Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

More than ever before, managers are using large-scale randomized controlled trials (i.e., One simple and often overlooked way for larger companies to experiment is to randomize the introduction of new products across a set of markets. Martyn Goddard/Getty Images. experiments) to guide decisions.

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Productivity Products Metrics Franchising 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2012

Whether you are trying to create a new product, solve problems more effectively, become the most successful company in your industry, or find creative ways to meet your customers' needs, innovation is likely one of your most critical objectives at work. We asked managers and employees at 130 franchises of a U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2011

Clorox effectively trashed P&G's new product initiative. I don't want to say "dirty tricks," (whoops, I just said it) but Clorox certainly took an innovative approach to squelching P&G's innovative threat. What vital lesson did Lafley take away from this new product debacle? "We Calling Professor Schelling !

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Innovation Franchising Ethics Disruptive Innovation 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

HBS Executive Education brings you these articles about business management courtesy of Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. Like Apple, most consumer-centric companies deal with the dilemma of how to brand the next- generation of an existing product. “For managers, this is not a trivial decision,” Ofek says.

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Brand Education Productivity Products 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2018

Jon Buchan, the director of London-based Charm Offensive, a creator of innovative cold emailing campaigns, applies Curry’s disruptive basketball strategy to business: “Find a gap,” Buchan writes. Innovate a product or service from within your position. “A chink in the armor. What is nobody else doing? .”

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Career Market Risk Chemicals Banking 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2014

Instead of focusing on innovation, as he did during his first tour as CEO of the world’s largest consumer packaged goods firm, Lafley is now innovating on focus. “Importantly, this will be a much simpler, much less complex company of leading brands that’s easier to manage and operate.” innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2010

We don't think it matters much whether this was true or just spin-control; what matters is that Microsoft has now publicly embraced the hackers — and that's an instance of a broad and profound change in corporate innovation. For example, Texas Instruments' 1990 revenues from patents exceeded its manufacturing revenues.)

Franchising 14

Franchising Reference Innovation Licensing 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

Whereas most business lists analyze companies by traditional metrics such as revenue or by subjective assessments such as “innovativeness,” our ranking evaluates the ability of leaders to strategically reposition the firm. How successful has the company been at creating new products, services, and business models?

Franchising 15

Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

Scharpf found that absorbent wood pulp was the biggest raw material manufacturing expense for pads, and wondered if cheaper indigenous materials could be used for local production, and if also coupled with a more efficient distribution network, there might be a real business opportunity given the huge underserved populations.

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Franchising CEO GDP Entrepreneur 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2014

That’s the “franchise of the future” challenge haunting sports’ brightest minds and biggest wallets. George Karl, the 7th coach in NBA history to reach 1000 wins, similarly stressed the need for serious coaches and general managers to quantify “teamness.” Information & technology Managing people Talent management'

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Team Sports Franchising Conference 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2018

For businesses looking to keep pace with innovation and leverage AI, there are steps they can take today. Take Sephora’s Kik bot , which quizzes customers about their makeup preferences and then follows up with specific product information. But first, what are some examples of how AI can help make marketing more effective?

Marketing 8

Marketing Policies Technology Franchising 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2013

While this simple phrase has been used time and time again to discuss the many obstacles people and companies face, an animal metaphor does describe required innovation actions rather effectively. Speed is the speed of innovation of a company relative to the industry. As a tortoise, breakthrough innovation is critical.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

In a perfect world you would build relationships with the largest possible universe of targeted constituents where you can productively engage and contribute. Let me say this as clearly as I can…a ready, fire, aim approach will rarely find the target. link] Robbie Vitrano Hey Mike, thanks for including NakedPizza in the validation.

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Marshall Goldsmith

OCTOBER 14, 2013

More and more business customers have quit buying stand-alone products and have started buying integrated solutions. A growing percentage of IBM’s business, for example, now involves customized solutions incorporating non-IBM products and services. Skills in developing partnerships that cross boundaries are critical.

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Telecommunications Franchising Consultative Diversity 111

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. With 60% of annual sales coming from innovative new products, it is clear that LEGO has not been idle.

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Apparel Brand Franchising Competitive Advantage 100

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2012

Sesame Street , in fact, is a great case study of a brand that has managed to remain powerful over decades and across cultures. In the 1980s, I was part of the team that sold Sesame Street around the world — either licensed and broadcast in English or in locally adapted indigenous-language co-productions.

Globalization 8

Globalization Power Workshop Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2013

No Hierarchy, No Management, No Nothing. How Medium is Building a New Kind of Company with No Managers First Round Capital. Medium isn''t merely a digital publishing platform; it''s also a fierce adopter of Holacracy, a style of management that is entirely management-free. So does it work? Stirman says yes.

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Report Film Loyalty Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

What’s missing from the managerial toolkit is a way for managers to allocate their—and their organization’s—time and attention and resources on a day-to-day basis across the competing demands of managing today’s requirements and tomorrow’s possibilities. Innovation & Entrepreneurship Book.

Innovation 8

Innovation Hedge Management Govindarajan 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

Almost every discussion of innovation today inevitably turns to the topic of “disruption.” Academics write about the power of disruptive innovation to transform one industry after another. Consultants have set up practices to focus specifically on helping companies become disruptive innovators. How has this strategy worked?

Innovation 8

Innovation Disruptive Innovation Venture Capitalist Depreciation 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2010

That sort of money should allow you to open 10 new centers next year, not through franchising as you'd planned, but under your direct ownership and control. The director wasn't expecting her, but Gloria liked popping into the franchises unannounced to get an unvarnished view. Three million euros.". Hours were flexible.

Case Study 13

Case Study Franchising Health Care Follow-up 13

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. They are: Staffing. Perhaps more than anything else, this has been the key to PlayWorks' successful scaling.

How To 15

How To Franchising ROI Entrepreneur 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2015

We talk about things like yield management, demand curves, and perishable inventory — factors that dictate our pricing strategies. The NBA has a digital television product called League Pass, which can be live-streamed onto smart phones, tablets and other devices. Strategy execution Managing uncertainty Managing organizations'

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Price Team Sports Franchising 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2017

In the age before the digital revolution, marketers used to tell customers about a product and then work through a traditional step-by-step purchase funnel. Real Madrid is one of the most recognized soccer franchises in the world. Real Madrid: winning the hearts and minds of 500 million dedicated fans. In sports, every second matters.

Sports 8

Sports Brand Content Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

We were eager to take this product to the disadvantaged communities who desperately needed it. Little did we know the time and capital it would require for us to get from a concept to a manufactured and clinically tested product — not to mention what it would take to build a distribution channel to sell our product.

NGO 8

NGO Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 19, 2013

With Frederick''s Taylor invention of scientific management in the 1880s, and its subsequent assimilation into what we now consider modern management, organizations have used logic and rationality to the eliminate waste, to seek efficiency, and to transfer human knowledge to tools and processes. Consider the slide deck.

CTO 8

CTO Franchising CIO Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2018

While this seemed like a small bet for a $165 billion company built on the mass production of vehicles, the deal was scouted, in part, by Jim Hackett, then head of Ford Smart Mobility who has since been elevated to CEO. This van is currently being tested in London ahead of volume production in 2019.

Business Model 8

Business Model Transportation ROI Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2017

How the most innovative providers are creating value. We interviewed leaders in 37 private for-profit and non-profit primary care programs identified in the Center for Health Market Innovations database and operating in over 25 developing countries. Management and leadership skills.

Development 8

Development Health Care Operations Franchising 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2012

There is not a "thing" to manage. Is a business built on volunteers manageable? By doing this, they got a benefit equivalent to a multi-million dollar marketing budget by enabling a franchise of passionate users to do their thing. As anyone who's ever been in love can attest, it's not a linear path.

Marketing 17

Marketing Brand Mass Marketing Metrics 17

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

These concerns get polite nods here and there but, mostly, serious Africans ignore them and firmly redirect the conversation back to private equity, or franchise deals, or something along those lines. What matters is how entrepreneurs and innovators, especially social innovators, employ this set of tools within prevailing constraints.

Supply Chain 14

Supply Chain Globalization Politics Franchising 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2012

in November, which has in part been attributed to staying open for Thanksgiving, McDonald’s is urging its franchises to open on Christmas Day. And they've now narrowed the possibilities of the web for an entire generation of users who don't realize how much more innovative and meaningful their experience could be." — Justin Fox.

Chief Operating Officer 8

Chief Operating Officer Franchising Cooper Participative 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2012

The first revolution came around the turn of the twentieth century, when the brothers took management roles in the tea-store chain run by their father, George H. The tea shops became grocery stores, stocking canned goods, cleaning products, even cigarettes. They pumped those products through a radically different type of outlet.

P&L 14

P&L Retail Real Estate Discount 14

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?

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Blog Mentor Advice Brand 329

Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2014

American Express does this, too, with its Open Forum site, which publishes editorial-style content for managers and operators of small and mid-sized businesses. National Football League franchise Atlanta Falcons’ CMO Jim Smith asks fans to “Rise Up”—and they do. IT management Leadership Marketing' Exploration.

Storytelling 11

Storytelling Brand Audience Marketing 11

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2010

These facts raise some profound questions about personnel management of a great power. Influence Dealing with Tough Times The Lost Art of Brevity The Leadership Vacuum Shut-up & Listen Stop Selling and Add Value Social Media Influence The Influence Factor Ideas Dont Equal Innovation Indispensable? Now we're over 300 million.

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