Women on Business

DECEMBER 7, 2010

This online retailer offers everything from bedroom furniture, luggage, shoes and bags, home and garden accessories, and also living room and dining furniture, like this chest of drawers. I’m focusing on health and fitness, and to that end I’m inviting you to join me.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 5, 2018

One of the biggest downsides when it comes to getting any business off the ground is startup costs, but in a construction business you will need everything from diggers to cherry pickers, cranes, power tools and other equipment that all come with a high price tag. Retail in general tends to be a difficult business to get set up in.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

So, in today’s post I’ll examine the power of disruption as a key business driver… Disruptive business models focus on creating, disintermediating, refining, reengineering or optimizing a product/service, role/function/practice, category, market, sector, or industry. Why didn’t IBM see Dell coming?

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Women on Business

JANUARY 14, 2011

An answer to this was anything but obvious, and I struggled to find one shortly after my friend Katie and I were laid off from what were supposed to be dream jobs with an online shoe retailer. We knew that choosing the latter entailed taking, quite probably, the greatest risk in the face of an unstable economy; yet, in the end, we did anyway.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2014

Tom Szaky knows well the meaning of the saying “ Beware your dreams, for they may come true. ” With the 2004 Christmas retail season rapidly approaching, he was trying everything he could to scale up TerraCycle , a two year old venture selling liquid worm poop as fertilizer in used PET bottles. Use multiple sources of finance.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Thinkers50 – World’s Most Influential Management Thinkers. Called ‘The Academy Awards of Leadership’ by the Economist, Thinkers50 is the world’s most reliable resource for identifying, ranking and sharing the leading management ideas of our age. World authority on project management. Forbes – #1 Leader in Retail.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 18, 2011

Katrina followed that initial success by branching out of her apartment and opening a retail store in Chicago just two-months after her chocolates launched in Neiman Marcus. The employees loved them, and the next thing Katrina knew, her chocolates were being sold in Neiman Marcus.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 28, 2021

The businesses that fail to manage cash flow effectively are often doomed to failure. Read on to find out why cash flow is so important and how you can manage it effectively. Cover debts and protect your business credit – Proper management of your cash receipts means you’ll always be able to pay your debts and suppliers on time.

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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. The ones that manage to escape are discount chains —such as T. Penney, and Barnes & Noble. Whether this will help J&J in the long run, no one knows.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 21, 2011

For well over a century managers have achieved increasing productivity on ever larger scales by dividing and subdividing work into smaller and smaller units. The modern corporation that has evolved as a result consists of many specialized functional departments, such as sales, engineering, marketing, manufacturing, operations, and finance.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Whereas new technologies, competitors, and business models have made products and services more affordable and accessible in media, finance, retail, and other sectors, U.S. Less than 1% of those investments have focused on helping consumers to play a more active role in managing their own health, an area ripe for disruptive approaches.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2014

It’s not been a great year for venerable retailer Sears, which is reputed to be closing 130 retail stores and laying off more than 5,000 employees. Founded in 1886 as a mail-order watch retailer, Sears was already 71 when it became an original member of the S&P 500 in 1957. Apparently, it was big data.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

Given the unrelenting pace of change surrounding organizations in virtually every industry, companies are looking for executives who know how to innovate and introduce change, not simply caretakers who can manage the status quo. Senior management doesn't really encourage innovation, you'll hear. They won't let me take risks."

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2016

To do this, they have mostly used power purchasing agreements (PPAs) to buy their clean power. Under this financing structure, the company contracts to buy kilowatts, not the turbines and panels. First, due in large part to the scale and consistency of their energy purchasing, industrials already pay the lowest rates for power.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

It took computer company Apple only five years to become America’s largest music retailer, and just seven to become the world’s largest. Retailers are also moving in as well: nearly one-third of domestic Starbucks revenues are paid through its own loyalty cards. Competition Finance Innovation'

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2017

For example, by designing a new cloud-based customer service platform, within nine months a power company could go head-to-head with an internet service provider that had started to sell electricity alongside Wi-Fi services and cheaply financed cars.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2017

Could Liberate 50% of Managers' Time. Automating finance. This lets organizations reduce the amount of work outsourced to service centers and frees up finance staff to focus on strategic tasks. Drone- and satellite-based asset management. Retail shelf analysis. Related Video. Measuring brand exposure.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2016

In September 2016 we undertook a survey of nearly 300 endowment and foundation managers. Given their size and appetite for diversification, these gigantic investors are a significant source of financing for many companies and governments in the developed world, and their investment activities can and do move markets.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2017

To understand where this new mobility might take us, it’s important to distinguish between two types of AI-powered motor vehicles: self-driving and driverless. How can we finance fleets through leasing and/or mobility securitization? What will our retail footprint be? Retail and consumer business. Health care.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Across Africa, many unemployed men have managed small businesses, at least once in their lives. But as soon as they began, the communal power of African extended family system weighed on them. Organizations that move into developing nations to help small technical businesses, must help those businesses manage their finances.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

The situation stabilized somewhat after the government abandoned the Zimbabwean dollar in favor of a multi-currency system in 2009 and entered a power-sharing deal with the opposition party. An influx of capital could also result in a revival in the formal retail sector (e.g.,

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2017

Yet progress within organizations has been slow – there is still a lack of women and minorities in leadership positions, and certain industries like tech and finance are lacking diversity at all levels. Susan Wojcicki (YouTube) asks managers for updates on their numbers around diversity. And many diversity programs fail.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

An impatient marketing or finance manager would, on the sly, secure some extra budget money and hire a contractor to build a little database that tracked mailing addresses or top-line financials. Slowly but surely, as the little database grew bigger and bigger, the manager would wedge the cost into her operating budget.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

It may seem counterintuitive, but smart companies need to routinely rid themselves of less profitable customers, the same way an asset manager or rebalances an investment portfolio or a Major League Baseball general manager trades a declining player. So how does one take full advantage of a 'window to winnow'?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Experiences power that growth cycle, so you’ll want to understand which experiences matter most and gain as many of them as quickly as possible. Both of those leaders are now CEOs — one of a $10 billion retail chain and another of a specialty eyewear company. The directness of those statements may surprise you.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

While leaders in most corporate functions naturally try to absorb and demonstrate power, HR diffuses responsibility toward its internal customers because of some major misunderstandings. Its the managers responsibility to lead their employees, manage performance, and provide guidance. This is how we conduct interviews.

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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. They are more likely to use software to manage their back-office operations and customer relationships.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Among other things, there is growing demand from both retail and institutional investors to align their capital with better environmental and social outcomes, and more resources going into index fund or quasi-indexing products. First, large index asset managers, such as Blackrock, State Street, and Vanguard.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

At some of the world’s most successful enterprises — Google, Netflix, Amazon, Alibaba, Facebook — autonomous algorithms, not talented managers, increasingly get the last word. Elite MBAs (Management by Algorithm) are the new normal. Top management would have to trust its computationally brilliant bidding software.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2014

As impact investing tries to make the move from philanthropic thought experiment to powerful instrument for global change, a vital demographic and financial reality is emerging — it’s going to be millennial investors (particularly those inheriting or building significant private wealth) who make or break it.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2014

Throughout his childhood, Hassani loved to create toys, some of which were wind-powered and would blow across the desert near his home. Years later, this memory would return to him and suggest a solution : a wind-powered toy to clear land mines. Hassani resolved at a very young age to somehow help eradicate these evil contraptions.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2014

The team transformed Gap’s products and stores and helped the company grow faster than any other retail brand at the time. over the past 20 years: until 2006, its finances were shaky, and it was losing about a point of market share every year. Leading teams Managing people' Think of Ford Motor Co. The difference was leadership.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2018

The firm had outdated segmentation frameworks and loyalty programs, weak customer contact management, and suboptimized client identity management, so she championed and launched a customer relationship management initiative to revamp them. She also began paying more attention to projects that would drive future growth.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Barker had licensing deals with sports leagues to make merchandise with their logos and partnered with large brands to produce it for retail markets, and when Lance took the company over, its revenues were about £100 million. Ahmed accused Damon of throwing up roadblocks and using his power to undermine the sales department.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

He wasnt a process manager. He wasnt a process manager. I argued against that — not because I disliked Sandy, but because I didnt think he was the right guy to run the combined entity. He did not, from my point of view, have the skills to run the big company that we had produced. He ran the place by people and personalities.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

Some companies that made the list were obvious choices; for example, the biggest online retailer now gets most of its profit from cloud services (Amazon). We see an interesting pattern across the professionally managed companies, those whose CEOs were hired by the board. They Communicate Powerful Narratives About the Future.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2018

We wrote about our adventure nearly a year ago in The Atlantic, but as we thought more about our interaction with Tejon Ranch’s managers, we realized there were valuable lessons that we wanted to share with the corporate leaders who are likely to confront the risk of an activist campaign. The team was polite and respectful.

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