wage increases ( some retailers ). At a recent investor conference, one of us heard a CEO proudly state that the new law would have no effect at all on how his company views investments. Investing in true innovation.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain CEO Discount Retail 8

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 15, 2010

Through innovative solutions delivered within an integrated framework, SAS helps customers at more than 45,000 sites improve performance and deliver value by making better decisions faster. About the Authors Ed Hughes is a SAS Product Manager and frequently published SAS Institute author and conference presenter.

Resources 50

Resources Process Constraint Objective 50

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

They’re more productive , more profitable , more innovative , and they pay better. And academic research has found that rising industry concentration correlates with the patent-intensity of an industry, suggesting “that the industries becoming more concentrated are those with faster technological progress.”

Software 8

Software Company Competitive Advantage Henderson 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2013

Big is old – retailers and financial institutions have had big data for decades. Take large retailers. The point we stress here is that diverse data confers similar benefits. Decade-old research provides some pointers. It is not Big that matters, it is Diversity that matters. But Diversity is new.

Credit Scoring 8

Credit Scoring Diversity Retail Media 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2014

To this end we eliminated silos between functions including marketing, sales, IT, consumer insight, and innovation and established “consumer experience teams” in each business and region. Individual regions build and execute integrated customer experiences and launch innovations based on the way consumers shop in their markets.

Marketing 8

Marketing Brand Globalization Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2017

Diversity can boost innovation and employee engagement , and companies with greater gender and racial diversity financially outperform their peers. Many of the leaders I interviewed also speak at conferences about diversity and write openly about its importance. The business case for diversity is clear.

Diversity 8

Diversity CEO Rogers Leadership Pipeline 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2012

Just last week, Kate called me in tears after attending a media conference with well-known industry bigwigs. Everyone knows that you don't have "deep expertise in retail" when you're only three years out of grad school. This means you're pretty free from some huge barriers to innovation : sunk costs, self-interest, and bias.

Social Capital 11

Social Capital Industry Retail Budgeting 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2013

In Las Vegas for a conference last week, I heard that question more times that I could count. It seems like people everywhere have traded in their Livestrong yellow wristbands for Nike's latest innovation, the Nike+ FuelBand. They were talking about their NikeFue l goals, of course.

Brand 8

Brand Advertising Technology Hotels 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2016

Standing on stage on September 9, 2014 at Apple’s Worldwide Developer’s Conference (WWDC), Tim Cook announced, “We’ve created an entirely new payment process, and we called it Apple Pay.” And should retailers agree to take the new payment method? She paid in the blink of any eye. PayPal went on deathwatch.

Retail 8

Retail Business Model Press Release Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2013

In the throes of apprehending the future of advertising, much has been, and will be, said about new channels, emergent technologies, innovative measurement protocols, morphing agency roles and the like; much less, probably, about how we actually create marketing that works, that's worth consuming, and that's worth running in any channel.

Advertising 8

Advertising Brand Marketing Film 8