Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Former Walmart.com CEO Carter Cast recalled to me, “Back in the early 2000s there were many things we wanted to accomplish with our online business but had a hard time doing because of the perception that we’d interfere with the well-oiled efficiency of the physical stores. ” A key word here is perception.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 11, 2017

Among those that have met that fate in recent months are initiatives at Target, Alaska Airlines, Coca-Cola, the New York Times, and Chubb. April Bertram, a business development director who works on a startup inside of GOJO, the Ohio-based maker of Purell, talks about letting business unit leaders design “guard rails.”

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 31, 2016

At the end of the day, the job of a channel manager is all about developing the capabilities of distribution partners so that they can more effectively sell and service your offering. flying over 100,000 miles per year). flying over 100,000 miles per year).

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 23, 2016

” Members from each partner organization rate the alliance in areas related to strategic fit, operational fit, and cultural fit. Similar failures among cockpit crews can lead to airline crashes. Eli Lilly and Company measures the health of its alliances with a “Voice of the Alliance Survey.”

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Harvard Business

JUNE 13, 2017

At Johns Hopkins, we are leading development of a report for the National Academy of Medicine that will identify the barriers to widespread interoperability and suggest opportunities to overcome them, such as policies, requirements, standards, and purchase specifications. We don’t expect airlines to build their own planes.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

In the developed world, we enjoy better medicines, connectivity, and mobility than most of us could have imagined even 20 years ago. The effects of technology on humans depends on how we choose to develop and use it. For all of the uncertainty and anxiety in headlines today, the world is a much better place than it has ever been.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 13, 2016

Prioritization at a strategic and operational level is often the difference between success and failure. What about efficiency? The senior management of the postal company thought they had communicated clear priorities, but in fact they had created an operational dilemma that resulted from strategic confusion.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 20, 2016

Disney has reinvented the customer experience by translating what it exclusively knows about park operations into software, substantively enhancing its customer value proposition. Today, Delta has industry-leading operations in metrics such as on-time arrivals, flight cancellations, and lost bags.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 26, 2017

Ask people how to develop a good corporate culture, and most of them will immediately suggest offering generous employee benefits, like they do at Starbucks, or letting people dress casually, as Southwest Airlines does. How you operate on the inside should be inextricably linked with how you want to be perceived on the outside.

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Tsavo Neal

JANUARY 25, 2018

They also help you develop new relationships through outreach. Not only will you be educating and nurturing your leads, but it will help you start conversations and develop relationships with your leads. This is an efficient way to re-purpose your content and create more value out of what you’ve already produced.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 12, 2018

For example, Whole Foods developed geo-fences around its stores, as well as its competitors’ stores, to target relevant audiences and achieved a post-click conversion rate that was three times higher than the national average. Finally, the simultaneous optimization of trust and relevance is an inherently difficult balancing act.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 20, 2016

The UN also agreed to slash emissions from the airline industry. President Obama, with his counterparts in Canada and Mexico, agreed to some aggressive regional targets on renewable energy and efficiency. I do believe companies will expand their horizons, looking more at systems, not just their operations and value chains.

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