Harvard Business

MAY 30, 2016

The Internet is apparently taking down yet another industry. Sure enough, the Census Bureau just released data showing that online retail sales surged 15.2 percent between the first quarter of 2015 and the first quarter of 2016. percent of retail sales in the first quarter of 2016. Their data show that only 0.8

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Harvard Business

APRIL 14, 2017

The companies we surveyed – in 13 manufacturing and service industries in North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and Latin America – are using AI much more frequently in computer-to-computer activities and much less often to automate human activities. How it will impact business, industry, and society. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Flooding in 2011 in Thailand, harmed 160 companies in the textile industry and halted nearly a quarter of the country’s garment production, increasing global prices by 28%. Since 1994, Dow has invested nearly $2 billion in improving resource efficiency and has saved $9.8 ” Improving risk management.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 11, 2018

What’s more, two of my MIT Sloan MBA students analyzed store openings and closings from 2015 to 2017, looking at department stores with more than 50 stores and over $100 million in revenues, and found a positive correlation between customer satisfaction, as measured by Yelp ratings, and the net change in the number of open stores.

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freshminds

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

In 2015, 65% of the global population is using mobile phones, and last year 1.25 Because of this, retailers have to respond accordingly as sales via handheld devices increase. Between 2012 and 2014 sales via smartphones catapulted from 5% to to 34%. billion smartphones were sold across the world. Checking customer reviews.

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Women in Consulting

OCTOBER 26, 2015

In February of 2015, the Cass Business School At City University London hosted an event called Women In Consulting – Challenges And Opportunities. I think the challenges of being a woman in the business world vary by industry, position and area of expertise. Here are excerpts from that interview. A side note.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

By Prasad Chintamaneni, President, Global Industries and Consulting, Cognizant. billion debit and credit card transactions, its research revealed a dramatic slowdown in the growth of everyday consumer spending from 2014 to 2015. Why the Insurance Industry Can’t Risk Overlooking Artificial Intelligence. analyzed 12.4

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freshminds

MARCH 22, 2016

If anyone is anyone in retail, the annual coming together of industry bosses at Retail Week Live is a big date in your calendar. As an 'etailer', 40% of their sales already go through mobile and this app aims to create a social shopping community to play to this trend.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

As business tycoon Richard Branson has proclaimed in 2012, “our only option to stop climate change is for industry to make money from it.” Our research involved a detailed cross-case analysis of five major corporations operating in Australia over 10 years, from 2005 to 2015.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 5, 2018

In sales-driven companies (think pharmaceuticals and industrial equipment), they are often field sales managers who direct dozens of salespeople in the highest-volume regions. These are jobs in R&D, technology, and other areas vital to a firm’s strategic direction, product development, and process efficiency.

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MishTalk

MAY 2, 2015

Flashback November 22, 2015 : Hostess Fires 15,000 Workers in Liquidation; Twinkies Silliness From Readers The first step in liquidation will be the firing of 15,000 workers including the closure of 33 bakeries, 565 distribution centers, approximately 5,500 delivery routes and 570 bakery outlet stores.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 2, 2016

The power of digital platforms to profitably disrupt industries continues to impress. Improving user capabilities would measurably improve Airbnb efficiencies. Similarly, Facebook’s Blueprint courseware initiative launched in 2015 champions new user capability. What really makes them work?

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Harvard Business

MARCH 31, 2017

. “There are four ratios common in every company: profitability, leverage, liquidity, and operational efficiency,” he says. And every organization has “two or three ratios within” those groups that are considered its primary measures of performance, in addition to “industry-specific ratios.”

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Harvard Business

MAY 23, 2016

The internet of things (IoT) and industrial internet in the United States, Industrie 4.0 The internet of things (IoT) and industrial internet in the United States, Industrie 4.0 We believe data-driven manufacturing is indeed the next wave that will drive efficient and responsive production systems.

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Tsavo Neal

APRIL 27, 2017

So, I beg you, don’t design your own sales materials. Many sales are won and lost by simply by how you graphically represent yourself.” Do you give them a chance to submit their name, email address, industry, or phone number? Your image is critical – especially when promoting to those who don’t know you.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 28, 2017

The efficiencies of online business have continued to fell the old giants of retailing. But tech is disrupting even this newly restructured industry, as automobiles become computers on wheels. But the battle of bricks vs. clicks has taken a new turn – partnerships and mergers between the two sides. How we make things.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 13, 2017

When an E.coli outbreak at Chipotle Mexican Grill outlets left 55 customers ill , in 2015, the news stories, shutdowns, and investigations shattered the restaurant chain’s reputation. Sales plummeted, and Chipotle’s share price dropped 42%, to a three-year low , where it has languished ever since.

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Harvard Business

JULY 12, 2017

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. Today’s Digital Landscape.

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Harvard Business

MAY 9, 2016

In the late 1990s, Porsche avoided bankruptcy by making its manufacturing more efficient and its sports cars more reliable. But by the turn of the millennium, the German automaker needed a new product for the mass market to jumpstart sales, and decided to make a vehicle for the burgeoning SUV segment. How Porsche got the product right.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 6, 2017

greenhouse gas emissions peaked in 2007, and by 2015 had declined by 10%. Electricity generation and transportation each constitute around 30% of total emissions, with industrial sources making up 20% of total emissions. Together, such policies would encourage energy-efficient cars and buildings and cleaner power generation.

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