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How to Quantify Sustainability’s Impact on Your Bottom Line

Harvard Business

For slaughterhouses and retailers (Brazilian operations), we also projected positive benefits: $20 million to $120 million (0.01% to 0.1% We set about investigating the financial costs and benefits of the uptake of sustainable and deforestation-free beef by ranchers, slaughterhouses, and retailers in Brazil. of revenues).

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Why Localizing Marketing Doesn’t Always Work

Harvard Business

On the one hand, local brand managers typically argue that consumer habits in their market are different, their consumers’ purchase behavior is different, preferences and tastes are different, the media and the retail trade are different, and, therefore, their customers require unique, tailored, and delicate handling.

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How Blockchain Can Help Marketers Build Better Relationships with Their Customers

Harvard Business

Like digital platforms, social media, martech, fintech, and numerous other innovations, the spoils of blockchain may go to early adopters who commit to ruthless innovation. Retailers routinely pay credit card companies 3% payment processing fees, while gas stations pay even more. Related Video.

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A.T. Kearney Interview & Culture

Management Consulted

Kearney boasts about its Fit Transformation™ methodology, designed specifically to align companies’ strategy, operating model, and people to bring lasting transformation. Thus, they work towards creating or upgrading current purchasing processes to enhance efficiency and maximize savings. Social Media. Strategic IT.

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You Can’t Secure 100% of Your Data 100% of the Time

Harvard Business

And that’s not just social media accounts; it’s bank accounts, retailer gift card accounts with cash and credit cards attached, airline loyalty accounts with years of accumulated frequent flyer points, and other accounts with real value. Over three billion credentials were reported stolen last year.

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60 Countries’ Digital Competitiveness, Indexed

Harvard Business

We introduced the Digital Evolution Index in HBR in 2015 to trace the emergence of a “digital planet,” how physical interactions — in communications, social and political exchange, commerce, media and entertainment — are being displaced by digitally mediated ones. Digital commerce must still contend with cash.