Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2014

You might see this fledgling business (Mine Kafon is being prototyped and tested now, thanks to a fully funded Kickstarter campaign to finance its development) as a brilliant act of business strategy. He’s an innovator. Rolling out major innovations must be your top priority. When Innovation Is Strategy.

Innovation 8

Innovation Disruptive Innovation Strategy Creativity 8

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

There was a time when the entry of an online alternative in a market would scare the hell out of small offline retailers. The consumer behavior was changing and the prices were getting aggressively competing; it was not easy for small retailers to keep up with their online counterparts. Take Amazon for example. marketplace model today.

Retail 128

Retail Supply Chain Software Marketing 128

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2017

Despite rapid innovations in data processing and machine learning, many businesses have yet to make the leap from the Industrial Age to the information age, and the gap between technological and organizational progress is widening. Closing this gap requires much more than short-term fixes, like adopting new technologies.

Industry 9

Industry Short-term Planning Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2018

No industry is failing faster than retail. Just last month, the 125-year-old Sears—once the world’s largest retailer— filed for bankruptcy. That’s why P&G has been restructuring for 20 years “ without much to show for it ,” according to one former finance manager.

Brand 8

Brand Retail Incubator Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

From time to time, the basis of competition in an industry shifts so dramatically that shifting with it requires a new long-term vision that calls for the organization to do things it never would have done in the past. The innovation portfolio. Connecting Three Different Business Portfolios.

Strategy 8

Strategy Long-term Health Care Insurance 8

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2020

There was a time when the entry of an online alternative in a market would scare the hell out of small offline retailers. The consumer behavior was changing and the prices were getting aggressively competing; it was not easy for small retailers to keep up with their online counterparts. Take Amazon for example.

Supply Chain 76

Supply Chain Retail Software Marketing 76

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2016

Right behind it are media, finance, and professional services, all of which have far more sophisticated digital capabilities than the rest of the economy. Burberry, for example, has set the bar among retailers by seamlessly integrating social media and immersive experiences into its physical stores.

Industry 8

Industry Benchmarking Supply Chain Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2017

It’s been more than 25 years since Bill Gates dismissed retail banks as “dinosaurs,” but the statement may be as true today as it was then. Other sectors of retail lending have not fared much better. Banking for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) has been astonishingly unaffected by the rise of the Internet.

Banking 9

Banking Stage-Gate Credit Scoring Competitive Advantage 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2015

As Janet Yellen pointed out in a speech last year, “the opportunity to build a business has long been an important part of the American Dream.” These are the dry cleaners, restaurants, car repair operations, and local retailers that are part of the fabric of our daily lives. from offshore.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Rivkin Venture Capitalist Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Even before announcing his new cabinet, Mnangagwa installed a key reformist, Patrick Chinamasa, as acting finance minister, tasked with tackling corruption and re-engaging with international institutions to unlock funds to ease liquidity shortages. An influx of capital could also result in a revival in the formal retail sector (e.g.,

Banking 8

Banking First-mover Advantage Politics Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2017

Automating finance. This lets organizations reduce the amount of work outsourced to service centers and frees up finance staff to focus on strategic tasks. Retail shelf analysis. AI can expedite “exception handling” in many financial processes. Measuring brand exposure.

Process 9

Process Company Supply Chain Software 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Some innovative and determined professionals working in world's largest and most complex corporations are choosing to stay put and use their corporate platforms to lead change. Matt Ellis at CBRE, a global leader in real estate services, is designing financing structures that will provide capital for clients' energy efficiency initiatives.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Constraint Entrepreneur Restructuring 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2014

Since the term was coined in 2007 , impact investing — the idea that private capital can be deployed to alleviate pressing social needs like access to clean water, affordable housing or preventative healthcare while returning a financial profit — has attracted significant public and media attention.

Banking 8

Banking Commitment Class Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2011

These campaigns would contain provocative and powerful messages — the likes of which the public has never seen — on the difference between low overhead and actually solving community problems and on the need for the sector to invest in the long-term. This reality undoubtedly suppresses retail giving. A big fat zero.

Advertising 14

Advertising GDP System Public Relations 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2011

In their piece, they observe the following: In the short term, however, the current team might actually outperform in the absence of its mercurial and stubborn mentor. And perhaps they haven't for a long time. These moves would likely horrify Jobs; he would see them as muddying the user experience and diluting the Apple brand.

Competitive Advantage 13

Competitive Advantage Software Health Care Long-term 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

The doctor-patient relationship has long been sacrosanct. But comfortable reliance on this “precious” relationship has left us in a situation where the customers of many other sectors (such as retail) are often treated better from an experiential standpoint than medicine’s patients. We move pretty quickly on these.

System 8

System Quality Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2010

One day, it will form the basis of a masters in finance, and you should all grasp this opportunity to learn with open hands." Disappointing news, too, for the tireless French executive who dedicated two long years to building a successful new business in Russia, only to be told there was "no longer a role" for him under a new regional boss.

Leadership 15

Leadership Crisis Banking Learning-by-Doing 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2015

SCF engages all of its 1,700 employees in continuous training in relationship-building skills, betting that by nurturing long-term relationships they will be able to influence customer-owners’ behavior and decisions over time. SCF’s focus on relationships is mirrored in its approach to finance.

Health Care 8

Health Care Cost Kaplan Porter 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

Innovation is widely regarded as important to long-term business performance. We’ve found that CEOs of big pharmaceutical companies, for example, are more likely to have a background as company lawyers, salespeople, or finance managers, than one in medicine or pharmaceutical R&D.

CEO 8

CEO Innovation Pharmaceuticals Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

After a year-long analysis of seven developed countries and six sectors , we have concluded that demand matters for productivity growth and that increasing demand is key to restarting growth across advanced economies. Of course, the financial crisis is long since over, and the economy has recovered, at least by some measures.

Crisis 8

Crisis Retail Long-term Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2011

Listening to Amazon's finance chief Tom Szkutak explain the miss, it was immediately apparent that Amazon's problem was not with the top line. Below is a snapshot of Amazon's portfolio of disruptive businesses: • Amazon Retail — disrupting traditional retailers. per share by nearly a dime.

Christensen 11

Christensen Retail Long-term Incubator 11

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

Or, do we now see the need and importance to embrace longer-term approaches? The term CEO has recently been held in disfavor. Retailers make 70% of their earnings in the fourth quarter of each year. The product’s former innovation and dominance has somehow missed the mark in today’s business climate.

Ethics 61

Ethics Cost Crisis Learning-by-Doing 61

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2015

Both practices have long developed insights into their customers based on data and analytics. Use risk data as an avenue for innovation. The ability to offer financing gave the technology vendor a point of differentiation that helped it beat its revenue projection for the year. Protect and manage reputations.

Credit Scoring 8

Credit Scoring Risk Management Finance Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2011

But organizations themselves can rarely, if ever, pursue the long-term approach to talent development described in the latest reportage on Seal Team 6. Rather than creating a long development arc for talent, organizations educate people in short and often unconnected bursts. Strategies don't stay fresh for long.

Team 12

Team Short-term Proposal Uncertainty 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Business units come and go, but finance, HR, IT, marketing, legal, and R&D are forever. It has sophisticated functions that together manage user-generated content, the in-depth tracking of consumer buying behavior, and the innovation of new features based on the resulting insights. Permanent cross-functional teams tend to fare better.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Real Estate Short-term Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2016

“This is not happening just in retail, or in IT-producing sectors,” said Chiara Criscuolo, an OECD economist and coauthor of the report. So long as top-performing companies continue to surge ahead, we can expect income inequality to get worse. Some will succeed, and effective innovations will spread rapidly.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey Document Engineering Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2012

We were completing a year in which 58,009 people would participate in one of our long-distance walks or rides for charity, and would raise $169 million in contributions for AIDS, breast cancer and suicide prevention — $32 million more than the year before, which was $31 million more than the year before that. Sixteen U.S.

Teamwork 13

Teamwork Learning-by-Doing Maturity Case Study 13

Strategy Driven

MARCH 28, 2016

Most companies, whether start-ups or long-time players live in a world shaped by the laws of demand where low pricing can trump quality, and where targeted marketing, carefully crafted keywords, and social media engineering can build awareness, influence opinion, and generate sales. But of course, we don’t live in a world of perfect launches.

Productivity 50

Productivity Products Marketing Strategy Budgeting 50

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

First, they created a combination of breakthrough product innovation and breakthrough business model innovation— the definition of category creation. Now, platforms like AngelList, WeFunder, and Republic enable ordinary retail investors to participate in this stage of a company’s growth.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Rate of Return Finance Innovation 8

In the CEO Afterlife

JUNE 8, 2016

Not long after, you took aim at the coffee bean itself, ruling out the seeds that didn’t quite fit your strict flavour and aroma standards. Years later, it took on bigger players by introducing new innovative packaging to the market, and subsequently carving out a double-digit share when few thought it could be done.

Brand 100

Brand Brand Management Advertising Management 100

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2017

While consumer spending has proven resilient, with same-store retail sales rising 6% YOY in April , most multinational corporations are developing contingency plans to mitigate risks to their businesses and reassessing the country’s role in their global market portfolio and supply chains. Renegotiating NAFTA.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Depreciation Uncertainty Marketing 8