Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2016

. “We focus on organics and cool new macronutrients, and our consumers are into quinoa and kale and bean sprouts,” Alex Blair, who owns four franchises of Freshii, a Toronto-based chain of healthy fast-food outlets, told the New York Times. Jobs to Be Done are, like customer stories, complex, and nuanced.

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Productivity Products Mass Marketing Franchising 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2018

The marketing industry will be no exception. AI holds great promise for making marketing more intelligent, efficient, consumer-friendly, and, ultimately, more effective. Data-Driven Marketing. For businesses looking to keep pace with innovation and leverage AI, there are steps they can take today. Using AI in Marketing.

Marketing 8

Marketing Policies Technology Franchising 8

Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 23, 2015

Guest post from Rowan Gibson : Not since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution has there been a greater need to learn the art of innovation leadership. But as execution capabilities become commodities, and the life cycles of new offerings get increasingly shorter, it’s precisely these innovation skills that need to be learned.

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Innovation Business Model Trends Franchising 120

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

He just sold Lucasfilm, and the rights to the Star Wars franchise, to Disney for $4 billion. Because only if the movies are successful will the strategy of leveraging that brand value across all of Disney’s arms — international, consumer products, and theme parks — also work.”. Lucas lucked out. Can Disney do that?"

Franchising 15

Franchising Merchandising Video Sports 15

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. ” Embracing market risk in our careers is a high-percentage move. “A chink in the armor. If so, try it.”

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Career Market Risk Chemicals Banking 15

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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Brand Education Productivity Products 8

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. But now, it will be the collaboration of market players, not their competition, that moves markets forward.

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Franchising Reference Innovation Licensing 14

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. Innovation : When defining innovation as "offering products that are new to some or all customers" in some regions — including the U.S.

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Globalization Entrepreneur Banking Supply Chain 13

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. 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

APRIL 5, 2013

My consulting firm works with many successful market leaders with amazing market shares — 30%, 50%, 70% and even 90%. One example of a company in this situation is Gillette, which has approximately a 70% share of the shaving market. For decades, the shaving market was men''s facial hair removal.

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Price Franchising Marketing CFO 8

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. represent an innovation repudiation of Lafley 1.0? .” represent an innovation repudiation of Lafley 1.0? innovation. Just ask Walmart.

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Brand DCF IRR NPV 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. Size can be represented as market share, revenue, or units sold, depending on the context. Do we really understand customer value?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

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. Calva also oversees the company’s innovation group, as well as the day-to-day operations of IT. “Today everything is aligned with the COEs,” he said.

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Technology Organization Content Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

Because the "unmentionable" subject of menstruation is taboo, the market failure — supplying cheaper pads — had never received the attention it deserved. As product is sold, some of the initial working capital that SHE puts up is paid back, with the entrepreneurs eventually owning their local franchises.

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Franchising CEO GDP Entrepreneur 13

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. 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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Media Influence Blog Real Estate 386

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2013

The concept seems appealing — incremental investment enters the "social impact" market in the form of below-market loans or equity, incenting mission-driven organizations to become self-sustaining. At the same time, grant support enables us to innovate, grow faster, and stay focused on the bottom of the pyramid.

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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. 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

MARCH 5, 2014

That’s the “franchise of the future” challenge haunting sports’ brightest minds and biggest wallets. have become early adopters and innovators in multidimensional measurements for individuals and teams alike. How might “teamness” improve the time to market performance of new product development efforts?

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Team Sports Franchising Early Adopters 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2012

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. According to Rosenfeld, "unlike most of the other markets in which we co-produce, Sesame Street had never been broadcast in India.

Globalization 8

Globalization Power Workshop Brand 8

Marshall Goldsmith

OCTOBER 14, 2013

Over the past several years a major shift in customer behavior has reshaped the nature of many markets and is leading to profound changes in how companies attempt to serve those markets. More and more business customers have quit buying stand-alone products and have started buying integrated solutions.

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Telecommunications Franchising Consultative Diversity 111

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

For one thing, thanks to a long history of exclusive municipal franchising regulations that didn’t end until 1992, the two companies don’t overlap in any market—TWC customers will become Comcast customers (and get arguably better technology and service in the process), but no local market will see a decline in the number of competitors.

Technology 8

Technology Content Information Technology Franchising 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2012

But despite this outpouring of expertise, many organizations still find marketing in the social era ridiculously hard to do well, if at all. Perhaps marketing in the social era is that kind of problem. The funnel is a favorite of marketers because it is linear, uni-directional, and transaction-centric.

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Marketing Brand Mass Marketing Metrics 17

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?

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Innovation Disruptive Innovation Venture Capitalist Depreciation 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Market Position: Contracts, licenses, legal monopolies, customer lists. Business System: Organizational models, software investment, proprietary process, franchise rights. So creating value today is not only about the quality of the product or service we deliver. Brand: Brands, trademarks, customer goodwill, company reputation.

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Brand Hotels Reputation Franchising 15

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. All this makes the early lessons from the Chariot venture worth heeding as it gains traction in the market.

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Business Model Transportation ROI Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2010

She'd mentioned her business, Calidad de Vida, a group of day care centers for the elderly, and he'd peppered her with questions, explaining that he was interested not only as a doctor (he was the leading cardiothoracic surgeon at Madrid's best hospital) but also as a potential investor (he'd unloaded his stocks just before the market collapsed).

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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. Stimulating Market Forces. They are: Staffing. Earnings Generation.

How To 15

How To Franchising ROI Entrepreneur 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2013

Steve Jobs' revival of the company began with a decision to narrow product lines down to a handful, and its big product successes of recent years have all been defined to a large extent by what Jobs and Apple's designers decided to leave off. That's the path to riches described by W.

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Strategy Porter Christensen Mauborgne 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2015

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. The NBA has a digital television product called League Pass, which can be live-streamed onto smart phones, tablets and other devices.

Price 8

Price Team Sports Franchising 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.

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NGO Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Short-term 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.

Sports 8

Sports Brand Content Industry 8

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

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. Market focus.

Development 8

Development Health Care Operations Franchising 8

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? Client's do not want a coach.

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Blog Mentor Advice Brand 344

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. As a result, the U.S. based, with the rest coming from China.

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Price How To Policies Report 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2012

The tea shops became grocery stores, stocking canned goods, cleaning products, even cigarettes. They then filled their stores with private-label A&P products, creating the most powerful franchise in food retailing. They pumped those products through a radically different type of outlet.

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P&L Retail Real Estate Discount 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2014

It should come as no surprise, however, that as any innovative idea spreads, so do the misconceptions and mythology. For corporations, innovation, product acquisition, talent retention, and supply change development may be the benefits. In emerging markets, NGOs such as Endeavor and Wamda have been key catalysts.

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