Eric Jacobson

MAY 30, 2021

A few months ago brought the new Harvard Business Review Family Business Handbook , a comprehensive guide for how to build and sustain a successful enduring enterprise. How to decode the family dynamics that impact business decisions. How to navigate conflict in a family business before it spirals out of control.

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Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

January brought the new Harvard Business Review Family Business Handbook , a comprehensive guide for how to build and sustain a successful enduring enterprise. How to decode the family dynamics that impact business decisions. How to plan for succession and navigate family transitions like marriages, divorces, and generational shifts.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 23, 2019

To run a successful business, you also need to get to grips with marketing strategy, techniques and advertising standards you need to comply with. A big decision you’ll be faced with early on is the choice between starting a car dealership franchise or your own independent used car business. Devise a Marketing Strategy.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Have thought about how to successful entrepreneurs have in common? Yes, the team is there to help you, but an owner knows best, and he should look at all aspects of the business and check that all operations are working efficiently. Failure to work hard with consistency. Lack of experience. Entrepreneurship Skills. Sociability.

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Tanveer Naseer

DECEMBER 8, 2015

But bright ideas are an incomplete recipe for a successful project – you also need team members who have functional expertise and know how to complete tasks. Great execution can elevate a flawed plan; at the same time, poor operational capabilities can easily sink a great set of ideas.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 20, 2021

From here, then you will need to contemplate whether or not you would prefer to start a business from scratch or own a franchise. There are certainly pros and cons to both; therefore, it will be based on how much responsibility you would like and whether you would like to try a new idea or develop someone else’s brand.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2018

The second problem: Movie theater operators don’t want MoviePass to succeed because they fear its model will permanently devalue ticket prices. Ticket sales don’t cover the costs of operating a theater.) more likely to be a superfan of an actor, director, or movie franchise. They are 2.5x

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 6, 2014

I recently stopped for lunch at a franchise restaurant. I support cause related marketing and have advised many corporations on setting up such programs. I went to their website, where franchise chains allege they want customer comments. I say it is not, and I’m an expert on cause-related marketing.

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Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Starting a Business From Home: How to Find Success Note: This post was written in collaboration with Amy Collett , a personal branding strategist and author of You, Exemplified: The Role of Personal Branding in Your Professional Life. Networking and marketing are vital parts of building a business, so make sure you have a plan to tackle both.

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Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

To improve your practices you can see what works for others and then abstract the principles for that success and then determine how to adopt those principles to your situation. So perhaps you see how quickly a company is able to adapt the software they use to meet their needs. But you won’t find them copying.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

.” Observers debated whether this was lazy branding or a very deliberate effort to market the iPad as a sibling to the Mac. Like Apple, most consumer-centric companies deal with the dilemma of how to brand the next- generation of an existing product. That’s why Harvard Business School marketing professors John T.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

How to Design Your IT Organization for Constant Evolution. How to Find and Hire the Right Digital Talent for Your Organization. But they also have changed how they work with each part of the company, allowing them to learn and adapt faster as new opportunities arise and markets change.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

Even though I know how to dissect the financials and pull out any relevant ratios, I’m not satisfied with the story that these reports tell me. Take the example of Harvey Norman , an Australia-based household-goods retailer that operates under various brands and has stores in several countries. Whole Foods Market in the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

In a study of S&P 500 and Global 500 firms, our team found that those leading the most successful transformations, creating new offerings and business models to push into new growth markets, share common characteristics and strategies. That knowledge helped them understand how to make change happen inside an organization.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

This striking gap signals an opportunity for companies: Secure a competitive advantage by building your employees' ability to succeed in the increasingly complicated labyrinths of today's — and tomorrow's — markets. Allianz Group is now rolling out Social OPEX to a range of operational entities, including those in the UK and Asia.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Women-owned entities in the formal sector represent approximately 37% of enterprises globally — a market worthy of attention by businesses and policy makers alike. Their lower employment numbers and growth aspirations have historically led to questions of how to "fix" them.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

If you choose to dive into the social media world without a strategy, without understanding how to create social media influence, you will not be pleased with your results. Become a part of them as opposed to a vendor to them …This is a difficult concept for old-school marketers to get their arms around, but a critical one nonetheless.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2012

Founders Forum is a franchise started by two successful UK-based entrepreneurs, Brent Hoberman and Jonnie Goodwin, to stimulate US-style entrepreneurship in the European region, and now around the world. As unit economics enable ever cheaper smart phones (the lowest price in the market is now $65), their penetration will rise.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2012

Long before "think global, act local" was the conventional wisdom for how corporations should operate in the international interconnected marketplace, we at Children's Television Workshop (CTW), as it was known then, pioneered the development of a flexible global brand. Being Willing To Try New Operating Models.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2016

All companies that operate internationally face a striking dual challenge in dealing with public policy: Nations across the globe enact an ever-changing, ever-expanding array of detailed legislation and regulation to protect workers, consumers, investors, and the public welfare, and these diverse rules shape what companies can and cannot do.

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In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 18, 2015

This can mean expanding product lines, entering new markets and geographies, line extending brands, acquiring new businesses, creating projects, and adding layers of management to manage the self-created complexity. They’ve never franchised. This vision establishes the principles for running a simple operation. and going public?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2013

As a business that operates in many of the countries where these needs are most evident and pressing, we must help ensure those rights are realized. Understand your audience : We've been in emerging markets for over 100 years, offering products aimed at the bottom of the pyramid as much as for wealthier consumers.

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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 23, 2015

Generating new ideas, recognizing those with breakthrough potential, and then mobilizing an organization to drive those ideas from the mind to the market – often in the face of substantial risk and uncertainty – is not something every CEO feels cut out to do. Then they design solutions from the customer backward. innovation Rowan Gibson'

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2013

Google has built NFC into the Android operating system. The unique experience plus the added revenue from selling the figurines has made Skylanders a billion-dollar franchise. The potential for a new model of mobile marketing is welcome news for brands struggling to find effective ways to engage consumers on mobile devices.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2012

For a social entrepreneur with an innovative solution, the holy grail is scaling it —that is, taking it to a level where the new approach operates efficiently and effectively to achieve significant mitigation of a social problem. Increasing numbers of social programs grow with revenue generated by their own operations.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2015

These aren’t mom and pop operations anymore. We now have entire conferences dedicated to the analytics of our business and our basketball operations. We have a global audience that has an unending thirst for mobile content, and a sophisticated CRM database that allows us to be a state-of-the-art marketing operation.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2015

After two decades of failed efforts to spur innovation and competition in Europe’s lagging communications sector, the European Commission has promised “an ambitious overhaul” next year as part of its far-reaching Digital Single Market initiative. At least for voice services, the U.S. As a result, the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2018

How can you tell which opportunities are real and which are science fiction? How to make your company more nimble and responsive. All this makes the early lessons from the Chariot venture worth heeding as it gains traction in the market. Ford’s next market was Austin, where it has grown to more than 50 vans.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

How has this strategy worked? Well, since 1985, Intel has generated cumulative operating income before depreciation of $287.4 It has built and defended its competitive position by reinforcing its Windows/Office franchise. Since 1985, Microsoft has generated $325 billion in operating profit cumulatively before depreciation.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Any number of franchised coaching offerings can be purchased at affordable prices, numerous affliliations with the hot coaching brand de-jure are available for the asking, or if all else fails coaches can just go it alone as a solo practitioner – the more the merrier right? Ultimately, I agree with Peter. Its about results.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2014

If you’re a mid- or late-career marketer, chances are your job today is mostly unrecognizable from what you signed on for. Many marketers are left behind, simply tuned in to the wrong frequencies. But data, alone, isn’t enough; search and social marketing, for example, are content hungry disciplines.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2010

I disagree with the argument that it takes several years to learn how to get things done in Washington. One might add that at the time of the Founders, America had approximately 2 million people, and many fewer had the franchise than today. That is only because those who control the congress make it that way. TERM LIMITS NOW!

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