Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2015

In the 1990s, P&G, like other companies, sought to take advantage of global scale and technology platforms, rolling out their products worldwide. But just as tastes for food differ, so do preferences for toothpaste, diapers, soap, and feminine hygiene products. Healthy debate.

Globalization 8

Globalization Company Self-aware Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2015

At PepsiCo, we’re leveraging design to create meaningful and relevant brand experiences for our customers any time they interact with our portfolio of products. This applies not only to the current portfolio of products, but also to PepsiCo’s future portfolio. That’s where our work is really about innovation.

Organization 8

Organization Brand Six Sigma Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

In each iteration, we spent a lot of time thinking about what might make the best use of our existing product. In hindsight, this thinking turned out to be far less important than what we learned about leadership, control, and trust, which ultimately were reflected in how each of the businesses was created, capitalized, and staffed.

Chief Financial Officer 10

Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10

In the CEO Afterlife

NOVEMBER 4, 2012

On a productive day, aside from the mountain of dead trees (recycling hadn’t been invented in 1982), stacked polystyrene coffee cups and an overflowing ash-tray, there would also be a satisfying thick sheaf of “concepts.” Time moved on, and during the nineties technology overran, and transformed the creative industry like it did most others.

Advertising 265

Advertising Creativity Industry Bottom-up 265

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

However, CEOs often don’t have the career background and education that would equip them to personally lead the process of new product development. This would mean, for example, working in R&D to lead pharma innovation, new product development for high tech, and product design or merchandising for fashion retail.

CEO 8

CEO Innovation Pharmaceuticals Merchandising 8

Strategy Driven

JUNE 22, 2012

Some companies claim that purchasing their product is the ‘be all, end all’ panacea for life’s dilemmas. My analysis: Productivity software does no good unless one commits to change, alters behavioral traits and commits to time management. It must also focus upon people, products, processes, procedures and potential.

Brand 50

Brand Analysis Advertising Software 50

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2011

The surest way to build a company whose leadership will outlast your own is to focus your attention on the few essential things that your company can do better than anyone else. This is the only strategy we know that consistently enables companies to create value today, while building a legacy of greater value for the future.

Merchandising 14

Merchandising Budgeting Pharmaceuticals CEO 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2017

If your culture and brand are mismatched, you can end up with happy, productive employees who produce the wrong results. For example, at a grocery store chain I worked with, employees were steeped in an operations culture that valued efficiency and productivity.

Brand 8

Brand Company Operations Merchandising 8