Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Having the proper training and systems in place is also critical to enabling everyone make sustainability part of their job. ” At Unilever, the R&D and marketing departments work in tandem to create and promote products that serve both business and society.

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Incubator How To Real Estate Business Model 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2013

Going to market effectively these days, no matter what business you''re in, means relating to customers as individuals — even if there are millions of them. retailer Tesco built detailed profiles of customers and then used these insights and a flexible supply chain to customize their products and offers.

Customer Intimacy 8

Customer Intimacy Supply Chain Market Segmentation Human Resources 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

They will invent innovative ways to explain away poor performance ("Oh, problems with our vendors affected our customers and depressed our scores," "The market was down," or "The weather was bad."). The creativity that should be going toward finding innovative ways to wow customers often finds a different and more dangerous outlet.

Incentives 13

Incentives Metrics Sample Survey 13

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Marketing 101 principles still apply. Social media and community collaboration bring many benefits, including brand-building, customer loyalty and retention, cost reductions, improved productivity, and revenue growth. Pitfall #7: Neglecting employees, partners, investors, or customers when building your Social Nation.

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Media Follow-up Software Newsletter 50

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

Instead, the last few years have seen a proliferation of C-suite titles that include a component of marketing. Some are chief customer officers, chief experience officers, chief client officers, or chief digital officers. Clear, meaningful insight into the market and the consumer decision journey is job one for today’s CMO.

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P&L Banking Marketing Call Center 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2011

The video, an interview about his agenda-setting article, " Creating Shared Value ," kicked off a year of revisiting our current economic system across our book , blog , and magazine channels, and it produced some of our best rich media features: Illustrated timeline. Turn Customers into Promoters. The Good Company: Then and Now.

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Video Porter Charisma Customer Loyalty 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. “Stranded assets” are investments that become obsolete due to regulatory, environmental, or market constraints. These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

The article shocked the sensibilities of many who worried about rising corporate power in the world, but for many executives struggling to chart courses through the chaos of newly globalized and deregulated markets, it offered an irresistible clarity: one need only focus on owners’ interests.

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Supply Chain Bureaucracy Short-term Agility 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2015

Supplier relationships, brand identity, process coordination, customer loyalty, and many switching costs were all forms of information. The implications of that insight were becoming obvious for companies that sold information, like newspapers and encyclopedias. But every business is an information business, they stressed.

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Porter Power Competitive Advantage Film 8