In the CEO Afterlife

MAY 6, 2016

Taking a lesson from the signature phrase in the illustrated children’s book, The Little Engine That Could , the Leamington community did not throw in the towel. Loblaws , Canada’s largest food retailer, announced that they were discontinuing French’s ketchup, claiming that the new brand’s sales weren’t cutting it.

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Retail Restructuring Brand Ethics 100

Leading Blog

APRIL 16, 2021

There are many ways that even a good business with good leadership can be damaged or bankrupted. To this day, I get excited about seeing Subaru’s new products and learning about the engineering that went into making them. Some things in business and life are simply out of our control.

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Learning-by-Doing Long-term Automotive Open-book 255

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

The world's biggest and fastest search engine can't help but generate terabytes and petabytes of actionable investment intelligence. In fact, Google chief economist Hal Varian (and other economists and forecasters) already use the search engine's data and analytics to predict economic futures.

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Hedge Core Competence CFO ROI 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Inspiring these consumers to help make electronics retailing more women-friendly, they gave what was at best a loosely connected network of customers some of the trappings of a community. Meanwhile, they’re pragmatic enough to engineer ways for people to gain some direct personal benefits along the way.

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Gilbert Participative Cooper Network Economy 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2012

And many activists have given up on governments and are focusing instead on companies as the main engine of social change. This is one reason why retailers and oil companies make good boycott targets. When this is the goal, activists frequently select a single firm as their target. It is easy for customers to shop somewhere else.

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Company Supply Chain Politics Media 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2018

This has been our experience at Ocado, a leading online-only grocery retailer, as we’ve embedded AI across our technology estate. The technology that powers this revolutionary solution is designed and built in-house, and we are now making this platform available to large brick-and-mortar grocery retailers around the world.

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Skills Content Chief Technology Officer Retail 1

Strategy Driven

APRIL 4, 2014

That 2% includes all the doctors, lawyers, accountants and engineers… those of us who actually advise. According to research conducted by the Ethics Resource Center: Employees of organizations steal 10 times more than do shoplifters. Employee theft and shoplifting accounting for 15% of the retail cost of merchandise.

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Budgeting Succession Consultative Crisis 81