Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2016

Myriad potential public policy-related risks and opportunities for companies arise across a broad spectrum of political and economic systems — from the state capitalism of former Communist states to the “ mixed economies ” in traditional “liberal” democracies, from developed to developing markets.

Policies 8

Policies Politics Short-term Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2016

Last month, the FCC issued a 150-page document proposing sweeping new rules and regulations for broadband Internet Service Providers (ISPs). The FTC’s flexible and largely successful market-driven approach will continue to apply to companies who actually use personal information — Google, Amazon, Facebook, et.

Advertising 9

Advertising Proposal Information Content 9

Strategy Driven

APRIL 30, 2019

More often than not, enthusiastic entrepreneurs need to research the market and evaluate their options before being in a position to offer services that meet the audience expectations. In reality, building and maintaining your market presence is the most critical operation. Reason for failing: Ignoring the international competition.

Audience 58

Audience Open-book Entrepreneur Proposal 58

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2015

The head of a business unit — we’ll call him Cal — was weighing three finalists for the open position of marketing VP, who would also report through a dotted line to the corporate CMO. It takes a long time to build trust and political capital, but you can lose credibility very fast. Consider this example.

Advice 8

Advice Emotional Intelligence Management Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2014

The global sharing economy market was valued at $26 billion in 2013 and some predict it will grow to become a $110 billion revenue market in the coming years, making it larger than the U.S. While it is easy to categorize business as in line with the free market and progressives as anti-market, the reality is far more nuanced.

Business Model 9

Business Model Hotels Venture Capitalist Transportation 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2017

Therefore, they make vendors respond to immense requests for proposals, complete laborious evaluation spreadsheets, and document each product feature to prove it exists. Business-to-business buyers are fixated on risk mitigation because past interactions with salespeople have conditioned them to be skeptical.

Self-aware 8

Self-aware Competitive Advantage Health Care Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

And, in the State of the Union Address Tuesday night, current Chairman Alan Krueger got a kind of shout-out from the President, in the form of a proposal to raise the federal minimum wage all the way from $7.25 Then-chairman Glenn Hubbard, for example, pushed for and got a reduction in taxes on dividends in 2003.

Price 10

Price Policies Fashion Proposal 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2017

Erica Jackson, chief marketing officer of the Mendoza Marathon Corporation, had risen early to watch people line up to register for next year’s event and expected an enthusiastic crowd. She’d been just as surprised by some of the heated responses and was starting to feel lukewarm about the proposal. It’s a win-win.”

Case Study 8

Case Study Brand Proposal Chief Operating Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2014

But it was his stint as head of retailing at the fast-fashion chain Xela that had made him a star. His second focus had been cutting-edge style; to emphasize that, he’d created in-store teams of genios de moda — great minds of fashion — to provide style tips and listen to shoppers’ ideas. They need to be educated,” Augustín replied. “If

Case Study 10

Case Study Strategy Retail Merchandising 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2017

However, they are difficult for organizations to propose, prioritize, and fund. It’s the realm of fashion houses that know to make fewer chokers and invest in more crop tops. But there’s also another type of innovation that is more gradual and smaller in scale. We call it slow innovation.

Innovation 8

Innovation Long-term Trends Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

It’s tempting to think of distinctive capabilities as a kind of artistry performed by an elite corps of high-potential talent: the elite players work long hours and deliver unusual results, while the rest of the organization struggles along in its usual incoherent fashion. We are not proposing the elimination of functions.

Development 8

Development Supply Chain Incentives Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2015

“There was this one instance where the market tanked and there was panic on the desk. Thanks to my meditation practice, I was able to keep my composure and propose solutions to reduce the impact of the market crash.” He claims meditation helped him keep fear and panic at bay, even under duress. Mindfulness.

CEO 8

CEO Emotional Intelligence Cooper Pharmaceuticals 8

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

I am a huge fan of the benefits of professional development gained from good old-fashioned reading. With the plethora of reading material on the market today it is not a simple thing to make sure that you’re covering all the bases in a time efficient fashion. Social Media Marketing an hour a day – Dave Evens 7.

Blog 419

Blog Open-book Library Learning-by-Doing 419

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2018

Take Jeremiah, a marketing manager. Early in his career, he focused primarily on internal self-awareness — for example, deciding to leave his career in accounting to pursue his passion for marketing. Researchers have proposed two primary explanations for this phenomenon.

Self-aware 20

Self-aware How To Learning-by-Doing Participative 20

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2016

A company sets up a joint venture with a partner that has complementary assets and capabilities, in order to limit up-front investments, speed up market entry, and reduce risk. For example, Ageas, a large European insurance company, has been using this model for its successful expansion into Asia.

Co-Opetition 8

Co-Opetition Operations Cost Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2015

But it’s familiar territory to innovators, who’ve spent decades wrestling with the problem of how to manage uncertainty when there is little to guide them in getting their new offering to a new audience or market. Trap 1: Replicating What You Did Before. Trap 2: Build It and They Will Come.

Innovation 8

Innovation Business Model Uncertainty Advertising 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Yet, the recent fall of Vikram Pandit, Citigroup CEO , underscores a basic truth: Independent boards of directors are still the best mechanism — or the least worst one — for holding business leaders accountable, even if many boards have failed in their attempts to do this, often in spectacular fashion.

Corporate Accountability 8

Corporate Accountability CEO Long-term Risk Management 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

Unlike marketing, manufacturing, human resources, and other functions, a good strategy should cover the entire activity system of an organization. A marketing department, for example, may focus on the value proposition and pay insufficient heed to the other two propositions.

Blue Ocean Strategy 8

Blue Ocean Strategy Strategy Execution Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

For example, if you enjoy connecting with people, you could use that skill to be a psychologist or a marketer. Sign up for a new cross-company initiative or propose taking something off your boss’s plate,” suggests Dillon. Did she want to take her one-of-a-kind fashion accessory business to the next level?

Career 8

Career How To Finance Case Study 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2014

Research by the Content Marketing Institute estimates that 90% of consumer marketers are investing in content. In order to succeed, marketers will have to learn to think like publishers. Vogue is a fashion bible because Anna Wintour believes a stylish world is a better place. Marketers need to take the same approach.

Marketing 8

Marketing Brand Content Handbook 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2011

An old-fashioned process, proposition innovation starts with companies — not consumers — and entails developing products and services that aren't based on consumer feedback or profiles. In most of these fashion houses, a single designer (sometimes, a small team) is the only source of innovation.

Innovation 14

Innovation Power Fashion Travel 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2013

As company that markets fashion apparel, accessories, and home goods (at its namesake stores as well via its other brands, like Anthropologie and Free People), it seems reasonable to think that the perspectives of women could be useful to its board. Many shareholders agree. But this is where it gets complicated.

Diversity 8

Diversity Proposal Apparel Benchmarking 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

companies manage their supply chains with diligence to ensure suppliers meet their standards for quality and affordability, but the vast majority don’t behave in this fashion when purchasing health care services. market for inconsistent care delivery by providers and dysfunctional payment by health plans. It is a costly mistake.

Health Care 8

Health Care Supply Chain Price Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2013

The co-founder and executive director of MIT's Auto-ID lab, Kevin Ashton, coined a term in the mid-1990s — the Internet of Things — that has increasingly attracted the attention of marketers. But for marketers, the potential value of building stronger brands through interactions between products and users is clear.

Advertising 8

Advertising Objective Brand Loyalty 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2016

In our experience in initiatives to improve the quality, enhance experience, and decrease the cost of health care in the Seattle and Portland, Oregon markets, the best way to reach accord on a single definition of quality is to engage multiple providers and employers in a collaborative effort supported by medical evidence.

Health Care 8

Health Care Proposal Quality Cooper 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2013

As a result, the cost to bring a drug to market has been estimated to be well over $1 billion — and it may be much higher. This latter approach has been controversial, because many proposed surrogates have proven themselves merely to be correlates of disease rather than important components of the causal pathway.

Process 8

Process Licensing Health Care Workshop 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

We all make pitches every day — for that highly-prized account; to a client who's reluctant to accept your scary proposal; for a skeptical CFO to loosen the purse strings; or for a wary new team to believe in you. Here's what I've learned about winning pitches like these: 1.

Belief Systems 16

Belief Systems Tips Audience CFO 16

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

Super-specialized physicians learned how to attack disease in various organs systems, and fatalism has gone out of fashion. Those that can accurately categorize, measure, and mitigate their patients’ suffering most effectively will be rewarded with greater market share as well as the loyalty and retention of clinicians and other personnel.

Health Care 8

Health Care Quality Constraint System 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

The criticisms are several: that design thinking is poorly defined ; that the case for its use relies more on anecdotes than data; that it is little more than basic commonsense, repackaged and then marketed for a hefty consulting fee. ” Next, both methods advise trying out the proposed solution.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Proposal Politics Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

The most recent politician to make such a proposal is U.S. And French President Emmanuel Macron, after months of confrontation with labor unions on his labor market reform, is considering changes to the corporate governance to, among other issues, strengthen workers’ participation to company boards. Leigh Wells/Getty Images.

Participative 8

Participative Crisis Consensus Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2014

This year, nearly 50% of those plans proposed using a for-profit model. Bad Reason #5: Nonprofits are “old-fashioned” and only for-profits earn respect in their sectors. Good Reason #3: To send a signal to key partners or others about the role of for-profit markets. They are not alone.

Entrepreneur 10

Entrepreneur Apparel Transportation Fashion 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2012

CEOs must convince the board, markets, employees, and customers that what they are doing is valuable. When you get into a bar fight, you revert to what comes naturally — the old-fashioned tactics." It's not just salespeople who must sell. They get you all fired up, but you fall back into your old ways pretty soon.

Succession 16

Succession Conference Outsourcing Long-term 16

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy even proposed taxing U.S. For some, it’s about the commercial opportunity to appeal to a new or growing market of rights-focused consumers. The Ellen MacArthur Foundation and Kering both created curricula in circular thinking for fashion and design students.

Energy 8

Energy Banking Chemicals Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2017

His bottom line: “For a manager running a nonfinancial business, the proposed reforms to Dodd-Frank are probably a bad trade-off.” Treasury allowed Lehman Brothers to go under in a disorderly fashion, demonstrates how much harm can be done to the economy when something as large as a big commercial bank fails.

Banking 8

Banking Crisis System Compliance 8