Harvard Business

JULY 30, 2018

The responses , from 270 corporate leaders in strategy, innovation, and research and development roles, were illuminating. At many of the largest companies, in industries like aerospace and technology, limited budgets are not an obstacle. To be constructive, we also asked about the things that foster innovation.)

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

The weather affects consumers’ behavior in terms of what products they buy, where they buy them, and in what quantity. In the apparel sector, for instance, the unusually warm winter temperatures across Europe and the U.S. In the UK, no less than 18 weather-related profit warnings were issued by industry leaders.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 17, 2016

In short, growth comes from the entire company, not from any particular product or service. Consider the sports apparel company Under Armour. Its goals are extremely ambitious; it is not just a pioneer in developing new fabrics for active wear, but in developing wearable electronics.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 7, 2016

Conventional wisdom would seem to suggest that companies have no incentive to lengthen the life cycle of their products and reduce the revenue they would get from selling new goods. For the most part, consumers control what happens to a product. Another apparel company, Patagonia , a high-end outdoor clothier, follows the same credo.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Activist investors who expect to raise returns by influencing strategic decisions are having a meaningful impact on many industries from consumer-packaged goods to aerospace and defense. And the odds that your company, or industry, may find itself targeted by an activist are going up. What is our company great at doing?

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 3, 2017

Price wars have broken out in consumer industries around the world. As pressure intensifies to reduce prices, either by cutting the list price or offering a discount, managers may act hastily, without the same rigor they apply to investments elsewhere, such as capital deployment or product enhancements.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 25, 2017

That is, they do for creative problem-solving what catalysts do in chemical processes: they dissolve barriers and accelerate progress down more productive pathways. ” A top prizewinner for 2016 was a company not too far from MIT geographically — but in an industry that seems 100 years distant. Industrial Revolution.”

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Apparel Chemicals Journal Agile 30

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Do they focus on “manufacturing” (creating products), “distribution” (managing channels and customer relationships), or some combination of the two? Among other steps, it elevated the role of customer segment heads, giving them authority over products and channels for those segments. Yet change they must.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 5, 2018

But over and over again in our three decades of experience as talent development and retention specialists, we’ve seen that companies consistently overlook half of them. 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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Harvard Business

JUNE 3, 2016

To develop a BDN, you work backwards, or right to left, from the agreed investment objectives and the expected benefits, and map the required changes to structures, processes, work practices, and how staff would need to work through to the new technology necessary to enable and sustain those changes. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 20, 2016

And this is not just the superconsumers outside your organization who are passionate about your products and services. And they’re sure to have great ideas about how to improve your products and business. There can be a lot of stress in this industry. Unlocking Energy. It’s not for everyone.

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Energy Airlines Culture Retail 28

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. Meanwhile, business was free to focus on generating growth, productivity, innovation, and, ultimately, societal wealth. The effects of technology on humans depends on how we choose to develop and use it.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

I talked with Rita McGrath, a professor at Columbia Business School, who together with Ian MacMillan, of the University of Pennsylvania’s business school, developed this classic methodology for planning innovation. It’s a technique that any manager can use when developing and launching a new venture.

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Benchmarking Methodologies Apparel Company 30

Tom Spencer

NOVEMBER 30, 2019

Now, case interviews for non-consulting industries tend to really intimidate candidates. However, the key takeaway is that good quality material for consulting interview prep will be perfectly well-suited to preparing you to face case interviews in other industries as well. Why are case interviews so similar across industries?

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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 16, 2016

BTS Group specializes in digital technology, leadership development, sales training, and assessments. However, the firm operates in five main practice areas: Assessments, Business Acumen, Leadership Development, Sales Training, and Strategy Execution. Leadership Development. Industries. Research & Development.

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Kates Kesler

JUNE 11, 2014

We recently completed a study for the CEO of a very well known, global sports-apparel brand company. Our sports-apparel CEO had the right idea in challenging his team to think about the organization and ask: are we fit for growth, given our strategies going forward? Learning from Big Companies.

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Apparel Healthcare Enterprise Chemicals 82

Buzzsprout

JULY 13, 2023

Sponsorships and Brand Deals A sponsorship is a partnership between a podcaster and a brand that wants to promote their product or service to the podcaster's audience. Are there products or services you’d recommend to your audience? In the industry, this is called an “air check.” Buzzsprout Ads pay $14 CPM.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 8, 2018

” Little did they know that the business they founded, Vineyard Vines, would become a darling of the fashion industry and a household brand name around the country. Like many competitors in the apparel industry, Vineyard Vines has kept their operations lean in order to preserve operating margins.

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Harvard Business

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. At Microsoft, we continuously collaborate with businesses in an industry whose customers already self-identify as fans: sports.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

According to a global survey of 700 executives across a variety of industries conducted by Strategy&, the strategy consulting division of PwC, only 8% of company leaders were said to excel at both strategy and execution. We intuitively knew that there must be leaders that span these areas, but in fact, few do. It just does not work.”

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 20, 2016

It was a productive 12 months, to say the least. The UN also agreed to slash emissions from the airline industry. At the state level, New Jersey passed a big new gas tax , and Oregon , Illinois , and California developed robust energy and climate policies. Debates about climate change melted away. Then came 2016.

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Energy Chemicals Banking Financial 28

Harvard Business

AUGUST 23, 2016

We also found that industry matters. Boards of companies operating in the consumer discretionary industry have a disproportionately high representation of Democrats, while boards operating in the industrials and energy and utilities industries skew more Republican.

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